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Certainly tends to be popular with kids in the UK as a quick and easy dish: Put them under the grill (broiler), heat some backed beans, butter some bread, frui
by zhte415 6y ago
Certainly tends to be popular with kids in the UK as a quick and easy dish: Put them under the grill (broiler), heat some backed beans, butter some bread, fruit for desert, and there's a reasonably nutritious fast food lunch once a week that can be prepared in a hurry.
On numbers:
A quick search [1] suggests 1.5 million fish fingers are eaten per day in the UK (18 per second).
A US search was less easy, but at 25,000 tons per year, and 26 grams per stick, that'd be the equivalent 2.6 million fish sticks consumed (purchased, I suppose) per day in the USA, which on a per-capita basis is interestingly much less.
[1] https://www.intrafish.com/marketplace/youll-never-guess-how-many-fish-fingers-brits-eat-per-second/1-1-1187715 https://www.intrafish.com/marketplace/youll-never-guess-how-...
- kube-system 6y agoIt’s mostly seen as a food for kids in the US too.
- watwut 6y agoAll the food that US sees as "for kids" is stuff that I dont want kids to eat too much.
- wil421 6y agoNobody has to feed their kid or themselves that crap. Unfortunately, many people are just fine pressing some buttons on a microwave to feed a family. I don’t like feeding my kid any baby food, even organic, but we make the majority of it.
- coldtea 6y agoOn the other hands most US adults eat what many would deem kids food...
- mrguyorama 6y agoThe cynical take is that many US adults never really grew up
- OJFord 6y agoOh, fish sticks = fish fingers? I assumed they were like crab sticks, but mixed fish.
- VBprogrammer 6y agoAmusingly, crab sticks are usually made of pulverised white fish and starch. They don't actually contain any crab.
- Fnoord 6y agoSurimi also contains chicken egg protein. I guess for emulsifying. Surimi might contain crab, but then its a very small % (the legal requirement). I bought real (river)crabs at Ikea. Needs a lot of time to get rid of the ice, and its a bit messy and tricky to eat (take your time!), but I found it delicious. The flavor is unlike anything I ever had, and the texture is pristine and delicate. After a while, it even becomes fun to dismantle them. Though the very first one got my glasses full with... whatever it was. As for fish sticks, I know the brand we got contains Atlantic cod. Its a very cheap fish, and quite frankly it tastes disgusting (had it out of oven while cooking on budget). However the sticks add structure (crisp/bite and salt I suppose) to the otherwise bland fish which remind me of rotten fish, so they make it edible. Our daughter (2) loves them, and they can easily be prepared in an airfryer or oven. They might be a bit salty though. Normal Atlantic cod I'd rather just feed my cats. Even with seasoning I still find it barely edible, and I just got this rule with fish (and shellfish) if it smells or tastes something remotely resembling rotten, I don't eat it. Cause as kid I ate enough of that already. Plus I generally eat my foods seasoned, with herbs and spices. Dill, for example, goes great with a lot of fish.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoPretty much any fish will be decent as a fillet. Pretty much nothing you get in a fish stick or processed product is going to be any good because if it were it would have been made into something higher margin. Fish sticks are the hot dogs of the ocean.
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- mattmanser 6y agoFor other confused Britons. Fish sticks = Fish Fingers != seafood sticks If you said fish sticks to most people in the UK, they'd think you were talking about these: https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/287149425 https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/287149425 A common gastro pub lunch time dish here in the UK is a posh fish finger sandwich, usually hand made fish fingers in a crusty white bread with a tartare sauce. https://images.squaremeal.co.uk/cloud/article/9374/images/best-fish-finger-sandwiches-london-fish-_08102019041416.jpg?w=1000 https://images.squaremeal.co.uk/cloud/article/9374/images/be...
- faichai 6y agoPosh Fish Fingers = Fish Goujons
- 082349872349872 6y agohttps://www.tatler.com/article/new-rules-of-social-engagement-u-and-non-u https://www.tatler.com/article/new-rules-of-social-engagemen... What's Hancock's Golden Rule? Edit: seems to be the "rule of six". Best exceptions are country sports: hunting ("scaring the horses") and angling ("revising our knots"). Worst exceptions: canoeing/kayaking (too reminiscent of american beer) and gymnastics (unless one is the Duke of York?).
- wil421 6y agoAt least tesco tells the truth. In the US those would be called imitation crab sticks. Where imitation would be in a small font that isn’t noticeable at first glance. Crab flavored cod sticks.