My wife is sick and she didn’t want dinner, so I wanted a quick meal for one. Rummaging through the freezer, I found a pack of fish fingers that we’d bought as an easy feed for a young visiting relative. (Turns out she doesn’t even like them, so they never got used.)
Well, I’d forgotten how good fish fingers, buttered bread, peas and a big dollop of HP sauce can taste!
What totally naff foods have you recently guiltily enjoyed?
I thought they were “fish sticks.” Which, if you don’t say it carefully, sounds like a different part of the fish anatomy than the fingers.
That’s what’s on-line for dinner tonight: fish sticks and fries. I made a batch of tartar sauce last night, so we are gtg.
They’re definitely “fish fingers” here in England. In fact, I dimly remember reading that they were first introduced as a bland “control” product to test against an exciting new product called… wait for it… “fish sticks”. But everyone preferred the fish fingers.
Hmm, turns out I was almost right. The alternative product was called “herring savouries”. Mmm good!
Anyway, I don’t think I’ve eaten fish fingers since I was at university. (My wife comes from a family that take their food seriously - they weren’t even allowed HP sauce, let a lone ketchup, in their house!)
No. No, no, no, no. In our household, fish sticks (or fish fingers, it’s certainly no weirder-sounding than ‘buffalo wings’) must be served with mac and cheese!
In fact, in addressing the OP, fish sticks and mac and cheese are my hubby’s go-to dinner when I’m sick and he needs to get the family fed! 
When I make it, I do home-made mac and cheese, not the kind from the blue box!
We serve some sort of fruit (sliced peaches, sliced pears, applesauce) or LeSeur Petite canned peas on the side.
eeek :eek: runs away in horror
You are making me feel less furtive about the fact that, on my lunchtime visit to the Tesco’s sandwich department, I am quite often choosing their new “fish fingers ‘n’ ketchup” offering. It works surprisingly well in sandwich form. And only 360 calories, diet fans.
I do occasionally love fish sticks (or fingers). It’s one of those things where I’d almost always prefer some real fried fish. Beer-battered walleye…yum. But, in pinch, fish sticks will definitely do. Especially the potato-breaded ones.
This I have to try. Unfortunately the only supermarket near my office is Waitrose, which is (a) rather expensive for daily sandwiches, and (b) much too posh to countenance fish-finger sandwiches.
Had to look up HP sauce. I’ve got to stop reading about food when I’m hungry.
Fish Sticks in US are not quite the same as Fish Fingers in UK - not nearly so delicious. I used to pretty much live on fish fingers as a kid. Haven’t had them for years.
I remember once my mum tried to get away with buying non-specific-white-fish FFs, rather than the cod FFs I was used to and I detected the difference immediately and refused to eat the unpleasant imposters. Fish sticks in US taste like that 
I’m in 'merica, so I’m assuming that by ‘naff’ you mean ‘total crap but tastes pretty good anyway’. Often, my hubby is out of town on business. On those nights, it’s up to me and my 9YO to decide what’s for dinner. Right now, we are feasting on chicken nuggets, tater tots and cinnamon applesauce; tastes pretty damned good.
I started a thread a while ago about how fish sticks/fingers have changed since I was a kid. See, when I was a kid it actually tasted of fish. Today the fish is finely-ground and made into little finger-shaped cakes. Not so ‘back in the day’. Back then, the fish actually flaked. And there were times when I’d flake a piece and there was some of that dark flesh in there. You knew you were eating fish. I’d pick a lemon off of the tree in the back yard to accompany them. I don’t remember the brand, but it may have been the one with the blue windmill on it. (This would have been in the late-'60s through mid-'70s in San Diego.)
The fish in fish sticks (and indeed, most processed, breaded and frozen fish) today tastes, to me, like the breading.
Bird’s Eye fish fingers (or “dish dingus” as my brother called them when he was three) are still discernably flaky, though disconcertingly uniform.
Ok, so I googles HP sauce. Why can’t we get that here? :Pouts:
Yep, I had Bird’s Eye tonight and they were proper flaky fish. I don’t like the cheap ones that ooze a sort of pus-like liquid out of them as they cook. :eek:
They carry it at the supermarket here. 
It could very well have been Bird’s Eye brand. I’m a little spoiled fish-wise, now being in the PNW, so I almost never think to look for breaded fish. I wonder if Bird’s Eye is carried in this part of the country? (Be a bit ironic if they didn’t, wouldn’t it? Considering my response to ITD?)
It’s Gorton’s for us. Something about the fisherman…
ITD, check your local megamart. I can find HP and Fruity HP at my local Stater Bros., as well as at Von’s. Not to mention in my pantry.
I remember when I lived in a place where Schwan’s came around. They had the best fish sticks ever.
I would imagine that if Tesco were getting in on the act (and I am sad to report that they don’t stock dish dingus sarnies in my local down-at-heel Tesco Metro) then Waitrose would be swift to cash in on the braying post-modern irony market, but perhaps call them “Sandwichs des doigts de poisson avec sa sauce des maisons de Parliament”.