# I'd totally forgotten how nice fish fingers are! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 23, 2009, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-totally-forgotten-how-nice-fish-fingers-are/514903 "2009-10-23T21:25:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-totally-forgotten-how-nice-fish-fingers-are/514903/21 "2009-10-24T00:19:44Z")
**Johnny L.A.** , try shopping for fish sticks ‘made from whole fillets’ as opposed to ‘minced fish’. Major brands (Gorton’s, Mrs. Paul’s) seem more likely to offer this than “bargain” brands. The ones that _are_ made from whole fillets will proudly state it on the front of the box. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-totally-forgotten-how-nice-fish-fingers-are/514903/22 "2009-10-24T00:32:06Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > What totally naff foods have _you_ recently guiltily enjoyed? All my food choices fit into this category. I have simple, some might say childish, tastes in food, and though that can be slightly inconvenient in social situations, I do not apologise for it either. Baked beans on toast is a perfect example of one which I consume regularly. ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-totally-forgotten-how-nice-fish-fingers-are/514903/23 "2009-10-24T00:43:56Z")
I’m on the fish sticks with mac & cheese bandwagon- mmmm!! I didn’t start eating these again until I was 34 or so, but they were our “parents’ date night” go to dinner when I was babysitting the rest of my siblings. We ate them with ketchup back then, but now I prefer Heinz Zesty Cocktail sauce and we use the Gorton’s breaded filets or TJ’s Potato Breaded sticks…super YUM! Oh yes, and I must have peas as well. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-totally-forgotten-how-nice-fish-fingers-are/514903/24 "2009-10-24T01:27:51Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > 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 will check here. I remember Vons from my SoCal days… we’re a bit more parochial here. But I will check it out! It sounds really good. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-totally-forgotten-how-nice-fish-fingers-are/514903/25 "2009-10-24T01:51:34Z")
> [@Smokinjbc](#): > > I’m on the fish sticks with mac & cheese bandwagon- mmmm!! I didn’t start eating these again until I was 34 or so, but they were our “parents’ date night” go to dinner when I was babysitting the rest of my siblings. We ate them with ketchup back then, but now I prefer Heinz Zesty Cocktail sauce and we use the Gorton’s breaded filets or TJ’s Potato Breaded sticks…super YUM! Oh yes, and I must have peas as well. My kid puts ketchup on her fish sticks. Hubby and I make tartar sauce for ours. He doesn’t like cocktail sauce, but if I were eating fish sticks and had some in the house, I’d totally try it. I like it on shrimp. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-totally-forgotten-how-nice-fish-fingers-are/514903/26 "2009-10-24T03:39:15Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Baked beans on toast is a perfect example of one which I consume regularly. We had a company Christmas party at what called itself a “pub” (Aurora, Illinois, as in “Wayne’s World.” :rolleyes:) The best thing on the buffet was their baked beans, served closely, but with no direct suggestion of its use, with buttered toast. Nobody was impressed when I made a beeline toward it. I should note that mine host was the heir of a real-life billionaire (and who drinks Bud Light–nobody got rich by giving his money away) and I spent part of another party convincing his (later) ex-wife (beautiful, figure to die for, and smart as a whip) to try the wine ([two-buck-chuck merlot](http://www.traderjoes.com/product_categories.html), though the shipping to the Midwest makes it THREE buck chuck) the (farmboy) bartender had bought specifically for the party. Story: She had been an employee. At an earlier Christmas party she wanted to dance and worked her way through the IT department, failing with both painfully-shy nerds and later kiddie porn merchants (my work phone later came up as the same as his when I tried to buy a washer) before asking the boss if he wanted to dance. Unlike the others, he did. This was before I was hired. Had it been later…no, I don’t dance. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-totally-forgotten-how-nice-fish-fingers-are/514903/27 "2009-10-24T03:45:26Z")
deep-fried [Cheese Curds](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_curds) I grew up in Wisconsin. So you’d think I’d be a huge fan of [Culver’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culver%27s) I’m not. It’s shit food. The “Butter Burger”? A sad McDonald’s patty on a heavily greased bun. The milkshakes are pretty good, but I don’t really like sweet food or dessert. That said - I owed a co-worker lunch last week. Said co-worker picked Culver’s, to my extreme disappointment. My sandwich was fifteen-ways mediocre, but god-damn – I’d forgotten how good deep fried cheese curds could be. So great. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-totally-forgotten-how-nice-fish-fingers-are/514903/28 "2009-10-24T06:09:48Z")
I bought corn dogs last week to satisfy a craving. I cooked them. I ate them with ketchup and mustard. I enjoyed them. Not as much as I would have at the fair, but I still enjoyed them. And I don’t care if you call them sticks, fingers, or “fillets”, but they have to be battered (not breaded) or they suck ass. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-totally-forgotten-how-nice-fish-fingers-are/514903/29 "2009-10-24T07:16:15Z")
I don’t understand how fish fingers can be popular in the UK, where you can get tasty fried fish. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-totally-forgotten-how-nice-fish-fingers-are/514903/30 "2009-10-24T07:44:31Z")
> [@Chicken\_Fingers](#): > > I don’t understand how fish fingers can be popular in the UK, where you can get tasty fried fish. Fish fingers cost next-to-nothing and come frozen. They’re the food of last resort to keep the kids quiet in many families. Battered fried fish, while often amazingly good, is expensive, and requires a trip to the chippy to get it. ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-totally-forgotten-how-nice-fish-fingers-are/514903/31 "2009-10-24T08:26:07Z")
Another “naff” food I enjoy is tinned spaghetti on cheese on toast. The ideal “comfort” food. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-totally-forgotten-how-nice-fish-fingers-are/514903/32 "2009-10-24T09:44:19Z")
> [@Chicken\_Fingers](#): > > I don’t understand how fish fingers can be popular in the UK, where you can get tasty fried fish. I for one prefer decent quality fish fingers to the sort of fried fish you usually get in chippies, which seems to consist mostly of batter. They’re a different culinary experience, too - much less fat, and you grill them (broil them or whatever you call it in the States), at least I do. ---
**Author:** ![Walpurgis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Walpurgis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walpurgis)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-totally-forgotten-how-nice-fish-fingers-are/514903/33 "2009-10-24T11:05:20Z")
Oooh, now I want fish fingers. I grew up eating them with melted butter, some lemon and pickled capers. And mashed potatoes on the side. After a stay in England I started having them with vinegar instead, which is just fantastic. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-totally-forgotten-how-nice-fish-fingers-are/514903/34 "2009-10-24T13:08:11Z")
I haven’t sought out fish sticks since 1988. That was the year I had one with an eye in it. ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-totally-forgotten-how-nice-fish-fingers-are/514903/35 "2009-10-24T13:34:23Z")
> [@Larry\_Mudd](#): > > I haven’t sought out fish sticks since 1988. That was the year I had one with an eye in it. At least it saw you through the week 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-totally-forgotten-how-nice-fish-fingers-are/514903/36 "2009-10-24T15:35:33Z")
A proper tartar sauce: 1/2 cup mayo 1/3 cup sweet relish 2 tbls. Miracle Whip 1 tbls. sugar dash cayenne 1/4 tsp. onion powder squirt of lemon juice 1 tbls. parsley, diced Mix well and chill. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-totally-forgotten-how-nice-fish-fingers-are/514903/37 "2009-10-24T17:29:15Z")
I may scrap my homemade very healthy full-of-love dinner plans and go to the grocery store and buy some mechanically separated fish sticks for dinner. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-totally-forgotten-how-nice-fish-fingers-are/514903/38 "2009-10-24T17:52:05Z")
Fish fingers? That’s gonna cause problems for the creationist bunch. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-totally-forgotten-how-nice-fish-fingers-are/514903/39 "2009-10-24T19:34:38Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > A proper tartar sauce: > > 1/2 cup mayo > 1/3 cup sweet relish > 2 tbls. Miracle Whip > 1 tbls. sugar > dash cayenne > 1/4 tsp. onion powder > squirt of lemon juice > 1 tbls. parsley, diced > > Mix well and chill. If I put Miracle Whip in anything I served to my husband, I think he’d divorce me! Otherwise, this is pretty much the recipe I use. ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-totally-forgotten-how-nice-fish-fingers-are/514903/40 "2009-10-24T20:02:30Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > 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. 😉 Now I had to look up Tater Tots (looks to be a cross between potato fries and potato croquettes - sounds good!) but cinnamon applesauce is great. Now I know what to do with the left-over apples from my tree. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-totally-forgotten-how-nice-fish-fingers-are/514903.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-totally-forgotten-how-nice-fish-fingers-are/514903.md?page=3)