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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, 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. 
deep-fried Cheese Curds
I grew up in Wisconsin. So you’d think I’d be a huge fan of Culver’s
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.
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. 
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.
Another “naff” food I enjoy is tinned spaghetti on cheese on toast. The ideal “comfort” food.
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.
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.
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 
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.
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.
Fish fingers? That’s gonna cause problems for the creationist bunch.
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.
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.