Posted on 04/18/2021 8:21:27 AM PDT by mylife
The Lenten season requires you to suspend your disbelief. Not sure about a skinny 33-something dude turning down a loaf of bread after fasting in the wilderness for 40 days? It’s Lent, baby! Get over it! Planning to give up sugar for six weeks? Sure, okay—Lent! A little shaky on hand-washing practices at your parish’s weekly fish fry? Shove it, man—it’s Lent, and anything’s possible! But to a lapsed Protestant like myself, nothing feels quite so Lenten as the annual parade of the fast fish sandwiches. I’m referring to the two-month-ish period during which nearly every major fast food chain rolls out its limited-time fried fish sandwich, complete with a dollop of Catholic-friendly tartar sauce. It’s a glorious occasion, but also one that demands a certain faith in the impossible. First of all, fish products shouldn’t have right angles, and there’s no way any of that “Alaskan pollock” is actually wild-caught. And yet for as long as I can remember, I’ve continued my flirtation with the fast food world’s most dubious offerings.
Last month, when I was lucky enough to be one of the first to try the new Popeyes Cajun Flounder Sandwich, I realized that many of you also enjoy your annual voyage on the batter-dipped, fishy seas. So I set out to try every fish sandwich on today’s fast food market over the course of 10 days or so. A feast of the seven fishes, if you will. (Quick note: Chick-fil-A’s fish sandwich isn’t coming back this year, and we only included national—or mostly national—chains in our ranking.) Below, you’ll find the sandwiches ranked in order from best to worst, with a whole lot of fishy speculation in between.
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Culvers? can I get some frozen custard too?
Now skate looks sort of like a manta ray but they are not the same and skate is delicious.
pingaroonie
I have a dear friend who talks of her uncle from the old country drinking vodka, smoking cigars and eating caviar and smoked oysters..
I am a huge haddock fan, walleye is good too
All good. I’ve always stated that I will eat anything that comes out of the water. Even things like octopus and seahorses.
seahorses? I prefer sea monkeys...
even though tx is an ocean state it was hard to find decent seafood there and some times I would break down and go to the micky ds, I was always disappointed..
I think a lot of what is passed off as sea scallops is actually skate cut into circular bits.
it is
Very possible. And there is also monkfish passed off as lobster tail.
Yes, you can. It’s probably healthier than the fish sandwich.
I’m boring. I love Filet-o-Fish.
Skate? Isn’t that what they use for fake scallops?
I eat a lot of skate and monkfish because I like living below my means.
when I was in japan, and found out how revered sea urchin roe was, I told them that in Mexico they’d scoop id out and sell the dried out shells for a 5c, to tourists
Id never seen a japanese man cry...
always lets me down...
yessir, for freshwater walleye is hard to beat
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