[NYer]

They sold raw fish or if you liked, the Italian lady who spoke no english would bread and fry the flounder and give you a bag of fried potatoes with it. Yummm....

Lol!!! I once met an Italian lady who could not pronounce the word "shrimp". It always came out "skrimp". I'll never forget the one Easter when she went to local butch(er) (she always stopped after the butch) and ordered 'baby lamb' for Easter dinner. When she went to pick it up, he handed her a nice young leg of lamb. She handed it back, saying: " This is the great grandfather of the lamb I ordered.".

I also grew up in Queens ... which part of Queens had this fish market?

[Dusty Rose]

I once met an Italian lady who could not pronounce the word "shrimp". It always came out "skrimp".

Wow, now I know why hubby, who grew up with an Italian mother, orders "skrimp" when we go out to eat. I've always thought he had some type of minor speech problem!

[katnip]

I also grew up in Queens ... which part of Queens had this fish market?

In old Howard Beach, down by the train station.