And now, as is so often the case when you mention a sandwich popular in my country of origin, I have a ridiculous hankering for a fish finger butty, which I haven't had in decades!
omg fish sticks! growing up in a very large Irish Catholic family back in the late 50s and 60s, there of course was the perennial Friday ‘no meat’ thing - now, there was no way my mum was going to make a veggie dinner on Fridays, she only did the odd salad and maybe some peas or lima beans as a side to our usual meat-based dinners - so it simply had to be fish, and since she had no clue whatsoever about cooking fresh fish it had to be fish sticks - every Friday for years, then: fish sticks! they were so amazingly easy to make (take out of the freezer and pop in the oven, no prep needed) - I don’t know if this childhood was why I ended up working for an international sustainable fishing NGO, spending years on and around fishing boats and fishermen, and not eating any meat, but who knows?
Brilliant writing, thank you!
And now, as is so often the case when you mention a sandwich popular in my country of origin, I have a ridiculous hankering for a fish finger butty, which I haven't had in decades!
omg fish sticks! growing up in a very large Irish Catholic family back in the late 50s and 60s, there of course was the perennial Friday ‘no meat’ thing - now, there was no way my mum was going to make a veggie dinner on Fridays, she only did the odd salad and maybe some peas or lima beans as a side to our usual meat-based dinners - so it simply had to be fish, and since she had no clue whatsoever about cooking fresh fish it had to be fish sticks - every Friday for years, then: fish sticks! they were so amazingly easy to make (take out of the freezer and pop in the oven, no prep needed) - I don’t know if this childhood was why I ended up working for an international sustainable fishing NGO, spending years on and around fishing boats and fishermen, and not eating any meat, but who knows?