Why are fish fingers always exclusively marketed at kids?

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When in fact I think I prefer them even more now I'm an adult. Honestly, I think there is probably no better "junk-food" then a fish finger sandwich, plus it's marginally healthier than a burger.

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 6 August 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

awesome golfers

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 6 August 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

Nice tights. Yeah, they are one of those things which I always go "mmm tasty, why don't I have these more often?" when I eat them.

I was astonished a couple of years ago to see that the Capn Birds Eye I had grown up with had been replaced by a Tom of Finland style faux sailor. I wasn't so keen on his fish finger.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Saturday, 6 August 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

My daughter likes the fish but not the breadcrumbs, which is great as I get to peel of the coating and eat it for her own good.

― Anti-Pope Consortium (noodle vague), Saturday, 6 August 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

can you get battered fish fingers?

i suppose you might as well just buy the fillets and cut them up.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 8 August 2005 08:40 (twenty years ago)

I used to love them when I ate fish. Even now, when there's fish finger and tomato ketchup baguettes on the menu at one of the campus cafés, they look and smell fantastic. Shame about those gristly grey bits though. Mmmm, fishy floor sweepings!

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 8 August 2005 08:48 (twenty years ago)

fish finger and ketchup baguettes???
classy...

― dahlin (dahlin), Monday, 8 August 2005 08:57 (twenty years ago)

In answer to the question I suppose they don't expect adults want to eat processed, reshaped alledged 'fish' flesh.

― I'm playing it cool but it's terribly cruel / Kate (papa november), Monday, 8 August 2005 09:05 (twenty years ago)

I think the crust does a good job of containing all the oozy greasy stuff. However, baguettes probably aren't the best shape unless you have one really grotesquely long fat and distended fishy appendage. You're right, what are they thinking about??

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― NickB (NickB), Monday, 8 August 2005 09:08 (twenty years ago)

The fish finger sandwich with a mixture of mayonaise and wasabi, and sweet chilli sauce is hangover food of the gods.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 8 August 2005 09:09 (twenty years ago)

In answer to the question I suppose they don't expect adults want to eat processed, reshaped alledged 'fish' flesh.
-- I'm playing it cool but it's terribly cruel / Kate (kat...), August 8th, 2005.

OTM -- the idea is making me puke, practically.

― N_RQ, Monday, 8 August 2005 09:10 (twenty years ago)

indeed - baguettes!? food of gods for sure?!

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 8 August 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

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― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 8 August 2005 09:14 (twenty years ago)

In answer to the question I suppose they don't expect adults want to eat processed, reshaped alledged 'fish' flesh.

Uhhhh... I think they do

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 8 August 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)

Fish finger sandwiches are pretty much the elixir of life after a night of drinking.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 8 August 2005 09:27 (twenty years ago)

Yeah you can get fish fingers in batter.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Monday, 8 August 2005 09:28 (twenty years ago)

Fish fingers = Super salty mank with not much fish in them.

DV, you will be relieved to hear that stubbly super god Captain Birds Eye has walked the plank and been replaced by an avuncular, older Cap'n once again.

Arrr.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 8 August 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

I want a fish finger sandwhich now. Ed's wasabi idea has made me think that I might even switch from ketchup.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 8 August 2005 10:06 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to try Ed's combo. They are also good in a sandwich with aioli and sliced tomato.

― estela (estela), Monday, 8 August 2005 10:48 (twenty years ago)

I remember my mother once pathetically trying to claim that some fish dish she had made for us was fish fingers. I think this was in my "finicky fuck" phase.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 8 August 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

It does seem a bit odd to eat something already covered in breadcrumbs in even more bread.

So I'm glad they come battered too.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 8 August 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

You know you want a fish finger sandwich with mayo/ketchup on RIGHT now!!! (plus side order of beans, Safety Yeah!?

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 21 September 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

you know it! I might have to buy some on my way home I think. No beans though.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 21 September 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

I had one on getting home from the pub last night. It was beyond majestic.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 21 September 2006 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

"The fish finger sandwich with a mixture of mayonaise and wasabi, and sweet chilli sauce is hangover food of the gods."

*makes sticky note*

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

They are grbss.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

It's telling that you need wasabi and sweet chili sauce to make these at all palatable. Sorry, but school lunches with tepid, grease-sodden, insipid fish fingers ruined these for me for life.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 21 September 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

i love fish fingers but i haven't had any in years. and i have NEVER had a fish finger sandwich!

and i call them fish sticks!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

fish finger pie?

― and PappaWheelie, author of Have You Ever Been Poxy Fuled? (PappaWheelie 2), Thursday, 21 September 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

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