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>>13507032
Perhaps you ate a dish called “Fritto di calamari (...)” which usually is made with calamari rings and shrimps, some places even add moscardini which are like miniature octopuses.

This is the standard “user friendly” version of the dish, but if you want to eat the real thing you have to order the “Fritto di paranza” or simply “Fritto di pesce” which is like the one in pic related (less shrimps and calamari of course) with fresh fried small fishes that you eat whole like sardines and anchovies, also they add other fresh fish they fished that day like baccalà for example.

In my northern Italian city we have the biggest fish market of Europe (iirc) and we have many specialised fish restaurants that buy tons of fresh fish and they have counters with fish on ice (kind of like at the market but in a restaurant) and you can see what they have and you order based on what’s in stock until it’s gone so it’s always fresh. These places make the best fried fish because of this reason, cheap and giant portions.