/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>17497719
They only did it originally to pander to Jews, true story

>>17497719
john mcdonald didnt even want this on his menu, cause he hated christians. he bowed to the all mighty dollar though.

My brother religiously orders it every year it comes out.

>>17497729
Catholics, actually.

>>17497719
It ain’t fuckin long john silvers bro, fish is a pretty niche thing in the world of fast food. 1 or 0 is enough

>>17497759
only in america, fried fish is a fast food staple in most other anglo countries

They tried but are never popular

>>17497753
Yep, it was a marketing stunt to lure (pun intended) Catholics during Lent.

>>17497908
Didn't they introduce two things, the fish and the pineapple? And nobody wanted a griddles slice of pineapple in a burger bun so fish won.

>>17497810
Would eat so hard. Fast food fish is my weakness. Checker's fish nuggets. Popeyes fried crawfish and/or Tacklebox. And yes, even the McDo filet o' fish. Love'em all.

>>17497719
It's pretty much perfected. If you aren't ordering a filet o' fish or quarter pounder then you're too poor to be at McDonald's.

>>17497719
gonna be eating these nonstop through Lent

shitty breaded whitefish is right in line with what "they could do". all their factory products are in line with that.

>>17497736
Is it not always available for you? I’m in the US and we always have them.

>>17497730
who the fuck is john mcdonald

Bojangles and Wendy's both have great fish. Wish it wasn't just a seasonal thing.

Long live the Bojangler

laughing remembering that there was a time when their sign said "McDonald's Famous Barbecue"

the fish mcbites were so good, i wish they would bring them back. or fish nuggets

>>17499051
how about a fish mcgriddle. I'd eat that

>>17497979
>Didn't they introduce two things, the fish and the pineapple?
Correct.

speaking of what mcdonalds can do with fish, have any of you been to a mcdonalds in an asian town? I went to one in Markham, Ontario once and they had a massive aquarium with bar searing all around it, you could watch the fish while you ate your burger and fries, it was awesome

nothing sounds less appealing to me than fast food fish. i dont get you people

Its not popular enough

>>17499070
>nothing sounds less appealing to me than fast food fish
how about fast food bug protein

Dude. March 1st. Fish is back at Wendy's.

Get a separate order of tartar sauce, for your fries. Best tartar sauce in the industry. Life hax.

I wish the hula burger had caught on instead of this, fried pineapple and cheese is amazing. it would be even better if they put fried spam or round ham steaks on it.

>>17499082
why did they cancel the saucesome sauce

McBolan's fish nugets with onion frys

>>17497753
That's what he said

>>17499083
I make a chicken parm like that, with pineapple & ham.

>>17497719
Probably has to do with their suppliers and supply chain. They can only reasonably get those square breaded fish patties at a reasonable price. What else are they gonna do with it besides a filet o fish?

first time I went to popeyes in years and I ordered the flounder sammich and they were out. you'd think the fish at a chicken joint would be the safest bet since nobody orders it. imo the chicken sammich was better at BK and the sides were meh, but the sauces were awesome and its impossible for them to fuck up the biscuits.

>>17497719
It's perfect as it is.
And I can eat 8 of them.

>>17497719
Because fish entrails are harder to mix with sawdust and sodium than pink beef slime or pureed chicken feet.

>>17499055
Sounds like a horrible pairing. I'd rather have a Filet-o-Fucking up my ass than eat a fish mcgriddle.

>>17500106
>I'd rather have a Filet-o-Fucking
Our most tender steak.

>>17500108

>>17497729
false story. it was done for lent (catholicism)

>>17497719
I work for a software company and one of our clients is Gorton's in Massachusetts. Gorton's is the provider for all McD's seafood products... Multiple people in Gorton's operations team said, "McDonald's gets a custom product that you can't buy in stores but it's actually cheaper and doesn't use fish you'd find in our premium frozen retail line". Do what that information what you will

>>17500108
WOLFIE ABSOLUTELY ETHERED AGAIN

>>17497719
because it's shite, if i want fish i'll go to the chippy

>>17500119
Probably means it's the ground beef of fish. Fish meat, minced and reformed into a square patty before being breaded and fried. Good way to cut down on waste while making a consistent product. They shouldn't be using organ meats or bones if it's not listed in their ingredients, so it's unlikely that they just toss whole fish into the grinder... though I hear fish bone meal is supposed to be a pretty good source of calcium.

Filet-O-Fish Portion
Alaska Pollock fish fillets, toasted wheat crumbs, vegetable oil (canola, corn, soybean and hydrogenated soybean oil), modified corn starch, water, flour (corn, wheat), colour (paprika, turmeric), cellulose gum, salt, spices. Cooked in vegetable oil (high oleic low linoleic canola oil and/or canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, citric acid, dimethylpolysiloxane).

>>17498972
Here in Costa Rica we have the Filet-O-Fish solely during lent season (Nobody really buys it during the rest of the year)

>>17499083
If you enjoy it, good on ya. It sounds absolutely horrible to me. Truly abysmal.

>>17500142
As I'd do back home but as I live in a different country where chippies are thin on the ground, I have to make do with fast food chain fish. As said earlier ITT, Checkers and Popeyes have very good stuff when they actually have fish.

>>17497719
Is that just, basically, a big fish finger on a roll?

>>17497759
I can't wait until based Nordsee colonizes the American market.

>>17500537
Yes, exactly.

for me its the fish-o-filet.

its my guilty pleasure man

>>17497719
Dunno what happened, but I've been wanting to eat these so much lately, and I've never been a big fan of them. Had 2 the other day with a diet coke. Kinda wanna get the ones from Jack in the Box. I should just go get some gortons fish fillets and save myself the temptation of eating out.

>>17497719
McDonalds mostly panders to southern and midwest states in the US which are landlocked. These states generally don't have access to fresh fish and only get it frozen. There is a stigma among a lot of the population that fish is not good because they have only experienced the frozen version. Fish doesn't sell well there. A chef once told me "If there's a food you don't like its because someone hasn't cooked it properly for you."

>>17497719
imagine not enjoying the best sandwich on the menu
filtered

>>17499070
fish and chips is a classic though
>inb4 not fast food

>>17499063
Theres one in Richmond hill, Ontario too

>>17497719
They didn't want it to begin with.
They only caved after some franchise owner started offering it to catholics who don't eat meat on Fridays or whatever and it's sales were megafuckhuge good.

>>17497810
What the fuck I want this

>>17497719
they tried in japan, with some black pepper japanese style sauce.
was never a fan of japanese mcdonalds rice burgers. I mean, there's good rice dishes everywhere, this is just gimmicky.

>>17497810
This looks kino AF tho

>>17497810
I agree with the other anons.
I'd devour the fuck out of that.

>>17500181
>Probably means it's the ground beef of fish. Fish meat, minced and reformed into a square patty
are you retarded? have you ever eaten a filet-o-fish?
it's just a pollock filet. It flakes apart, just like fish, because it is just a piece of fucking fish
>durrrr it's ground up and reformed muh pink fish slime
kill yourself

>>17497719
Yes.

>>17502781
>they tried in japan,
They still have the "ebi" burger... basically shrimp tempura burger. Freaking awesome.

Besides, White people literally can't taste the difference between Beyond cardbaord patties and real beef so why serve them decent quality seafood?

>>17497730
>John McDonald
Umm his name was Michael Keaton, sweaty