How marketers convinced America to eat fish sticks

Re:How marketers convinced America to eat fish sticks by mattmanser on Monday September 21, 2020 @04:12AM (#24540957)

For other confused Britons.

Fish sticks = Fish Fingers != seafood sticks

If you said fish sticks to most people in the UK, they'd think you were talking about these:

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/287149425

A common gastro pub lunch time dish here in the UK is a posh fish finger sandwich, usually hand made fish fingers in a crusty white bread with a tartare sauce.

https://images.squaremeal.co.uk/cloud/article/9374/images/be...

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Re:How marketers convinced America to eat fish sticks by implements on Monday September 21, 2020 @10:03AM (#24543587)

For the financially distressed you can also make a serviceable fish finger sandwich with toasted and buttered thick white sandwich bread and a scrape of Pataks curry paste.

Iceland do 28 “prison grade” fish fingers for £2, and you can ‘cook’ them in a microwave for the same time it takes to do the toast.

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Re:How marketers convinced America to eat fish sticks by faichai on Monday September 21, 2020 @05:03AM (#24541245)

Posh Fish Fingers = Fish Goujons

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Re:How marketers convinced America to eat fish sticks by 082349872349872 on Monday September 21, 2020 @06:45AM (#24541851)

https://www.tatler.com/article/new-rules-of-social-engagemen...

What's Hancock's Golden Rule?

Edit: seems to be the "rule of six". Best exceptions are country sports: hunting ("scaring the horses") and angling ("revising our knots"). Worst exceptions: canoeing/kayaking (too reminiscent of american beer) and gymnastics (unless one is the Duke of York?).

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Re:How marketers convinced America to eat fish sticks by wil421 on Monday September 21, 2020 @07:57AM (#24542271)

At least tesco tells the truth. In the US those would be called imitation crab sticks. Where imitation would be in a small font that isn’t noticeable at first glance.

Crab flavored cod sticks.

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Re:How marketers convinced America to eat fish sticks by SamBam on Monday September 21, 2020 @09:58AM (#24543514)

Almost always pollock in the US, but yeah.

https://www.google.com/search?q=imitation+crab&tbm=shop

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Re:How marketers convinced America to eat fish sticks by thaumasiotes on Monday September 21, 2020 @12:05PM (#24544989)

This fails to demonstrate that "imitation would be in a small font that isn’t noticeable at first glance". It's always prominent, and often part of the single most prominent piece of text on the package.

https://www.google.com/shopping/product/8945736565554256086?...

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Re:How marketers convinced America to eat fish sticks by orclev on Monday September 21, 2020 @10:47AM (#24544095)

More generally labeled as Krab.

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Re:How marketers convinced America to eat fish sticks by soylentcola on Monday September 21, 2020 @11:27AM (#24544535)

Yeah, we call it "kay-rab" to avoid confusion.

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Re:How marketers convinced America to eat fish sticks by quercusa on Monday September 21, 2020 @10:54AM (#24544172)

This USian was quite a few decades old before realizing that Four of fish and finger pie might not be a strange British delicacy.

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Re:How marketers convinced America to eat fish sticks by soylentcola on Monday September 21, 2020 @11:27AM (#24544526)

Heh...I assume you do know the meaning now. Got a chuckle when I learned that as well.

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