Fish fry

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American-style fish and chips with lemon, ketchup, cocktail sauce, and tartar sauce as served in San Diego

A fish fry is a meal containing

egg yolk
.

Fish is often served on Friday nights during Lent, the Christian season of repentance, as a restaurant special or through church fundraisers.[1] A fish fry may include potato pancakes (with accompanying side dishes of sour cream or applesauce) and sliced caraway rye bread if served in a German restaurant or area.[2]

A "shore lunch" is traditional in the northern United States and Canada. For decades, outdoor enthusiasts have been cooking their catch on the shores of their favourite lakes.[3]

Fish fries are very common in the

Methodist traditions, when regulations call for abstinence from meat (cf. Friday fast).[1][4]

Lenten fish fries

The tradition of Christians fasting on Fridays to recognize Jesus's crucifixion on

canon law.[6] The Roman Catholic tradition of Christianity has been that the flesh of warm-blooded animals is off limits on Fridays, although the 1983 Code of Canon Law provided for alternative observances of the Friday penance outside Lent. In Methodist Christianity, The Directions Given to Band Societies mandate fasting and abstinence from meat on all Fridays of the year.[7][8] The Book of Common Prayer of the Anglican Christian denomination requires abstinence from meat on all Fridays of the year too.[9]

McDonald's addition of the Filet-o-Fish to its menu occurred when a Cincinnati franchise in a heavily Catholic neighbourhood was struggling to sell hamburgers on Fridays during Lent.[5]

Northeastern United States

Battered or breaded

northwestern Pennsylvania, especially Albany, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Rochester, as well as Syracuse, and Utica. Many restaurants in these cities serve a fish fry on Friday, even outside Lent, and it is often available throughout the week.[10] These meals typically consist of a piece of fish, coleslaw (sometimes potato salad or macaroni salad
), french fries, and a dinner roll.

Southeastern United States

In the

hushpuppies (deep-fried, seasoned corn dumplings), and coleslaw are served. These events are often potluck affairs. In Georgia and South Carolina, fish are dipped in milk, then into a mix of flour, cornmeal and seasonings before frying. Cheese grits
is often a side dish.

Midwestern United States

The modern fish fry tradition is strong in Wisconsin, where hundreds of eateries hold fish fries on Fridays, and sometimes on Wednesdays. The Friday night fish fry is a popular-year round tradition in Wisconsin among people of all religious backgrounds. Fish fries there are offered at many non-chain restaurants,

beer batter fried cod, perch, bluegill, walleye, smelt, or in areas along the Mississippi River, catfish. The meal usually comes with tartar sauce, french fries or German-style potato pancakes, coleslaw, and rye bread, though baked beans are not uncommon. The tradition in Wisconsin began because Wisconsin was settled heavily by Catholics of German, Polish, and other backgrounds whose religion forbade eating meat on Fridays. The number of lakes in the state meant that eating fish became a popular alternative.[2][11] Scandinavian settlements in northern and eastern Wisconsin favored the fish boil, a variant on the fish fry, which involves heating potatoes, white fish, and salt in a large cauldron.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Hope Lutheran to host fish fries every Friday during Lent". Winona Post. 12 February 2020. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  2. ^ a b "The Definitive Guide to Fish Fry in South-Central Wisconsin". Eater. 17 November 2014. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  3. ^ "Shore Lunch: More Than the World's Finest Fish and Chips". New West. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  4. ^
    The Times Reporter
    . Retrieved 15 February 2021. Brewster United Methodist Church will host a Lent Fish Fry dinner every Friday starting Feb. 15.
  5. ^ a b Godoy, Maria (6 April 2012). "Lust, Lies And Empire: The Fishy Tale Behind Eating Fish On Friday". NPR.org. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  6. ^ Lippmann, Rachel (28 March 2014). "Why Do Fish Fries Catch-All Kinds Of St. Louis Fans?". news.stlpublicradio.org. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  7. ISBN 9781418576134
    . John Wesley, in his Journal, wrote on Friday, August 17, 1739, that "many of our society met, as we had appointed, at one in the afternoon and agreed that all members of our society should obey the Church to which we belong by observing 'all Fridays in the year' as 'days of fasting and abstinence.'
  8. ^ Crowther, Jonathan (1815). A Portraiture of Methodism: Or, The History of the Wesleyan Methodists. T. Blanshard. pp. 251, 257.
  9. ^ Tables and Rules for the Movable and Immovable Feasts, Together with the Days of Fasting and Abstinence, through the Whole Year, p. 3 of 6. The 1928 U.S. Book of Common Prayer. Accessed 2009-04-09.
  10. ^ "A history of the Buffalo fish fry". Gusto. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  11. ^ "Our Guide to the Friday Fish Fry in Wisconsin". Serious Eats. Retrieved 2019-02-09.
  12. ^ "Fish Boils". Door County Visitor Bureau. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
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