Fishifingers

[spamandbeans]

Can someone tell me why fishifingers are often vilified as part of children's diets but not a fishcake or other breaded fish? Or are they all and I just miss that? Aibu to think a fishifinger is the same as a fish and any other breaded cod fillet?

Do you oven bake or grill your fishifingers? I oven bake but my ex used to grill. I always said he was wrong, but recently I'm thinking maybe he was right.

Do you oven bake or grill your fishifingers? I oven bake but my ex used to grill. I always said he was wrong, but recently I'm thinking maybe he was right.

@mykingdom, I had cruel parents. My 80s was the 80s of lentil-weavery stone-ground bread and so on. Mum did occasionally crack and give us fish fingers after swimming (because apparently, taking 6-8 under 10's into the pool on your own, bunging them in the boot and driving home, is quite tiring). But usually she was big on not giving us processed food, so I missed out.

On another MN thread several people seemed to think giving your kids sandwiches was tantamount to child abuse. (I think wraps were also devil food). We have fish(i)fingers sometimes and chicken nuggets. Sometimes if i'm feeling particularly mumsnetty i make my own chicken nuggets but is quite faffy. Everything in moderation i think apart from chocolate which is clearly an essential food group

I don't like fishfingers much.. Nor do I like most other breaded fish I find they are not how I want fish to taste.

However I grew up right by the sea and I was used to walking down to the fishing boats buying fish straight from the boat so fish for me (and for my children as thats what I served them) is a very different thing to the breaded stuff.

2 of mine will eat fish fingers 2 of them wont.. I do not understand the obsession with fishfinger sandwiches.. I see those words and I think stomach ache as I would get that from it..

@AlaskanOilBaron What website is that, if you don't mind me asking? Sounds useful.

I can't be the only one who thought this would be a thread about masturbation?!

Call them a goujon though and it's a different story.

Gah! Yes this is another one! I'd have no shame feeding my child's friend a Gounod but somehow I'd expect to be criticised for giving a fishfinger - what's that all about!!

I love a fishifinger butti! And I regard myself as a proper foodi(e). I even slice my own bread. (Did anyone else want to ask usuallyinthemiddle if they served fishifinger butties in the noisy bar she's in?)

Fishfinger Sanger. with no butter only salad cream as an adhesive on white toastie thick slices. BRB.

Don’t many fishcakes have salmon in them?

I think they can be used as a by word for convenient, freezer, processed food even though they themselves are quite good.

I wish my DS would eat them. He turns his nose up at most freezer stuff at the moment, much to my annoyance.

Sainsbury’s taste the difference chunky fish fingers are delicious! 70% fish and £3.50 for eight. I need to buy some more as ran out and now really fancy them!

picking I wish they did! I'm partial. They are forever fishifingers now in my heart!

Aren't fishifingers trendy though? I'm sure I've seen places selling "gourmet fishifinger sandwiches" for about £15 a pop. Or are they already out of fashion again? It's so difficult to keep up.

Personally I love a good fishifinger. Not with custard though...

And my spellchecker now thinks fishifinger is correct

Gounod

I see your fish finger sandwich and raise you a fish finger TOASTIE

@SneakyGremlins tell me your EXACT method.

Also can I have it with cheese and beans?!

If fish fingers are made from offcuts, surely that's a good thing. Less food waste. The only ones i avoid are the minced ones. The Sainsburys basics ones are pollock fillet and nicer than the equivalent "omega 3" or whatever they're marketed as, this week, birds eye, for about 1/3 of the price.

I think fishfingers are great. Bonus points for baking/grilling rather than frying and going for an non-endangered fish rather than cod. Not sure if the ones that say Omega 3 in the box are better than the ones that don't.

Cheap fishfingers are something like 15% fish, though. So not brilliant.....

I'm billing Sainsburys for this bit of marketing, I think. 58% fish.
www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/fish-fingers/sainsburys-fish-fingers--basics-x10-250g#reviews

Waitrose essential cod fillet fish fingers are 64 pct cod, BirdsEye are 58.... also Trose one's are £1.75 for 10 (300 gr) while BE are £2.50 for 280 grams
I like a toasted fish finger sandwich, with one slice of bread done as cheese on toast, four grilled FFs, go on that. It's then topped with Heinz chilli ketchup, then a dollop of mayo and finished off with the other slice of buttered toast. Has to be Waitrose fishifingers. Sometimes even their humongous 'chunky' fish fingers.

Now I really really want a cold fishfinger sandwich with lashings of tomato sauce

@AlaskanOilBaron What website is that, if you don't mind me asking? Sounds useful.

sorry, I was incorrect, I found it here re: Birds Eye:
www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/mar/30/birds-eye-sustainable-fish-fingers

But the website I referred to is Ethical Consumer.