What is Fishstick?
[[File:Fishfinger1.jpg|thumb|300px|Fried fish fingers]] '''Fishsticks''' or '''fish fingers''' are a type of food probably invented in the [[United Kingdom]]. They are made of a [[White fish|whitefish]] like [[cod]] that is [[batter (cooking)|battered]] and [[breading|breaded]]. They are often eaten with [[tartar sauce]], or [[ketchup]]. ''Fishsticks'' are popular with children and their [[parent]]<nowiki/>s as an easy-to-prepare finger food that is somewhat healthy for kids. ==History== Fishsticks first came about as a result of the invention of the [[plate froster]] in 1929, the first quick [[Refrigerator|freezer]]. For rapid freezing, food needed to be in slim rectangular [[wikt:slab|slabs]]. A suitable candidate for this freezing method was fishsticks, slivers (small, thin pieces) cut from large fish and dipped in bread crumbs for frying. In Britain in the 1950s, most of the [[herring]] catch was [[Pickling|pickled]] and exported to other North [[Europe]]an countries. To make herring more appealing on the home market, companies tried to present it in a new way, creating herring fishsticks called “herring savouries”. They were tested on the market against a bland control product of [[cod]] sticks, sold as “fish fingers.” Shoppers in [[Southampton]] and [[South Wales]], preferred the cod. Cod fishsticks were first produced in [[Great Yarmouth]] and introduced in Britain on 26 September 1955. They became very popular after [[Television commercial|television advertising]] began in 1956. ==Production== On modern production lines, headless [[fish]] are processed through a [[machine]] that removes a [[fillet]] from each side of the [[backbone]]. The fillets then pass over a [[wheel]] and a [[blade]] that separates the [[skin]] from the flesh. Machine filleting leaves a few pin-like [[bone]]s in the fillet, so the flesh containing the bones is cut out. Fillets are formed into frozen blocks. A conveyor sends the blanks through [[batter (cooking)|batter]] and [[breadcrumb]]s, doubling the thickness of the fishstic