by JimN » 28 Aug 2011, 11:18
Fish fingers seemed to catch on (in the UK) in the late 1950s, so were a true child of the rock'n'roll age. And we didn't even know about tartare sauce, or crinkly chips.
The funniest thing about them (and I suspect that fellow social history commentator Geoff "1711" Mason will concur) was that even though they were designed, like other frozen foods, to be stored in the home-freezer, they succeeded despite the fact that hardly anyone had one (at the time). Instead, 8-yr-old boys would be despatched to the corner grocer's shop to buy them an hour before mealtime, and they were cooked from frozen.
If my grandmother could see the inside of almost any house today (or if she could look over my shoulder as I type this), she'd think she was on a space-station.
JN
PS: The first time I ever heard of birds-eye maple (which may well have been in the mid-1970s, it not being a wood commonly doled out in woodwork at school), I immediately thought of fish-fingers.