"The McDonald's dining room is where my grandmother operated a pseudo daycare in the early '90s. She and her friends would sip coffee and nibble on hash browns while conversing in Cantonese. My sister and I would run between the tables. When we got hungry, the only thing we were allowed to order was the Filet-O-fish sandwich. My grandmother thought it was more healthful than the beef burgers, and less processed than the nuggets. Who cares if it was fried? It was fish."
"When McDonald's franchisee Lou Groen started testing a breaded fish sandwich at his Cincinnati restaurant in 1962, he was hoping to capture the attention of his Lent-observing Catholic diners. But he wasn't the only one thinking about a meat-free option to boost sales during Lent. McDonald's founder Ray Kroc created something called the Hula Burger. It was a grilled slab of pineapple with cheese on a bun. The two agreed to sell both sandwiches on a Friday to determine the more popular menu item."
"The original steamed bun is replaced by lightly toasted, buttery brioche. The restaurant uses cod fillets instead of Alaskan pollock, for a meatier, more tender bite. It's dredged in a mixture of potato starch and nori, then deep fried. There's a whole slice of cheddar cheese, a creamy, chunky tartar sauce, and slices of raw red onion. The sandwich is nearly three times the size of the original."
A grandmother ran a pseudo daycare in a McDonald's dining room in the early 1990s and favored the Filet-O-Fish as a perceived healthier choice for grandchildren. Lou Groen tested a breaded fish sandwich in Cincinnati in 1962 to appeal to Lent-observing Catholic customers, while Ray Kroc proposed the Hula Burger; the Filet-O-Fish outsold the Hula Burger by more than 300 sandwiches and joined the menu in 1965 for $0.29. Bopomofo Cafe in San Gabriel reimagines the sandwich with lightly toasted brioche, cod fillets, a potato-starch-and-nori dredge, deep frying, a whole slice of cheddar, creamy chunky tartar, and raw red onion, creating a sandwich nearly three times the original's size.
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