50 YEARS OF THE FISH FINGER; AHOY SHIPMATES! A TEATIME REVOLUTION COMES OF AGE.(Features)

From: The Mirror (London, England) | Date: September 28, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: By MATT ROPER

HAPPY birthday, fish finger! It's been 50 years since Clarence Birdseye's most famous invention first went on sale - and teatimes have never been the same since.

So whether you like yours in a sandwich, or with chips and beans or gently sauteed in butter, lightly dressed in Mornay sauce and served on a bed of baby asparagus, here are 20 things you probably never knew about our most popular snack...

THE frozen fish finger was first produced in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, in a Birds Eye food factory in 1955 - the year Disneyland opened in California, ...

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