I live in Cincinnati, which is a heavily Catholic town. So every Lent the Greater Cincinnati area has dozens of weekly Friday Fish Frys. Everywhere. Its a sort of unorganized festival of fat and fish.
There are people who make it a sort of pilgrimage to go to a different a Fish Fry each friday with a group of people.
All the restaurants will have fish.
Some Churches even have DRIVE THRU Fish Frys.
Does your city do anything like this?
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the Knights of Columbus Hall down home always has a Friday fish and steak fry every Friday.
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On the other end of the Buckeye state…if you swing a fish filet, you’re are bound to hit a pieroge! Fish fries are even at the local gas station lunches. Bad month if you have fins.
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oh. I wish ours included pieroge!
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They are quite deadly with butter, onions and sour cream but who wants to be a healthy corpse. Actually darling most restaurants here have them year round as appetizers.
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sigh. They should be served world wide like french fries.
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You obviously lack elderly eastern European ladies with babushakas. The Ukrainian churches have the best ones here. It’s only three hours away my dear.
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No – can’t say that we do. Haven’t seen a Fish Fry since I left the South. Out here in California everything has Cilantro and Avocado on it. Which is okay, I guess.
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My friend raves about Skyline Chili in Cincinnati. Does he speak the truth? Did you grow up there?
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I moved here when I was 16. I think Cincinnati Chili is an acquired taste.
I prefer Gold Star or even better Dixie, but likely you couldn’t tell the difference and wouldn’t like any of them on first taste.
Its NOT chili in the traditional sense. Its unique and wonderful, but I think it suffers from being called chili. People who don’t know it, expect one thing and get something entirely unexpected and so they don’t like it.
Also, its not really meant to be eaten in a bowl. Its mean to be on top of spaghetti or a hotdog.
Possibly in a burrito or on a salad. But very few people dish up a bowl and just eat it.
In ALL cases it should be accompanied by shredded cheese. This is a must.
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Thanks for the Queen City Food critique. He mentioned it was more like spaghetti sauce than chili sauce.
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Not many fish fries here but the “fashnacht” donut day before ask Wednesday is big. Every church, supermarket and bakery has them for sale.
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I am in the UAE. A Muslim region.
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Do they have seasonal foods that seem broadly popular?
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I am an Episcopalian and there is a Catholic church down the road that does Fish on Friday. I am from Chattanooga, TN BTW.
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