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welcome to the cotkey ride home for Monday, September 21st, 2020.

I'm Jackson Bird.

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Have you ever thought about where fish sticks came from? Why do we eat fish sticks? Like when you think about it, it's a bit weird. The Hustle calls it a quintessentially American invention, which I disagree with slightly, if only because I know the English are totally nuts about what they call fish fingers, but this quote still stands. Where else, but in this nation, could one freeze,

processed white fish into a brick, cut it up into deep fryable strips, and then ship it to a

landlocked region like Kansas for immediate consumption? End quote. I mean, fish sticks are pretty delicious.

Or at least I remember them being delicious.

I'm pretty sure I haven't eaten one in at least 15 years.

But when you take a step back, it is kind of weird that they exist at all.

And that we eat so many of them.

55 million pounds of them a year in the U.S., in fact.

And it's even weirder when you consider that, historically, Americans didn't actually like fish all that much.

The distaste dates all the way back to the arrival of Europeans in North America.

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