The story of the fish stick - Lenner Kíra (7.a) cikke

The story of the fish stick

More than 60 years ago, the first quick-frozen fish sticks were made in England. As a legend it is originated from the Eskimos. They put the freshly caught fish among ice sheets to preserve its freshness.

Clarence Birdseye developed the idea of the Eskimos in the early 1920s. In 1955, the first fish stick was made in Great Yarmouth, a port city in England. It began to become very popular in Hungary in the 1990s.

There are no bones in the fish stick, no scales, no smell of fish. With fried golden brown fish sticks, children can also be persuaded to eat fish. Fish consumption is very healthy. 

Hungarian people eat 4.6-6 kg of fish per person per year. The European average is 22.7 kg. Most of the fish are eaten by the Portuguese, 55.3 kilograms per year.