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Big Fish

    Burger King’s fish sandwich takes a different route from the Filet-O-Fish. A larger panko-breaded pollock fillet with tartar sauce and pickles on a brioche-style bun: crunchier, tangier and less delicate. If you find the McDonald’s version too soft, this is the one for you.

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    The story

    The fish sandwich started in the 1970s as the Whaler, Burger King’s answer to the Filet-O-Fish, and has been renamed several times since — Ocean Catch, BK Big Fish, and now simply Big Fish. Like McDonald’s version it exists largely because of Friday abstinence from meat among Catholic customers, which is what pushed fast food into selling fish at all, and it has survived every menu cull for the same reason: one day a week, a lot of people need it.

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    There is no copycat of the Big Fish yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.

    The Big Fish on YouTube

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    About Burger King

    • United States
    • Since 1953
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    Burger King started in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1953 as Insta-Burger King, named after a broiler oven that did not really work. Two franchisees in Miami, James McLamore and David Edgerton, fixed the problem with a flame broiler, took over the company, and gave Burger King the one thing that still separates it from McDonald’s: burgers cooked over a flame instead of on a flat griddle.

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