Photo: McDonald'sFilet-O-Fish
The menu’s strangest survivor and one of its most loyal followings. A square of breaded white fish, tartar sauce and half a slice of cheese in a soft steamed bun, so soft it leaves finger marks. Everything about it is gentle, which is the point. The half slice is not stinginess: a full one would flatten the fish. Two copycats below take different routes to that steamed bun.
The story
Lou Groen ran a McDonald’s in a heavily Catholic part of Cincinnati, and every Friday during Lent his sales collapsed as customers went to a rival that sold a fish sandwich. In 1962 he created his own. Ray Kroc hated the idea and pushed his own meatless option, a grilled pineapple slice with cheese called the Hula Burger. They tested both on the same Friday. The fish sold, the Hula Burger did not, and the Filet-O-Fish went national.
What’s inside
- breaded white fish fillet
- tartar sauce
- half slice American cheese
- steamed bun
Make it at home
My copycat first, then everything I built on top of it.- My copycat
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McDonald's Filet-O-Fish (Copycat) - Another take
Copycat McDonalds Filet-o-Fish Sandwich
The Filet-O-Fish on YouTube
Everyone who has cooked, copied or taste-tested it on camera.
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9:41The Twenty Filet-O-Fish Challenge
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11:00Cajun Filet-O-Fish
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7:25The Filet-O-Fish on Steroids
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8:26The Ultimate Fried Fish Sandwich
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12:22Homemade Filet-O-Fish
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9:00€1 Fish Burger vs €500 Fish Burger
7:03World’s Largest Filet-O-Fish
2:028 Filet-O-Fish in 60 Seconds
15:3224 Hours of Fish Sandwiches
4:12I Made the Filet-O-Fish Ten Times Better
6:21How to Make a Filet-O-Fish with Tobie Puttock
9:05Two Homemade Filet-O-Fish
14:46Blind Fast-Food Fish Sandwich Taste Test
6:09McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish
Similar burgers at other chains
Built around the same things as the Filet-O-Fish.- Vkusno i Tochka · fish and cheese
Fishburger - Herfy · fish and cheese
Fish Fillet - Albaik · fish
Fish Fillet Burger - Q Burger · fish
Alaska Fish Burger (阿拉斯加鱈魚堡)
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About McDonald's
Nobody sells more burgers. McDonald’s began as a single drive-in run by Richard and Maurice McDonald in San Bernardino, California, and became a burger machine in 1948, when the brothers threw out most of the menu and rebuilt the kitchen like a production line. Ray Kroc, a salesman who sold them milkshake mixers, started franchising it in 1955 and later bought the brothers out.
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