A fish sandwich is, most generally, any kind of

sandwich A sandwich is a food typically consisting of vegetables, sliced cheese or meat, placed on or between slices of bread, or more generally any dish wherein bread serves as a container or wrapper for another food type. The sandwich began as a po ...

made with

fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% ...

. The term is frequently used to describe food made with breaded, fried fish, which are commonly found in

fast food Fast food is a type of mass-produced food designed for commercial resale, with a strong priority placed on speed of service. It is a commercial term, limited to food sold in a restaurant or store with frozen, preheated or precooked ingredie ...

venues. In American English, a ''sandwich'' is any two pieces of bread with filling, including rolls and buns; in British English (and also some other national English varieties such as those of Australia and New Zealand), the word ''sandwich'' is defined more narrowly, to require the pieces of bread to be sliced from a loaf, and a roll or bun with filling would not generally be called a ''sandwich''. Thus, what would be considered a ''fish sandwich'' in the US may not be considered a sandwich at all in some other English-speaking countries, if it is on a roll or bun as opposed to sliced bread. In Australia, a piece of whole fried fish served on hamburger-style bun would be called a ''fish burger''; that would not generally be considered to be ''burger'' in American English, since in American English a ''burger'' requires a patty made of ground meat, so something could only be a ''fish burger'' if it contained a patty made of ground fish. Examples include:

Fish finger sandwich A fish finger sandwich is a sandwich containing fish fingers, a battered or breaded fish. It is a popular dish in Britain where it is a comfort food. The sandwich often has no other filling, but may include a sauce such as tartare, mayonnaise o ...

, a sandwich made with fish fingers popular in Britain where it is a

comfort food Comfort food is food that provides a nostalgic or sentimental value to someone, and may be characterized by its high caloric nature, high carbohydrate level, or simple preparation. The nostalgia may be specific to an individual, or it may appl ...

. * Tuna sandwich, usually made from canned tuna combined with other ingredients, and which has been called "the mainstay of almost everyone's American childhood"."Cookbooks fail in search for the quintessential tuna sandwich."
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because Irma Rombauer never wanted to become embroiled in the controversy ver which extra ingredients to add But how can any book that purports to cover the American cooking scene omit the mainstay of almost everyone's childhood?"

Salmon burger A salmon burger is a type of fishcake made mostly from salmon in the style of a hamburger. The salmon requires a binder to make it stick together and is easy to overcook which makes it too dry. Salmon burgers are especially common in Alaska w ...

, a type of

fishcake A fishcake (sometimes written as fish cake) is a culinary dish consisting of filleted fish or other seafood minced or ground, mixed with a starchy ingredient, and fried until golden. Asian-style fishcakes usually contain fish with salt, water, ...

made mostly from

salmon Salmon () is the common name In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of ...

in the style of a

hamburger A hamburger, or simply burger, is a food consisting of fillings—usually a patty of ground meat, typically Ground beef, beef—placed inside a sliced bun or bread roll. Hamburgers are often served with cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles ...

, common in

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where they are routinely offered as an alternative to beef hamburgers. * Fried fish sandwiches such as the Filet-O-Fish (from

McDonald's McDonald's Corporation is an American multinational fast food Fast food is a type of mass-produced food designed for commercial resale, with a strong priority placed on speed of service. It is a commercial term, limited to food sold ...

) and BK Big Fish (

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* Fischbrötchen, a sandwich made with fish and other components commonly eaten in

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, due to the region's proximity to the

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and

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. * Balık ekmek (lit. ''fish bread''), a Turkish fish sandwich made with mackerel fillets or other

oily fish Oily fish are fish species with oil (fats) in soft tissues and in the coelomic cavity around the gut. Their fillets may contain up to 30% oil, although this figure varies both within and between species. Examples of oily fish include smal ...

, which is a specialty of the seafood stalls lining the docks of

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