🖊 Brown food, banging sandwich

Rosie MacKean explains how fish finger sandwiches nursed her back to the land of the living after a brutal restaurant service.

Photograph by Rosie Mackean

Fish fingers are part of a category known as ‘brown food’ in my family. Brown food is mostly frozen food items coated in or made from some sort of carbohydrate that will go crispy when baked, i.e. brown. Growing up, both at school and at home, this felt like an enormous treat. I suspect this was probably because of its similar…