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MaxMMXXI t1_j5zh990 wrote

Reply to comment by KS_HasRead in The British aisle in my American grocery story (Publix, North Carolina) by MarcoNoPollo

So it wasn't a preserved fish until it was unnecessary to preserve it as grey lumps in a jar of glop? I wondered why those were called "gefilte" too, so thanks for answering that mystery.

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KS_HasRead t1_j5zhkc1 wrote

>So it wasn't a preserved fish until it was unnecessary to preserve it as grey lumps in a jar of glop?

yep. lol. It originally was something you might make ahead. But it also was very pretty and tasty. https://memod.com/BabiesBriefsAndBooks/putting-the-gefilte-back-in-gefilte-fish-5890

Then the 1940s f*d it up.

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MaxMMXXI t1_j601g6h wrote

As the writer in your link rightly said, gefilte fish has been done a disservice by modernity. I can check this one-of-those-things-I-wonder-about off my list.

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