Comment on What is the food eaten in Close Encounters during the infamous mashed potato scene?

Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fish cakes sounds likely, but I remember eating lots of pre-prepared Chicken Cordon Bleu that looked a lot like that.

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• cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Looks like Walmart sells them lol

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  • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Those are not fish cakes. Those are crab cakes. You can tell by the words “Crab Cakes” on the package.

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    • Gimpydude@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Crab is fish for exceptional values of fish.

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      • GuyDudeman@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Crabs is bugs. As is shrimps.

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    • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ll put money on the guess that these are made from polluck. “Crab Style Fish Cakes”

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• Thorned_Rose@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Are fish cakes normally pink inside in the US? Here fish cakes are white inside.

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  • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Your images aren’t showing, so I can’t see what you mean

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    • Thorned_Rose@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sorry, I usually use Fedia.io but for some reason it’s not federating very well. Here’s the one where you can see a partially eaten one and it’s pink inside. Image

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      • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I grabbed this from the 4K director’s cut. Maybe it’s just variations in lighting.

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