Walleye Sandwich
Breaded and fried walleye fillet on a bun; Great Lakes specialty.
Breaded and fried walleye fillet on a bun; Great Lakes specialty.
Whole soft shell crab pan-fried and served on bread with tartar sauce.
Fried Lake Michigan yellow perch on a bun.
A steamed bun, a breaded pollock fillet, half a slice of American cheese, and a cold tartar on the crown. McDonald's chain-product reading of the 1962 Cincinnati Lent build.
Lomi lomi salmon (cured salmon with tomatoes and onions) on bread.
Alaskan king crab meat on bread; luxury item.
Prepared geoduck clam on a bun; rare specialty.
Cornmeal-crusted fried catfish on a bun with tartar sauce.
Beer-battered fried cod or perch on a bun; Wisconsin Friday tradition.
Dense Gulf grouper fried in beer batter or seared blackened, on a soft bun with tartar, slaw, and lemon: the Florida coast sandwich built around a fillet firm enough to demand it.
At a New England fish shack the fillet is haddock or cod, the North Atlantic groundfish the boats land, fried and set on a soft bun with tartar. The species choice is what makes it local.
A breaded white fish fillet on a steamed bun with cold tartar and a half-slice of American cheese. Lou Groen invented the Filet-O-Fish for Catholic Cincinnati in 1962.
Lump Chesapeake blue crab barely bound with egg, mayo, and a little cracker, pan-fried or broiled on a soft bun. Maryland's restraint sandwich, and where the name was printed.
A fried cake of salt cod and mashed potato pressed between two saltine crackers with a stripe of yellow mustard. Faidley's Seafood has been serving it in Baltimore's Lexington Market since 1886.
Fried whiting (not trout) on white bread with hot sauce and saltines; Baltimore soul food.
Raw marinated ahi spooned cold onto a toasted bun: a modern Hawaiian sandwich built to carry a loose, glistening filling that was never cooked and brings no shape of its own.