Does your area have fish frys or pancake suppers?

Lots of churches have pancake dinner for Shrove Tuesday; when I was a child our teachers made us pancakes at school. I don’t notice fish frys held here as often.

I live in Florida and we absolutely do have fish frys. They are VERY popular and nearly every weekend there will be an event. Mullet is our main fish plus this a rebounding oyster area.

I've seen both. Our church puts on a Shrove Tuesday pancake supper annually (going tomorrow night), usually as a fundraiser for Youth Group activities.

No fish frys that I know of around here. Occasionally crab feeds, spaghetti dinner, and, my favorite, pancake breakfasts hosted by the lovely firefighters on the 4th if July 😊

Autocorrect demands that it be written that way and so it shall be done.

Autocorrect might demand that it be written FRYS, but there's no way autocorrect demands you use an apostrophe to make it plural.


They still are.   In a lot of restaurants and grocery stores, they're available EVERY Friday, year round, not just during Lent.  Some restaurants also have a fish fry option every Wednesday as well, and a smaller number offer them every day of the year.

But the real question people don't seem to be asking in this thread is: should your fish fry come with rye bread?  (The only acceptable answer here is YES.)

I grew up in the midwest with Fish fry's, pancake suppers and "church suppers" which might be a Protestant thing. Ours made a turkey dinner.

I've never seen one here in the PNW, but I've always assumed they were Fish n Chips with fried fish and French fries, but it sounds like they're not.  What is included in the meal?  

We get two pieces of fried fish, two sides, a roll, and a dessert. The sides are green beans, cole slaw, French fries, baked beans, and I forget what the last choice is—maybe a side salad? I always get the coleslaw and baked beans so I don’t remember the last one.

Interesting. My town only had one Catholic Church, and there was another in the next town over. Maybe they had them and I just wasn't aware, but if they did, they weren't widely publicized. Or maybe the fact that there were only two Catholic churches around indicated that there weren't enough practicing Catholics in the area to support the event.

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Ok I quoted the wrong one on my phone, meant to this one. We also do smelt frys esp up north. Most fish frys are walleye and perch

Many of the Catholic churches near me have a Fish Fry every Friday during Lent. I am planning to attend some with a friend this year (neither of us is Catholic but we both love a fish fry!). Our church (Episcopal) does a Shrove Tuesday pancake dinner every year on Mardi Gras evening. I'll be making pancakes at home though since they moved the time of the dinner to 5 pm due to a special program later in the evening. DH and DD won't even be home from work then!

My smart phone is an idiot. It loves apostrophes.

I’d never seen the rye bread until I went to a ‘Sconnie fish fry I love rye bread but the fish fry rye is usually dry and boring.

Neither of these events are big in the large metro areas of the US or places that don’t have a large Catholic or more traditional Christian population. I don’t remember seeing hardly any growing up in Dallas, and I don’t see them in Chicago unless you specifically seek them out, such as at a Wisconsin-based restaurant. I didn’t really see them when I lived in the deep South either, but I was in a larger city then, as well, and my church maybe did a pancake breakfast once in a blue moon?