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Papua New GuineaFlavors · Bermuda
Fried seasoned fish fillets with tartar sauce, served between raisin bread slices. If ordered “the works,” it comes with lettuce, tomato, grilled onion, cheese, hot sauce and coleslaw. Served across the island at kiosks and restaurants.
Traditional dish from Bermuda
Also known as: Bermuda fish sandwich, fried fish sandwich
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Fish sandwich — Bermuda
The fish sandwich is one of Bermuda’s most common snacks. The basic recipe is found islandwide: seasoned fish fillets, coated in flour or batter and fried, with tartar sauce, between two slices of bread. What sets it apart is the bread: the most traditional is raisin bread, slightly sweet, toasted or not. You can also ask for whole-wheat bread.
The fish is usually wahoo, snapper or grouper, all white-fleshed. Locals look for the contrast between the sweet bread, the salty crunchy fish and the sauce.
Ordering the sandwich “with the works” means fully loaded: lettuce, tomato, grilled onion, cheese, hot sauce and coleslaw, the creamy cabbage salad. Each place has its own take on the seasoning, the tartar sauce and the batter, and the contest for the island’s best fish sandwich is a frequent topic among residents.
There’s no record of when raisin bread became the standard. The sandwich appears everywhere, from simple kiosks and snack bars to more formal restaurants, at lunch or as a quick meal.
Bermuda
Snack served across the island, from kiosks to restaurants.
White-fleshed fish fillet (wahoo, snapper or grouper), flour or batter for frying, tartar sauce and raisin bread; when complete: lettuce, tomato, grilled onion, cheese, hot sauce and coleslaw.
Eaten with the hands, at lunch or as a quick meal; on raisin bread, toasted or not, or on whole-wheat bread.
All year round.
Your questions
It’s the traditional island way. The slightly sweet bread contrasts with the fried fish and tartar sauce. There’s no record of when the custom started, and you can order whole-wheat bread if you prefer.
Generally wahoo, snapper or grouper—white-fleshed fish caught around the islands, seasoned and fried.
It’s the fully loaded sandwich: besides fish and tartar sauce, it includes lettuce, tomato, grilled onion, cheese, hot sauce and coleslaw.
Flavors of Bermuda
The Bermudian Christmas pie: a dense dough made from grated cassava with butter, eggs, sugar and spices, baked slowly with a filling of chicken, pork or both. Sweet and savory at the same time, it is eaten hot or cold during the holidays.
The traditional Sunday breakfast in Bermuda: salted cod cooked, potatoes, onion, banana, a boiled egg and avocado on the same plate, with tomato sauce or melted butter with onion on top.
Codfish cakes made with mashed potato, onion and herbs, fried until golden. They are eaten year-round, and on Good Friday they’re served inside hot cross buns, the sweet spiced rolls marked with a cross, while kites fill the islands’ skies.
Dark rum poured over ginger beer with ice in a tall glass, garnished with a slice of lime. The rum floats on top as a dark cloud, which gives the drink its name. Called the national drink of Bermuda, it is a trademark of the Gosling family, who require their Black Seal rum in the recipe.
Fish soup with tomato, potato, onion, carrot, bell pepper and celery, seasoned and slowly cooked. It is considered Bermuda’s national dish, and at the table each person adds dark rum and sherry-pepper sauce.
Cocktail of dark and gold rum with orange and pineapple juices, lime, falernum and bitters, shaken in a pitcher until foamy, coral in color.
