March 2, 2010
I admit I don’t get it. And that annoys me because it is a flippin’ McDonald’s commercial I’m talking about. You know the one. Two guys in a car are about to bite into the usually-cardboard-tasting (tartar sauce helps) Filet o’ Fish when one guy gets a call from his Big Mouth Billy Bass, who sings this song:
Gimme back that filet-o-fish
Gimme that fish
Gimme back that filet-o-fish
Gimme that fish
What if it were you
hanging up on this wall?
If it were you in that sandwich
you wouldn’t be laughing at all!
Is he mad because the fish sandwich is made out of him? Does he want to stuff it back, somehow, inside himself? Or is he just hungry and wants to eat it? Maybe it is an existential harangue by the fish on the inequity of life, which finds him stuck on a wall while two slackers eat a sandwich made, possibly, of him?
I dunno. It has a memorable tune and here I am with it stuck in my mind, so I guess that’s the point.
BTW- what kind of “o’ fish” is the Fillet o’ Fish made out of? Alaskan Pollock, which the internet descries as “edible” or, if that’s not available, a Japanese fish called Hoki, which is also edible but very very ugly.
Hey, anyone remember the old o’ fish song? Where some kids tried to find what the “O” meant and discovered that “Oh we all put the O in McDonald’s Fillet o’ Fish”?
I don’t either.
Mr. Blog's Tepid Ride 
Funny you should bring this topic up. I recently read about the fish used in McDonald’s filet o’ fish sandwich in The New York Times and it is indeed the ugly Hoki.
(http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/science/10fish.html)
Personally, I kind of like the FO’F sandwich since I don’t eat hamburgers and am somewhat limited when we take the grandkids to Mickey D’s every weekend. (But yes, tartar sauce helps.)
I haven’t seen that commercial though. It makes me think of Charlie the Tuna who’s always trying to pimp out his fellow tuna to Starkist. What is up with that?
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Charlie the Tuna is a pimp. I like the way you think.
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