Fried whiting · Hot sauce on white bread
Nashville Hot Fish Sandwich
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Hot fish was a staple of North Nashville church picnics long before it reached restaurant menus, and the fried fillets are so big they dwarf the slices of white bread.
Two big fillets of breaded, fried whiting doused in hot sauce and piled with mustard, raw onion and pickles on plain white bread, handed over in paper at walk-up fish counters.
Why it's made this way: Hot fish grew out of Nashville's African-American community alongside hot chicken, moving from church picnics to small cinderblock plate-lunch spots; Ed's Fish House, opened in 1972, is often credited with popularising the sandwich, though regulars point to an earlier place called Whitey's.
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