Fish Fingers and Custard… Nearly!

Five years ago, Doctor Who’s fifth season opened with a story in which the newly-regenerated Doctor tried a variety of foods offered to him by the young Amelia Pond. He discovered his latest persona hated yogurt, beans, bacon, bread and butter… Then he found custard and fish fingers:

This has become a classic scene of modern Who. Scores of Whovians raided their refrigerators for fish fingers (fish sticks in the U.S.) and custard so they could try this new Time Lord delicacy. All well and good if you’re not vegetarian… which I am. For five years I’ve had to wonder what fish fingers and custard tastes like.

Then I discovered this:

At last I could find out what all the fuss was about.

For the custard, I looked to my oldest child who has learned how to make custard from scratch, which is most pleasing to her custard-loving father. I will go as far as to say, my daughter’s custard is the best on the planet. “Better than Bird’s” I call it (my British readers should understand).

So here it is–the closest thing a vegetarian can get to fish fingers and custard:

What did I think? To be honest, even when I was a meat-eater I never liked fish. I used to eat fish fingers when I was a child because there was very little actual fish content, so most of what you tasted was the breading and whatever else was in it. One time, my Mum bought fish fingers that were 80% real cod. Never again. I hated them. Way too fishy. But for the sake of that Eleventh Doctor experience, I was willing to give this a try. And it wasn’t too bad. If I really liked fish, I’d probably enjoy it a lot more. But I was surprised at how well the sweetness of the custard blends with that fish flavor.

Have you ever tried fish fingers/fish sticks and custard? What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever eaten?