Word: fish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rothschild on winding Váci Utca, but equally handsome working-class wives do their shopping at the Great Market Hall-a vast, unheated, barnlike building where sausages and onions dangle from the beams, dung-smeared chicken eggs sell for a dollar a dozen, and delectable fish called fogas goggle stupidly from their tanks at the customers, then disappear, still wriggling, into net shopping bags...
Frenchmen call it saumon blanc and eat it with gusto. To the British, it is the fish in their beloved fish 'n' chips. On the U.S.'s West Coast, however, it goes by the unappetizing name of hake, and what little of it fishermen have caught has been ground into fish meal for poultry feed...
Most of the West Coast catch will still end up as fish meal, at least for the time being. A company called Pacific Protein Inc. is spending $1,000,000 to build a processing plant at Aberdeen, Wash., for that purpose. Pacific Protein President John Stevens would like eventually to use hake in making fish-protein concentrate, an almost tasteless powder of reputedly wondrous nutritional value. A half ounce of FPC, as it is called, is said to be capable of providing a child with his daily need for animal protein at a fraction of a cent...
...Federal Food and Drug Administration has not yet decided whether or not to certify FPC as fit for human consumption, because the fish are not cleaned before processing; FPC enthusiasts reply by pointing out that the FDA has not banned chocolate-coated bumblebees and grasshoppers, though they also are consumed without cleaning. Last summer the National Academy of Sciences concluded that FPC made from hake is safe, and this month Interior Secretary Stewart Udall filed a petition requesting FDA approval. Next month the Senate will begin subcommittee hearings on a bill sponsored by Washington's Senator Warren Magnuson...
Oneekatualeeotae. By 1963, Eskimos were running 18 coops, shipping as far south as New York such marketable commodities as frozen char (a delicious fish that tastes like salmon), waterproof sealskin boots, Eskimo handicraft and art. In the Eskimos' own stores, delicacies that they canned themselves-muk-tuk (whale skin), corned and roasted seal meat, sweet-and-sour whale, walrus flippers vinaigrette-now move as briskly as canned ham loaf...