Tasting Table on MSN

McDonald's Filet-O-Fish sandwich earned its spot on the menu by beating out a fruit-centered competitor

The Filet-O-Fish remains a quietly popular choice on McDonald's menus, but its place wasn't a certainty as it was in ...
Tasting Table on MSN

McDonald's Filet-O-Fish Has A Special Bun That You Probably Never Even Noticed

The Filet-O-Fish is a beloved McDonald's food item in it's own right -- but there's something extra special about the bun it ...
Yahoo

Brilliant McDonald's Filet-O-Fish Hacks You Need To Try

Filet-O-Fish sandwiches and boxes - Dani Zoeller / The Takeout Filet-O-Fish sandwiches were originally a solution to a problem. In the early 1960s, a McDonald's franchise owner name Lou Groen was ...
EURweb

The Surprising Origin Story of McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish Sandwich

*In 1959, entrepreneur Lou Groen opened the first McDonald’s in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. After working a variety of jobs and eventually becoming president of the Cincinnati Restaurant Group, Groen ...
Crux

Origins of the Filet-O-Fish: Created to serve a local Catholic community

NEW YORK – Not long after Lou Groen opened a McDonald’s franchise on the west side of Cincinnati in 1959, did he realize that on Fridays during Lent the local Catholic community took their business to ...
Reader's Digest

Here’s Why the Filet-O-Fish Comes with Only a Half Slice of Cheese

Out of all of the items on McDonald’s menu, none is the subject of as much speculation, debate and plain old mystery as the Filet-O-Fish. The sandwich, which is the only pescatarian sandwich option at ...
WXIX-TV

The origins of McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish trace back to Cincinnati

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Hundreds of thousands of Cincinnati Area residents got their ashes Wednesday, marking the beginning of Lent and Fish Fry Season. During the Lent period, most Catholics (among other ...