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Smells Fishy

In these screwier-than-usual times, where can we turn for comfort? To retro food! Macaroni and cheese? Too obvious. There’s probably a macaroni-and-cheeseinstitute on every corner. What humble, reassuring staple of my youth is undercelebrated? Salmon croquettes!

Research. I learned two things I didn’t know, and wish I didn’t know now.

My sister, Susan, and I may be the only people on earth who have always regarded salmon croquettes as vertical. Our mother’s salmon croquettes on the plate, like little pudgy were flat, sure. But doesn’t the word , so similar to and , connote perkiness?

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