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The colonial history of Fish Fingers

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The Ideology of American Frontierism

I never want to eat a Birds Eye and that was the thing that got me investigating really because I thought what a silly name to call a food company. about Birds Eyes when I'm trying to envision some delicious fish fingers I don't want to eat the eye of a bird but all other parts except its eyeballs. It's a fascinating fucking rabbit hole and it's also an example of nominative determinism there was a fella called Clarence Birds Eye he was American he was born in 1886 and he was like a biologist and a naturalist in the American frontier. The colonizers decided this is our land fuck anyone who's here already we don't consider these people to be real

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