A Flood of Fish Sandwiches: Day 5 – Wendy’s North Pacific Premium Cod Fish Fillet—Expealodotious

By Cat Taylor on April 23, 2014

Wendy’s gets two awards in the fish sandwich experiment. First, the real thing looks closer to the photo than any of the others that I’ve tried so far. Second, it has the longest name of all the fish sandwiches – North Pacific Premium Cod Fish Fillet. That’s more of a mouthful than the whole sandwich. With a fancy-pants name like that, I felt like I should eat while listening to someone play the grand piano. It also set up some pretty high expectations. So, if the sandwich didn’t live up to its long name it was going to be a bigger disappointment than usual. So, I sat down with my fish combo (sans tartar sauce, of course) and turned on the laptop to take advantage of the Wendy’s WiFi while I ate. For the third time in as many Wendy’s locations, the WiFi didn’t work. Well, we were off to a bad start already.

Even though lunch without internet access should have no bearing on the quality of the fish sandwich, how could I not be influenced by such a dilemma? Call me Pavlov’s dog if you will, but I challenge anyone to fully enjoy a meal at a restaurant when they are frustrated by false promises, whether such promises are for free WiFi or for lands of cotton candy. Since I thought the sandwich was actually pretty decent anyway, I probably would have thought it was ambrosia if the WiFi had been working. Regardless, I could actually taste the fish and it didn’t need cheese to give it flavor. I can’t say it was delicious, but it wasn’t bad.

Overall, this visit was such an average and uneventful experience that I almost didn’t write about it. However, in the interest of science, I had to include it.