Eastbound, Bloor and Bay
Black woman, mid 30s, with long dark hair, wearing floral silk jacket, and grey dress pants.
Bottomfeeder, Taras Grescoe (HarperCollins)
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The frozen pollock blocks are then sold to converters, such as Newfoundland-based Fishery Products International, or Gorton’s of Gloucester, which saw them into patty-sized portions (meaning a single patty can contain the flesh of several fish). They are then breaded and prefried. Alaskan pollock goes into 90 percent of the three hundred million Filet-O-Fishes McDonald’s sells in North America every year. It is also the main ingredient in the fish sandwiches sold by Arby’s, Dairy Queen, and Burger King.
Her first job was working the night shift in the drive-through, just her and a newer hire who was convinced on his first day to grab bags of air from storage once he was done taking pickle inventory. Years later, when she came into his computer store with a problem with her hard drive, he took his chances that she wouldn’t have access to a magnet powerful enough to do any real damage.
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