Maine native who created fish sticks, went on to run General Mills, E. Robert Kinney, dead at 96:

http://bangordailynews.com/2013/05/15/news/mid-maine/e-robert-kinney-maine-native-who-went-on-to-run-general-mills-dead-at-96/

...I need to go watch the Fish Sticks episode of South Park in honor of this man! At least he lived to a ripe old age and brought joy in the form of his fishy creation! http://images.uesp.net/c/c4/Fishystick.jpg

Did he like fishsticks in his mouth? If yes, then he was a gay fish.

But seriously, it is a sad day when the man who invented the greatest welfare dinner around died. Hell my childhood was fishsticks and fries (my mom was a [censored] cook and broke to boot).

I've never heard of this man but the death of a person is sad moment regardless, and I enjoy eating the fishy sticks occasionally. Truly, a sad day indeed. May he dream of a thousand fish sticks in his permanent slumber.

R.I.P Bob. Thanks for providing us with cheap--yet tasty fish dinners. At least you lived to be an old man, and witness the success of your invention. http://i.imgur.com/itCrLEc.png

My childhood was also fishsticks along with pizza. Mainly pizza, but fishsticks were something I liked, too. Great snacks.

I prefer them dipped in stuff like sweet n' sour sauce. Might want to have a box tomorrow now with some cocktail sauce.

No disrespeck to ol' Bob there, but don't fish fingers date back to at least the beginning of the 20th century? Than again, that's what Wikipedia says, so it's probably wrong.

I'm reminded of a co-worker who was also involved with a long-running project, which meant a long-running hotel stay, who eventually got absolutely tired of the hotel menu and insisted on being served fish fingers instead of some-randon-meat-in-an-overly-rich-sauce (something that caused me to gain much of the weight I'm now trying to lose.) It was amusing in that it caused so much consternation! In the end, they had to raid the hotel manager's personal freezer to obtain the awkward patron's order.

Solid pieces of fish in fishsticks? They should always be made with minced scrap fish pieces held together with meat glue

Yeah, the earliest known recipe for fish fingers is from an English newspaper in 1900 which is 17 years before he was born.

It seems he did popularise them however, and was a bit of a philanthropist to boot.