Hi Everyone, Serve a Guyanese a fish cake that doesn’t look like the fish cakes they are accustomed to and they fight hard to hide their shock as they reluctantly reach for it. If they take a bite and there’s no evidence of an ample amount of fish in the fish cake, then throw out everything you ever thought of Guyanese – polite, humble, generous, and mannerly, for they suddenly become arrogant, overbearing and boastful. You would swear that only in Guyana proper fish cakes are made or that only Guyanese know how what fish cakes are. I know you think I am exaggerating but if you’ve ever lived outside of Guyana, you would know that what I am saying is true.
I had my own personal moment of bewilderment a year after arriving in Barbados, ordering fish cakes at a
