Wikipedia has an entry for Preserved Fish, a real 19th-century NYC merchant
tallinzen · x · 2026-10-26
The author shares a Wikipedia screenshot of Preserved Fish (1766–1846), a real American shipping merchant and early NY Stock & Exchange Board broker whose name reads like a grocery item — the entry even disambiguates "for the process, see fish preservation." Pure trivia.
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