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• goldfish (nonstandard)

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From goldfish. Named after the shape.

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Goldfish (plural Goldfish or Goldfishes)

1. A small orange saltine-like cracker shaped in the form of a fish.
   • 1983, Joseph Wambaugh, The Delta Star, Morrow/Perigord, page 215:

     They were both working on their second and The Bad Czech was threatening to break the pub record for eating Goldfish, previously held by the chairman of the division of chemistry. […] He took the little fish-shaped cracker and held it in fingers as big as 50-milliliter test tubes.

   • 1999 December 31, Tracy T., “Knock knock...”, in alt.fan.british-accent‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 21 October 2025:

     No tomato soup with the toasted cheese? And I'd put mustard on the sandwich too, and parmesan cheese Goldfishes on the soup.

   • 2007, George Stella, Eating Stella Style, Simon & Schuster, page 63:

     For me, Goldfish crackers were always a comfort food growing up.

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“Goldfish” is a registered trademark of Pepperidge Farm.