page_title: Fishmonger
section_title: Fishmongers in culture
hierarchical_section_title: Fishmonger / Fishmongers in culture
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Statue de Molly Malone English: Molly Malone statue
context_page_description: A fishmonger is someone who sells raw fish and seafood. Fishmongers can be wholesalers or retailers, and are trained at selecting and purchasing, handling, gutting, boning, filleting, displaying, merchandising and selling their product. In some countries modern supermarkets are replacing fishmongers who operate in shops or fish markets.
context_section_description: In many countries, the fishwife was proverbial for her sharp tongue and outspoken speech. In Medieval France, the ones in Paris were known for their special privilege of being able to speak frankly to the King himself, when he ventured into the marketplace, and voice criticism without fear of punishment.
  Molly Malone is a character from a popular Irish song about a young fishwife who tragically dies at a young age.
  Charles Fort in his book Lo! compiles the story of the Mad Fishmonger or "St. Fishmonger", which later may or may not appear in the Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson. St. Fishmonger allegedly caused crabs and periwinkles to fall from the sky.
  In the English translation of the Asterix series, the village fishmonger is called Unhygienix. 
  In the film The Beach, the Island's chef has only fish as a source of meat, and is named Unhygienix in reference to the Asterix character.
  In Shakespeare's Hamlet, some contend that the word fishmonger was  a euphemism for a "fleshmonger," or pimp.
caption: The fishwife Molly Malone of "Cockles and Mussels" fame.
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