Merlans Bercy

Fishmongers sometimes palm off a pollack, haddock, or codling on an unsuspecting customer in place of silver whiting. Whiting usually do not exceed 1½ lb in weight, and are distinguished from the haddock by having no barbule under the chin and from the pollack and codling by being underhung, and they have a more delicate flavour than their impersonators.