Pittsburgh Market Prepares To Bake 111-Pound Fish Sandwich

PITTSBURGH, PA — Patch recommends that no one attempt to eat this particular sandwich in one sitting.

Wholey's Fish Market in the city's Strip District is baking this gargantuan 111-pound sandwich on Saturday to commemorate the store's 111th anniversary. The market announced the plan by sharing a social media post by Mancini's Bakery in McKees Rocks, a Pittsburgh institution that will be providing a bun for the sandwich - an exceptionally large bun.

(An aside, dear reader: How many gallons of tartar of cocktail sauce will be needed for this unholy amount of seafood? You likely will be up all night pondering it.)

According to the market's website, the original Robert Wholey Company was founded in 1912 in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. The store was opened by Robert L. Wholey and sold live poultry, meats, sausages, and coffees.

Live poultry?

In 1948, Wholey opened the Wholey Company Poultry Market in the Diamond Market in what become Market Square in Downtown Pittsburgh. When Market Square was being developed in 1959, Wholey moved the business to its current location on Penn Avenue in the Strip and soon offered fresh fish and seafood.

Fifty-four years later Wholey's remains one of the most popular places in town to get a fish sandwich - however, not one of the magnitude that Wholey's will be baking on Saturday.