Feast of the Seven Fishes Hats

The Feast of the Seven Fishes is a long meatless Christmas Eve seafood dinner that InsideHook calls "definitely an Italian American thing." Seven is the name, and the tradition ties the number to the sacraments, the deadly sins and the days of creation but plenty of families treat it as a floor. One Philadelphia chef describes 8 to 10 fish for the 30 people at his house, and a Spoon University writer's family eats 15 types every Christmas Eve. The rules are loose, too. There is no required set of fish, and a single shellfish pasta with calamari, scallops, mussels and clams can knock four fishes off the list with one bowl, according to 177 Milk Street. The salt cod has to soak for a few days first, and fish merchants name December 23 and 24 as their busiest days. These Feast of the Seven Fishes hats are for the people who run that dinner and the people who married into it. The basics carry the name of the meal. The sentence designs carry the counting, the baccala, the Tums, and the calamari passed off as onion rings, a waiter's trick one writer remembers. SEVEN FISHES IS A MINIMUM NOT A LIMIT and I'M NOT ITALIAN I JUST COME FOR THE SEVEN FISHES each get a second colorway. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one to the fry station, or give it to the uncle who does the frying.