What is "plaice" in the US? Would love a good fish and chips

Solution 1:

Plaice is one variety of flatfish, related to sole, halibut, and flounder. It is not commercially available in the US so its name is rarely heard there.

In the US, when you find 'fish and chips' (purely a British cultural import) is usually made with cod, whitefish, or haddock, the same is in the UK. Fish and chips made with plaice is unknown in the US.

Solution 2:

Try looking it up in Wikipedia. Plaice, Pleuronectes platessa, is a European fish that is related to an American fish of the same family, which they've overfished. Many nations have different names for the same fish, though some are only related species. The question has a fundamental flaw in that you should have asked for cod!

Solution 3:

Plaice is "sole", a flat fish, and merluza is "hake". I am quite certain, as a Canadian who lives in Spain, a biologist and a fish-and-chips connoisseur.