Fish And Chips is known throughout the world as the Great British Takeaway, and nothing quite compares with a really good portion of Cod And Chips, wrapped in paper, and eaten while sitting on a bench overlooking the seaside, or a quaint Cornish Harbour, as we did when we were in Cornwall on honeymoon last year (see slideshow).
Years ago of course, but not so these days, Fish And Chips did use to be wrapped in newspaper, but now while a “good” chippie will still wrap your meal in a more hygenic paper wrapper, others use polystyrene (styrofoam) trays, or even cardboard ones.
A lot of other things have changed since the 1970′s, with the advent in the UK of Chinese and Indian takeaways, as well as the numerous Greek Doner Kebab (Gyro) restaurants that have proliferated throughout the country as well.
Add to this the enormous number of American style Fast Food establishments, such as McDonalds, Burger King, KFC and Pizza Hut, and good old British Fish And Chips has a lot of competition.
Thankfully however, this great British dish is still highly popular, and it is still possible to find good Fish And Chip shops that sell this in the traditional style.
Debbie’s grandparents used to own a Fish And Chip shop, and so when she was growing up she spent a lot of time there. Debbie created a lens about Fish And Chips on Squidoo that tells of her experiences, as well as providing a lot of history and background on our national dish.
Fish and Chips are pretty popular here in NZ too, and the ones we get are always wrapped in newsprint – unprinted and white, but newsprint.
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Same here in the UK Rhonda, the paper is usually white and unprinted.
The fish in the UK is mostly Cod and Haddock, and most Fish and Chip shops pre-cook some fish and chips and keep it warm, ready for when they get customers.
I did notice in New Zealand that the better Fish and Chip shops cooked everything, including the Chips to order, which took a bit longer, but definitely tasted fresher. The better places also served Snapper instead of Tilapia, which had also sometimes been frozen.
Love fish and chips, actually worked at a Arthur Treachers Fish and Chips when I was in high school. Bad thing was I always smelled like fish fry:)
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Fish & chips are a wonderful food invention. Once we were going to travel and live on this diet while writing a book about – fish and chips. Sadly, never happened. Good thing as we’d probably have been over our weight limit for most airlines.
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Fish and chips are hard to come by in the US. I actually saw a fish and chips restaurant featured on either the Food Network or Travel channel recently. I wish I could remember where it was. For some reason, New York or New Jersey is popping into my head.
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Sounds delicious! I haven’t had fish and chips in years. When I was a kid, one of my biggest thrills was when the McDonalds fish filet came out, as I never liked hamburgers and substituted fries and a shake instead. This was still sub-standard to your version of Fish N chips. Julie
I love fish and chips! I even had authentic ones when I went to England as a teen.
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Yay for fish and chips!
Yes, this is exactly what I would expect a Brit to write about. I love fish & chips!
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Yummy! Love this! I love malt vinegar with mine.
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One of my favorite meals when visiting England. I also met this really great looking guy while getting my fish and chips and arranged to meet him later on that night for a date!
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Fabulous foodie post!
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Yummy!!
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Damn. I’m hungry now.
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While on a military exercise to London in the 80s, I stopped to get fish and chips. The chips were soggy with grease and nearly inedible. I know that’s probably not the norm, but I was sorely disappointed (especially since I don’t like fish so really wanted just the chips!)
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Hooray for Fish and Chips. Someday I hope to get back to the UK and that is what I will eat there for sure, at least once. There is something very special about the Fish and Chips there! They are very delicious. Thank you for this posting.
The fish and chips we get in the US isn’t anything like what’s in the UK. I mean, yes it’s battered and fried fish and yes, it’s strips of potato fried, but I was used to those nicely shaped, semi-triangular pieces of haddock along side of the fries/chips. No vinegar to be found without a salad under it. My first UK experience in a chippy was in Dublin. The fish was HUGE and irregularly battered and fried. I didn’t know if that was the norm or if something was seriously wrong in Dublin. I have since learned that the pieces of fish ARE much larger than we tend to offer here and the batter much more irregular with many crunchy nooks and crannies. Now that we have our own chippy here in New Jersey courtesy of a British products import store, I am getting to enjoy it and other tasty morsels more and more.
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You can’t beat fish and chips! I love it when there’s so much vinegar that you cough when you open the bag. . . heaven!
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