Fish and Chips is one hundred and fifty years old this week and as they've been such a constant companion in my life, I thought it was worth a mention.
Best eaten by the sea, splashed in vinegar and sparkling with salt, washed down with a chilled can of Pepsi. Maybe with some piping hot mushy peas or a choice curry sauce. Never to be eaten, clumsily, after a night on the lash, waking in the morning with half your face in the tray. You may be able to get posh fish and chips, but the best ones still come strewn in a tray, or wrapped in stained paper, hot and greasy on your finger tips.
Best eaten by the sea, splashed in vinegar and sparkling with salt, washed down with a chilled can of Pepsi. Maybe with some piping hot mushy peas or a choice curry sauce. Never to be eaten, clumsily, after a night on the lash, waking in the morning with half your face in the tray. You may be able to get posh fish and chips, but the best ones still come strewn in a tray, or wrapped in stained paper, hot and greasy on your finger tips.
A few fish (and chippy) facts:
1 - The UK fish and chip market is worth 1.2 billion
2 - There is an estimated 10,500 chip shops in the UK employing 65,000 people
3 - Charles Darwin wrote of fried fish warehouses in Oliver Twist, in 1838 (no chips though, but bread and boiled potatoes)
4 - More than half of the UK population visits a chippy at least once a month
5 - A fish supper has approximately three times less fat than a chicken tikka masala and rice
6 - A portion of chips contains less fat than a prawn mayonnaise sandwich
7 - The best variety of potatoes for chips is Maris Piper
8 - The Chinese serve fish and chips with sugar
9 - Michael Jackson liked his with mushy peas
10 - If you laid all the spuds grown in Britain end to end, they would reach to the moon and back three times
11 - A spud is actually a small narrow flat spade often used for digging potatoes
2 - There is an estimated 10,500 chip shops in the UK employing 65,000 people
3 - Charles Darwin wrote of fried fish warehouses in Oliver Twist, in 1838 (no chips though, but bread and boiled potatoes)
4 - More than half of the UK population visits a chippy at least once a month
5 - A fish supper has approximately three times less fat than a chicken tikka masala and rice
6 - A portion of chips contains less fat than a prawn mayonnaise sandwich
7 - The best variety of potatoes for chips is Maris Piper
8 - The Chinese serve fish and chips with sugar
9 - Michael Jackson liked his with mushy peas
10 - If you laid all the spuds grown in Britain end to end, they would reach to the moon and back three times
11 - A spud is actually a small narrow flat spade often used for digging potatoes
(amazing facts courtesy of The Independent)
Happy Birthday fish n chips x
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