Few can resist the mouth-watering combination - moist white fish in crisp golden batter, served with a generous portion of hot, fluffy chips. Everyone has their own preferences and tastes vary from one part of the country to another. Cod or haddock? Salt and vinegar? Pickled onion? Scraps? Like Morecambe and Wise or Wallace and Gromit, fish and chips are a classic double act - and yet they started life as solo performers. And their roots are not as British as you might think. Number of chippers in England: 1910: c25,000, 1929: c35,000, 2009: c10,000--Most popular fish sold in chippies: Cod 61.5%, Haddock 25%, Others (including hake, halibut, plaice, pollock, sole) 13.5%. George Orwell in The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) put fish and chips first among the home comforts that helped keep the masses happy and "averted revolution". During World War II, ministers bent over backwards to make sure fish and chips were one of the few foods that were never rationed.
Posted on: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 05:47:30 +0000
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