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Fish and Chips

Fish and chips is a popular British dish consisting of fried battered fish and hot chips. It originated in England in the 19th century as railways allowed fresh fish from ports to be transported inland. Traditional fish and chip shops featured a large cauldron of cooking fat heated by coal and served food wrapped in paper to customers queuing at a counter. While beef dripping or lard were traditionally used, vegetable oils like peanut oil are now more common due to health concerns. Cod and haddock are most commonly used but other white fish are also sold.

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Fish and Chips

Fish and chips is a popular British dish consisting of fried battered fish and hot chips. It originated in England in the 19th century as railways allowed fresh fish from ports to be transported inland. Traditional fish and chip shops featured a large cauldron of cooking fat heated by coal and served food wrapped in paper to customers queuing at a counter. While beef dripping or lard were traditionally used, vegetable oils like peanut oil are now more common due to health concerns. Cod and haddock are most commonly used but other white fish are also sold.

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Fish and chips

The full breakfast is among the most internationally recognised British dishes, along with such
staples as bangers & mash,shepherd's pie, fish and chips and the Christmas dinner.

A traditional full English breakfast includes bacon (traditionally back


bacon), fried, poached or scrambled eggs, fried or grilled tomatoes, fried mushrooms, fried bread or
toast with butter, sausages, and baked beans. Black pudding, bubble and squeakand hash
browns are often also included. In the North Midlands, fried or grilled oatcakes sometimes replace
fried bread.

The food is traditionally served with a mug of tea; more recently coffee is an alternative.

As nearly everything is fried in this meal, it is commonly called a "fry-up". As some of the items are
optional, the phrase 'full English breakfast', 'full English' (or humorously 'Full Monty') often
specifically denotes a breakfast including everything on offer.
Fish and chips is a hot dish of English origin and an early example of culinary fusion, consisting
of friedbattered fish and hot chips. It is a common take-away food.

Fish and chips became a stock meal among the working classes in England as a consequence of
the rapid development of trawl fishing in the North Sea, and the development of railways which
connected the ports to major industrial cities during the second half of the 19th century, so that fresh
fish could be rapidly transported to the heavily populated areas.

The modern fish-and-chip shop ("chippy" or "chipper" in modern English slang) originated in the
United Kingdom, although outlets selling fried food occurred commonly throughout Europe. Early
fish-and-chip shops had only very basic facilities. Usually these consisted principally of a
large cauldron of cooking fat, heated by a coal fire. The fish-and-chip shop later evolved into a fairly
standard format, with the food served, in paper wrappings, to queuing customers, over a counter
behind which the fryers were located. During World War II fish and chips remained one of the few
foods in the United Kingdom not subject to rationing.

Traditional frying uses beef dripping or lard; however, vegetable oils, such as peanut oil (used
because of its relatively highsmoke point) now predominate. A minority of vendors in the north of
England and Scotland and the majority of vendors in Northern Ireland still use dripping or lard, as it
imparts a different flavour to the dish, but this makes the fried chips unsuitable for vegetarians and
for adherents of certain faiths. Lard is used in some living industrial history museums, such as
the Black Country Living Museum.

In Britain and Ireland, cod and haddock appear most commonly as the fish used for fish and
chips, but vendors also sell many other kinds of fish, especially other white fish, such
as pollock or coley, plaice, skate, and ray (particularly popular in Ireland); and huss or rock
salmon (a term covering several species of dogfish and similar fish)

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