A new survey says we’ve stopped buying the British classic from the chippy. Thank God: it’s a dreadful mush of artery-hardening greaseAt final,it seems that fish and chips has had its chips. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has released data from its study into the nation’s food habits that reveals the number of us ordering a portion of battered haddock from our local chippy more than halved between 1974 and 2014.
This comes as no surprise to me. I grew up with fish and chips. I’m Greek Cypriot: my people’s cultural heritage is 10% trying to lift credit for democracy and 90% claiming the battering and frying of marine creatures. Hell, or my yia-yia (gran to you) showed me how to flour and batter a haddock while I was in kindergarten. During school summer holidays,my uncle Tony would regale me with the progress of the permanent athlete’s foot he had developed from the heat of the deep-full fryers seeping up through the floor tiles. Good times.
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Source: theguardian.com