Missy Hellfire
One of the Regulars
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Fish and chips - a magnificent vintage survival that has survived and indeed thrives in modern day Britain. Battered cod or haddock, chips made fresh from real potatoes (not deep frozen rubbish) and occasionally some mushy peas (if I'm eating them at home, mushy peas whilst walking should only be attempted once!) Unless one gets exceedingly lucky, the parcels are no longer wrapped in old newspaper and alas the chips are not fried in beef dripping but rather vegetable oil, but fish and chips remains almost a national dish to this day. I am within walking distance of a least three 'chippies' and within easy driving distance of a dozen more. Fish and chips is a comfort food, and walking back home eating a parcel of them as my grandmother and mother used to makes me feel warm inside, and not just because of the chips!
To those of you not in the UK - Firstly, do you also enjoy a good bag of fish and chips, or is it a purely UK foible? Secondly - do your respective nations have such a surviving dish so readily available, that a person transported from the Golden Era would find instantly familiar?
To those of you not in the UK - Firstly, do you also enjoy a good bag of fish and chips, or is it a purely UK foible? Secondly - do your respective nations have such a surviving dish so readily available, that a person transported from the Golden Era would find instantly familiar?