Fish & Chips in newspaper - British national dish
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Fish and Chips (short Fish 'n' Chips) is a dish of fish fillet deep-fried in batter and thick deep-fried potato sticks. It is considered the "unofficial national dish" of the United Kingdom and is still an integral part of the food culture there today. However, fish 'n' chips did not rise to become a national dish until the 19th century - the first fish 'n' chip stores opened in various London neighborhoods in the 1850s and 1860s.
Fish 'n' chips are rarely prepared at home, as they are considered street food. Traditionally, fish 'n' chips are eaten with the fingers. However, nowadays small wooden or plastic forks are almost always handed out. Fish 'n' chips are especially popular on Fridays and Saturday nights - because eating them then is mainly associated as a fortifying meal before night clubbing.
The use of old newspapers as wrapping paper was mainly for keeping warm and soaking up the fat. In the 1980s, however, new sanitary regulations prohibited the wrapping of fish 'n' chips in newsprint. At that time, the abrasion of the printing ink was much higher than with the UV-curing inks commonly used today. Nowadays, for nostalgic reasons, many fish 'n' chip stores hand out the national dish in wrappers made of sandwich paper printed in the style of the old London newspapers.
