Fish and chips were originally sold separately from small specialist shops. In the nineteenth-century shops selling both fish and chips started to appear (Charles Dickens mentions a fish and chip shop in Oliver Twist). It has now become a national dish and is even served in the restaurants of Sir Terence Conran.
I drive past several fish and chip shops on the way home. Sometimes, if I’m really hungry, I stop at the half-way point on the journey and buy some chips (and then have dinner when I get home). There are eight times more fish and chip shops in the United Kingdom than there are branches of McDonalds.
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Even Poirot, the haute cuisine expert, succumbed to the temptation of fish and chips, at least in the TV version.
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