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Article: Just the ticket when the chips are down.
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- Sunday Business (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 18, 2001
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RITAIN'S national dish - fish and chips - isn't British at all. Chips were invented by the French and fish and chips were, so legend has it, brought together when Italian hawkers selling fried fish around London joined forces with Belgians who were selling frites on street corners.
However, fish and chips became a staple British working class dish from the 1850s onwards and really took off during the second world war when Lord Woolton, the minister of food, decided they were the only food that would not be rationed in an attempt to boost morale.
And fish and chips remain a firm favourite despite growing competition from Chinese and Indian ...