What is the price of fish and chips in your area?

[Mr Quatro]

It looks like perhaps $10 or so here in the USA and 6 pounds or so in the UK which is up from 3.50 a pound what it was in the UK four years ago by the way.

I think this will be the real economic barometer of the future of the UK which seems to be still alive after last week.

Here's a bit of history:http://inflationdata.com/articles/20...ng-fish-chips/

Fish and chips still remains the favorite take away meal in the UK despite fierce competition. The exact origins are unknown but it has been established that chips arrived from France during the 18th Century. There was also mention of fried fish and bread in ‘Oliver Twist’ by Dickens, published in the 1830s. The Oxford English Dictionary claims the earliest usage of “chips” in this sense was in Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities (published in 1859).

The modern fish-and-chip shop (“chippy” or “chipper” in modern British slang) originated in the United Kingdom, although outlets selling fried food occurred commonly throughout Europe. According to one story, fried-potato shops spreading south from Scotland merged with fried-fish shops spreading from southern England. Eventually they came together with the opening of the first fish and chip shop around 1860. Growth in the number of shops was rapid, peaking in the 1930s at around 35,000 shops in the UK.

[Eichhörnchen]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

Here's a bit of history...

We've always called it 'The Chippy' but it's odd, now I think about it, that there's no slang expression for the fish & chips meal itself.

You can buy other things there to have with your chips, such as fish cakes... minced up fish and mashed potato formed into patties with a bit of seasoning and covered in breadcrumb.

You can also always get sausages if you prefer, and we call these "lips and arse".