Fish and Chips

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I hadn't thought of it until this week, when our reward for completing the stocktake was a slap up fish'n'chip supper.

Fish and chips supposedly is England's great culinary masterpiece. It might (or might not) be a great idea; but in the same way that England invented cricket but the current England cricket team are crap, English fish and chips are bloody awful. All too often the oil in which they're cooked is recycled oil which is simply gross; it might even be (and certainly should be) illegal. The batter is a disgusting flaccid lumpen goo that slides off the fish it supposedly coats. The chips are peculiar and all too often not even cooked properly. Al dente has its virtues, but not in respect of fish and chips.

So ... that's one piece of flake with chips and a couple of potato cakes ... please. And I'll take them wrapped because they taste far better when eaten from a small hole picked in the top - until you get to the fish and the potato cakes which should be eaten by hand wrapped to the extent necessary in a piece of the paper the parcel has come wrapped in.