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Fish & Chips: Uncovering the Forgotten Jewish and Belgian Origins of the Iconic British Dish

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The History of Fish and Chips

It clearly was a Friday thing in Ireland in the 90s according to one of my favorite TV shows Derry Girls. These days it's more about the fact that it's the end of the week and you want to treat that soaks up booze and that you don't have to cook. To be honest I'm mostly in it for the chips too. And the nostalgia at this point fish and chips is just a national treasure. But that's actually kind of weird because as we've just seen fish and Chips is a really recent invention. We have the story of how food fried by aspartic Jews and Belgians or maybe French using ingredients from the new world became iconically British after

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