National Fish and Chip day: Choose the ultimate fish and chips
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It's National Fish and Chip day today!.
As one of the nation's favourite dishes, it comes as no surprise there are around 10,500 specialist fish and chip shops in the UK and we spend approximately £1.2 BILLION on fish and chips every year!
To celebrate the iconic dish, we want to know what you think the ultimate fish and chips looks like.
Pick your preferred pea, select a superior sauce and single out a suitable seasoning to see how it compares to what everyone else says.
And if fish isn't your thing, you even have a chance to choose another chippy accompaniment!
If you can't see where to choose below, then click here.
The first fish and chip shop appeared in 1860, so it's a combination that has become unbelievably popular in around 150 years.
There are more fish and chip shops than fast food restaurants like McDonalds and KFC.
In a survey in 2019, around four in every five British people said that they visit a fish and chip shop at least once a year.
On average, we eat a whopping 382 million chippies meals every 12 months!
And why do we usually have a chippy on a Friday? Well in the Catholic religion people traditionally wouldn't eat meat on a Friday so they started to eat fish as an alternative.
So, we want to know whether or not your choices above were the most popular. Let us know what you think about your results in the comments below!
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