fish & chips

Apparently, 2010 is the 150th year of fish & chips. Whoa.. 150 years, sound like a long long time, doesn't it? Wiki did list the year it started as possibly between 1858 or 1863.

Began in United Kingdom as a working class meal, it was said that Joseph Malin (Jewish proprietor) was the first to open a fish and chip shop in London. Does it mean that fish & chips is a Jewish food? Probably fusion as 'chips' or deep fried potato apparently also made its debut around the same time. So someone decidedly to pair the fish together with the 'chips' and voila, a time surviving dish was created.

The British calls the fish & chips outlets as 'chippies' and apparently, it's a huge business that serves up 250 million and 350 million portions each year through its 10,500 outlets. Cool!

Fish is natural resource to them as Britain is close to the North Sea (so are Sweden, Denmark and Germany... but they didn't come out with fish & chips :P ). So think about it, what natural resources does Singapore has?

Imagine if we have laksa kiosks/stalls that dish out millions of portions every year, muahahhaa! I think that would be pretty sustainable as laksa uses cockles (see hum), and cockles can be reared in farms right? And they're said to grow on sh**, so that's in abundance, yes?

But I suppose the driving factor, could be the high prices of all other food dishes and yet there's this one dish that remains affordable, so naturally people will be drawn to it. Of course, it has to be tasty too!


Sources of info:
msn news
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