Regarding fish and chips?!
Regarding fish and chips?
Hi !!
I am looking for information regarding the fish and chips, does anyone knows why it has served wrapped in a newspaper?, is there a history and/or reason for this?
Thanks.
Answers:
Newspaper is used as an outer wrapping to keep the heat inside longer while you carry the fish and chips home. Other paper could be used but it would be more expensive and wasteful.
By using newspapers the fish and chips vendor saves money plus the papers are being recycled, which is environmentally good.
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Fish and chips connoisseur
yes
it saved having to spend money on paper
I think it was just to save money, people buy newspapers, and its cheaper to use something you have already paid for than to buy something again which serves the same purpose. It was stopped cuz of the ink coming off I think and it being poisonous I think.
Probably because newspaper was cheap and perhaps an early attempt to recycle??
soaks up the hot grease when served right out of the fryer
most newspapers today use a soy based ink, so as not to harm the environment and biodegradable is always best-
They tasted better when they used Newspapers!
You also had something to read
Its boring now, just grease proof white paper thanks to EU health and safety neurotics
No there's no history why fish and chips is wrapped in newspaper. Sometimes they wrap it in white paper. They use newspaper as a way of recycling, so they dont have to use extra white paper. I'm in England by the way and absolutely adore fish and chips! Cheers everyone!x x
Year`s ago the coal miner`s would take fish and chip`s into the mine for dinner and read the rapping`s as they ate
Fish and chips haven't been served in newspaper for 30 years,in the U.K!Health and safety put paid to that ! In fact there was normally a lining of greaseproof paper inside the newspaper! It was just a traditional cost saver ! Before this poor people used newspaper for toilet roll ! There is really no mystery !Newspaper is and has always been a good insulator,so wrapping a whole family's meal in it kept it warm !(This was before people ate in the street !).
it's cheaper to buy newspapers in which to wrap fish-n-chips (you didn't think those food merchants just used the newspapers they'd already happened to read, did you?) than it would be to buy the ink-free paper the printers purchase.xx
Because the fish and chip shops found it to be the best paper to wrap the food in without it becoming too soggy. But they had to stop because health and safety thought the ink was not a good thing to eat should it run into the food. The paper they use today is exactly the same paper that newspapers use to print on, but just doesn't have ink on it!
the news paper was free
it also made the fish and chips taste better
health and safety was not so hot
fish and chips is not served everywhere wrapped in newspaper. in usa, its served in plates or take away containers instead. the wrapping in news paper is a uk tradition.
they tasted much better in them days,better than today
Yes - banned a long time ago for health reasons. There were 2 reasons they used newspaper the first being the obvious which is cost. People in those days used to save their newspapers for the chippie man and left them on his doorstep. The other benefit was the insulation properties which kept your chips warm while you walked home with them. If you see a tramp having a kip on a bench in the winter you will see him with newspapers over him and indeed sometimes stuffed up his jumper and down his trousers. Would want my chips in em when he had finished using em though.