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02/13/2007 Entry: "The loss of the Great British Chippy"
At one point, in a built up area, you were seldom far from a Fish and Chip shop. Now, they seem to be a dying breed. The Great British treat being marginalised and forced out by never ending streams of Klone Fried Chicken, McNastys, toxic doner kebab shops and other slightly dubious take-aways of various origins.
Some of these outlets purport to sell "fish and chips", but it's a poor imitation - often industrial pre-battered frozen fish pieces which are cut to that funny 4-sided polygon shape, and frozen chips from a box, rather than chips from a potato. All very Findus.
In London, there are handful of Greeks and other Mediterraneans now running the few remaining chippies, but even the best ones can't hold a candle to a real seaside chippy!
There are times when I could kill a decent plate of fish and chips, but there isn't anything nearby - just a stream of "copycat" chicken shops and kebabs.
Maybe, in the words of Basil Fawlty, I should just "move closer to the sea (or preferably in it)"?
How about New Zealand? They do fish and chips pretty well!
