Wish you were here
We're so hooked on fish and chips, we even miss them while we're on holiday abroad - according to a MORI, survey. 30% of us confess to a longing for our favourite take away while we're away in foreign climes, whereas only 7% miss that other old favourite, bangers and mash.
Brits say no to Brussels
The Belgian habit of eating fish and chips with mayonnaise finds few fans in the UK. For us it's salt and vinegar or tomato ketchup - nothing else will do, unless you are from Scotland where special brown sauce is popular. Anytime, Anyplaice, Anywhere Again according to a MORI survey, most of us take the conventional option and eat our fish and chips at home - but three fish and chip fans confessed to eating their fish and chips in bed intriguingly, all three were women.
Far Flung Fish and Chips
People have come across fish and chip shops in the strangest places throughout the world. There's one on top of a Cliff in South Africa - they throw a basket into the sea and hoist up the fish straight from the water below. Other sightings include the middle of the desert in Oman and even at the back of a church. You can even get your fish and chip fix while gambling in the casinos of Las Vegas, fish and chips in China don’t sound especially appetising - apparently they are served with sugar
Fish and Chip fantasies
Scottish superstar Sean Connery was the outright winner of a survey to find out who we'd secretly love to serve us our fish and chips. He was chosen by 2696 of women respondents, ahead of Ross Kemp, alias Grant Mitchell in Eastenders Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves and comedians Lenny Henry and Angus Deayton. Catherine Zeta Jones came out on top of the men's fantasies.
Celebrities love fish and chips
Nicholas Parsons ‘the British have turned a simple, nourishing dish into a rational institution. Fish and chips are now as synonymous with our country as Shakespeare. cricket and the Tower of London. Good fish and chips from a well-run establishment take a lot of beat.’
Paul Daniels 'When I moved South I managed to find a great local fish and chip shop in Harefield. So it's still very much part of my weekly diet.'
Fishing for Compliments
It's official - the way to a woman's heart Is through her stomach. A MORI survey showed that nine out of ten women say that a man should have bask cooking Skills. The most likely food to be a winner in the seduction game is fish chosen by one third of women as the dish most likely to put them in the mood for seduction. So come on chaps)
National Federation of Fish Friers Limited
Established Since 1913
The National Federation of Fish Friers limited was founded In 1913 . Seventeen small Associations felt the need to land one large organisation which could represent them on matters concerning them all.
The Federations inaugural Conference was held in Manchester in 1914 and has continued annually at various locations since.
The Federation was soon acknowledged as the leading organisation to represent the fish frying trade. The Government, along with public bodies with which negotiations take place, hold the Federation in high esteem, rewarding two past Federation General Secretaries with MBEs for their