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04-10-09, 09:24
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Fish and Chips ?
In 1901, Maude M Allison is a "Fish and Potato Shop Keeper, Coffee House (?)"
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?...=&pid=27668939 Presumably it wasn't fish and chips as we know them  . I just wondered what it entailed
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04-10-09, 09:37
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Why not fish and chips as we know them? They've been around a very long time!
OC
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04-10-09, 09:49
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Thanks OC - I'd just assumed chips were a relatively recent thing
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04-10-09, 10:08
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Yes, loads of them. Sometimes just referred to as fish shop.
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04-10-09, 10:36
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Thanks Margaret...just wondering whether they deep fried the fish in batter
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04-10-09, 12:41
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Oh, yes!
Here's a useless fact: Did you know that fish and chips was the only food not on ration during WW1 And WW2? OC
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04-10-09, 12:43
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I just came across a "battered fish and chip shop" as part of an address in the 1901 census, not one of mine though.
Sylvia
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04-10-09, 12:45
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My ex's Jewish ancestors ran fishmongers and also fried fish shops - takeaway food for the pre-McDonalds era! A Jewish friend of mine told me that chips were a Jewish invention. I guess maybe they were given a more exotic name to start with.
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04-10-09, 15:48
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According to wikipedia, the first fish and chip shop was opened in London by Jewish proprietor Joseph Malin in 1860.
Jane
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04-10-09, 18:24
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Thanks Jane - I hadn't realised that fish and chips had been around for so longer.
Maude was working "on her own account" and at home - I guess she sold them from her kitchen door.
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