Think of traditional British cuisine and you almost certainly think of fish and chips. A battered and deep-fried white fish fillet (usually cod or haddock) is served with chunky, deep-fried chips to create the perfect Friday night dinner. According to UK Fisheries, there are 10,500 chippies all over the UK dishing out 167 million fish and chip meals every year. It truly is a British obsession.

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