fish and chip
English
Alternative forms
- fish-and-chip
Noun
fish and chip
- attributive form of fish and chips
- 2008, The Book of Business Inspiration, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 243:
- Nevertheless, fish and chip shops are still the most popular form of takeaway in the UK, and are undergoing something of a renaissance.
- 2009, James Kayui Li, Start and Run a Fish and Chip Shop or Burger Bar, How To Books Ltd, →ISBN:
- A Jewish immigrant, Joseph Malin from Eastern Europe, is said to have opened the first fish and chip shop in the east end of London in 1860 and John Lees opened his business a few years later, setting up a wooden hut in the market at Mossley, near Oldham in Lancashire.
- 2014, Panikos Panayi, Fish & Chips: A History, Reaktion Books Ltd, →ISBN:
- One statistic which would confirm this fall consists of the reduction of the number of fish and chip shops in the country, although even here a steady decrease has occurred so that fish and chips seems to have retained its position as Britain’s most popular takeaway.
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