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Englands favourite takeaway dish for a long period of time, fish and chips has always been a typical English food. All English communities, especially the working class, have found themselves in love with fish and chips as it provides them with tasty and healthy sustenance after long working days.

Central to the fish and chips is of course the good old fish and chip shop. They arrived for the first time in Northern England though I dont remember exactly when. Today there are thousands and thousands of fish and chip shops all over England, making it probably the most popular food dishes loved by everyone, both the English and foreigners alike.

In addition to this, fish and chips have also become incredibly fashionable at many of the top restaurants in England and a handful of celebrity chefs have made no secret of their love for this fantastic English food tradition.

To be perfectly honest with you, I reckon there is nothing more typically English than walking along the beautiful seafront taking in the nice view and eating fish and chips out of newspaper. And even though on a whole English food might not be the best in the world, fish and chips is surely something that can do justice for English food.

Though I come from a country famous for nice food, I have to admit that I did fall in love with England thanks to fish and chips when I first visited the country. Now that I am back home, I miss them nearly everyday, and as a result the first thing I will definitely do when I go back to England is pop into the nearest chippy.

Fish and chips is definitely an English icon. It would be a surprise if you can find this elsewhere in the world. Even in my hometown Ljubljana, when the first and most well-known fish and chips shop in town was opened, they even failed to include curry sauce on the menu! The newspaper print was also photocopied which was bizarre.

I havent traveled much but to the best of my knowledge such a thing does not exist elsewhere even in America it’s just French-fries. Everyone just knows that fish and chips is a true English food without a shadow of a doubt.