British Fish and Chips

Self-explanatory

 

By Stanley Collymore

 

Did the alleged and generally acclaimed inventor

of the now readily accredited and ubiquitous

fish and chips meal intentionally set out

on this today famous culinary undertaking,

or was it fortuitously just an accident

in the making that only occurred

without any planned conceptualising

or precise planning by anyone?

In essence a force majeure

of its own fashioning.

 

Anyway, whatever the plausible or more like

than not the numerous farfetched reasons

that are customarily and assertively

given by the average Briton in

patriotically, but somewhat

risibly, claiming that the

standard fish and chips meal is a distinctly

unique, English-indigenous and an un-

waveringly popular British cultural

dish in every conceivable way;

one thing is unquestionably

certain and consequently

completely fair to say.

 

That the favourite fish and chips meal so culturally

and intensely ingrained in the British national

psyche is unquestionably a most agreeable

and a really vitalizing, culinary delight,

which, as far as the British Isles are individually

concerned, is forever here to stay. Whether

bought from the average fish and chips

shop as is characteristically done,

or else lovingly and diligently

organized in the kitchen

of one’s own home.

 

© Stanley V. Collymore

28 July 2019.

 

 

Author’s Remarks:

Anything more that could possibly be said would from a logical perspective be an overkill and rather off-puttingly superfluous. So I’ll leave things as there are and let your fish and chips, wherever you are, speak for themselves. Except for one thing!

 

If you ever happen to be in Worthing, West Sussex, England then I personally recommend that you visit the Café Vita there in South Street near the Promenade Roundabout; and where they prepare and distribute some of the most gorgeously delicious fish and mouth-watering chips ever; served magnificently by a most charming young lady by the name of Gabriella; or Gabi for short. Ask for her by name and she’ll see you right. Happy eating!

Reviews

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Having never given much thought to fish and chips I found this an interesting 'marketing' of said dish but had hoped for a history lesson lol. And I have been in Worthing and now I wish I had had my chips!