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Fish and chips or '''fish 'n' chips''', a popular Take-away Food , consists of deep-fried Fish in Batter or Breadcrumb s with Deep-fried Potato es, traditionally sold wrapped in Newspaper . BBC News - "The chips are downtown" , retrieved 2007-06-13 Popular tradition associates the dish with the United Kingdom ; and for decades fish and chips dominated the take-away food Sector in the United Kingdom, Australia , and New Zealand . Fish and chips also has considerable popularity in parts of North America ( New England , the Pacific Northwest and Canada generally), the Republic Of Ireland and South Africa . Establishments in Denmark and in some coastal towns in Norway serve fried fillets. In The Netherlands , the popular deep-fried, battered fried fillet dish called ''lekkerbek'' sometimes appears served with chips. NAMING AND TERMINOLOGY People from the United Kingdom , the Republic Of Ireland and many Commonwealth countries refer to fried, chipped (slab cut) potatoes as "chips" , whereas most people from the United States Of America and Canada call their common stick-cut fried potatoes " French Fries ". People from South Africa, specifically, refer to them as "slap chips" — pronounced /slup/. The British usually serve thicker chips than the "french fries" popularised by major multinational American Hamburger -chains. Despite the differences in terminology, the combination still has the name "fish and chips" in most American restaurants which serve the dish. The snack that Americans term " Potato Chips " equates to "crisps" in the UK, and a few American restaurants will offer "crisps" instead of "fries" when a consumer orders "fish and chips". |
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