Things sometimes get amusing. People who assume fish and chips is the breakfast, lunch and dinner of Brits, or that fish and chips is the revered meal of our nation are wrong. Let's get one thing straight here though, this is my opinion. When cooked correctly, (like anything), fish and chips is wonderful, but so often, like any other 'national' dish, it suffers from a lack of quality in lieu of being simply rolled out for the tourists again and again. I have fond memories of eating fish and chips at the seaside, (with ozone in the air - as the reverent Nigel Slater eloquently states), with fish just harvested from the sea that morning. Sounds good, doesn't it? We all love the local, sustainable, fresh angle now. To be great, however, it's all about the batter.
