Brexiteer wanting fish & chips served in newspaper back finds it’s a UK law

[pellinore]

I realise this is a few years old, but it is so funny! This news snippet should go into the Museum of Brexit that Jacob Rees Mogg proposed setting up! It encapsulates Brexit entirely: harking back to the "good old days", a disregard of facts, and a lack of knowledge of what are UK laws and what are just fantasies from Boris Johnson's journalistic efforts! It is a classic!

A Brexiteer who is looking forward to having fish and chips served in newspaper wrapping back once we leave the European Union made the painful discovery that it is actually a UK law yesterday.

Phoning in to James O’Brien’s LBC radio show the 70-year-old woman named Christine followed in Boris Johnson’s footsteps by using a fishy example of how EU red tape has stifled Britain.

She said: “We used to have our fish and chips in newspaper and then it was deemed that it was wrong.

“Now, when we used to have our fish and chips in a newspaper there weren’t loads of people that went down with tummy upsets and things like that.

Brexiteer wanting fish & chips served in newspaper back finds it’s a UK law (thelondoneconomic.com)

Edited January 16 by pellinore

[L.A.T.1961]

I would like my Fish and Chips in a pint glass please. 😉 

[pellinore]

11 minutes ago, L.A.T.1961 said:

I would like my Fish and Chips in a pint glass please. 😉 

I agree, and I'd like to pay in pounds, shillings and pence. Bloody metric system. This is true, btw: I was assured by a hotel worker the day after the referendum (we stayed in a Premier Inn after a house fire) that if we stayed in the EU, we would be eventually forced to accept metric time. I asked him what he meant, and he said we would have to adopt a hundred hours in a day, a hundred minutes in an hour, and a hundred seconds in a minute. Come to think of it, it would make pay calculations easier.

[Duke Wellington]

32 minutes ago, pellinore said:

I realise this is a few years old, but it is so funny! This news snippet should go into the Museum of Brexit that Jacob Rees Mogg proposed setting up! It encapsulates Brexit entirely: harking back to the "good old days", a disregard of facts, and a lack of knowledge of what are UK laws and what are just fantasies from Boris Johnson's journalistic efforts! It is a classic!

A Brexiteer who is looking forward to having fish and chips served in newspaper wrapping back once we leave the European Union made the painful discovery that it is actually a UK law yesterday.

Phoning in to James O’Brien’s LBC radio show the 70-year-old woman named Christine followed in Boris Johnson’s footsteps by using a fishy example of how EU red tape has stifled Britain.

She said: “We used to have our fish and chips in newspaper and then it was deemed that it was wrong.

“Now, when we used to have our fish and chips in a newspaper there weren’t loads of people that went down with tummy upsets and things like that.

Brexiteer wanting fish & chips served in newspaper back finds it’s a UK law (thelondoneconomic.com)

Ah nothing like the weekly dose of toxic ink on our chips we are all used too.

[Duke Wellington]

20 minutes ago, L.A.T.1961 said:

I would like my Fish and Chips in a pint glass please. 😉 

And 3 banana not 500g`s of bananas.

I mean wtf that about.

[Duke Wellington]

3 minutes ago, pellinore said:

I agree, and I'd like to pay in pounds, shillings and pence. Bloody metric system. This is true, btw: I was assured by a hotel worker the day after the referendum (we stayed in a Premier Inn after a house fire) that if we stayed in the EU, we would be eventually forced to accept metric time. I asked him what he meant, and he said we would have to adopt a hundred hours in a day, a hundred minutes in an hour, and a hundred seconds in a minute. Come to think of it, it would make pay calculations easier.

We should return to that.

It helps to spot foreigners when they have no clue how our money system works. But first we would have to deal with how none of us Brits knows how it works too haha.

Edited January 16 by Electric Scooter

[pellinore]

13 minutes ago, Electric Scooter said:

Ah nothing like the weekly dose of toxic ink on our chips we are all used too.

I'm old enough to remember fish and chips wrapped in newspaper - to be fair, the actual product was wrapped in grease-proof paper and the newspaper was just heat insulation. I love the smell of fish and chips, but it is so expensive now (nothing to do with Brexit, just the cost of oil, cod and potatoes). I'm also old enough to remember the "cod wars" in the 1970s and signs in chippies warning that fish and chips could cost more than £1 a portion.

Edited January 16 by pellinore

[Duke Wellington]

12 minutes ago, pellinore said:

I'm old enough to remember fish and chips wrapped in newspaper - to be fair, the actual product was wrapped in grease-proof paper and the newspaper was just heat insulation. I love the smell of fish and chips, but it is so expensive now (nothing to do with Brexit, just the cost of oil, cod and potatoes). I'm also old enough to remember the "cod wars" in the 1970s and signs in chippies warning that fish and chips could cost more than £1 a portion.

You make chip shop chips by:

1. Peeling and cutting potatoes.

2. Soaking them in a bucket of salty water. You have to keep an eye on them or you get those grotty chips with brown parts all over. As soon as the first hints of brown spots start take them out, drain, and into the fryer. 

3. Fry them on 100C for 15 mins, once done put them in fridge until needed.

4. When needed just hot fry them for a couple of minutes.

There you, perfect chip shop chips.

[Setton]

10 hours ago, Electric Scooter said:

We should return to that.

It helps to spot foreigners when they have no clue how our money system works. But first we would have to deal with how none of us Brits knows how it works too haha.

Is this Cookie having some kind of meta-realisation that we're all descended from immigrants?

[itsnotoutthere]

10 hours ago, pellinore said:

I'm old enough to remember fish and chips wrapped in newspaper - to be fair, the actual product was wrapped in grease-proof paper and the newspaper was just heat insulation. I love the smell of fish and chips, but it is so expensive now (nothing to do with Brexit, just the cost of oil, cod and potatoes). I'm also old enough to remember the "cod wars" in the 1970s and signs in chippies warning that fish and chips could cost more than £1 a portion.

I'm old enough to remember when people used to cut up old news paper for toilet paper.......more fitting these days than ever.

[George Ford]

12 hours ago, pellinore said:

I'm old enough to remember fish and chips wrapped in newspaper - to be fair, the actual product was wrapped in grease-proof paper and the newspaper was just heat insulation. I love the smell of fish and chips, but it is so expensive now (nothing to do with Brexit, just the cost of oil, cod and potatoes). I'm also old enough to remember the "cod wars" in the 1970s and signs in chippies warning that fish and chips could cost more than £1 a portion.

I remember they always came in that thin see through paper with newspaper wrapped around it, I enjoyed reading the news while eating my fish and chips. Sadly the local fish and chip shop that was great for decades was taken over by some new people, strangers no less, they have no idea how to make proper batter and chips are not soft or fat enough. On the rare occasion I get them now I have to order them in from a shop 4 miles away which means they are not hot, thankfully a couple minutes in the airfryer sorts them out. But yeah, like you say they are so expensive these days, especially with delivery costs on top. I told my niece recently that she should try and enjoy them when she can now as in another 10 years there will be so few cod left that they will only be served in the top restaurants at eye watering prices.  

[Duke Wellington]

We should have a Britishness range of products without VAT on.

Tea, fish and chips, pasties, Yorkshire puddings, etc.

[Essan]

25 minutes ago, Electric Scooter said:

We should have a Britishness range of products without VAT on.

Tea, fish and chips, pasties, Yorkshire puddings, etc.

Whisky, beer, cider, roast beef, chicken tikka masala ......    Great idea!

[itsnotoutthere]

2 hours ago, Essan said:

Whisky, beer, cider, roast beef, chicken tikka masala ......    Great idea!

spagbol

[Duke Wellington]

3 hours ago, itsnotoutthere said:

spagbol

Beef stew dumplings and mash.

[Unusual Tournament]

As kids we used to have it wrapped in butchers paper. Lots of malt vinegar and keep the wrapping on for at least 5 minutes made the chips deliciously sour and soggy

[Unusual Tournament]

12 hours ago, Electric Scooter said:

We should have a Britishness range of products without VAT on.

Tea, fish and chips, pasties, Yorkshire puddings, etc.

…and all Indian food

[Duke Wellington]

3 minutes ago, Unusual Tournament said:

…and all Indian food

Ah the Vindaloo, Masala, or Rogan Josh.

[Unusual Tournament]

4 minutes ago, Electric Scooter said:

Ah the Vindaloo, Masala, or Rogan Josh.

Wondering if British food should be renamed empire or raj cuisine?

[Duke Wellington]

12 minutes ago, Unusual Tournament said:

Wondering if British food should be renamed empire or raj cuisine?

Well it might have come from there but we have made it our cuisine.

If you are going down that argument we would have to give up chips as potatoes come from the Inca, and tea from Asia lol