FRIED FISH.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19879, 21 February 1920, Page 7

FRIED FISH.

■ ■ ■ ■ Statisticians record that half a million sterling is spent every week by the people of Great Britain on fried fisluand chips. This would seem to prove that fried fish shops are a national necessity. Altogether there are 25,000 fried fish shops in the country, which prepare, cook, and distribute 4000 tons of fish and 10.000' tons of potatoes every week. Of the 800.000 tons of fish annually consumed in Great Britain, a quarter of that amount is distributed through the fried fish shops in the country. Most of tho fish dealt with by tho fish friers ale too small for the ordinary fishmonger’s slab. Many-but for the hsli trier—would on account of their size have been wasted or at best turned into manure. In spite of all this, however, tho average person generally eats very little fish. Tho few varieties of fish people do cook for themselves were fii"=t made popular by the fried fish trade, lo give but one instance, hake is now a very popular fish all over tho country ; twenty years ago it was looked at askance by most people. Then the friers took it up, created a taste for it, and in 1913 32,000 tons of hake were caught.