can we do a little more if you use chip shops?

Maizie, the newspaper was in direct contact with food a long time ago. My mother lived in London and Hastings, and travelled to Leeds often- in the late 20s, early 30s- and she used to tell me about the ink being transferred to the fish and chips, with the lead it contained.

I'm not talking about 100 years ago, though, Fleurpepper!

In the 1950s and '60s, before newspaper wrapping was banned, there was always at least a layer of plain paper between the food and the newspaper. Just as biglouis described.

Newsprint doesn't rub off any more

In a way it's irrelevant, but I was just wondering...

No plastic is used in our local chippy wooden forks along with food wrapped in paper or cardboard box.

Are there many that use plastic now? Ours has been using cardboard boxes for I think about 10 years.

Our chip shop already use cardboard boxes. Not that we go often at £15 for 2 cod and1 portion of chips.

Maizie, the newspaper was in direct contact with food a long time ago. My mother lived in London and Hastings, and travelled to Leeds often- in the late 20s, early 30s- and she used to tell me about the ink being transferred to the fish and chips, with the lead it contained.

Maybe go to a fish shop where they still use polystirene and take your own 'tupperware' box. Or choose the chip shop where they have changed to cardboard and tell them you don't want the plastic cutlery as you have your own.

I/we sometimes have a ride to Skipton, mooch round the market and charity shops, then over to the chippy for fish n chips to eat at the side of the canal. Yummy.

Yes, it’s not nice to have your posts ‘marked’.
I’m good at writing but frequently make mistakes on here and elsewhere.
There is a Polish poster on here (*Agnieska*) whose English is genuinely fantastic, but she is reluctant to post as she feels that her use of the language isn’t good enough (it really is!)

Chippies - the cost of living crisis is really affecting them, as the price of fish and chips is rocketing.
We really need to support them, as once things are gone, they rarely come back

argymargy
why not just talk about the posting and not the spelling
I did not pass "A" level English like you seem to have,
so please don't try and ridicule others.
Maybe have look at the Disney Film Bambi
If you can't say anything good about some one:
DON'T SAY IT
Germanshepherdsmum
I am quite happy to eat with my fingers,its just I wish I had the oppurtunity to was my hands.

My first part time job was working in a fish and chip shop at age 14. I began in 1958 and worked there on and off until I began in the city libraries and then had to work evenings.

Of course fish and chips were wrapped in a sheet of greaseproof paper with newspaper on the outside. So the food did not touch the newsprint. We also sold fish fingers, beefburgers and a range of bottled drinks (there were no coke cans then-. It was mostly Tizer and Dandelion and Burdock or Sasparella.

I learned a lot in that job about how to serve customers, give the correct change and keep busy. I was also paid "off the till" a lot more than my schoolmates who had jobs in shops. They were a bit sniffy about my working in a humble chip shop until they found out I earned twice as much as them and only a 5 minute walk. We had a fish and chip supper several nights a week so it helped out the family budget.

When I went for my civil service interview I was reluctant to mention I worked in a chip shop but my grandmother told me that there was nothing wrong with the work. When the interviewers asked me I spoke up about what skills I had learned, and how I dealt with difficult customers. I must have said the right think because I got the job.

I continued to do some evening hours even when I began my civil service work because it was cash in hand and eked out my salary. A good little job.

Our fish and chip shop is the same as Mary dolls. We usually have a treat once a month. Ours is family owned, fantastic and the cheapest in our area. Plus it's in walking distance.

That’s good Maw.

We rarely have takeaway fish and chips but it’s been wrapped in white paper for years. More than happy to eat with my fingers!

Franbern

Thought the reason that newspaper was stopped was that the print would actually come off onto the food. Also, people used to take their old newspapers into the local choppes for them to use. No idea where those newspaper had been in those peoples homes!!!

Back then, Fish and chips was the ONLY takeaway you could get and was also a pretty cheap meal. Looking at prices of this now, there is little chance I would be purchasing these, no matter how and in what they are wrapped.

The newspaper was never in direct contact with the food.
I wonder if there was any scientific evidence behind the ban.

Our local chippie actually puts a little sheet of fake newspaper in the (cardboard) box. A pointless exercise really 😄

Single-use plastic ban: Includes single-use plastic plates, trays, bowls, cutlery, balloon sticks, and some types of polystyrene cups and food containers. From October 2023, retailers, takeaways, food vendors and the hospitality industry will not be allowed to sell these.

Our chippy wraps in paper and, if you want cutlery - and I rarely see people asking for it, when we visit, it is wooden.

The wrappings then go on our compost heap and thence on to our veg patch to nurture the vegetables, until in the end we eat the wrappings in the form of the vegetables we eat.

MY chippy is traditional and uses greaseproof type bags wrapped in white sheets of paper ( overtaken the newspaper)

I m glad this plastic stuff is going fish and chips are meant to be eaten with your fingers anyway who needs poncy forks

Oh, apparently single use plastic has been banned since 2021 in the EU.

Aren't we glad that we're not obliged to obey their draconian rules any more... 🤔

The UK is just thinking about it...

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Thought the reason that newspaper was stopped was that the print would actually come off onto the food. Also, people used to take their old newspapers into the local choppes for them to use. No idea where those newspaper had been in those peoples homes!!!

Back then, Fish and chips was the ONLY takeaway you could get and was also a pretty cheap meal. Looking at prices of this now, there is little chance I would be purchasing these, no matter how and in what they are wrapped.

Plastic forks are (or are soon to be) banned altogether but those little wooden ones are deemed OK. I’m sure it is easy enough not to take one.
On the few occasions I treat myself to fish and chips it does only come in paper.
Out of interest -does anywhere still use newspaper or has that become an urban myth?

In days of old apparantly you used to take your own dish to the chip shop. The people behind the counter would put it on the top to warm (according to my late dh) also I remember as I child they would give me a chip on a wooden fork.(for free)!!

I’ve been doing this for a while, infoman, and taking my own plastic bag as well. I just wish they’d never started with all the unnecessary packaging. Even the cardboard boxes and paper carrier bags are wasteful.

I always have to have my own cutlery in my bag, as I can’t stand the wooden stuff that’s more common now - it sets my teeth on edge. Ironically the set I carry with me is plastic (but I wash it and reuse).

Food contaminated paper and cardboard boxes will rot down even if they have to go to landfill. So they don't worry me.

I think there should be a total ban on polystyrene food containers.

Can anyone tell me why newspaper for wrapping fish and chips was banned? There was presumably a good reason but I can't remember it.

Oh and wooden forks.

Our chippies use cardboard boxes, paper and paper carrier bags., already doing their bit!

Boxes