Petergate Fisheries

One of our national dishes is the ever popular Fish and Chips. To translate for our friends across the pond, chips are what you guys call French Fries and not those thin slices of potato fried in oil that come in a bag in various flavours like cheese and onion, salt and vinegar etc. we call them crisps! Sadly the traditional Cod that was used in fish and chips is now getting rarer and you are more likely to get a fish called Pollock these days, just as tasty but the flesh is not quite such a pristine white as cod. This is Petergate Fisheries, my first recollections of this Fish and Chip shop was after a hospital trip for a check up on a broken arm and my mother took me to the dining room at the back of the shop before we caught our bus home 8 miles out in the country where we used to live. Fish and chips is probably one of the earliest fast takeway foods in Britain.