THACKLEY TRUMPIT JUNE 2014 FOR THE LOVE OF FISH AND CHIPS

For the Love of Fish and Chips

A neighbour of ours recently had some visitors from the colonies. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada to be exact. As a former resident of this parish they had returned home to reminisce the past and visit childhood haunts in the area. Carrying on the tradition of her parents and making regular visits to the old country. When they came over one of the treats was to take home to Canada fish and chips. Sheena Hudson and her siblings would wait for their parents to   return with the treat from England. They grew up adoring British fish and chips. Whilst Sheena was here she was a regular patron of Towngate Fisheries at the top of the high street. She gave them a glowing report and ate them on several occasions during the visit. In fact she was so taken by the quality that she decided to take some back to Canada as her parents had done before them. As fish and chips do not taste the same at home and a party was going to be arranged to show the good people of Ontario the glories of British fish and chips. I argued that by the time they got home they would be 1.Cold and 2.Taste awful. Her reply was although they would be not as nice as fresh. Gently warmed up in an oven they would emerge tasting pretty good and would give her friends a good idea how good Idle fish and chips are.