{"id":11345,"date":"2012-06-08T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=11345"},"modified":"2012-06-01T17:25:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T00:25:05","slug":"the-fish-and-chips-combo-originated-in-britain-around-the-mid-19th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/the-fish-and-chips-combo-originated-in-britain-around-the-mid-19th-century\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Fish and Chips&#8221; Combo Originated in Britain Around the Mid-19th Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fish-and-chip-facts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11346\" title=\"Fish and Chip Facts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fish-and-chip-facts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fish-and-chip-facts.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fish-and-chip-facts-340x259.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The now common &#8220;Fish and Chips&#8221; combo originated in Britain around 1860.\u00a0 For nearly 200 years before that, fish vendors had been serving fried fish on the streets of Britain.\u00a0 Sometime around the mid-19th century, one of them got the bright idea to serve thick cut French fries with the fried fish, with the first known &#8220;Fish and Chip&#8221; eatery opened by Joseph Malin in 1860.\u00a0 After this, the popular combo rapidly spread throughout Britain and the world.<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/8419026.stm\" target=\"_blank\">The Unlikely Origin of Fish and Chips<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"French Fry Facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/the-history-of-french-fries\/\" target=\"_blank\">French Fry History<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The now common &#8220;Fish and Chips&#8221; combo originated in Britain around 1860.\u00a0 For nearly 200 years before that, fish vendors had been serving fried fish on the streets of Britain.\u00a0 Sometime around the mid-19th century, one of them got the bright idea to serve thick cut French fries with the fried fish, with the first known &#8220;Fish and Chip&#8221; eatery [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[2696,2697,2695,830,1112],"class_list":["post-11345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-fish-and-chips","tag-fish-and-chips-facts","tag-fish-and-chips-origin","tag-history-facts","tag-quick-facts-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11355,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11345\/revisions\/11355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}