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Fish and chips is probably less common in the British diet than stereotype would have it, but it's still a very stereotypical British dish. Likewise I'm sure Irishmen wouldn't turn their noses up at a nice piece of Salmon, but my question was why the Irish aren't known for it. They're seemingly the only coastal people who don't have a stereotypical fish dish- most Americans can easily list some Irish dishes, but they won't come up with any that are seafood. It'll be 'corned beef and cabbage, potatoes, soda bread' and an equivalent for Britain would probably start with fish and chips, for Japan with sushi, for Hawaii might start with luau food but would certainly include fish, etc.
Fair replies all (including those below). I’m biased because I never liked fish and chips much and everyone abroad acts as if it’s the only thing we ever learned to make.
I would say the vast majority of inland food is mutton pork or beef based. Boil in the bag puddings similar to haggis, mutton and dumplings, stews, that sort of thing. Lots of game. Thus the scornful French nickname ‘les rosbifs’.
There were jellied eel and kippers and cockles and things, but I think they were given outsize proportion because they were eaten in ports, and mostly by the poor.
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