Facts About Fish & Chips

Fish and chips are a big favourite for family takeaway meals. They’re nearly four times more popular than Indian curries.
The Fish and Chip Trade  sector employs some 61,000 people.
Nearly 70% of us take our fish and chips home to eat.
Cod is the most popular fish sold in fish and chip shops accounting for 61.5 per cent of fish sold, followed by haddock at 25 per cent. Other white fish such as plaice are also popular. 
Some shops offer locally landed fish depending on what’s available in the market place, but the vast majority of the cod and haddock sold in fish and chip shops come from the sustainable waters of the Barents Sea and Iceland.
More than one in six of us can’t resist going to the fish and chip shop at least once a week. Those from Yorkshire have the biggest cravings.
F&C shops sell 434.8 million meals a year, that’s seven meals from a Fish & Chip Shop each year for every man, woman and child in the UK
58% of these are Fish and Chips. This amounts to 255 Million Fish & Chip meals a year.
£1.2 billion a year is spent in them - that means 1 in every 100 food pounds is spent at a fish and chip shop.
They outsell Indian takeaways on a meal basis by four to one - and fish suppers outsell by two to one.
Ordinary Fish and Chips have 9.42 grams of fat per 100 grams. Beating all other takeaways - the average pizza has 11, Big Mac meal with medium fries has 12.1, Whopper meal with medium fries has 14.5, chicken korma 15.5 and doner kebab 16.2.
The same goes for calories - 595 in the average portion - where the average pizza has 871, Big Mac meal with medium fries has 888, Whopper meal with medium fries has 892, chicken korma 910 and doner kebab 924.
On a Friday, 20% of meals purchased out of home are purchased from a Fish and Chip Shop