Good cod! A bitesize history of fish and chips

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炸鱼薯条也叫fish & chips,是一种在英国已经流传了几百年的传统食物。时至今日,无论是英国的街边小摊还是五星级大饭店,菜单上都少不了它的身影,它最早起源于18世纪末的工业革命时期,出现在英格兰北部。狄更斯在《雾都孤儿》中第一次写到了炸鱼薯条,从此后高唱着Hey Jude的披头士乐队也酷爱这道菜,就连我们喜爱的英国玫瑰们闲暇时也会亲自去品尝最正宗的炸鱼薯条。它渐渐变成了一种无处不在的英伦符号。

Eighty per cent of the British population say they visit a fish and chip shop at least once a year, and we consume 382 million meals from the chippie per annum.

That's pretty impressive for a combination that's only been with us for around 150 yearsfor the first fish and chip shop only appeared in around 1860.

Separately, both fried fish, and chips, were enjoyed by the British well before they came together.

Chips as a term for something edible was in use in the 18th Century, often in relation, rather curiously, to oranges - orange chips were candied chunks of peel.

It was in the same century that the potato was going from knobbly curiosity to staple food, especially for the poor, and given how well potatoes lend themselves to deep frying, it was inescapable that potato chips would soon be on the scene.

By the Victorian era, chipped potatoes were everywhere, from the delicate little 'straw potatoes' - which resembled, well, straw - eaten by the rich, to the French street food, which Dickens described as "husky chips of potatoes fried with some reluctant drops of oil".

The British preferred baked potatoes, but they ate them fried too.

Fried fish, meanwhile, was also on the tables of the rich and the poor.

Bread-crumbed filets, delicately fried in butter and garnished with fried parsley, were a staple for upmarket meals.

Whitebait, fried in lard, were considered a delicious delicacy.

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