Re: Whoop hoo! On sale this week at Giant
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Cub reporter
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Date: February 22, 2021 05:06PM
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> When I lived in England I ate at a fish and chips
> place on Sunday evenings because it was the only
> place open on the route from the train station to
> my flat. They still wrapped the fish and chips in
> newspaper which took some getting used to. I
> heard they banned the practice a few years after.
There is an old joke amoung newspaper people to call competiting papers "Fish wrap." It was common for raw fish to be wrapped in newspaper, but some places did indeed wrap cooked fish in newsprint. I can remember some places using the glossier paper of the weeklies to wrap cooked fish so the ink did not bleed on the fish.
That practice of wrapping fish in newsprint still exists, but laws, both here and in Europe, call for grease resistant parchment paper as a liner between the newsprint and food. These laws were enacted in the 80's when higher speed newspresses were introduced, which didn't dry the ink as well as the lower speed models.
Most now just us brown butcher paper, but, there are some places that continue the tradition of newsprint with parchment paper, including a seafood restaurant in Groton, CT. They even fold the newsprint and liner in a cone to hold your fries, and if you are lucky, you get a newspaper from Canada or California. How cool is that?
That being said, thanks OP for the heads up on the fish, I will denfinatly go a buy some this week. Remember Giant sales are from Friday through Thursday.