>>>>> Those aren't meals - they're just courses ;-}
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>>>>>You're right...I forgot the appetizers....a dozen wings (extra hot), or riblets. :)
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>>>>I suppose what I noticed most about your list was that, with the possible exception of spaghetti, you didn't include a single non-US 'ethnic' dish. I haven't time right now to construct my own list (it would take a lot of careful thought and best be done when I was not hungry) but I'm sure it would include at least one Thai, Indian, French, Spanish and Scandinavian dish....
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>>>I was in England in the late 50s. My mouth still waters at the thought of the Fish and Chips, wrapped in a newspaper.
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>>I don't think they're allowed to wrap it in newspaper any more. It's usually some form of styrofoam box - which takes something away.
>>Still popular though (and rightly so)
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>>I remember laughing when (sometime in the '70's) someone started a franchised fish-and-chip chain in the U.S. They'd reprinted the front page of something like the Liverpool Evening News to use as wrapping.
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>For some reason I am saddened to hear that. Even when I was working quite a bit in England in the 1980s the fish and chip shops had been made to switch to newspaper wrap with no newsprint on it. But styrofoam?! Talk about losing some soul.

You still get f & c in newsprint (ie the paper, without the ink). It's mainly the high st, late nite type places, and seaside, where they're in polystyrene dishes. Local suburban shops still do paper. Liverpool Evening News, btw, is the Liverpool Echo.

It's the smell of the vinegar-laden air that makes one's mouth water