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This time of year, a lot of us spend a lot of time thinking about food, making food, eating food, especially the kind of food that makes you feel good, you know, the holiday dishes that you love, the ones that are fatty, salty, starchy, filling, you know.
Comfort foods.
Yeah.
Comfort foods are often dishes with humble origins.
They're usually made of inexpensive staple ingredients, and they're easy to make or cheap to.
In the UK, maybe the most iconic comfort food is also something a lot of people consider Britains national dish, fish and chips.
That is for the uninitiated.
Battered and deep white fish with fries.
It does make me wonder why they don't call it fish and fries.
Because it is kind of catchy.
Also, it's not that catchy.
Plus, fries are french, and, you know, we don't hole with the French in Britain.
Okay, okay, fair enough.
But the important question here is, Patty, how do you actually like to eat your fish and chips?
Well, I'm actually pretty traditional.
I like cod with a sprinkling of salt and vinegar on the chips.
Sometimes I do go a little wild with a squirt of thousand island dressing.
You know what?
I don't like to yuck anybody's yum.