FISH AND CHIPS
Sir, —Why all this fuss about ammonia in fish? The spirit of hartshorn for our great-grandmother’s vapours, the sal volatile for grannie’s broken heart, the ammoniated quinine for mother’s feverish cold, and the stimulating odour of the cowyard and the fowlpen, for ourselves are all beneficial.—Yours, etc., PACHYDERM. July 23, 1954.
Sir,—Having to be in town for a certain appointment which entered into the lunch hour, I decided to have a light meal. I chose fish and chips. There were two small pieces of fish, a handful of chips, roll and butter, cup of coffee, small helping of apple pie. The bill for two persons was 10s 6d. It puzzles me, in this land of full and plenty, that the tariff should be so high, especially at midday. 'I seldom buy fish and chips, but have seen one of 'my family bring home a shilling’s worth that would more -than satisfy my appetite. When fish is cooked, half the time the public do not know what they are eating. Skate is* a very sweet fish, yet here it is called dog fish, and thrown back into the sea.—Yours, etc., COCKLES. July 23, 1954.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27410, 24 July 1954, Page 3
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