Chip Facts
Want to know some really interesting Chip Facts? We know some that will really surprise you!
- Fish and chips are popular at celebrity weddings. Fans are rumoured to have included Steven Gerrard and Alex Curran, Wayne Rooney and Coleen Mcloughlin, Myleene Klass and Graham Quinn, John Terry and Toni Poole and Dave Gardner and Davinia Taylor to name but a few!
- The fish and chip shop market is worth £1.2bn - that means £1 of every £100 spent on food is spent in a fish and chip shop
- More than a staggering 255 million fish and chips meals are sold in fish and chip shops each year
- 8 out of 10 households buy frozen chips each year, so most of us have a bag in the freezer!
- Over half a billion meals containing homemade chips are eaten each year
- A portion of chip shop chips contains less fat than a prawn mayonnaise sandwich
- A portion of oven chips will provide a third of your Recommend Daily Amount of vitamin C
- A serving of oven chips with 3 fish fingers contains one third of the saturated fat found in a serving of lasagne
