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British Expats Spark ‘Fish and Chips Fridays’ Controversy in Spanish Villages
Euroweekly News ^ | Olivier Acuña Barba • Updated: 05 Sep 2025 | Olivier Acuña Barba • Updated: 05 Sep 2025

Posted on 09/05/2025 4:53:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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If they are anglicising Spain, they will expel all the dentists.
1 posted on 09/05/2025 4:53:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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They worry about a few thousand Brits upsetting the local culture but not the millions of muzzie filth pouring into Europe.


2 posted on 09/05/2025 4:56:41 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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As someone with Celtic, Celtic Iberian- Basque, and British Anglo DNA confirmed by testing four different ones all within 5% of each other and family lineages I approve of this message. Tapas culture is great adding in some brit comfort food dishes is win win. Bring it!


3 posted on 09/05/2025 5:02:09 PM PDT by GenXPolymath
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English fish and chips always look so good when I see them on Brit food shows.


4 posted on 09/05/2025 5:03:48 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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“English fish and chips always look so good when I see them on Brit food shows.”

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Well, that’s because it IS good.

How the Brits came up with it after so many bland(ish) dishes is a mystery to me.

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5 posted on 09/05/2025 5:10:36 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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As long as they have Bleedin’ Watney’s Red Barrel.


6 posted on 09/05/2025 5:11:22 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: HYPOCRACY

Exactly.


7 posted on 09/05/2025 5:13:38 PM PDT by frogjerk
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To: TLI

It is a great dish the English can be proud of. They don’t have many.


8 posted on 09/05/2025 5:14:46 PM PDT by frogjerk
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You laugh about British dental care, but do note thvat bad British teeth really became noticeable after the economic disaster of the 70s. So it’s not necessarily “British teeth,” it’s “Socialist teeth” due to lack of orthodontia, considered unnecessary in their socialist healthcare plans. And I’ve noticed a lot of young Americans are sporting similar teeth these days.


9 posted on 09/05/2025 5:18:14 PM PDT by ponygirl (Stay gold.)
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The dumbest article or concern ever written and expressed. You don’t have to eat the Fish and Chips. Have your tapas or whatever, nobody cares.


10 posted on 09/05/2025 5:18:28 PM PDT by frogjerk
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They are delicious. We have a good Irish pub in town that makes good fish and chips. Culver’s also makes a good F&C dinner, but you can’t wash it down with a pint. But none compare to what you can get in London. I remember one place I went brought out the old style fish wrapped in newspaper…the fish was almost as big as a foot long Subway sandwich.


11 posted on 09/05/2025 5:24:33 PM PDT by ponygirl (Stay gold.)
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12 posted on 09/05/2025 5:25:10 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I bet if they started an English style fish and chips chain in the US it would do well;...(mushy peas not needed)

We just don’t seem to have the access to good fish that the Brits do.


13 posted on 09/05/2025 5:26:30 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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I think I’ve found one restaurant near me that has anything like English fish and chips.


14 posted on 09/05/2025 5:29:22 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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I was there in 2003.
Very British part of Spain.


15 posted on 09/05/2025 5:34:15 PM PDT by Zathras
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Good fish is expensive. Before my husband passed away we celebrated our 48th anniversary while he was in hospital with a fish and chips dinner take out from a wonderful restaurant near the hospital https://www.originalfishcompany.com/
It was pricey, but I am so grateful to have been able to bring this to him before he passed away a couple of months later. 😢


16 posted on 09/05/2025 5:45:27 PM PDT by antceecee ( )
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“Tapas culture is great adding in some brit comfort food dishes is win win. Bring it!”

Agreed!! Mostly Anglo-Saxon & Irish here with a smattering of German and I’m in favor of both flavors - Spanish tapas and the various adaptations to traditional F&C. Fill the chairs with friends, Spanish & Brit, then fill the table with tapas plates of every kind.


17 posted on 09/05/2025 5:51:17 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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I’m glad you have that memory.

(That look like a great restaurant.)


18 posted on 09/05/2025 5:52:49 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: frogjerk

Hey now. The Brits have boiled meat.


19 posted on 09/05/2025 6:08:02 PM PDT by Hyman Roth
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Coming soon:


20 posted on 09/05/2025 6:22:17 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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