The Belgians also stake claim as the inventor. Third US president Thomas Jefferson loved them so much he introduced them to America. In France, street vendors at Paris’ Ponte Neuf bridge were selling fried chunks of potato as early as the 1780s. Meanwhile, in Europe similar things were happening. Powering the human cogs and gaskets of the Industrial Revolution, journalist Henry Mayhew declared it the food of the poor in 1861. In the years that followed, fish and chip shops began to spring up in towns up and down the country. It’s unclear who was truly the first, possibly Joseph as fried fish is a Jewish tradition. While others say it was Jewish immigrant Joseph Malin at a chip shop in east London in around 1860. However, in the real world, some believe John Lees was the first to pair fish and chips at Mossley market in industrial Lancashire in 1863. He also speaks of "fried fish warehouses" in Oliver Twist in 1839. Though they existed separately before, fish and chips teamed up around 1860 in this quintessential British dish.Ĭharles Dickens gives us the earliest literary references to it in A Tale of Two Cities in 1859, when he fondly recalls "husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil". The rest – when they became finger-sized and fried in oil, and who invented them first – is a complicated story.
If we know only two firm facts about the history of chips it's these: potatoes came to Europe from Peru in the late 16th century, and Britain was eating early versions of the chip – "potato's boil'd and fried in butter" as described in Robert May’s The Accomplished Cook – by 1660. Here we look at where they come from and why we love them so much. Thicker than a French fry, chunky chips feel inherently British.
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