Fish-and-Chip (1885)

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   "Fish and chips" goes only to 1914, but "fish and chip" is about 30 years earlier in the TIMES OF LONDON database:



>From the LONDON GAZETTE, Friday, Oct. 2. Lord Chamberlain's Office, Oct. (Official Appointments and Notices)
      The Times Saturday, Oct 03, 1885; pg. 11; Issue 31568; col D

...Nuttall and Caton, Huddersfield, Milesbridge, Brighouse, and Blackpool, fried fish and chip potato dealers.