From today till Sunday,it's "National eating disorder awareness week."......It's also "National chip week."
Expert planning.

Let the brain chips fall where they may.

That's kinda cool actually...

One can make money from the other.

Surely chips are part of a balanced diet?

I have a friend who went to the U.K. some years back pining for chips and mushy peas (he'd read / heard about the combination, I guess, and was eager to try them) but could never find a place that served them. Have they lost their taste, are people onto another flavour?

Mushy peas are I think mostly to be found in central to north / eastern England. I've had them in Scotland, but only in a Harry Ramsden chip shop, which is a franchise, and as such is really a colonial outpost of Yorkshire.

There is a story about Labour politician and friend to the rich Peter Mandelson, who was member of parliament for Hartlepool, in the north-east of England, a working class town (whose most famous son is perhaps the cartoon character Andy Capp, for which we should all be thankful to the town). Anyway, the story goes that on his first visit to Hartlepool to try to sell himself as a man of the people, Mandelson went into a chip shop, and saw some mushy peas. He ordered his fish and chips, and said "And I'll have some of the avocado dip too please."

I've seen the story being denied, but it's one of those stories that even if not true, should be.

Last time I was in London, finding fish and chips was about as likely as finding a restaurant that would serve you ice water. It's a thing of the past there from what I can see. I miss the whole dirty newspaper thing. But maybe a Londoner can tell us if there are any hidden pockets of fish and chips goodness left?

Lol. That's a good one.