Fish And Chips Aren’t Giving You The Flu

This shouldn’t come as a surprise

Pictured: Not the influenza virus Source: Pexels

As someone who grew up in London, I can say with some experience that there’s no takeaway better than fish and chips*. When I was a child, we lived in Muswell Hill, around the corner from Toff’s, an award-winning fish-and-chippie, and every once in a while my dad would give up on cooking, disappear, and return with faintly steaming goodness wrapped in the traditional grease-stained newspaper.

What followed resembled lions thronging around a kill, except with more 5-year-old elbows and the occasional spatter of tomato sauce.

Like this, but with fewer whiskers and more greasy fingers Source: Pexels

According to news sources from around the world, however, we shouldn’t have been touching those soggy, oily wonders. Now, I know what you’re thinking — fish and chips are terrible for you, they’re full of fat, high in salt, and are basically the devil’s food anyway! All of this is true, but it appears that fish and chips are not just bad for our hearts. You see, this wonderful English classic is not just clogging our arteries, it’s actually giving us the flu.

Except, of course, this is bollocks. Fish and chips might be a calorie-dense treat best reserved…