Italian chippers celebrate 'National Fish and Chips Day'
Traditional Italian chippers around the country will be offering cut-price takeaways to hungry punters today to mark 'National Fish and Chips Day'.
It's the second annual celebration of the humble one-and-one, and last year's event saw 180,000 people visit their local Irish Italian chipper.
Consumers munched an incredible 65,000lbs of fish and 360,000lbs of potatoes.
“We were completely overwhelmed by the response to National Fish & Chips Day last year," said Peter Borza, chairman of the Irish Traditional Italian Chippers Association (ITICA), the 200-member body established last year to represent the Irish Italian chipper community.
"The communities we have been part of for 125 years really engaged with the first annual celebration of the tradition.
“We would like to take this opportunity to thank our local communities for their support and encourage everyone to pick up a ‘one and one’ this National Fish and Chips Day!”
The Irish Italian chipper culture was started by members of the Irish Italian community who arrived in Ireland in the 1880s from the villages in Val Di Comino in southern Italy.
