Mousethief: brown sauce is not a million miles from A1 sauce. Similar, but different, if you see what I mean.


Mthe GM, someone mentioned Arthur Treacher's. That might have been the chain you remember. We had one for a while near where I grew up. They wrapped the fish and chips in greaseproof that was printed to look like The Times.

I remember the fish being uniformly triangular, like those portions you get from a supermarket freezer in the UK. To give you a further indication of their authenticity, they sold side dishes like hush puppies, which are a Southern American type of fritter. Why, I don't know - presumably because they were also fried.