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I was in the UK recently and got fish and chips from a local chippy at the seaside thinking, well, I should try something local outside of the fancy seafood chowder at the restaurants lining the bay. I was horrified that vinegar was not used but some fake invention called "non-brewed condiment" I'd never heard of before. Apparently this is normal now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-brewed_condiment

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It's not normal anywhere I've eaten - though I don't frequent local chippies very often, admittedly. (Maybe here in rural south-eastern parts, our standards are higher?)

But non-brewed condiment is traditional for a proper fish & chips ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=642x2Y3Zla0

I really don't like it! It doesn't have the full flavour that malt vinegar has. Perhaps the british are just used to it now. That video forgot to say, the reason the chippies are using it is because it's a lot cheaper. I'll pay an extra 25c for proper vinegar please.

Everything is that way in the UK: Substitute for cheaper everywhere you can.

That's why food is not great in general. Just using proper ingredients immediately improves things massively.

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Never seen it in any fish and chip shop I've ever been to.

But then again perhaps that's all I've been putting on my fish and chips.

Pretty sure it's more often than not proper Sarson's malt vinegar.

I can't comment nationally, but I've been having fish and chips a couple of times at our local and near my parents, both in London, and they're all using vinegar.

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