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Chip shops: oh my cod, the plaices I've seen

Part of the pleasure of going to a chip shop is savouring the name on the sign. Here are some of the best from around the world




Owners Nicky Perry and husband Sean Kavanagh-Dowsett and their A Salt & Battery chip shop in New York. Photograph: Adam Nadel
Tomorrow sees the annual National Fish and Chip awards. Will last year's winners, Fish and Chips at 149, in Bridlington, East Yorkshire, hang on to their crown? Or will they move over and allow a more colourfully named restaurant their moment in the spotlight? Surely half the fun of fish and chips joints is in the terrible puns that might be on the signs above them? Here is just a small sample of some corkers from around the world:

New Cod on the Block, Sheffield

Frying Nemo, North Humberside

Codrophenia, Sheffield

The Frying Squad, Northern Ireland

A Fish Called Rhondda, Mid-Glamorgan

O'my Cod Fish and Chips, Majorca

A Salt & Battery, New York

The Frying Scotsman, Portland, Oregon

The Fish Plaice, London

The Codfather, West Cumbria

Northern Sole, Broomhill, Sheffield

Mister Chips, Whitby

The Rock n Sole Plaice, London

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