french fries facts

• For chips prepared in the home, nearly 60% are oven baked, over a third are
  fried and 3% come out of the microwave. 
  
  
  • Friday is the most popular day of the week for eating chips, with around a fifth
    of the chips eaten then.
     
     A recent survey confirmed that 87% of the population love chips! 
    
    
    More than half a billion meals containing homemade chips are eaten each year. 
    
    
    In one year we eat nearly three billion meals containing chips. 
    
    
    We eat 300 million portions of fish and chips in Britain each year.
     
     here are more than 10,000 fish and chip shops in the UK
     
     

    • Nearly 200 million chip meals are sold in fish and chip shops each year. 
       
       
    • Fish and chips outsell Indian takeaways by two to one.