Fish and chips is a popular take-away

Take-out

Take-out or takeout , carry-out , take-away , parcel , or tapau , is food purchased at a...

 food in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. It typically consists of battered

Batter (cooking)

Batter is a semi-liquid mixture of one or more flours combined with liquids such as water, milk or eggs used to prepare various foods. Often a leavening agent such as baking powder is included to aerate and fluff up the batter as it cooks, or the mixture may be naturally fermented for this purpose...

  fish

Fish

Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...

 which is deep-fried and accompanied by chips.

The dish remains very popular in the UK and in areas colonised by British people in the mid 19th century.
Fish and chips became a stock meal among the working class

Working class

Working class is a term used in the social sciences and in ordinary conversation to describe those employed in lower tier jobs , often extending to those in unemployment or otherwise possessing below-average incomes...

es in Great Britain as a consequence of the rapid development of trawl fishing

Trawling

Trawling is a method of fishing that involves pulling a fishing net through the water behind one or more boats. The net that is used for trawling is called a trawl....

 in the North Sea

North Sea

In the southwest, beyond the Straits of Dover, the North Sea becomes the English Channel connecting to the Atlantic Ocean. In the east, it connects to the Baltic Sea via the Skagerrak and Kattegat, narrow straits that separate Denmark from Norway and Sweden respectively...

, and development of railways connecting ports to cities during the second half of the 19th century.