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Read more: https://www.forces.net/heritage/history/did-fish-and-chips-help-us-win-both-world-wars
TIL Fish & Chips was an aid in winning WWII. Sir Winston Churchill saw the comfort food as a ‘good companion’ and was a dish that didn’t get rationed to keep morale up. On the frontlines, troops calling “fish” and allies calling “chips” was an effective way to tell whether you were friend or foe.
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Interesting how the genocidal Churchill gets a pass in the lens of history as a great statesman when some cultures consider him a Hitler. I’ll use every opportunity I hear about his drunken self to counter the prevailing narrative. Fuck this guy.
had to account for empire, Kiwis were more fush / chups