About 780, 000 years ago in northern Israel - near the Jordan River there was a really ancient Lake with Carp - said a spokesman for the Israel Museum.
Israeli Archaeologists now have all kinds of Fish Fossils from this site and deduced that some of them had been cooked. They found Fish Teeth and were able to analyze the Enamel and proved from the changes in the tooth enamel that the fish had been cooked in a fire.
Near the fish were ancient fireplaces The inhabitants - (Our way - way - way back Pre - human ancestors) - apparently like well cooked fish - (shown by temperature changes to the tooth enamel) - and ate giant six-foot carp.
They probably fried the fish by being putting them next to the fire.
Anyway - this was the start of Fish and Chips.
The Chips had to wait a few Hundred Thousand years till Europeans discovered Peru - unless our ancient ancestors had Potato - like Tubers and in that case, they also had Fish and Chips.
Queen Elizabeth probably had some of the first Fish and Chips - as they had Potatoes by then - and the bottom of the Thames is littered with Elizabethan fish bones.
