Could cave men cook fish and chips?

Question

OK depending where the potato is in the world. Lets say for arguments sake it is at Stonehenge. Oil is made out of sunflowers, flour is made out of oats, eggs are from chickens, vinegar from gone off apples etc. If I was born back then would I have be onto something. Thinking big and all that??

Answer 1

Deep-fried fish and deep-fried chips have appeared separately on menus for many years — though potatoes did not reach Europe until the 17th century. The originally Sephardi dish Pescado frito, or deep-fried fish, came to the Netherlands and England with the Spanish and Portuguese Jews in the 17th and 18th centuries. The dish became popular in wider circles in London and the south-east in the middle of the 19th century (Charles Dickens mentions a "fried fish warehouse" in Oliver Twist - first published in 1838) whilst in the north of England a trade in deep-fried "chipped" potatoes developed; one (sometimes disputed) claim records the first chip shop as existing on the present site of Oldham's Tommyfield Market. It remains unclear exactly when and where these two trades combined to become the fish and chip shop industry we know today, though Joseph Malin opened the first recorded combined fish and chip shop in London in 1860.

The fish-and-chip shop originates in the UK, where it has usually become abbreviated to 'chippy', or occasionally 'chipper'.

During World War II, fish and chips remained one of the few foods in the UK not subject to rationing


soooooo, maybe - maybe not. But who is going to challenge you either way? If the caveman had fire and some kind of oil, fish and something to slice into chips (doesn't have to be potatoes) it might have been possible. Only thing we know for sure, he didn't have take out.....or did he? :}

Answer 2

Not sure if cave men had the wherewithall to catch a fish, I think they may have thought that the gods lived in the sea and may not have ventured out for fear that they would be swallowed up. Fish in those days were not like the fish we have now, there wasn't your Dover Sole, or your Monk Fish, Oh no - they were really scary looking creatures, and as for frying chips, I think that would have been one step too far for the cave man, he would just go out and bludgeon some poor deer or pig and eat it raw - Yummy

Answer 3

Certainly you wouldn't have had sunflowers or potatoes, as neither existed in the UK at that time, doubtful; whether there were chickens either, but there are other sources of eggs. Certainly no controllable heat for frying, so likely to burst into flames as you would be cooking over open flames.

Answer 4

I don't think cave men would have cooked fish and chips...they would have made the women cook it after the women had gone and cut the wood for the fire, hauled water, and cleaned the fish...

Answer 5

may be if he had a way to heat the oli safely a large pan or someway of coating the chips in the oil befor layuing them on something to place over an open stove (basically resulting in frying them.
same goes for the fish

Answer 6

They could cook fish and roast the potatoes just straight from the ground,without peeling them.

Answer 7

It would have been hard to get a pot of boiling oil. Did you know that up ontil this centuery, people did deep fry in lard, rendered animal fat.

Answer 8

impossible

cavemen didnt have potatoes so no chips
there was a water shortage so no fish
but they could cook them if they had them on an open fire

Answer 9

Sure, probably after the whole inventing the wheel thing.

Answer 10

He or she cold cook fish but not cips.