The last time I had chips in newspaper was from a shop run by a Chinese guy, funnily enough. It was around 1975, the shop was in Trafalgar Road, Greenwich (London, not New York) and the paper was the South-East London Press.
You mad fool 
We’d licked each others fingers clean by the time it got to the groping.
Personally I think she didn’t really love me like she said, she only wanted me for the culinary delights I was able to offer 
You’re probably thinking of The Old Chelsea on Larkin just uphill from Geary. They also supply customers drinking at the fine Edinburgh Castle pub on Geary (whose rear entrance is directly across Larkin from the Old Chelsea). Pretty good, basic fish & chips IMHO; however, I think that the newspaper there is an outer layer, wrapped around regular food-grade white paper (at least that’s how it was when I last had F&C from there about a year ago).
As far as I can tell, there’s no explicit ban, it’s just that new-material food contact packaging is hugely cheaper to manufacture due to the provenance of the raw materials being knowable - and therefore the properties of the end product being inherited, rather than derived from tests all the time.
Damn, now I’m hungry for fish and chips…
Me too.
Although there’s only one place nearby really that does a nice fish and chips nearby, most Asian food take aways do a pretty poor batter fish in the south of Belfast. The one and only time I ordered fish and chips from one such place while sober, I nearly threw it straight back up again.
I think they were still available here into the early 90s at least.
I remember getting fairly pissed most Saturday nights after work and often buying pie & chips before the chippie closed… fairly sure they had an outer newspaper wrapping.
More recently, although I don’t recall where, I’ve had chips whose outer wrapping was a sheet of fake newsprint! Specially made for the chip shop market, I assume!
I’ve seen those - the little paper cones of chips at the seaside are often printed with fake newsprint, but I have also seen sheets of butcher paper printed on one side with fake newspaper - IIRC, consisting of fake news articles about lovely hot chips and so on.
Here’s something interesting I found while searching on this topic:
Fish and chips are still wrapped in newspaper here! - because the paper most commonly in use is in fact unprinted newspaper offcuts. How about that?
Fish and chips were still being put in newspaper in my local chippy well into the 90’s. This is in a village on the outskirts of Wigan.
Interestingly, the servers didn’t wrap the food for you - they simply gave it you in a polystyrene tray, and there was then a massive pile of newspaper that you could take to wrap it in. I wonder if this was some sort of way of getting around any ban? It may still be the case that this is available - I haven’t been in for ages.
While we’re on the subject of what should be our National dish.
There is a chippie on Oldham Road, Rochdale, called Tony’s.
I kid you not, the fish are to die for, none of your farting bit of fish covered in a massive batter coating, not at all, nossir.
A huge fillet wrapped in the most delicious batter imaginable. I don’t live in Rochdale now but whenever I go visiting friends I call in at Tonys and pick up some fish to bring back home.
10 mins in the oven and they are just as delish as when bought.
I’d kill for some at the moment
There also was a chippy on Whitworth Rd, Rochdale, known as “Dirty Marys”
I’ve no idea how it got the name but the chips were out of this world, golden, crispy bites of heaven
Three… and I just had a hearty breakfast, and had fried fish yesterday at lunch,
and my favorite fish place is out of business here (Long John’s) so I’d have to resort to Capt. D’s (which I don’t hate but I just like LJS much better- I like to ring the bell & get a cardboard pirate hat ).
How sad! Memories of eating fish & chips from wrapped newspaper are some of the highlights of my trip to England in 1985. I had no idea they didn’t do that anymore.
That looks like the right place and I certainly could be misremembering. I only ate there twice (it is near the Wells Fargo training center on Van Ness and Columbia). The only reason I remember at all is I remember mentioning to my wife how surprising it was that anybody was doing that.
I could have forgotten the plain paper layer in the mists of a poor memory. If I were allowing myself to eat fish & chips right now I’d be sorely tempted to go on a verification mission.
Probably the reson that fish and chips shops don’t use newspaper; health concerns and the fact that ink will come off onto the food. newspaper ink is vegetable oil with powdered carbon fiber. It wan’t hurt you-but I don’t wnat to see black marks on my food. One shop i went to used paper wrappers that were printed to LOOK LIKE old newspapers.
Running out of cod. Forest industry is in the dumper. Forget the fish, let’s start eating newsprint.
THAT is a lovely bit of trivia. 
I’m going to save that up until it comes up as a quiz question sometime. OR, rather more likely, not a quiz, so much as an after several drinks group wonder" ooh, why don’t they do chips in newspaper any more?" someone will say, and I shall have the answer, oh yes. 
So, we still haven’t found a law about this, at least not one that relates to those of us who thought it was stopped in the 1980s. For detail, I think of it as being out of favour by, say, 1983, and that was in St. Andrews in Fife, whereas I see that Meurglys says it went on a bit longer in Edinburgh. Right, big geographical quest coming up.
It looks as though any U.K.-wide law that was made probably came after a series of independent local council rules.
I had to resort to fish cakes over the weekend and a bit of breaded plaice last night till pay day.