Malt Vinegar on Fish....why?

I used to wait tables and had an English (from England) customer. He put the malt vinegar on the fish AND fries. I tried and and loved it. While my daughter was pregnant, she craved fries and malt vinegar. "She" who hates the smell of any vinegar, craved it. Imagine that!

There's something about the combination of vinegar and deep fried food. I've liked it on fried seafood and french fries.

I think it is an aquired taste for some ...I personally like it ,I also like to add the malt vinegar to my french fries ...have you tried the salt and vinegar potato chips ??? I love them too ... For me it just adds a liitle zing to the taste of the fish ,sometimes a part of the fish is very strong and wiht the vinegar you don't notice it as much ...try it ... :)

As far as I know most of the chip shops in the UK have vinegar if you want it, where I am in Scotland we also have what we call 'chippy sauce' it looks just like runny brown sauce but tastes different. On several occasions when we have been travelling down to Wales or just down south for that matter we have been asked to take some 'chippy sauce' down with us. If you are ever in Scotland and have the chance to try it you should.

In Britain, the country that created fish and chips, the common vinegar people get any old time in the market is not cider vinegar, as it is here; it is malt vinegar. So malt vinegar is the ordinary, everyday vinegar used at the chippies there and at home when people bring home take-away fish-n-chips. That's why US places that do the dish always pffer malt vinegar, in an effort to be authentically British. Malt vinegar is tasty and is very good on fish-n-chips, so be brave and spring for a bottle! :-)

here on the east coast of the US, we have boardwalk fries. you put cider vinegar and old bay seafood seasoning on them. yummy!!

Vinegar does, in my opinion, improve the taste of fish.. I remember my mom soaking fish, especially fresh lakewater fish, in vinegar for a couple hours. IT really does take the fishy taste out of fish;)+

hahaha the vinigar is for the chips not the fish, it certainly does nothing for the fish but makes the chips good. blessed be keep on posting