On Good Friday 2025, queues formed early at fish-and-chip shops across Britain. The National Federation of Fish Friers recorded lines out the door, continuous queues and, at a Doncaster restaurant, people waiting for tables from noon.
One shop supplied thirty meals to a care home and another delivered fifty to a community lunch. Individual takeaway orders and institutional batches converged on the same busy day. The custom of eating fish rather than meat tied modern takeaway, delivery and table waits into a nationwide one-day pattern.