Time to feast on chips

What are your plans for Lockdown Eve: are you planning a nice relaxing walk with the family, a quiet night in with a loved one in front of the TV – or maybe you're set to order a chip supper and bring in the dawn of a new era with some grease dribbling down your chin?

According to our friends at Foodhub, almost one-in-five of us are planning to pop down to the chippie and buy Britain’s favourite meal in celebration of the big day, while 23% of us will be uncorking a wine bottle and raising a toast to 19 July.

Yet while a plate of fish and chips proved to be the preferred choice of most, the iconic meal was pushed all the way by curry (16%) and pizza (12%).

“Britain has been loving its takeaway treats, with [many of the people we spoke to] admitting to ordering twice as often as before lockdown,” revealed Foodhub’s Ardian Mula. “So it’s great to see Fish ‘n Chips has been voted as the UK’s most popular ‘Last Lockdown Supper’.”

Takeaway orders have enjoyed a huge increase in recent months, with 20% of us ordering a takeaway at least once a week, with a Chinese takeaway the most popular of all culinary treats.

Rather surprisingly, ice cream is not the nation’s favourite dessert. That honour goes to cheesecake, with 11% of people preferring it to a bowl of vanilla or cornish. However, a whopping one in five claimed they wouldn’t be ordering a dessert at all…so much for the nation’s famous sweet tooth!

The perfect lockdown last supper needs to be hosted in the perfect setting and the vast majority of Brits (56%) will be enjoying their last lockdown supper with family compared to just 9% who would eat with a friend.

Whether we sit up at the table for our last lockdown meal or have the meal on a lap is split near equally at 35% and 36% respectively, as nearly one-third of people will also switch on the telly and dive into their favourite TV series whilst enjoying their meal.

Meanwhile, different regions have very different ideas as to what they’d choose for their last lockdown supper. The Midlands, East of England, the North East, the South West, and Yorkshire are all in agreement that Fish and Chips is the king of lockdown meals. But in London, and the North West, most people will be chomping on a takeaway pizza.

Elsewhere, Scotland and the South East will be tucking into curry, and Northern Ireland is split equally between all three!