article_snippet.sent: British can take credit for uniting these two Continental imports and creating a coupling that is loved the world over.
article_snippet.sent: Joseph's family were rug weavers.
article_snippet.sent: To increase the family income Joseph's family had begun frying chips in a downstairs room of Joseph's family house.
article_snippet.sent: By the 1830s, the imported novelty had established the imported novelty firmly as a favourite among London's poor.
article_snippet.sent: It was tasty, cheap and filling and could be eaten hot or cold.
article_snippet.sent: No one knows exactly how and where chips first originated.
article_snippet.sent: The most popular story credits a poor Belgian housewife from the Meuse Valley with their invention.
article_snippet.sent: Local families adopted the dish, and The name stuck.