"Not considered hygienic nowadays but I don’t think anyone caught dire diseases from the chippy."
Funnily enough, when I was doing a DoE first aid course back in my school days, they maintained that a newspaper was always considered a pretty good substitute for dressings, if there was nothing else available!
But of course, one of those little 6d bags of vinegary chips wrapped in a few pages of The Daily Sketch, was a treat worth dribbling about, especially as everyone else on the bus started dribbling too..;0)