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US President Joe Biden's team love fish and chips so much they ordered portions sent to Heathrow from 'every chippy in Hounslow'

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Vincent
Date18 June 2021
Published date18 June 2021
The leader of the free world visited Heathrow airport after the G7 Summit meeting in Cornwall last week and having fallen in love with the great British delicacy, his team wanted to take every opportunity they could to enjoy it.

That's according to Ady Dolan, an air traffic controller at the airport in West London, who wrote about the episode in his blog.

Mr Biden was invited to tea with the Queen at Windsor Castle, to where he had to travel via Heathrow on Airforce 1.

Mr Dolan wrote: “During their time at the G7 summit in beautiful Cornwall, the President’s team became partial to fish and chips, and who can blame them

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“In fact, they loved it so much that while Mr Biden was in Windsor, a call went out to just about every chippy in the Hounslow area to deliver a few dozen portions to Heathrow Airport.

“Good to know the Great British takeaway has done its bit for transatlantic relations.”

The airport hadn’t hosted a presidential visit since 2008, at which time they had around three months to prepare this time they had only 10 days.

The NATS, Heathrow Airport, NPAS – the Met Police helicopter unit – and various US agencies including the Secret Service and Marine Corps...

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