One of the best backstreet chippies in the country is in Greater Manchester -and it's run by a man who thought fish and chips were 'god awful'

Five years ago, Dan Edwards couldn't stand fish and chips.

But his gran, who was struggling with dementia and lived alone, insisted on a chippy tea nearly every time he went around to visit.

"My sister and I would come and see her five or six times a week. Every time we went she would want fish and chips."

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Dan would try different chippies en route to her house in Walkden, but his thoughts on the take away remained the same.

"I couldn't understand why she was so devoted to this god awful food. I couldn't stand it," he told the Manchester Evening News.

But one day, a trip up to North Yorkshire changed everything.

"I went to stay in York and someone convinced me to try fish and chips there.

"I couldn't understand why it was so vastly different there to back home," Dan said.

At the time, Dan didn't think much of it. Until he got back home, met up with a chef who used to work for him in a hotel he managed in town, and saw a sign up in a window.

A sign that a chip shop, tucked away on a side street on Prestwich, was up for sale.

Suddenly, the man who hated fish and chips, became a fish and chip shop owner.

"I wanted to be my own boss. I knew that there were good fish and chips, but definitely not here.

"I was going to do it with beef dripping," he said.

Of course, one of the first things he wanted to do was tell his gran - the biggest fish and chips fan he knew.

"She was devastated. Because she was able to tell all her friends that I worked in all these posh places.

"She was appalled," he said.

Sadly, she was never able to try Chips @ No 8, which went on to become one of the Top 50 fish and chip takeaways in the