Some Japanese and English similarities in food

While I was dining at Marugame, I suddenly noticed some similarities between the Japanese food and English chippies.
Things are battered and fried in English chippies which is the same as Japanese tempura and with chippies they have chip scraps which is similar to Japanese tempura scraps!
At the chippies we have pickled eggs and gherkins while the Japanese have pickled ginger!
The scraps are a good way of telling if their frying oil is clean because you can tell from the taste.