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Last year it was black ice cream - now a new Gothic delicacy has taken Whitby's most famous weekend by storm.

Angel Fisheries created black fish and chips to celebrate the town's Goth Weekend and apparently, they taste 'exactly the same'.

The family-run takeaway, next to Wetherspoon's, was frying up the spooky snack throughout the three-day event, which sees lovers of all things macabre descend on Whitby from all over the world.

The chippy posted on social media: Here at ANGEL FISHERIES we like to do things a bit different...... BLACK COD & CHIPS AVAILABLE ALL WEEKEND, HAPPY GOTH WEEKEND EVERYONE."

It's not the first time our area has produced a black fish dish.

Middlesbrough Michelin chef Michael O’Hare, who owns The Man Behind The Curtain restaurant in Leeds, created a culinary masterpiece that won him the BBC's Great British Menu.

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The cod dish, entitled Emancipation, was inspired by fish and chips and the landscape near Redcar, which he described as his “industrial home town”.

The twice-yearly Whitby Goth Weekend sees thousands make the pilgrimage to the fishing town that famously inspired Bram Stoker's epic Gothic novel Dracula.

Last year ice cream company Trillo's used a natural charcoal infusion to turn its much-loved vanilla ice cream black.