Fine spinach dish replaced traditional meal (4,3,5)
I believe the answer is:
fish and chips
'traditional meal' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both things that one consumes for nourishment as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'fine spinach dish replaced' is the wordplay.
'fine' becomes 'f' (abbreviation).
'replaced' is an anagram indicator.
'spinach'+'dish'='spinachdish'
'spinachdish' is an anagram of 'ishandchips'.
'f'+'ishandchips'='FISH AND CHIPS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for fish and chips that I've seen before include "Fried dish" , "Fast food" , "Popular British meal" , "Food traditionally served in newspaper" , "Traditional British takeaway food" .)