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Post by TallPaul on Sept 24, 2020 16:51:16 GMT
The Only Fool and Horses prequel? I know where you're coming from, as I much prefer First of the Summer Wine to Last. Oh, you mean from the chip shop... 🙂
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Post by Dawnstar on Sept 24, 2020 18:46:54 GMT
Rock as in a stick of rock? Don't tell me that chip shops do that in batter!
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Post by Forrest on Sept 24, 2020 19:07:11 GMT
I still haven't got my head around the deep fried pizza, does it still look pizza shaped? Do they come in just one pizza flavour, are the toppings under the fry? It's a whole world of fried wonder. Asking all the right questions, Peggs! Also, how does one eat that? (I would be lying if I said I wasn't tempted to try it though... )
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Post by hulmeman on Sept 24, 2020 19:07:20 GMT
What, in the name of god is rock, as in rock and chips?
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Post by The Matthew on Sept 24, 2020 19:20:14 GMT
It's an actual rock, deep-fried in batter. It's not for the weak.
(I'd forgotten about Rock and Chips. I haven't had rock in ages.)
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Post by firefingers on Sept 24, 2020 19:42:53 GMT
I still haven't got my head around the deep fried pizza, does it still look pizza shaped? Do they come in just one pizza flavour, are the toppings under the fry? It's a whole world of fried wonder. Yes it is still fairly flat and you can see the curved edge etc, and often you can choose between a quarter, half or a whole pizza which can aid the shape. Just one flavour, always cheap cheese and tomato.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Sept 24, 2020 20:43:12 GMT
The Only Fool and Horses prequel? I know where you're coming from, as I much prefer First of the Summer Wine to Last. Oh, you mean from the chip shop... 🙂 That didn''t work did it
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Post by n1david on Sept 25, 2020 12:12:25 GMT
I still haven't got my head around the deep fried pizza, does it still look pizza shaped? Do they come in just one pizza flavour, are the toppings under the fry? It's a whole world of fried wonder. In my time (a good few years ago now) it was just a bog-standard frozen cheese and tomato pizza, so no fancy toppings like peppers or pineapple (that’s fruit and veg! Nine of that here). It would just be dipped both sides in batter and then deep fried so that the pizza got hot and the batter crispy. So you bit through the crispy bit and got deep fried bread, essentially, with the tang of cheese and tomato. Others on here report part-pizzas but I only remember a whole 9-inch round pizza being served up in my local chippy. If yiu were going to eat it on the move they’d fold in in half and put the chips in the middle.
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Post by anita on Sept 25, 2020 12:55:40 GMT
Rock as in a stick of rock? Don't tell me that chip shops do that in batter! Ha ha - rock salmon but seems to be hard to get these days.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 25, 2020 15:01:27 GMT
Rock as in a stick of rock? Don't tell me that chip shops do that in batter! Ha ha - rock salmon but seems to be hard to get these days. Or Dogfish by its glam name. Ugly looking thing!
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Sept 25, 2020 16:42:33 GMT
I still haven't got my head around the deep fried pizza, does it still look pizza shaped? Do they come in just one pizza flavour, are the toppings under the fry? It's a whole world of fried wonder. In my time (a good few years ago now) it was just a bog-standard frozen cheese and tomato pizza, so no fancy toppings like peppers or pineapple (that’s fruit and veg! Nine of that here). It would just be dipped both sides in batter and then deep fried so that the pizza got hot and the batter crispy. So you bit through the crispy bit and got deep fried bread, essentially, with the tang of cheese and tomato. Others on here report part-pizzas but I only remember a whole 9-inch round pizza being served up in my local chippy. If yiu were going to eat it on the move they’d fold in in half and put the chips in the middle. Pineapple pizza... now there's a potentially contentious thread topic!
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Post by peggs on Sept 25, 2020 16:59:28 GMT
I still haven't got my head around the deep fried pizza, does it still look pizza shaped? Do they come in just one pizza flavour, are the toppings under the fry? It's a whole world of fried wonder. If yiu were going to eat it on the move they’d fold in in half and put the chips in the middle. It just got even more interesting, pauses awhile to imagine battered pizza chip sandwich.
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Post by Dawnstar on Sept 25, 2020 18:41:58 GMT
Rock as in a stick of rock? Don't tell me that chip shops do that in batter! Ha ha - rock salmon but seems to be hard to get these days. I'm glad that chip shops have some limits as to what they'll put in batter!
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Post by theatreliker on Sept 27, 2020 14:06:11 GMT
Anyone remember something called a cheese Jacks? It was like a cheese and potato fried fritter. Circa Leicester, early 2000s.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2020 22:28:43 GMT
Ha ha - rock salmon but seems to be hard to get these days. Or Dogfish by its glam name. Ugly looking thing! Also known as Huss. I used to work in a fish restaurant and the chef told me never eat Huss as it often had parasitic worms in it. This was about 20 years ago but I have never eaten it since.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2020 22:34:03 GMT
Definitely scallops! I don’t recall my family ever having chippy bought food or even if there was a chip shop where we lived when I was young, and we always had homemade scallops. I can remember someone talking about ‘scrumps’ and having no idea... they were the batter crumbs! This was Bristol in the early 60’s. Potato scallops also very big in Coventry. Pronounced scollops.
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Post by cheesy116 on Sept 28, 2020 1:01:40 GMT
Another west of Scotland one to throw into the mix, some chippys do a deep fried creme egg (in batter) around spring time. It is delicious.
The pizza crunchie is 9 times out of 10 just a cheese and tomato frozen pizza although some chippys offer one with mushroom. I've never seen any other toppings being offered.
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Post by Mr Snow on Sept 29, 2020 14:02:40 GMT
What is a saveloy? I don't like Frankfurters and they look like a deep fried painted Hot Dog. I've eaten many things, but I'm not at all curious.
PS For some reason Chicken and Mushroom Pies taste really good when they've been in the hot window of a chippy for several hours. It must intensify the...ermm... goodness!
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Post by The Matthew on Sept 29, 2020 16:24:48 GMT
Apparently they used to be made from pig brains.
I've always thought that Saveloy sounds like it should be the name of a butler in a play set in the drawing room of a country manor. I do love chicken and mushroom pie and chips, even more than fish and chips.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2020 18:27:04 GMT
This just popped up on my Twitter and it felt relevant to our interests.
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Post by peggs on Sept 30, 2020 20:30:32 GMT
The closest I can come to current chippy is the end of a bag of oven chips tonight (so all the small crispy ones) and three mini frozen sausage rolls. Was satisfying.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2020 22:06:03 GMT
I used to love a saveloy. Saveloy dunked in ketchup. The best! Eaten from the paper it's wrapped in, on the way home.
Until the flat mate and i both got food poisoning one night from saveloys that had been sat in tepid water for hours in a chippy warmer.
Can't even look at one now without my stomach churning...
Standard cod and chips for me. With salt and the onion vinegar please! And a pickled egg on the side.
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Post by bimse on Oct 1, 2020 8:50:55 GMT
The fish and chip shops I knew as a child , in the north west of England were always traditional chippys, and proud of their product. I could never understand why curry sauce was introduced in some places. Why would anyone want curry sauce on their chips? I recently moved to West Yorkshire, and was pleased to see the chippy on Springfield Rd, Guiseley , was the birthplace of Harry Corbett, creator of Sooty . It was a chippy then (he was born above it) and it’s still an excellent chippy now. Incidentally his mother was related to Harry Ramsden , also of local fish and chip shop fame .
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Post by bimse on Oct 1, 2020 8:54:44 GMT
I just looked it up, Harry Corbett’s mother was Harry Ramsden’ sister (so Harry Ramsden was his uncle). The original Harry Ramsden’s chippy is now the excellent Wetherby Whaler . Off topic, I know , but it’s a theatrical connection at least .
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Post by Someone in a tree on Oct 1, 2020 9:11:41 GMT
The fish and chip shops I knew as a child , in the north west of England were always traditional chippys, and proud of their product. I could never understand why curry sauce was introduced in some places. Why would anyone want curry sauce on their chips? I recently moved to West Yorkshire, and was pleased to see the chippy on Springfield Rd, Guiseley , was the birthplace of Harry Corbett, creator of Sooty . It was a chippy then (he was born above it) and it’s still an excellent chippy now. Incidentally his mother was related to Harry Ramsden , also of local fish and chip shop fame . Hallelujah another curry sauce hater. Vile synthetic tasting gunge... And don't get me started on katsu curry sauce. I'm also loving the Corbett link. I wonder what Sweep would have on his chips?
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Post by peggs on Oct 1, 2020 18:37:45 GMT
Does chippie curry sauce not actually taste like curry sauce then? Never had it and would hate to ruin chips.
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Post by TallPaul on Oct 7, 2020 10:06:19 GMT
The lovely Mary Berry visits Whitby tonight, one of many jewels in Yorkshire's XL crown (BBC2 8pm).
It is TV law that any trip to the seaside must include fish and chips, ideally filmed within yards of the quayside.
Obviously Mary follows the rules to the letter, which is why she's soon to be Dame Mary. 🙂
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Oct 8, 2020 5:23:14 GMT
Does chippie curry sauce not actually taste like curry sauce then? Never had it and would hate to ruin chips. Yes, it’s quite mild though.
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Post by TallPaul on Oct 14, 2020 8:50:49 GMT
You know you're living in strange times when scraps are being sold for £1.05 a pot. It'll be cauliflower rice next!
On the back of this, yesterday afternoon on Classic FM, Anne-Marie Minhall invited her listeners to get in contact with their local names for scraps. As we have learnt, they are called all kinds of things, and more.
One day we'll have to have threads about local names for breadcakes and gennels (pronounced with a soft g).
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Post by peggs on Oct 14, 2020 11:38:18 GMT
We're clearly ahead of the curve discussion wise.
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