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Post by Someone in a tree on Sept 21, 2020 17:05:13 GMT
I was recently introduced to the wonder that is orange chips. I think we need to know more...I’m guessing it might be chips with grated cheese on top? It's chip spice*. Some kind of paprika blend of spices. Yummy *not to be confused with the drug, Spice
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 21, 2020 17:21:07 GMT
Pies.
Pukka Pies to be precise. Never bought one from a chippy. I don’t think a chippy is the right place for a pie. Square peg, round pie.. Don’t be mistaken, I’ve eaten plenty of pies (leave it 😡) and Pukka Pies are sold on Ocado. They’re delicious. But not from a chip shop.
Ban the pies!
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Post by TallPaul on Sept 21, 2020 17:43:01 GMT
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Post by peggs on Sept 21, 2020 18:17:10 GMT
Mmm cheesy chips, haven't those in years and equally not an option geographically here but do like gravy and chips, I don't have the fish so not an issue there.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Sept 21, 2020 18:25:02 GMT
If Jacksons was around then they would now be selling it #weeps #errrner
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Post by hulmeman on Sept 21, 2020 20:29:12 GMT
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Post by The Matthew on Sept 21, 2020 20:32:04 GMT
So the Wigan Slappy is basically a pie sandwich. I want one.
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Post by hulmeman on Sept 21, 2020 20:36:33 GMT
That's a very dangerous slope to go down young The Matthew.
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Post by TallPaul on Sept 22, 2020 10:40:08 GMT
If Jacksons was around then they would now be selling it #weeps #errrner The Oughtred family has now sold Aunt Bessies too. Alongside a portfolio that includes the Ferguson Fawsitt in lovely Walkington, they've decided the future is organic veg, balsamic vinegar and preserved lemons. Kinda reminds me of the journey that BurlyBeaR has taken. He's already DMd for the address of the chip shop that serves hummus. 😄
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 22, 2020 11:12:09 GMT
Battered cod roe anyone? This has changed too, the ones my dad used to have were a vibrant neon pink inside.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Sept 22, 2020 14:32:14 GMT
I'm currently at my parents in the far East (Riding) . Their neighbour, Pearl who runs the village chippie fortuitously popped round for coffee earlier. On tonight's menu is prawn toast and a seafood special (goujons, calamari and prawns). Planning a barbecue for tonight as the forecast is good so we'll go to the chippie tomorrow and I'll report back on the specials.
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Post by Sam on Sept 22, 2020 14:48:53 GMT
I feel so jealous with all your exotic chippies! Ours just do the standard fish chips and sausages. I don't like fish but I do like batter so I usually get a battered sausage or just chips. I'd love scraps but they don't do them!
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Post by Someone in a tree on Sept 22, 2020 18:59:52 GMT
A lot of chippies that diversify do not do it well. I love kebabs but for those I will either make it or visit a good un (Woody's Grill in Camden I'm talking to you). For fish and chips, I want a chippie that generally just does that.
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Post by Phantom of London on Sept 22, 2020 21:54:47 GMT
I just love a Tiger Loaf, the one from Lidl’s is great, filled up with chips and copious salt and vinegar.
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Post by vickyg on Sept 23, 2020 7:59:06 GMT
I just love a Tiger Loaf, the one from Lidl’s is great, filled up with chips and copious salt and vinegar. Wow, that really got me going at 9am. My version is warburton’s toastie with real butter and loads of salty, vinegary chips. Mmmmmm.
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Post by TallPaul on Sept 23, 2020 8:32:42 GMT
You can get a bag of chips at Poppies for £1 between 3 and 4pm today.
Even if I was in that London I wouldn't be taking advantage. I once pushed the boat out and ate in at Poppies in Soho. Despite ordering an 'ordinary' sausage, the silly man brought me a bright red saveloy. Of course I said nothing, ate up and paid the bill, but I've never been back.
I should really unlike myself, or whatever it is I need to do!
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Post by Someone in a tree on Sept 23, 2020 9:16:32 GMT
I do like Poppies. Expensive but good. The one in soho with its decor that is trying too hard and fails. However Camden and Spitalfields has appropriate decor for sit-in cish and fhips!
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Sept 23, 2020 11:35:22 GMT
I just love a Tiger Loaf, the one from Lidl’s is great, filled up with chips and copious salt and vinegar. Does this board really allow hardcore pornography? *clasps pearls*
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Sept 23, 2020 12:54:57 GMT
Mentioned it before but love the patties that you get in Hull, potato and seasoning battered. I also recall a cheese and onion version from way back that was yummy. The glory of northern chippies is, however, gravy so dark and thick that it is more solid than liquid. Chips and such gravy are second to none. Up in Scotland the haggis (or white pudding) supper is worth a mention. I once had shark in batter from an Edinburgh chippy, felt like tough meat and tasted like fish. Not something that I’ve repeated.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Sept 23, 2020 13:39:58 GMT
Many moons ago when I had hair and backpacked around Australia I bought a shark burger from a burger van on the Great Ocean Road. It was wonderfully tasty. My friend and still (s)hark back to it...
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Post by cheesy116 on Sept 23, 2020 16:42:58 GMT
Similar to an earlier post, I’m from the west of Scotland and the local ‘delicacy’ is definitely the battered pizza, commonly known as the Pizza Crunchie or sometimes just the Pizza Crunch. Available in a quarter slice or half slice although some places will do a full one!
In Edinburgh they top everything with something called ‘sauce’, instead of vinegar. So they will ask if you want salt and sauce rather than salt and vinegar. I believe it’s a mix of vinegar and brown sauce although I’m not 100% sure as I’ve never had it.
In Scotland we also say a ‘fish supper’ instead of fish and chips or a ‘sausage supper’ instead of sausage and chips and so on. If you just want a slice of fish, it would be a ‘single fish’.
I have family in Barrow in the Lake District and if you order a sausage from the chippy, it comes unbattered whereas if you asked for sausage here it would automatically come battered. I’m not sure how that varies in the rest of England ?
I could talk about regional differences in every topic for hours! It’s my weird niche I like.
**edit** there’s a posh chippy in the west end of Glasgow which does a Lobster Supper... it’s next to Glasgow uni so I’m not surprised.
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Post by Jan on Sept 23, 2020 17:14:53 GMT
Fish and chips provides one of the starkest North/South divides in Britain. Surveys show the South overwhelmingly prefer cod (70%+) and the North haddock (80%+).
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Post by Phantom of London on Sept 23, 2020 17:31:35 GMT
And who would have thought fish and chips comes from Jewish brethren.
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Post by Phantom of London on Sept 23, 2020 17:37:56 GMT
When I did eat meat a while back.
I order fish and chips in one of those Irish bars just off Times Square, New York. Which I couldn't complain about the battered 'codfish' as Americans call it, but it is just absolutely plain wrong to have your battered 'codfish' with French fries. If you are going to have fish and chips, it should derive its source from King Edward's, which are then peeled, chipped and fried.
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Post by The Matthew on Sept 23, 2020 19:38:56 GMT
it is just absolutely plain wrong to have your battered 'codfish' with French fries Chips should be solid and chunky. You should be able to feel the calorie count going up with each one you eat.
Fish and Fries sounds like a 1980s comedy duo who landed a TV slot but were cancelled half way through the season when it turned out they only had two hours of material.
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Post by peggs on Sept 23, 2020 20:43:37 GMT
Sounds like you get better chippy extras the further north you go but sadly I live in Kent and I think I may now need a passport to get out.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 24, 2020 6:23:32 GMT
I have family in Barrow in the Lake District and if you order a sausage from the chippy, it comes unbattered whereas if you asked for sausage here it would automatically come battered. I’m not sure how that varies in the rest of England ? Both are available. You have to specify “sausage” or “battered sausage”.
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Post by firefingers on Sept 24, 2020 10:07:42 GMT
Brought up in the home counties where it was pretty much just fish and chips and maybe some mushy peas, moving to the West of Scotland was certainly eye opening when it came to chippies. Deep fried pizza (battered or not battered); black pudding; white pudding; haggis; king rib (deep fried minced pork pattie); battered and deep fried hamburger; pakora; or the king of them all: the munchie box. A munchie box is a pizza box filled with chippy goodness often combining flavours from around the the worls, I'm talking chips, onion rings, chicken nuggets, donner meat, samosas, chicken tikka, pakora, salad, naan bread... if you can find it it will probably be in a munchie box somewhere.
And shout out to the invention of salt and chilli chips you get from Chinese places up here, chips topped with salt, fresh chilli, spring onions, and five spice seasoning. Absolutely amazing.
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Post by peggs on Sept 24, 2020 16:37:30 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.
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Post by anita on Sept 24, 2020 16:42:27 GMT
I prefer rock & chips.
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