Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Food & Drink => Topic started by: bobb on 30 January, 2011, 01:45:45 pm
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I'm feeling a bit peckish and have a craving for the local chippy. But what should I get? I think it's going to be chips drenched in curry sauce with a sausage in batter. Obviously a pickled egg will be going with that too.
It's annoying that no chippys around here do gravy. When I lived in the midlands I'd never heard of gravy on chips and that was my favourite - chips and gravy. Obviously drenched in salt and vinegar first.
It's funny how regional it is. One of my old house mates was Manc and when I ordered a savaloy he went bonkers saying "What the fook's a savaloy?!!"
Maybe I'll have a sav rather than sausage in batter. Not decided yet.....
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Generally chips, a buttered roll and as many pickled onions as I can persuade them to sell me. Maybe a pickled egg as well. And loads of salt and vinegar.
PS Bobb, can I have a bit of your saveloy? ;D
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Two fish cakes and a pickled egg.
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Maybe a pickled egg as well. And loads of salt and vinegar.
But.. but.. but you live in Edinburgh! Salt and sauce, surely.
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chips,jumbo sausage & a pint of mushy peas
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Fuck mushy peas! They are probably the only "food" I will not eat. Minging...
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But.. but.. but you live in Edinburgh! Salt and sauce, surely.
Yeah, but I grew up in Yorkshire. So salt and vinegar was the norm during my formative chip-eating years. Chippy sauce is ok, but I'd rather have HP.
bobb's right about mushy peas. :sick: They made me eat them at primary school once, even though I told them I didn't like them. Half an hour later I threw up all over the classroom.
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I'm a sucker for saveloy, but I must admit I do have to close my mind to what I'm probably eating ;)
If they have nice big ones, I'll treat myself to a wally aswell :o
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I moved to Blackburn recently and the chip shop near me has "John Bull" on the wall menu, which baffled me. I asked, as you do, and they told me it's savoury mince sandwiched between two slices of potato then dipped in batter and fried.
They look pretty good and I keep meaning to give one a try, but the chippy here does the best chip shop fish I've had in years and I can never bring myself to order anything but that.
Oh yes, and you pickled egg mob <gives funny look> *shudder*
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Actually, the regional thing is quite funny, another of my old house mates was from Lancashire and he'd make a sandwich out of any meal I'd cook! So I'd just spent fucking hours doing a roast and he gets up, goes into the kitchen to grab two slices of bread and turns my glorious meal into a sandwich! You fucking working class, northern cunt!
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My mum's brother used to do that. He made a sandwich out of Christmas dinner once. He was half Kentish though, so I blame the southern genes. ;) He's dead now anyway.
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Yeah, but Kent's a weird place. They have coal there, so they're honorary northerners anyway....
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I think it's the north who gets to decide who the honorary northerners are. ;D
Last time I checked, there weren't any. ;D
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It depends on the chippie.
Chippie by ex-workplace - veggie spring roll, chips anna gherkin. With loads and loads of salt and vinegar on the chips.
Chippie near home - calamari, chips and mushy peas.
Northern chippies - fish bits and chips. A concept I discovered aged 21 on a trip up north with friends.
In a state of inebriation and near random chippie - bag of onion rings. Food of the drink gods.
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To my knowledge there's not a chippy hereabouts that sells gherkins which is a pity 'cause oi loike-s'em
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Saveloy please :thumbsup: God, I am salivating now :-[
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I'm a sucker for saveloy, but I must admit I do have to close my mind to what I'm probably eating ;)
If they have nice big ones, I'll treat myself to a wally aswell :o
WTF is a Wally? Or don't I want to know?
Me, I'm a chips-only sort of girl. Bag of chips, plenty of salt and vinegar and I'm as happy as larry :D
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My mum's brother used to do that. He made a sandwich out of Christmas dinner once. He was half Kentish though, so I blame the southern genes. ;) He's dead now anyway.
A once upon a long time ago colleague used to say any food could, even should, be made into a sandwich. Even soup. And he'd grown up in Kent.
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I wonder if I'm out on my own with cod roe in batter with lashings ov vinegar. But, very rare that I do that tbh.
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I'm feeling a bit peckish and have a craving for the local chippy. But what should I get? I think it's going to be chips drenched in curry sauce with a sausage in batter. Obviously a pickled egg will be going with that too.
It's annoying that no chippys around here do gravy. When I lived in the midlands I'd never heard of gravy on chips and that was my favourite - chips and gravy. Obviously drenched in salt and vinegar first.
It's funny how regional it is. One of my old house mates was Manc and when I ordered a savaloy he went bonkers saying "What the fook's a savaloy?!!"
Maybe I'll have a sav rather than sausage in batter. Not decided yet.....
There's a Chinese takeaway in Shotgate, Wickford (the Wing Hing) that has had chips in gravy on the menu since the '70s. And bloody delicious they are too! They also do the best pancake roll you have ever tasted!
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WTF is a Wally? Or don't I want to know?
Blimey. I thought you were from that London.
The only people I've ever heard calling a big gerkin a "Wally" are from Londonton
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There's a Chinese takeaway in Shotgate, Wickford (the Wing Hing) that has had chips in gravy on the menu since the '70s. And bloody delicious they are too! They also do the best pancake roll you have ever tasted!
I think I've been there! But quite a few years ago. There is also a Chinese gravy serving chippy in Billericay, but every chippy in Chelmsford will just give you blank looks if you ask for gravy. Fools ::-)
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WTF is a Wally? Or don't I want to know?
Blimey. I thought you were from that London.
The only people I've ever heard calling a big gerkin a "Wally" are from Londonton
Phew, it's a gherkin. I'll have two, then please :)
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The last meal I had before leaving Lancashire to move down to Somerset was from the chippy:
Steak and Kidney pudding, chips, gravy and mushy peas (well, someone's got to like them!).
Talking of regional differences, where I grew up, Southampton, the chippy menus went something like:
Cod,
Large Cod,
Plaice,
Haddock,
Whiting,
Pie,
Sausage
When I got to uni in Manchester the menus went:
Fish
Steak and Kidney Pie
Meat Pie
Cheese and onion pie
Gravy
Curry
(The idea of gravy with chips was completely new to me at the time!)
S
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It had never occurred to me before, but this thread is making me wonder how chips would go with gherkin soup.
I think they would not go well at all.
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LIDL sell feck-off big jars of big gherkins for £1.49. Staple diet in Hungary, so I stock up every visit...
Otherwishe, chippe-wise it has to be curry sauce on chips. No S&V.
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OK, Although my fav is the two fish cakes and pickled egg thing, I'm going to have to stick up for mushy peas. (As they've been downed a bit on this thread)
Just remember that in Brum you need to ask for "mooshy pays"
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I'm a sucker for saveloy, but I must admit I do have to close my mind to what I'm probably eating ;)
If they have nice big ones, I'll treat myself to a wally aswell :o
Most chippies here have a jar of wallies next to the pickled onions and pickled eggs.
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It had never occurred to me before, but this thread is making me wonder how chips would go with gherkin soup.
I think they would not go well at all.
Talking of chips with soup… Heinz Big Soups go great with chips! The minted lamb hotpot and the beef and mushroom/vegetable soups in particular are really nice.
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For me it has to be chips with curry sauce. Not poured all over them but in a polysyrene container I can dip each chip into. Oh, and lots of S&V on the chips :thumbsup:
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LIDL sell feck-off big jars of big gherkins for £1.49. Staple diet in Hungary, so I stock up every visit...
Vinegary ones or proper fermented ones?
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LIDL sell feck-off big jars of big gherkins for £1.49. Staple diet in Hungary, so I stock up every visit...
Otherwishe, chippe-wise it has to be curry sauce on chips. No S&V.
Aldi sell gherkins in a sweet and sour vinegar.
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LIDL sell feck-off big jars of big gherkins for £1.49. Staple diet in Hungary, so I stock up every visit...
Vinegary ones or proper fermented ones?
Pickled ones with a helping of herbs & spices and mini onions at the bottom. Not seen them anywhere else in Blighty.
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Ah, sounds like they could be *proper* ones. Now to find where my nearest Lidl is...
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Ah wally's.... brings back memories... ;D
My local chippy "King Cod" does battered chips. They are very nice if a little oily. They also do a very nice veggie burger and scallops..... another thing not for sale in the southeast; or at least the last time I had chips down there (from the chippy down the market street in Barking).
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In a state of inebriation and near random chippie - bag of onion rings. Food of the drink gods.
Good call on the onions rings, although when I was living in Edinburgh and really drunk, I would decide that a pizza supper was a good idea. Had to be very drunk, mind you.
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If it's a chippy worthy of the name, then a good old-fashioned haddock and chips is the food of the gods.
I'm not sure anything from a chip shop counts as a snack, but in the spirit of the thread, I'm going to have to go for chips, served inna cone with a little wooden fork, unadulterated apart from a sensible (as opposed to chucked on with a trowel by the chipshop owner) amount of salt. The cone's important: Ideally, it should be printed with Lorem chipsum fake newsprint, as an act of sticking two fingers up to the elfin safe tea that banned the real thing. The great thing about eating chips out of a cone is that all the crunchy bits settle to the bottom where they may be enjoyed last.
I eschew vinegar as it tends to make my tongue swell up, and I'm a closet southerner so - while I accept that it's delicious - I'm naturally wary of that radioactive green stuff that goes by the name of 'curry sauce'.
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My mum's brother used to do that. He made a sandwich out of Christmas dinner once. He was half Kentish though, so I blame the southern genes. ;) He's dead now anyway.
A once upon a long time ago colleague used to say any food could, even should, be made into a sandwich. Even soup. And he'd grown up in Kent.
I LOVE lasagne sandwiches. Mashed potato is another good one.
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unadulterated apart from a sensible (as opposed to chucked on with a trowel by the chipshop owner) amount of salt.
It isn't proper chip shop chips unless they are buried in salt! Leave the careful eating for the rest of the week!
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Scraps - when I was a nipper and had no money, knowing which chippies would give away bags of scraps for nowt was useful local knowledge.
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Chips with curry sauce.
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Scraps - when I was a nipper and had no money, knowing which chippies would give away bags of scraps for nowt was useful local knowledge.
The chippy in Maldon high street still does. (they also do really good Whiting)
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Scraps - when I was a nipper and had no money, knowing which chippies would give away bags of scraps for nowt was useful local knowledge.
I had a friend at school who was skilled in the art of staking out the local chippy and returning with a haul of whatever was left at closing time for minimal or often zero cost. This was especially useful when we were doing the lighting/sound tech for late-running events, as we could put a spare PARcan into use as chip warmer and disappear backstage to eat them during the boring bits.
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Scraps - when I was a nipper and had no money, knowing which chippies would give away bags of scraps for nowt was useful local knowledge.
Did you have pea wet on that?
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I'd never heard of pea wet!
So no - I've only recently started eating mushy peas.
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LIDL sell feck-off big jars of big gherkins for £1.49. Staple diet in Hungary, so I stock up every visit...
Vinegary ones or proper fermented ones?
Pickled ones with a helping of herbs & spices and mini onions at the bottom. Not seen them anywhere else in Blighty.
Useful tip of the day: when the jar is empty of gherkins (or pickled onions) decant the vinegar into a vinegar bottle and use on fish and chips etc.
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I'd never heard of pea wet!
So no - I've only recently started eating mushy peas.
Maybe it's a Mank thing then, but if you are too skint to afford peas, you can ask for 'pea wet' which is a spoonful of the liquid ;D
Probably counts as one of your five a day up north.
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I don't think that's made it to the North East - it's passed me by, anyway.
However, mushy peas are the same as guacamole in Hartlepool ;)
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Ah yes, his Lordship ;D
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Chips and scraps. And mushy peas in a pot. Served with soft white bread and bump butter, and a steaming mug of tea. I try to tell myself the scraps have not been near the fish. The Cemetery Chippie in Colne does The Best Chips ever.
I'm now salivating.
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I do generally prefer chips cooked in fat rather than vegetable oil, which is all you get round here - so I'll give that one to The North TM as they're still unhealthy enough to cook them that way.....
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If not haddock and chips then a fishcake. That's not a fishcake made from mashed up potato and fish but instead one that's and from the bits of fish too small to sell normally sandwiched between slices of potato then deep fried. Lovely. Oh and mushy peas on the side please.
As an aside how far does the phrase "one of each" and "two of each" referring to fish and chips once or fish and chips twice spread ?
P.S what's a savaloy ?
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P.S what's a savaloy ?
Seriously? :o
We used to buy saveloy and chips (http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_443/1255261897hKjQS7.jpg) and a pickled onion with our 12p school dinner money in the early 70s. How times have changed, now that would be more than £2.
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Haggis, chips, with sottysoss.
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P.S what's a savaloy ?
Seriously? :o
We used to buy saveloy and chips (http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_443/1255261897hKjQS7.jpg) and a pickled onion with our 12p school dinner money in the early 70s. How times have changed, now that would be more than £2.
Seriously. I just googled it now to find out what it was. They dont have those in chips shops in North Yorkshire and never have so far as I can remember. Same for Newcastle and environs. Is it a southern thing ?
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Saveloys are found in Newcastle. A saveloy dip is a reet luxury.
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P.S what's a savaloy ?
Seriously? :o
We used to buy saveloy and chips (http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_443/1255261897hKjQS7.jpg) and a pickled onion with our 12p school dinner money in the early 70s. How times have changed, now that would be more than £2.
Seriously. I just googled it now to find out what it was. They dont have those in chips shops in North Yorkshire and never have so far as I can remember. Same for Newcastle and environs. Is it a southern thing ?
I've no idea. I've always taken it for granted that saveloys were standard chippy fare.
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Edinburgh chippies do them, although they normally just call it a smoked sausage. When I was living there, Edinburgh schoolkids used to call it a "Dutch dong".
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We have sausages battered or not but they aren't those bright red things google chucks up and are never called saveloys.
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P.S what's a savaloy ?
Seriously? :o
We used to buy saveloy and chips (http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_443/1255261897hKjQS7.jpg) and a pickled onion with our 12p school dinner money in the early 70s. How times have changed, now that would be more than £2.
Seriously. I just googled it now to find out what it was. They dont have those in chips shops in North Yorkshire and never have so far as I can remember. Same for Newcastle and environs. Is it a southern thing ?
I think saveloys are generally a southern thing, but that's not to say they are unavailable in chippies in other parts of the country. Same with gravy. All though no chip shop serves it in my home town, I do know of some places that do. I just can't be arsed to make a 15 mile round trip to get some....
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YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlK62rjQWLk).
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YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlK62rjQWLk).
I dunno why, but when he throws up on the cleaner's back has me in stitches every time :)
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I can't remember the last time I went into a fish and chip shop, must be years ago
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I used to love fish & chips. Well, I did live in Skipton, and my dad got them once a week from Eastwoods. I had the same anticipation about them every time (less often) we got them after we'd moved to Derby, but was disappointed every time.
Since forswearing the meat, I avoided for a while, but started going back when I realised a lot of places had started using vegetable oik instead of rancid lard :sick:
Still, choice is limited if you want no dead things in your wrap up, so it's been chip butties. The chips have to be just so - not to thick or fine, and not too soggy or crisp - and are ideally topped with scraps. Loads of salt & vinegar, soaking into the breadcake. Just right.
AJs in Hebden Bridge serve tempura vegetables with their chips, which is grand, but I've never tried the halloumi & chips option :P
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The Ship near Richmond Park does battered halloumi, chips & mushy peas. Fancy a ride? :D
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Say, sometime in early March? :D
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Clarion, Clarion, Clarion what are we going to do with you ? You're a Yorkshire lad and should know that only beef dripping will do for frying fish and chips. Frying them in vegetable makes tasty chips but its just not the same, you might as well get your chips from a Chinese takeaway.
I know your a vegetarianism but surely some things are so important that one must make an exception.
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Our local chippie does a "special" which I think started life as a pensioner's special. It's a rather smaller portion of cod and chips for (at the moment) £3.30. It's plenty big enough for me.
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That's my problem with chippies. No matter how small a portion of chips I ask for (even small cone), it's always to big for me.
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Since forswearing the meat, I avoided for a while, but started going back when I realised a lot of places had started using vegetable oik instead of rancid lard :sick:
At the Clifton chippy they use dead posh vegetables. :D
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Just had a delicious sav and chips meal. Saveloy, chips and a choice of beans/mushy peas/gravy/curry sauce. £2.50
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The Ship near Richmond Park does battered halloumi, chips & mushy peas. Fancy a ride? :D
Certainly do! :-*
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The Ship near Richmond Park does battered halloumi, chips & mushy peas. Fancy a ride? :D
Deep fried cheese? And there was me thinking the US had the 'clog your arteries in a day (http://www.slashfood.com/2009/09/03/deep-fried-butter-to-hit-texas-state-fair/)' market cornered.
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Yeah... it's food for once in a while after a few laps of Richmond Park!
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I thought Scandinavians were big on deep-fried cheese, brie or camembert.
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Chips, a bit of salt, no vinegar with haddock or (if in London) rock, a pickled onion and ketchup. If I'm taking it home I'll have lemon juice and pepper on the fish too.
Just for a snack, a chip barm, with onion vinegar but the chippies in the south look at me funny when I ask for that.
When I was in Manchester Abdul's vege kebabs were rather fine after a night out.
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Chips, a bit of salt, no vinegar with haddock or (if in London) rock, a pickled onion and ketchup. If I'm taking it home I'll have lemon juice and pepper on the fish too.
Just for a snack, a chip barm, with onion vinegar but the chippies in the south look at me funny when I ask for that.
When I was in Manchester Abdul's vege kebabs were rather fine after a night out.
Did we not have a thread about different strange Northern names for bread rolls? You'd not get a barm cake south of Manchester, I reckon, and as for an oven-bottom muffin...
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Did we not have a thread about different strange Northern names for bread rolls? You'd not get a barm cake south of Manchester, I reckon, and as for an oven-bottom muffin...
Northerners Thread (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=14793.0)
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Black pudding supper.
You can't get them hereabouts. :(
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The last meal I had before leaving Lancashire to move down to Somerset was from the chippy:
Steak and Kidney pudding, chips, gravy and mushy peas (well, someone's got to like them!).
Talking of regional differences, where I grew up, Southampton, the chippy menus went something like:
Cod,
Large Cod,
Plaice,
Haddock,
Whiting,
Pie,
Sausage
When I got to uni in Manchester the menus went:
Fish
Steak and Kidney Pie
Meat Pie
Cheese and onion pie
Gravy
Curry
(The idea of gravy with chips was completely new to me at the time!)
S
I moved form Pompey to Glasgow. In the lattter the menus was "fish supper" or "special fish supper". Oh and the pies were shortcrust and deep fried.
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There's a bit too much cod going down on this thread. If you must eat slimey flibbly things from the sea, why not a couple of hot mackerel baps?
Hugh's Fishfight: the Mackerel Mission (http://www.fishfight.net/about-mackerel-mission/)
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Or some Scarborough Woof.
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There's a bit too much cod going down on this thread.
Erm… Ham mentioned they're partial to cod roe (as am I), but other than that no-one has said they buy cod. ???
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Cod's what I tend to buy when they laugh at me for asking for haddock :(
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(http://www.letintinmovie.com/wp-content/uploads/image/haddock.jpg)
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I'm a sucker for saveloy, but I must admit I do have to close my mind to what I'm probably eating ;)
If they have nice big ones, I'll treat myself to a wally aswell :o
WTF is a Wally? Or don't I want to know?
Me, I'm a chips-only sort of girl. Bag of chips, plenty of salt and vinegar and I'm as happy as larry :D
I hate vinegar, me.
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Weirdo.
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P.S what's a savaloy ?
No gravy at the chippie
And what's a saveloy?
Every pub were full of
foreigners and bottom boys
In the days when the dokta would allow me to eat such things, chips, scraps and curry sauce. You need to go after ten pm though, coz the curry sauce needs to simmer for about four hours to achieve the correct consistency, which is similar to wallpaper paste.
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Frites, mayonnaise and some oliebollen (dutch fried doughnuts) after a wet streetlight-lit kermesse anywhere in deepest Flanders.
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If we're allowing continental cuisine, then the chips you get in Amsterdam are up there. They're covered in mayonnaise, ketchup and diced onion.
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If we're allowing continental cuisine, then the chips you get in Amsterdam are up there. They're covered in mayonnaise, ketchup and diced onion.
If it's a continental chippy then fine. ;)
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I've had poutine too. That's chips/fries covered in cheese curds and gravy. It's pretty good.
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The chips in Flanders are great. I love the way they always cook them fresh in restaurants - so you might have to wait a while, but you'll get a piping hot bowl of frites. Oh - no matter how many times you go there you will always burn you tongue as you tuck in! I like them with no seasoning...
Edit: Accompanied by mosselen of course...
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Frites mit mayonaise luverly......and with stoofvlees even more...
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I've had poutine too. That's chips/fries covered in cheese curds and gravy. It's pretty good.
Had that in Montreal. Variable IMO.
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I thought there'd be a chip shop thread somewhere. :)
Anyway, the chip shop in Llandysul closes on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Really.
Well Monday, I understand. a. Because it's Monday and b. Because most of Llandysul is closed on that day anyway.
Sunday may have something to do with whichever flavour of skypixi one favours, so ok, I suppose.
But Saturday? Really?
A flyer came through our door this week. A chip van will be visiting the village once a week.
On a Friday :facepalm:
I've just tried it. Not bad. But Friday?
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Haggis! Not had since i was a student in the North East....
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A flyer came through our door this week. A chip van will be visiting the village once a week.
On a Friday :facepalm:
I've just tried it. Not bad. But Friday?
Fish onna Friday, doncha know? Plus if it is a chip van you are being fitted in around more profitable (or at least, more established) venue days.
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Fritters
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I thought there'd be a chip shop thread somewhere. :)
Anyway, the chip shop in Llandysul closes on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Really.
Well Monday, I understand. a. Because it's Monday and b. Because most of Llandysul is closed on that day anyway.
Sunday may have something to do with whichever flavour of skypixi one favours, so ok, I suppose.
But Saturday? Really?
A flyer came through our door this week. A chip van will be visiting the village once a week.
On a Friday :facepalm:
I've just tried it. Not bad. But Friday?
Isn't it obvious? You're supposed to visit the van on the way home from the chippy on Friday to buy your Saturday chips...
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Umpteen years after Half Man Half Biscuit first sang about it, there is finally a Hip Hop Chip Shop (https://www.thehiphopchipshop.com/). I hope they get royalties, or at least free chips.
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My staple is macaroni pie supper :P
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Fritters
Fritters and chips was what we ate as kids. Two fritters atop a bag of chips, and for 5p extra you got all the crispy bits of potato and batter found in the fryer (scraps). Oh special occasions, you might be able to afford a battered sausage (still one of the best culinary creations). Those and mushy peas. I'm not actually sure there's anything better than mushy peas.
Friday nights at my grandparents always involved actual fish and chips, there was one across the road on the 'island'* – my gran would have us take bowls and stuff to be filled. It was a thing, you'd see people wandering around the estate with kitchenware every Friday evening. They would wrap things up in paper if you didn't have the contents of your kitchen cupboard to hand.
To be honest, and risking nationalistic heresy, I find most fish and chips a bit disappointing, a pile of stodgy damp chips with a limp oil-sodden piece of fish draped on top. A combination of underheated oil and the results sitting around trying to get a tan under the heat lamps. Chips should be crispy and nothing should bleed oil when you stab it with a fork.
I can't say I eat fish and chips more than once every couple of years. There's a chippy near us that we always say we'll go to, but when we're in the mood for stodge, say returning home after a long hike and then a couple of pints, it's closed (10pm, if I recall). I suppose that's liberal compared to some opening hours. There used to be one near us in Sheffield (by Ecclesall Park) that I think closed about 7pm every evening (and didn't open weekends). I can't say I ever eat before about 9pm, and usually later.
*basically a huge roundabout with grass in the middle, it's was a 30s council estate that was actually nice, had open spaces etc. Nowadays, of course, it's a rash of poor home 'improvement' decisions, infested with badly parked cars, often on those green spaces, now all churned up. And who'd build an estate there days with open space just for the hell of it?
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Your chippy clearly still does stuff the bad old way.
Pretty much every one round here cooks to order.
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I had forgotten about this thread, despite contributing to it.
Our local chip shop (still the same one as in 2011, run by the same family) still does the "special". it used to be called the pensioner's special. Small piece of cod and half a portion of chips. That's what we normally buy when we go there. It's plenty.
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If there is no fish ready, then I will go for a saveloy, as I'm a busy man, and can't be doing waiting for fish to fry. The chippy closest to me has now gone halal, or rather has a sign up in the window stating that it's halal. The halal saveloy is indistinguishable from a non halal saveloy tastewise, and that was a pleasant surprise.
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The halal saveloy is indistinguishable from a non halal saveloy tastewise, and that was a pleasant surprise.
I think I'm right in saying that Halal will really only apply to meat and meat products :demon:
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Your chippy clearly still does stuff the bad old way.
Pretty much every one round here cooks to order.
Most of the ones I've seen lately seem to be the fried-anything school, offering the standard hearty London fayre of deep-fried ratchicken, burgers, etc.
But like I say, I've not really tried any of the local ones. That said, I've only lived here six years. One mustn't rush into such matters. I think the last time I had fish and chips was in Battle. They were alright, but we'd just spent the day hiking there from Eastbourne and frankly would have eaten anything that promised calories.
They do bring back a nostalgic rush though. Fish and chips on a Friday night were something to look forward too, especially if you'd tried my mother's cooking. If the island chippy is still there, it probably serves burgers and ratchicken too. I don't think people pop-over with a pot to be filled, for sure.
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Cod bites, small chips (still enough for two) and mushy peas. Sometimes a curried veg spring roll.
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I can't wait for the chippy to be open again. I'm gonna get chips with gravy and pour Hendos on it.
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Your chippy is closed? Ours are still open albeit via delivery.
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Quite fancy fish and chips, and I can pretend to be by the sea side.
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Your chippy is closed? Ours are still open albeit via delivery.
The one closest is shut. I'm sure there's almost certainly anotherone nearby that would deliver but I'm not getting chippy delivery on my own.