Chip Shop

[Guest Col city fan]

Chips, scraps, cod, curry sauce....

One of my fave meals

[Lovejoy]

I'm currently one of 12 people of the 92 polled so far who would have gravy on their chips. Outrage that, are the rest of you living under a rock!?

 

Beef and Onion pie the main event of course.

[Nick]

How can extras be a required field in this poll - everybody knows you just need chips, curry sauce and a fishcake if theres one there.

[bovril]

The thing I miss most about the UK.

[EnderbyFox]

Reading this thread before Lunch. 

 

[goose2010]

You're all doing it wrong! All Steak Pukka Pie with a Battered sausage and chips, dip the battered sausage in the pie and use like some kind of meat scoop.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Curry sauce needs to be in the 'extras' category imo. It gets pilled on the side like mushy peas rather than poured over like ketchup surely? 

[TiffToff88]

I enjoy going to chip shops around my in-laws house in sheffield. A Yorkshire Fishcake is a thing of beauty

[CKB]

32 minutes ago, EnderbyFox said:

Reading this thread before Lunch. 

 

I'm tempted to start chowing down on my own hand

[fazzyfox]

Fishcake, Beans and Chips on a tray deeply marinated in vinegar with enough salt to turn your lips into Mick Jagger proportions. Always had this in Leicester no problems, down south - Suffolk, Cambs, parts of London & Essex and it gets tricky. They all do Mushy Peas, some do Gravy and Curry but ask for Beans and they look at you like you've asked for beetroot or something. I had one place reply "We don't do baked potatoes anymore". "No, I wanted baked beans", I replied. "Yes but we don't do baked potatoes anymore" (fast turning into a Monty Python sketch). "I don't understand...I'd like beans with the chips". "We stopped doing beans when we stopped doing baked potatoes". "But doesn't anyone want Beans and Chips?". "No" (pulling a face like I've suggested pouring custard over the fish cake and chips). If you do find one that does them it's in a tiny microwaved carton, a lump of dried out beans with the middle ones stone cold. And just don't get me started on Crusty cobs......

[foxile5]

How is saveloy doing so badly? I ****ing love those things.

[Webbo]

Where's this word "scraps" come from? The correct term is "scratchings".

[StanSP]

19 minutes ago, Webbo said:

Where's this word "scraps" come from? The correct term is "scratchings".

it's not pork?

[SemperEadem]

1 hour ago, TiffToff88 said:

I enjoy going to chip shops around my in-laws house in sheffield. A Yorkshire Fishcake is a thing of beauty

Kids at the school I used to work at would jump the fence for a Sheffield Scollop Butty.

[fazzyfox]

Grimsby Chippy on Welford Road did (don't know if they still do) "Bean Rounders", basically a scotch egg with beans instead of the egg. Tried it once but haven't had a beans wrapped in sausagemeat craving since. The girls in the queue got sick of our (she's)-bean-a-round-her puns which was the main incentive for ordering one.

[thursday_next]

A little off-topic, but I hope you don't mind. If you buy any fishcakes, fish fillets or fish pie down the supermarket, then you have to go hyper-alert in order not to buy some pollock. No talking, no answering mobile phones, no wandering eyes to look at appealing and probably under-aged girls, for the time being, at least. You have to read the instructions three times to make sure that you've got cod or haddock. Not fish, because that means pollock.

 

If you go down the fish and chip shop and request pollock, they will laugh at you. They do rubbery sausages deep-fried in batter that only the most outstandingly drunk person could try and eat, but they don't do pollock.

 

Why are Britain's supermarkets forcing us to eat this fish? I wouldn't mind if their shelves featured 'Poor Admiral's Pie- Made Of Pollock And Other Things', but they don't do that. I think we should be told.

[Guest Mee-9]

Anyone ever had a battered burger?

 

Heartattack food but bloody lovely.

[Stadt]

Bucks chippy and Mark field chippy are the best I've been too, Birstall fisheries and Faire road Glenfield are decent but not the best.

[Sharpe's Fox]

Pea wet the only option not taken

[stripeyfox]

40 minutes ago, Sharpe's Fox said:

Pea wet the only option not taken

 Wtf is pea wet? 

[The Blur]

21 hours ago, Leicester69 said:

No bread (white thick sliced please) and butter?????

 

We are still waiting for that to be added to the poll............

[The Blur]

17 minutes ago, stripeyfox said:

 Wtf is pea wet? 

 

Discharge from mushy peas.  Considered more edible for the poll than good humble old bread and butter 

[Leicester69]

9 hours ago, TiffToff88 said:

I have to be in the right mood for fish. My usual chip shop meal consists of Chips, Jumbo sausage, chicken & mushroom pie and baked beans.

 

Its only on rare occasions that i go for the fish, but i do enjoy it.

 

The other debate that the World Cup has brought up is which is the best chip shop in the area? I usually tend to use Today's Catch in Syston. Not the best in the world but i've had worse - the one in East Goscote springs to mind

Rothley fisheries...quality

[stripeyfox]

9 hours ago, TiffToff88 said:

I have to be in the right mood for fish. My usual chip shop meal consists of Chips, Jumbo sausage, chicken & mushroom pie and baked beans.

 

Its only on rare occasions that i go for the fish, but i do enjoy it.

 

The other debate that the World Cup has brought up is which is the best chip shop in the area? I usually tend to use Today's Catch in Syston. Not the best in the world but i've had worse - the one in East Goscote springs to mind

The one in Goscote (or "on" Goscote as the freakish locals say) is very good. Much better than any of the ones in Melton.

 

I do love Fish and Chips but I tend to regret it as soon as I've eaten it. The batter knocks me about a bit!
 

[VLC86]

I might have slated Fish and Chips in another thread but I'm sitting here about to go to the gym having barely eaten anything considered a treat for god knows how long thinking about demolishing every single thing on this list.... other than a pickled egg you ****ed up people.