How do you order fish and chips?

Posted by: Aiken Drum on 14 October 2005

In my youth in the North East, I would ask for a paper, in rural Shropshire it was "once", "twice" etc. Over here you ask for a fish supper.

How do you ask for your fish and chips in your favourite chippy?
Posted on: 23 October 2005 by Aiken Drum
I was watching the Scottish episode of Anthony Bourdain's programme in which he samples the food of the world.

The weirdest concoctions he tried included deep fried mars bars and deep fried pizza. I think he even tried a deep fried pickled egg. I guess this is the sort of ballast you need after a few pints of heavy - you'd have to be blutered to think they were nice Eek


Brad
Posted on: 23 October 2005 by long-time-dead
Brad

You'd need to be stupid to think they were nice. They are foul concoctions.

Saying that, so are jellied eels, pigs trotters and the like - loved by some, loathed by others.
Posted on: 23 October 2005 by garyi
The thing with fish and chips is its really really easy to get right.

Unfortunately the majority of chippies in the country bailed years ago anbd use cheap frozen fish and cheap oil and try to pay you off with hand made chips.

Freshness is the key, its really easy and there is little that can touch it for good old comfort food.
Posted on: 23 October 2005 by Stephen Tate
ive heard that most of these takeaways including chip shops use this hydrogenated fat to cook the food in , this fat has a nine month life span, comfort food it certainly isnt!


regards,
Posted on: 23 October 2005 by TomK
quote:
Originally posted by Yeldarb:
I was watching the Scottish episode of Anthony Bourdain's programme in which he samples the food of the world.

The weirdest concoctions he tried included deep fried mars bars and deep fried pizza. I think he even tried a deep fried pickled egg. I guess this is the sort of ballast you need after a few pints of heavy - you'd have to be blutered to think they were nice Eek


Brad


I don't know where the deep fried Mars Bar thing came from. I've only ever come across one chippy doing them (in Edinburgh, at the bottom of the Royal Mile of all places) and I've never met a single person who's tried one, or even been tempted to. It's not quite an urban myth but I think the significance has been grossly exaggerated.
Posted on: 23 October 2005 by DIL
quote:
ive heard that most of these takeaways including chip shops use this hydrogenated fat to cook the food in , this fat has a nine month life span, comfort food it certainly isnt


I'm intrigued, what happens after nine months ?

/dl
Posted on: 23 October 2005 by Stephen Tate
after nine months i guess they give it an oil change, my car gets one every six months,what they do with it after that i dont know,perhaps they clean it and sell it to diesel boat owners just to squeeze out that last bit of use.

regards,