What should I get from the Chippy?

prawny
prawny Posts: 5,440
edited June 2009 in Commuting chat
Havin a chippy tea tonight for the first time in ages, don't fancy my normal battered sausage after watching last night ashes to ashes :shock:

So any suggestions? I live far enough from london to be able to get curry sauce or mushy peas :D
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  • robmanic1
    robmanic1 Posts: 2,150
    How about a nice peice of haddock, chips, mushy peas, mmmmmmmmmmm?
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Chips and Gravy.... mmmmmm.....



    (cue Southern poofters complaining 8) )
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  • robmanic1
    robmanic1 Posts: 2,150
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Chips and Gravy.... mmmmmm.....



    (cue Southern poofters complaining 8) )

    "as thee nuthin moist???"
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  • Cafewanda
    Cafewanda Posts: 2,788
    Cod, chips and mushy peas with a pickled onion . :)
  • robmanic1
    robmanic1 Posts: 2,150
    Cafewanda wrote:
    Cod, chips and mushy peas with a pickled onion . :)

    Cod is the devil's seafood!
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  • Gazzaputt
    Gazzaputt Posts: 3,227
    Plaice. My fave from the chippy with chips, mushy peas and a pickled egg.
  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Or my alternate favorite:

    Chilli, cheese and Chips....


    Or just cheese and chips - melted under the grill..... Oh God. I'm hungry now.
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    If you get mushy peas you're worse than Hitler.
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  • jeepie
    jeepie Posts: 497
    Haddock every time...I like mushy peas too even though I'm from the South.
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    biondino wrote:
    If you get mushy peas you're worse than Hitler.

    A tad extreme there Mr B what's your beef with the humble pea?
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  • Cafewanda
    Cafewanda Posts: 2,788
    Robmanic1 wrote:
    Cafewanda wrote:
    Cod, chips and mushy peas with a pickled onion . :)

    Cod is the devil's seafood!

    Really? Since when?
  • robmanic1
    robmanic1 Posts: 2,150
    Cafewanda wrote:
    Robmanic1 wrote:
    Cafewanda wrote:
    Cod, chips and mushy peas with a pickled onion . :)

    Cod is the devil's seafood!

    Really? Since when?

    Since it was introduced by Icelandic fishermen during the "Cod wars", so that we thought they like it so much it must be worth fighting for, meanwhile, whilst we were distracted, they thieved all the lovely, tasty Haddock, which as everyone knows, is the most noble of the sea-dwelling foodstuffs.


    or not
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  • neil²
    neil² Posts: 337
    - Pukka pie (steak and kidney)
    - Mushy peas
    - Pineapple fritter if you are feeling a bit exotic
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  • Cafewanda
    Cafewanda Posts: 2,788
    Ohhhhhhhhhhhh kayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

    Steps away slowly and carefully from Robmanic1
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    edited June 2009
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Chips and Gravy.... mmmmmm.....



    (cue Southern poofters complaining 8) )

    Mmmmmmmm chips and gravy... the best gravy (from a fast food place) is the KFC chicken gravy... mmmmm chips and KFC gravy...

    even better with cheese... mmmmm chips cheese and gravy...

    I wonder where I can get that in London...
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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    I'm drowning in my own saliva.

    If beyond the gravy line then

    Steak and Kidney Pudding, Chips, Peas and Gravy. Is a shoe in.

    If Dahn Sarf your options are limited as southerners don't dig sauce.

    Haddock, chips, peas and pickled egg is about as good as it gets.

    perhaps a battered sausage (with vinegar) as an appetizer.

    I'm so hungry I could cry. But i won't as I'm nails.
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    okay okay stop i'm dribbling uncontrollably

    I live in a take-away free zone, If i'm lucky I have a take-away once a year now and even then it hardly local at 17 miles away.

    Oh dear i've found this http://www.kfc.co.uk/store-locator/

    46 KFC within 5 miles of my office, how can that be? sounds like a challenge to me :D
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  • robmanic1
    robmanic1 Posts: 2,150
    I'm so pleased this isn't a "scratch'n'sniff" forum, must......resist!
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  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Chips and Gravy.... mmmmmm.....



    (cue Southern poofters complaining 8) )

    Mmmmmmmm chips and gravy... the best gravy (from a fast food place) is the KFC chicken gravy... mmmmm chips and KFC gravy...

    even better with cheese... mmmmm chip cheese and gravy...

    I wonder where I can get that in London...

    Search for poutine.

    It sounds a lot more cosmopolitan than what it is (chips, curd cheese and thick chicken gravy - a French Canadian "delicacy").
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Greg T wrote:
    I'm drowning in my own saliva.

    If beyond the gravy line then

    Steak and Kidney Pudding, Chips, Peas and Gravy. Is a shoe in.

    If Dahn Sarf your options are limited as southerners don't dig sauce.

    Haddock, chips, peas and pickled egg is about as good as it gets.

    perhaps a battered sausage (with vinegar) as an appetizer.

    I'm so hungry I could cry. But i won't as I'm nails.

    Screw the sauce embargo. I'll make it my damn self.

    Battered sausage with vinegar = work of genius. You can also pop some vinegar on your burger bun.... mmmmmmm slightly vinegar-y burger...

    Oh and it has to be malt vinegar. Preferably sarson's. None of this white vinegar b*llocks.
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  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    Me: meat pie and chips please

    Assistant: Salt and vinegar

    Me: Yes please

    Assistant: Yu wan rice wi dat?!

    Me::?

    Yes, I had accidentally walked into the chinese carry out next door to the chippy...... :shock:
  • R_T_A
    R_T_A Posts: 488
    I'm going to go crazy and suggest scampi. No idea why - can't remember when I ordered it from a chippy.

    Apparently it tastes significantly better and makes you more attractive when you throw each one in the air and catch them in your mouth*.

    Points are also added for doing this while holding the chips casually open in one hand.




    *Could be considered a lie
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  • sarajoy
    sarajoy Posts: 1,675
    We used to pour the vinegar from the finished big pickled onion jars into the standard vinegar bottles as an alternative choice. MMMMMMmmmmm I loved the onion vinegar!!!

    (yes I used to work in a chippy)
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  • Fireblade96
    Fireblade96 Posts: 1,123
    Haddock and chips every time. But only if cooked in lard like in a proper chippy. None of this poncy vegetable oil nonsense, it spoils the taste of everything - I never eat fish and chips in this part of the world!

    Alternatively, chips and curry sauce, as served by all the best Chinese restaurants :-)

    Damn I'm hungry !
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  • Sewinman
    Sewinman Posts: 2,131
    Anyone had a rissole? I dig them when in Wales.

    I also dig chicken & mushroom pie...place upside down, make small hole and fill with sarsons for an intense vinegar experience, followed by the taste of 'chicken' and 'mushroom' and other 'matter' plus non-descript gungy interface between gloppy MSG snot-like sauce and pastry. Lush!
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Apart from right now is anyone else always hungry? like from the minute I wake up until the minute I fall asleep :(
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  • AyrshireBacon
    AyrshireBacon Posts: 173
    I was in Scotland the other week and was in a chippy with nearly all the usual options (black pudding, white pudding, haggis, spicy sausage, but no mars bars). They even did two sorts of deep fried pizza - plain (where the base soaks up all the fat) and crunchy where they batter it first. :o
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Of course one thing I did also forget to mention - pea fritter. With LOADS of vinegar - LiT has it right on that one!
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  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    In the end I had mixed kebab meat chips and curry sauce, it was nice a bit greasy tho. I blame the chicken and chicken tikka meat.

    I can heartily recommend the doner meat chips and curry sauce option, lovely :D
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  • prj45
    prj45 Posts: 2,208
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    even better with cheese... mmmmm chips cheese and gravy...

    I wonder where I can get that in London...

    You can get Poutine at the Maple Leaf in covent garden; and beer.

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