Orders Please - The Chippy!

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  • cycologist
    cycologist Posts: 721
    Haggis supper +1.

    i discovered the joy of haggis and chips some 30+ years ago when on Skye.
    A mobile chippie parked up at the Sligachan Hotel and the haggis supper was oh so good after a hard day on the Cuillin.
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  • edhornby
    edhornby Posts: 1,780
    keep it really simple





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  • stevenmh
    stevenmh Posts: 180
    I love Haggis. Do they really sell it in chippies north of the border now?

    I have never come across it in Asia, only at Burn's Nights held at the Embassy etc.

    Oh and I forgot when I go up north for a chippy I like to have it with IRN Bru or preferably Dandelion and Burdock.

    mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm :lol:

    Oh and those chippies in Australia do they just do fish or do they have steak and kidney pudding's too?
  • man2wolf
    man2wolf Posts: 70
    Crapaud wrote:
    lastant wrote:
    man2wolf wrote:
    Or maybe a baby's head puddin'

    What on earth's that?!
    If it's made from placenta, I don't want to know.

    Its what we Northerners call a steak and kidney suet pudding

    If you pick one up it has the same delicate feel as the head of a new born baby

    Handle with care!
  • stevenmh
    stevenmh Posts: 180
    Its what we Northerners call a steak and kidney suet pudding

    Eh?! Mate, I am a northerner and have never ever heard of a baby's head pudding and I love Steak and Kidney Pudding.

    Either you are pulling legs or you have been misled......
  • Nuggs
    Nuggs Posts: 1,804
    markos1963 wrote:
    can of Tizer.
    Which is, remarkably, the best drink to accompany fish and chips. Do they still sell it?
  • man2wolf
    man2wolf Posts: 70
    stevenmh wrote:
    Its what we Northerners call a steak and kidney suet pudding

    Eh?! Mate, I am a northerner and have never ever heard of a baby's head pudding and I love Steak and Kidney Pudding.

    Either you are pulling legs or you have been misled......

    I kid you not:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_and_kidney_pie

    :)
  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    Nuggs wrote:
    markos1963 wrote:
    can of Tizer.
    Which is, remarkably, the best drink to accompany fish and chips. Do they still sell it?

    Wrong.That honour goes to Sauvignon Blanc.
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  • mgcycleguy
    mgcycleguy Posts: 292
    Roe in Batter.... delicious
  • skullthaw
    skullthaw Posts: 321
    battered haggis/ white pudding, chips and mushy peas with a pickled egg is an epic choice
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Frank the tank wrote:
    Mushy peas and chips.

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    "I'll have some of that avocado dip, please."

    Chips, battered sausage, mushy peas, tomato sauce.
  • stevenmh
    stevenmh Posts: 180
    man2wolf wrote:
    stevenmh wrote:
    Its what we Northerners call a steak and kidney suet pudding

    Eh?! Mate, I am a northerner and have never ever heard of a baby's head pudding and I love Steak and Kidney Pudding.

    Either you are pulling legs or you have been misled......

    I kid you not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_and_kidney_pie :)

    Well I stand corrected it seems. Good to learn something new everyday.

    Has anyone ever used this expression though, or has wikipedia being drining some of the funny water mentioned in another thread?? I think if I was in a chippy and someone ordered a baby's head pudding I would expect them to be arrested or at the very least returned to their padded room.


    Is Dandelion and Burdock for sale anywhere else in England other than the North West?
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Babbies 'ed wit th'at on is what we called it in Bolton when it still had the foil case on...
  • Nuggs
    Nuggs Posts: 1,804
    Aggieboy wrote:
    Nuggs wrote:
    markos1963 wrote:
    can of Tizer.
    Which is, remarkably, the best drink to accompany fish and chips. Do they still sell it?

    Wrong.That honour goes to Sauvignon Blanc.
    Oo get you. I bet you chose your fish unbattered and use a proper fish knife as well.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    stevenmh wrote:
    Is Dandelion and Burdock for sale anywhere else in England other than the North West?

    You can buy it here in South Wales, and very delicious it is too.
  • Monkeypump
    Monkeypump Posts: 1,528
    Haddock, chips, pickled onion, white bread n butter, full-fat coke.

    Or, if in Cardiff after 'beverages', chicken curry off-the-bone with chips from Greasy Street - simply magnificent.
  • velorazzi
    velorazzi Posts: 40
    stevenmh wrote:
    man2wolf wrote:
    stevenmh wrote:
    Its what we Northerners call a steak and kidney suet pudding

    Eh?! Mate, I am a northerner and have never ever heard of a baby's head pudding and I love Steak and Kidney Pudding.

    Either you are pulling legs or you have been misled......

    I kid you not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_and_kidney_pie :)

    Well I stand corrected it seems. Good to learn something new everyday.

    Has anyone ever used this expression though, or has wikipedia being drining some of the funny water mentioned in another thread?? I think if I was in a chippy and someone ordered a baby's head pudding I would expect them to be arrested or at the very least returned to their padded room.


    Is Dandelion and Burdock for sale anywhere else in England other than the North West?

    I think the point is that (as it also points out in the article), whilst it might be a fairly localised expression in certain areas west of the Pennines, it's certainly not something we 'Northerners' say as a regional population. There's quite a lot of North and we all have local sayings and expressions. In any case, if it was an expression we used round here (or should I say rahndear) it would be geeuzababbeh'seeadluv!

    Haddock and chips, mushy peas, bread and butter and, of course tomato ketchup - and a pot of tea...Oh yes.
  • markos1963
    markos1963 Posts: 3,724
    afx237vi wrote:
    stevenmh wrote:
    Is Dandelion and Burdock for sale anywhere else in England other than the North West?

    You can buy it here in South Wales, and very delicious it is too.

    Morrisons was doing it (Dandilion & Burdock) as a squash for a while not sure now, Sainsburys do cans of it on own brand.
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  • Stone Glider
    Stone Glider Posts: 1,227
    @stevenmh That is dealt with by the Australian Pie Shop. Very good especially in Sydney, look out for the "floaters".
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  • jordan_217
    jordan_217 Posts: 2,580
    Cod'n'chips, salt and vinegar, bit of tommy k, white bread and butter. Followed by a boiling hot cup of tea and a cream cake.
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  • stevenmh
    stevenmh Posts: 180
    Very good especially in Sydney, look out for the "floaters"

    floaters?!

    I have not been to Syndey for some time but all the foodie programmes seem to love Harry's Pie shop or something. It is by the water.

    I wish I had not started this thread now as it is making me HUNGRY!![b/]
  • pneumatic
    pneumatic Posts: 1,989
    Fish only in a fishing port (Peterhead, Anstruther, Whitby etc..) + Mug of Tea

    otherwise:

    Haggis (North of Border) + Irn Bru (of course!)
    Black Pudding (North of England) + D&B
    Saveloy (In the South) + a bucket EEEEEUUUUWWW!

    Pickled Gherkin everywhere

    You have to train your intestines to eat this kind of food. After living abroad for any amount of time, I find that I gag on chippy food to begin with. But with a bit of practice (and a gut-full of beer), I get the hang of it eventually.

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  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    stevenmh wrote:
    Is Dandelion and Burdock for sale anywhere else in England other than the North West?

    Not as widespread as it deserves to be (but seems equally popular in Yorkshire chippies) - the Rolls-Royce of chip shop soft drinks!

    I grew up in the West Midlands, and it was quite common there for chips to be served up in a day-glo orange batter (still occasionally have them when visiting family) rather than just getting bog-standard plain potato ones - does anywhere else in the UK do this?

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  • wilfus
    wilfus Posts: 78
    Crapaud wrote:
    Ye canny beat a haddock supper frae there. It's got to be haddock though, none of your cod'n'chips nonsense ... and salt and vinegar, not salt and sauce.

    Lol, when I first went to a chippy in Scotland they asked me if I wanted salt and sauce. I just assumed it was what the Scottish called salt and vinegar so of course I said yes.

    Imagine my horror when the chippy worker squirted about half a bottle of sauce all over the chips practically drowning them. It wasn't just tomato sauce either it had a really horrible taste to it. Needless to say that won't be happening again :lol:
  • stevenmh
    stevenmh Posts: 180
    I wanted salt and sauce ...... the chippy worker squirted about half a bottle ...... It wasn't just tomato sauce either it had a really horrible taste to it

    So what is this frightening sauce made of? I have never been to Scotland, sounds like an interesting place.

    Day-glo batter? lol - had to be in the midlands!! :lol:
  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    stevenmh wrote:
    Day-glo batter? lol - had to be in the midlands!! :lol:

    The low-down on orange chips can be found below, courtesy of the very newspaper they often came wrapped in!

    http://www.expressandstar.com/2007/10/3 ... p-a-storm/

    David
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  • fungus_the_muffin_man
    fungus_the_muffin_man Posts: 1,608
    Depends on what i'm after
    if its something quick then a chip muffin with lashings of vinegar

    something for tea then either - chips battered cod and mushy peas with lots of salt and vinegar or chips peas and gravy wi a babies ed again wi lots of s&v.

    All washed down with Barrs dandelion and burdock or if i'm after something special
    Real old fashioned D&B
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  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    skullthaw wrote:
    battered haggis/ white pudding, chips and mushy peas with a pickled egg is an epic choice

    Never had white pudding, indeed didn't know it was to be had at all in England (I was led to believe it was a Scottish/Northern Irish speciality) until I spied some in a butcher's shop in Worcester [1] earlier this summer.

    David

    [1] In the Crowngate centre should you wish to track it down for yourselves. Can't recall the name of it though.
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  • Nuggs
    Nuggs Posts: 1,804
    If you're going chips only, the only acceptable vinegar is the stuff out of the pickling jar.

    If you're going fish + chips, malt vinegar becomes an acceptable option.
  • Stone Glider
    Stone Glider Posts: 1,227
    Floaters are pies awash in a pea liquor. A different experience :shock: (but not in a bad way :D )
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