Fish & Chips!

[Tsukuyomi]

I agree entirely, despite that I am not British and am in fact American. Furthermore I demand this thread be bumped, stickied, bronzed, hung on the wall, read as a proclamation to all heretics of good taste, and sealed in an indestructible time-capsule so that all in the future will know the proper and correct way of doing things.

Alas the closest we get to proper Fish and chips around here is the Friday Fish Fry...which whenever I sit down at such an affair I always feel as though I am sitting down to feast in Valhalla. Clearly it is the food of champions, kings, and gods themselves.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

I agree entirely, despite that I am not British and am in fact American. Furthermore I demand this thread be bumped, stickied, bronzed, hung on the wall, read as a proclamation to all heretics of good taste, and sealed in an indestructible time-capsule so that all in the future will know the proper and correct way of doing things.

Alas the closest we get to proper Fish and chips around here is the Friday Fish Fry...which whenever I sit down at such an affair I always feel as though I am sitting down to feast in Valhalla. Clearly it is the food of champions, kings, and gods themselves.

There may still be hope for the colonials yet...

You sir, have my grudging respect.

 

[thelonewolf266]

You will not like those in the east of Scotland who put mayonnaise on their chips, that's what the chippy ask them!

IT'S BLASPHEME!

The Scots were always a little strange.

I blame the French.

You just can't win, go to Edinburgh, get dodgy fish and chips or go to Glasgow, get good fish and chips, then get stabbed once you leave the shop!

Aye but its worth it for the Deep Fried Mars bars.

 

[Derek_the_Dodo]

I had some chips from a chippy today , and I was going to get some fish too but then I realised im down south where there is no sort of substance to the fish mainly just batter with the thinnest of fillets inside and it is expensive as hell.

I ashamedly went for the burger, and such was their disgust at this that they refused to give me a burger bun. they gave me just a burger, on top of my chips not in a burger bun at all. The kind you'd buy frozen from the supermarket for 4 for £1

Maybe I had it coming by going for a cheap alternative, or maybe they were fish and chip purists like daystar here but as I sat at the bus stop with my wooden chip fork munching away I wished I was in Whitby. Now they can do some fish and chips! (try out the magpie cafe)

 

[SckizoBoy]

YES! The more vinegar the better! I have to be able to inhale most of it when I unwrap the glorious thing. >

That isn't the acidic fumes of vinegar you're inhaling.

Those are the fumes of perfection.

Otherwise known as ethanoic acid! My education in chemistry coming to fore, there!

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Heh heh!! [footnote]And now I'm going to look a total ponce that despite LOLing at that, I don't know what you're referencing.[/footnote]

But chips are finger food a lot of the time anyway It depends But if I was having fish as well, I'd use a knife and a fork. I'm no savage! :L

True, though I've had the fish with the small wooden fork before. Fiddly, especially when pissed, but still eminently edible. -_- And of course, you're a leidee! (As Clarion has noted above.) XD

Also, salt and vinegar on pizza? Ew. Just... ew. I've had salt and vinegar on chips with pizza and some of the vinegar ended up getting soaked up by the pizza... *shudders* Not nice at all!

x

Sorry for recalling that memory for you!

And why do I suddenly want to see what chips + Worcester sauce is like...

 

[SckizoBoy]

Aye but its worth it for the Deep Fried Mars bars.

Yeah, but tag that with the 'heart-attack' in a newspaper that is the DFMB, I'm a bit iffy about that...(!) You ever had a deep-fried pizza? *shiver*

 

[PAGEToap44]

Fish and chips with no tomato sauce? LIES! HERETICS!

Agreed. Chips without ketchup is like the sea without water in it. They are one, you see. The Chips and the Ketchup.

We have a word for people like you...

There are ladies present however, so I only ask that you leave now, else I slap you with my slapping glove.

Damn the ladies! Have at you sir!

 

[tobi the good boy]

Sorry Brits, I'm Aussie and allergic to seafood so I must substitute the fish in my Fish & Chips with a lovely battered sav.

 

[Tilted_Logic]

I moved to Canada, and every day I want to go home and have some chips from the chippy down by my local supermarket. They just don't understand it here.

I can't say I've had fish & chips from Britain, but there is definitely variation to the places around here in Canada, you just have to keep searching. Best stuff you'll ever get is up in the north though.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Sorry Brtis, I'm Aussie and allergic to seafood so I must substitute the fish in my Fish & Chips with a lovely battered sav

If there has ever been a fouler creature than yourself, I have yet to hear of it.

 

[tobi the good boy]

Sorry Brtis, I'm Aussie and allergic to seafood so I must substitute the fish in my Fish & Chips with a lovely battered sav

If there has ever been a fouler creature than yourself, I have yet to hear of it.

Hitler. Although I do try.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Sorry Brtis, I'm Aussie and allergic to seafood so I must substitute the fish in my Fish & Chips with a lovely battered sav

If there has ever been a fouler creature than yourself, I have yet to hear of it.

Hitler. Although I do try.

Oh no, no, no!

You will not be invoking Godwin's law in this thread!

To the time machine!

 

[tobi the good boy]

Sorry Brtis, I'm Aussie and allergic to seafood so I must substitute the fish in my Fish & Chips with a lovely battered sav

If there has ever been a fouler creature than yourself, I have yet to hear of it.

Hitler. Although I do try.

Oh no, no, no!

You will not be invoking Godwin's law in this thread!

To the time machine!

Not just time! Time and Relative Dimensions in Space.

 

[trollnystan]

Damn you Daystar, now I want fish and chips and I live in effing Sweden. Last time I had it I was 10 years old, a wee child on holiday in Ireland... Ah, the memories! The tang of vinegar, the rustle of the wrapper...

But nay, it is not for me. WEEP FOR ME ESCAPIST! D=

 

[Floggo]

In Aus-land. We have it in Newspaper but, we have no Vinegar on it, as for salt we tend to have normal salt, or Chicken Salt.

 

[Magicmad5511]

I am British and I agree with almost every point. It can be served in a polystyrene case but I do admit it improved the feeling of it wrapped in newspaper. But if so it must also be eaten at the seaside in cold weather for full effect.
Boy am I proud to be British right now. I salute you OP.

 

[NotSoLoneWanderer]

Well now I know what I'm having for dinner.

 

[BlackStar42]

Thanks for the most awesome thread of the day! As proved by scientists doing science.

 

[Colour Scientist]

don't eat the batter, u mad bro? ;P

But... but... it's the best bit! Well second best, nom nom chips, nom. Why are there no chip shops that deliver at half one in the morning. Damn this thread.

 

[Joccaren]

I work at a Fish and Chip shop. I approve of this thread, it gets it pretty much dead on. Well done on informing everyone on how true Fish and Chips should be. Well Done.