The great British fish and chip shop

[Rum]

All this talk of chip butties got me thinking about a much overlooked, ignored and demeaned British phenomenon and institution. One that we are in danger of losing as we are swamped by pizza, kebab and curry takeaway shops. And when they are gone it will be too late. It will be a legacy lost and a wonder unrecognised.

If you have not walked into a British fish and chip shop on a cold winter night and revelled in the smell of frying potatoes and sizzling fish and batter, with the odour of vinegar and damp clothes woven through it, then well..you have not experienced the soul of much the the united Kingdom - north of Birmingham anyway.

:sighsm:

Even though it wasn't the best shop in your estimation Rum, I miss eating Fish and Chips in Skipton with you.

Twas a fun day! Let's hope we get to repeat it some time!

[Lozzer]

I want Fish & Chips with Rum >.<

[Rum]

I want Fish & Chips with Rum >.<

Sure thing! I'll get you a battered sausage and show you how to eat it properly OK?

[mistermack]

Jesus - I'm trying to think what we used to call the tupenny scraps of batter. You could buy a small bag for pennies, what they scooped out after frying the fish - sounds unpleasant but it was just fresh fried batter, pancake crisps! WTF did we call it? Someone else here must have had it. HELP!

We always called them batter bits.

Yeah - that sounds nearer. Stupid thing is I can remember telling someone recently and I knew then - I'm getting some fucked up word finding disorder!

Scraps.

In 1969, in Nottingham, they were definitely called scrumps. First time I lived away from home, at Nottingham University, and first time I'd ever heard of them at all.
.

[Lozzer]

I want Fish & Chips with Rum >.<

Sure thing! I'll get you a battered sausage and show you how to eat it properly OK?

Sorry Rum, that's sounds way too gay.

[Rum]

I want Fish & Chips with Rum >.<

Sure thing! I'll get you a battered sausage and show you how to eat it properly OK?

Sorry Rum, that's sounds way too gay.

Are you refusing to eat my battered sausage?


I am devastated!

[Lozzer]

I want Fish & Chips with Rum >.<

Sure thing! I'll get you a battered sausage and show you how to eat it properly OK?

Sorry Rum, that's sounds way too gay.

Are you refusing to eat my battered sausage?


I am devastated!

[owtth]

I have yet to find steak & kidney pies as nom as when as I was in the UK, plus curried chips and a battered soz.

[Rum]

I have yet to find steak & kidney pies as nom as when as I was in the UK, plus curried chips and a battered soz.

Come to Carlisle for possibly the best pies AND fish and chips anywhere in the country - and possibly the world!

Unfortunately you will also have to put up with the weather..and the people. (the chav element anyway)

[ficklefiend]

So far from my random sampling, Northern Irish chips very good, but fish rather poor. (and you have to specify battered sausage.. as if one could want any other kind?)

Frozen fish.. Now THAT'S blasphemy.

Also, "chippy" is a silly word for a shop, when every right thinking person knows it's a "chipper".. and "chip" is singular, not plural. Crazy bloody Norns!!