Fries vs Chips

[Anny Road]

Just now, Mook said:

So there's no cultural reason for it, it's just convenience/business?

 

Genuine question as I thought there might've been some quirk that caused it to be like that.

No idea mate. Probably sharp Chinese business sense.

[cloggypop]

59 minutes ago, Anny Road said:

Remember first time in a Scottish chippy nearly getting thrown out for daring to ask for fried rice. I was told to ‘fuck off to the Chinkies for that shite’

I thought all chippies were like Liverpool ones. One thing I miss, even more than the unmentionable sport.

I ordered chicken fried rice my first time in a Newcastle chippy. They thought I was a weirdo and I thought they were neanderthals. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Nobody - human or bird - would care this much about fries.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-bristol-47557456

[Josef Svejk]

3 hours ago, Anubis said:

It's in Dublin. What fucking use is that to the rest of us?

Get on the ferry.

[Anny Road]

10 minutes ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

Nobody - human or bird - would care this much about fries.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-bristol-47557456

Quite right. Kill the bastard. One stole a cornetto off me by the lake in Southport when I was a kid. Never forgotten it. Cunt bird.

[VladimirIlyich]

23 hours ago, Hank Moody said:

I might have a chippie lunch. I wonder if they do pies at lunch. Hmn. Fat. 

I don't comprehend what you are saying unless you mean dinner?

[Numero Veinticinco]

11 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

I don't comprehend what you are saying unless you mean dinner?

You don't comprehend the notion of lunch? Allow me to enlighten you, via the concise record of the English Language, the Oxford English Dictionary. 

 

Lunch: A meal eaten in the middle of the day, typically one that is lighter or less formal than an evening meal.

 

Hope this helps you decipher the very tricky standard English code that I posted earlier. 

[Numero Veinticinco]

Oh. And I had it. And it was boss. 

[Tony Moanero]

Lunch is for cunts.

[Tony Moanero]

Just now, Hank Moody said:

Oh. And I had it. And it was boss. 

Did you have a pie?

[Numero Veinticinco]

Just now, Tony Moanero said:

Did you have a pie?

Yes, Sir. Minced beef and onion. 

[Tony Moanero]

Just now, Hank Moody said:

Yes, Sir. Minced beef and onion. 

Excellent! Was it a branded one?

[Numero Veinticinco]

Just now, Tony Moanero said:

Excellent! Was it a branded one?

Pukka, I think. I don't often eat pies, but sometimes a random fancy will lead me to get one. I normally have a cod. 

[Tony Moanero]

4 minutes ago, Hank Moody said:

Pukka, I think. I don't often eat pies, but sometimes a random fancy will lead me to get one. I normally have a cod. 

Yeah, fish and chips is my preference. I love pies but more often than not I have them with mash, veg and gravy.

[ZonkoVille77]

Stick your fries up your bulbous, swollen infected, piss slit.

[Numero Veinticinco]

3 minutes ago, Tony Moanero said:

Yeah, fish and chips is my preference. I love pies but more often than not I have them with mash, veg and gravy.

Yeah, I normally have the same thing but with onion gravy. 

2 minutes ago, ZonkoVille77 said:

Stick your fries up your bulbous, swollen infected, piss slit.

That's going to make my bulbous, swollen, infected piss slit even worse. No, sorry, I'm not going to do it. 

[The Woolster]

On 12/03/2019 at 22:44, viRdjil said:

I don’t know posh if it slapped me in the face mate. 

 

Only posh people wear trainers like you mate

[The Woolster]

On 12/03/2019 at 22:43, TK421 said:

It's your funeral.  When you're munching on undercooked crinkle cut McCains I'll be on my fourth portion of wonderful, wonderful fries. 

I got really pissed off with cooking frozen chips in the oven for double the suggested cook time, and them still being undercooked on the inside that I bought one of these bad boys

 

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tefal-ActiFry-Low-Fat-Fryer/dp/B00CXLB7ZG

 

Perfect chips every time, whether cooked from frozen or prepared from potatoes yourself at home

[Numero Veinticinco]

3 minutes ago, The Woolster said:

I got really pissed off with cooking frozen chips in the oven for double the suggested cook time, and them still being undercooked on the inside that I bought one of these bad boys

 

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tefal-ActiFry-Low-Fat-Fryer/dp/B00CXLB7ZG

 

Perfect chips every time, whether cooked from frozen or prepared from potatoes yourself at home

I've been interested in these little fuckers for a while, but I'm skeptical. I agree that frozen chips need doing for double the time, steak cut ones are probably the easiest to make nice, but I haven't purchased chips in over a year. If I bother, I get them from a chippy. These air frying jobbies, they're good?

[TheHowieLama]

Got me a deep fryer just for taters - turns out the best thing in it is fried shrimp.

 

Shrimp basket with chips is near the top of any list

[Bjornebye]

Why would anyone buy frozen oven chips when you can easily just cut up potatoes (skin left on) boil for 10 minutes then throw in the oven covered in oil and whatever seasoning you fancy? 

 

Some fucking loons about 

 

 

 

[Mook]

4 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Why would anyone buy frozen oven chips when you can easily just cut up potatoes (skin left on) boil for 10 minutes then throw in the oven covered in oil and whatever seasoning you fancy? 

 

Some fucking loons about 

 

 

 

Mainly because it doesn't involve 15 minutes of chopping tatties up, 10 minutes of boiling them & then having to cover the things in oil & seasoning.

 

That's at least 25 minutes wanking time gone.

[Numero Veinticinco]

30 minutes ago, Mook said:

Mainly because it doesn't involve 15 minutes of chopping tatties up, 10 minutes of boiling them & then having to cover the things in oil & seasoning.

 

That's at least 25 minutes wanking time gone.

Yeah, and what sort of upperclass snob doesn't have oven chips. What is this, 2019 where everybody can boil potatoes on a fucking whim. 

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, Bjornebye said:

Why would anyone buy frozen oven chips when you can easily just cut up potatoes (skin left on) boil for 10 minutes then throw in the oven covered in oil and whatever seasoning you fancy? 

 

Some fucking loons about 

 

 

 

Or just do the right thing and live near a chippy.

 

Sam's made me the man I am today. 

[The Woolster]

3 hours ago, Hank Moody said:

I've been interested in these little fuckers for a while, but I'm skeptical. I agree that frozen chips need doing for double the time, steak cut ones are probably the easiest to make nice, but I haven't purchased chips in over a year. If I bother, I get them from a chippy. These air frying jobbies, they're good?

 

My one works really well, chips area bit like like an armadillo, crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside...

 

Takes about the same amount of time as doing in the oven (when you include doubling the time), and taste much nicer. Making chips from scratch (no need to boil the potatoes) its about 35-45 minutes, and uses only a little bit of oil, so not too unhealthy.

 

It also advertises itself as being able to do all sorts of food. I only attempted this once, doing some chicken with various veg, and it worked pretty good too.

 

If doing chips you can get away with wiping it with kitchen paper to clean it, which is nice and easy.

 

One issue is it is very loud.

 

My one is big though (have an XL version), you probably don't want to keep in on the worktop unless you are using it every day, so need space to store it. I do go through stages of not using it, but unlike some kitchen gadgets, its not hidden away for ever and in fact have used it 3 or 4 times this couple of weeks as the wife has been ill in bed so wanted to do hassle free cooking