Rate your local chippy

[Mook]

You get big pickled onions in the jars in the chippys up here, I haven't had one for years.

 

Pineapply fritters though, sound worse than nazi death camps.

[Tony Moanero]

1 hour ago, Remmie said:

Where do people stand on the various other snacks at a chippy: Gherkins, pickled eggs, pineapple fritters, buttered roll etc? 

I’ve always thought gherkins and pickled eggs in chippies were a southern thing. Pint of ale, packet of a crisps and a pickled egg - sound! Gherkins are boss and I’d have one on the side with fish, chips and peas but not with sausage, chips and gravy.

 

I love a generously buttered barm. Bread and chips are made for each other.

 

I’m going to pretend I didn’t see the pineapple fritter bit.

[Tony Moanero]

15 minutes ago, Remmie said:

If you don't have pickled eggs in chip shops where have you even come across them before as it was about the only place that sokd them until the last few years when they started appearing in supermarkets?

Ale houses, mate.

[Tony Moanero]

My wife has just informed me that our local chippy sells pickled eggs and onions but not gherkins. I never go in there as their batter is terrible. It’s like a bloody overcoat.

[Remmie]

As for Pineapple fritters, there used to be a decent chippy that did them when I was a kid and they were very good. Unfortunately everywhere else that does them are rubbish. 

[cloggypop]

I had a battered jam butty in a chippy in Preston once. It was actually boss. Like a big doughnut. 

[Remmie]

Funny you should mention Preston as I lived there for about 5 years and was trying to remember if they had any pickled eggs in the chippy. Don't remember there being any in the centre however. 

[Fugitive]

£1 in B&M

 

 

[Pidge]

Got in from the match and grabbed a classic cod and chips with mushy peas.  They were just about to close so I got an appalling amount of chips.  Wasn't the best I've ever had, you might even say I'm an idiot for not getting it while still in Brighton... but the chips were nicely done, didn't turn to mush on the walk home at all and the fish was cooked to order.  Nice big piece of fish, tasty enough but I'd have preferred a thicker cut as the batter:fish ratio was a bit off. 

 

The mushy peas were uninspiring and blasted in the microwave, in other words they were spot on.

 

Worst aspect was the batter was a bit dark, which suggests they need fresh oil in the fryer.

[Numero Veinticinco]

Fucking hell. Somebody reviewed a chippy. How’s about that. He didn’t rate it though, so negged. 

[Pidge]

I never rate anything until it's fully digested.  Should be sometime around Thursday.

 

And it's curry sauce, you bellends. Curry is when something is cooked in the sauce. When it's just sauce, it's not curry.

[Hades]

Say what you like about the British, they know how to do cosy comfort food.

[TheBitch]

No picture?

[Pidge]

What do you think this is, the breakfast thread?

[TheBitch]

53 minutes ago, Pidge said:

What do you think this is, the breakfast thread?

You could have really started something here, Pidge. 

We need forward thinkers to take this forum up a notch. You could have been the guy. 

[Pidge]

Absolutely fucked it, but I was a fair few pints deep and was starving by the time I got in.

[VladimirIlyich]

3 hours ago, Pidge said:

I never rate anything until it's fully digested.  Should be sometime around Thursday.

 

And it's curry sauce, you bellends. Curry is when something is cooked in the sauce. When it's just sauce, it's not curry.

You don't need to add 'sauce' to the end as its not sauce,its a curry.

[Remmie]

I've noticed a few places do online deliveries of fish and chips, tempted to try it out, but am sceptical about salt and vinegar levels. I'll see if the missus is up for it tonight and do a review if we get them. 

[Pidge]

22 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

You don't need to add 'sauce' to the end as its not sauce,its a curry.

Indian restaurants round your way must be fucking shite.

[VladimirIlyich]

6 hours ago, Pidge said:

Indian restaurants round your way must be fucking shite.

I have never visited one but I'd only ever ask for curry and never add the word 'sauce' to it.

[Oh Buoy]

Pidge will be disappointed when he looks back on this. 

[Pidge]

16 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

I have never visited one but I'd only ever ask for curry and never add the word 'sauce' to it.

Which is fine, because they actually sell curry.  Rather than just curry sauce, like a chippy.

[Red_or_Dead]

Pickled eggs AND onions.  Mind you this is Salford and it was 1986.

 

 

[cloggypop]

I like both pickled eggs and onions. Wouldn't really swap them for the Chinese food you get from basically every Liverpool chippy though. It's a bonus we get from having the oldest Chinatown in Europe. Multiculturalism all the way. 

[Pidge]

I love picked onions, but have never gone for one from a chippy.  I think the very idea of pickled eggs scared me off.  Especially the state of the ones in my local chippy back in Devon.  Always fairly convinced it was formaldehyde rather than vinegar in those jars.