nlogax
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A butty with a great big dollop of gravy or curry sauce thrown in for good measure. Makes for pretty messy eating.
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Chip shops north vs. south
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A butty with a great big dollop of gravy or curry sauce thrown in for good measure. Makes for pretty messy eating.
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AlterEgo
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Try an egg banjo if you like greasy uneatable food.
An egg banjo is an army delicacy. It’s a runny fried egg in a burger bap or a roll. It’s called a banjo because you’ll inevitably spill it on the front of yourself and it looks like you’re playing a banjo when you clean it off.
An egg banjo is an army delicacy. It’s a runny fried egg in a burger bap or a roll. It’s called a banjo because you’ll inevitably spill it on the front of yourself and it looks like you’re playing a banjo when you clean it off.
Qwerty133
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I know of at least one chippy in Leicester that buys some of its stock from the other Iceland...
shredder1
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Armstrongs, Prestwich, Manchester for me, the fish are so big I usually asked to get photographed with them before the wrap them up
BanburyBlue
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Ah, okay.
With chip butties, has to be simple. White bread, butter, chips.
Interesting about gravy. M&S in Milton Keynes used to do a roast beef sandwich with gravy and Yorkshire puddings. Somehow in those the gravy never leaked.
Bletchleyite
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The fish from the chippy in Burscough near Bridge station used to be about a foot long, may still be.
tsr
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Best chippy I've been to (including many coastal ones) has to be the one opposite the station at Streatham Hill, of all places. I hope it's still as good as it was, as I've managed to commit the crime of not going there terribly recently.
Just don't expect to be eating anything in the next 24 hours, as you'll be completely full.
Back onto the subject of packaging... I quite like having everything wrapped together, but I can understand if it's easier for the staff to sort out each item separately and then keep it safe (and allocated to your order) by wrapping it individually and then putting it into a bag or box. I tend to end up visiting quite busy chippies, which probably skews my opinion. I tend to find that packaging is more minimal if it's quieter and nearer closing time.
Just don't expect to be eating anything in the next 24 hours, as you'll be completely full.
Back onto the subject of packaging... I quite like having everything wrapped together, but I can understand if it's easier for the staff to sort out each item separately and then keep it safe (and allocated to your order) by wrapping it individually and then putting it into a bag or box. I tend to end up visiting quite busy chippies, which probably skews my opinion. I tend to find that packaging is more minimal if it's quieter and nearer closing time.
Bletchleyite
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Another application of the "democratic republic of X" principle, i.e. if you have to say it is then it probably isn't.
gazthomas
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All frozen?
shredder1
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Nothing wrong with a chip butty. But Tribell's in Huddersfield (no longer there?) used to do a fish butty, in a specially elongated buttered soft roll. Plenty of salt and vinegar - heavenly!
Does sound very nice. These days I quite often don't get chips if i'm going to the chippy on my own, I prefer to grab something and have it chucked in a bun. Fish, battered burger but spam fritter in particular, I just like the way the butter melts into the batter.
Busaholic
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If you mean the one at the bottom of Leigham Court Road by the bus stop, and I think you do, then NO NO NO. I'd driven for six hours from Cornwall to visit my sister, and this is her local chippy, ravenous with hunger I tore into it and, well, all four of us left most of the so-called cod and the unpalatable chips. The previous two visits weren't much cop, either.
shredder1
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Anyone tried a battered Marsbar, had one in Thurso once, not bad actually.
Did there used to be other Tribells? I'm sure I have been to one in West Yorkshire but it wasn't in Huddersfield. Spent four years in Bradford at Uni with visits to other places in the area during that time (Oddly enough I never went to Huddersfield during that time).
Yep, there's a place in Southampton that does them, very sweet and sickly! Nice though...
There's a place here in Leighton Buzzard that does battered pizzas (the cheap small frozen margherita ones you get in supermarkets) which is oddly nice as well.
Ha ha, fair play, the only one I can find on Google is in Llandudno. I just remember I girl I was at Uni with recommending a chippy called Tribells, we went to one and it was really nice. Definitely not in Llandudno. Ha ha.No idea mate, I was just replying to someone who mentioned fish in a bun.
I had one a few years back, and it was quite nice.
Karl
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Arnside chippy anyone? I'll often make a special break of journey on my way home from a Cumbria Coast LHCS day out. The queue can reach the road from the side street at times.
I don't think there is a "north/south" divide when it comes to chippies. There are good and bad chippies everywhere. My rule of thumb is always choose the chippy with the largest queue outside!
gazthomas
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The Tribells in Llandudno uses (or did use) beef dripping - you could smell them a mile away!
Unless it is the Magpie in Whitby where people will queue for hours, it's not even the best chippy in Whitby!
IanD
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It's probably not the best chippie in Pier Road, Whitby (even if it's the only one!). It's popularity is mostly down to location and having had the good fortune to have been the only chippie that some TV researchers have found in Whitby when scouting locations for the likes of James Martin and Rick Stein.
It isn't the only one, a better phrase certainly would have been to say that it isn't even the best chippy on the road. If I had to choose one on the road, i'd much prefer Quayside chippy.
anti-pacer
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MK is in the South East. The "South Midlands" exists in name only for certain organisations, and the government's "South Midlands Growth Area", which also includes as far south as Luton. However, the official region is the South East.
BBC East doesn't necessarily mean "East Anglia", as officially that defines the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, and at a push the very north of Essex. It's like ITV Yorkshire covering most of Lincolnshire, and we all know Lincolnshire isn't a part of Yorkshire. BBC East also, as you'll no doubt be aware, covers Northamptonshire (East Midlands).
What I do find odd about our regions is the "East of England" region, which stole Bedfordshire, Essex and Hertfordshire from the South East. If you think about it, travelling from MK to London, you start in the South East, travelling further south through the East (??!!) into the London region. Makes little sense.
Anyway, on the original topic, I think the best fish and chips are to be found in Yorkshire. I actually don't like them that much but I will eat them up here.
Most chippies around here will batter and fry just about anything. I'm a fan of pizza crunchies, but Creme Eggs have to be the most sickly.
Bletchleyite
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Far, far too sweet - and I have a sweet tooth!
43021HST
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I do agree about the seafront, however further inland, full of normal people who like 'normal' things like KFC, Mcdonalds, Yo Sushi, Chicken and Chips, anything but a decent chippie.
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