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Fish and chips.......too pricey
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dangie
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Apart from the veggie burgers I consider the rest as add-ons.
Not really sure myself if F&C shops should do burgers. Concentrate on fish & chips. Leave burgers to a burger bar.
Things you shouldn’t find in a traditional fish & chip shop
Sometimes it’s better to concentrate on doing a few things well, instead of being a jack of all trades and master of none.
Gloster
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Deep-fried Mars bars.
I'm sure we used to call them something else back then, could be specials, cant remember.
dangie
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Yes I'll go along with that
They're something I really miss, not least because they were a fraction of the price of anything else in the shop
Spamcan81
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And not just the Midlands.
TheTallOne
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Island House near edgbaston seems to have a good rating on Google, although I've never been there.
You might be best to jump on a bus to the outskirts, somewhere like Dad's Lane chippy.
I blame this thread (and the change in the weather, and to be fair, that is a bigger factor!) for just having had a trip to my local chippy. Not keen on fish so I've had my default steak & mushroom pie and chips - £9.30 I think it was. Only one I've had a really, really good pie at since they make it themselves - most just seem to buy them in.
..and as far as the thread title goes I consider that to be fair value - not too pricey, although not on the particularly cheap side either which is fine since the quality is there.
..and as far as the thread title goes I consider that to be fair value - not too pricey, although not on the particularly cheap side either which is fine since the quality is there.
DIW
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Pineapple fritters were available in the chippy in New Marston, Oxford (row of shops opposite the top of Marston Road) in the late '70s. The Pizza Hut in the row of shops was also a pizza place back then!
A chippy opened in Limpertsberg area of Luxembourg City around 1993/94. It was often wondered what the various Customs and Borders officials thought of the combined fryer/warmer/counter thing as it was imported from UK. The chippy isn't there any more; I'm not sure that it lasted to the 2000s.
A chippy opened in Limpertsberg area of Luxembourg City around 1993/94. It was often wondered what the various Customs and Borders officials thought of the combined fryer/warmer/counter thing as it was imported from UK. The chippy isn't there any more; I'm not sure that it lasted to the 2000s.
GusB
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Was the pie deep-fried? If not, it's not a proper chippy pie
1D54
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I bet all pies can't be just put in a deep fat fryer. Just wondering what a pukka steak and kidney would look like after a few minutes in one of them. Probably fall to pieces.
D6130
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TBH, the chips - and everything else - are far better from JK's Chinese Takeaway in Market Street....but they seem to have very limited opening hours these days.Ah, the Hiu Man, allegedly named after one of the main ingredients of their food
TBH, the chips - and everything else - are far better from JK's Chinese Takeaway in Market Street....but they seem to have very limited opening hours these days.
I haven't had a Chinese down there in a long time, but back in the day the Golden Fish in Royd was the best by miles. Apart from ordering over the phone, which was an utter catastrophe every time. So my solution was to drive down, order it face to face to be at least reasonably sure I'd get what we wanted, go and have a pint in the Grove, and go back for the food. (The fact that it was the Grove shows how long ago this was!)
I grew up with cod, but I never really found it tasted of anything so I mostly used to have pies or battered sausages. Yorkshire and Scotland doing haddock was a revelation.
dangie
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I think many chip shops nowadays use a kind of chemical full tasteless processed ingredients and not ‘real’ potatoes & fish. Along the same lines as processed meats such as luncheon meat, spam etc. All bought cheaply and sold expensively.
Note: I’ve no evidence of this except for taste.
Was the pie deep-fried? If not, it's not a proper chippy pie
No, its an open pie (only pastry on the top). Had the left over chips with my ham salad for lunch today.
No "pie" without pastry sides and bottom is worthy of the title of "pie" !
gg1
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Number 1 on my list of culinary annoyances is ordering a pie at a pub and being presented with what is effectively a bowl of stew with a pastry lid.
dangie
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Also pies have to have a shortcrust pastry top, NOT puff pastry.
I've given up the fight on that one. As long as there is a bottom and sides I will reluctantly accept a flaky airy mess on the top.
I'm not sure I approve of chippies selling any pies that weren't supplied in an individual foil tray tbh. It is acceptable (although not honestly good) to deep fry them, but casserole with dried up pasty frisbee on top is completely beyond the pale
Mcr Warrior
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Nah. Puff pastry is o.k. for the top, but the sides do need to be made of regular pastry. Big problem with the practice of deep-frying pies is that it tends to make the pastry rock hard.
Since we seem to have moved on from fish and chips to pies, what's the typical price charged for the latter?
£2.20 at my local chippy for Holland's pies, which are o.k. but they are not all that big and some would say aren't anything special.
They get made on-site rather than being supplied to the chippy. The other types of pies are bought in though, just that the steak ones seems to be most popular (generally, not only with me). Also, there is a pie shop in town (as in its mainly pies with a few lesser things, rather than lots of things including pies) - just the other side of the car park to the chippy, so if timed when both are open could choose from whatever pies are there that day (it varies), and then just add the chips.
Tried a couple of those in Blackpool, and found out I'm not that keen on Holland's pies.
Halwynd
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I've never had a decent pie from a chippy, but the now closed chippy on Gresty Road did a great pasty and chips back in the day.
With apologies to GusB, I once ordered a scotch pie from the Blue Lagoon at Glasgow Central. I've always rated their chips, but the pie was deep-fried and when I took a bite and realised it had to go in the bin.
If anyone has some spare time in Wigan, go to the New Chippery on Market Street for excellent chips, and then Galloway's Bakers on either Market Place or Wallgate and order a deep-fill chunky steak to go with them - £3.30 for the pie and less for the chips, you won't regret it.
With apologies to GusB, I once ordered a scotch pie from the Blue Lagoon at Glasgow Central. I've always rated their chips, but the pie was deep-fried and when I took a bite and realised it had to go in the bin.
If anyone has some spare time in Wigan, go to the New Chippery on Market Street for excellent chips, and then Galloway's Bakers on either Market Place or Wallgate and order a deep-fill chunky steak to go with them - £3.30 for the pie and less for the chips, you won't regret it.
Especially when they forget to heat up the stew. I will not be going there again.
It can work the other way. Once stopped for a pub lunch on the way to a wedding. Assumed 'pie' was as above. Not there. Fresh pastry crust, cooked to order. Almost late for the wedding.
BanburyBlue
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Thanks - doesn’t look too far away - may give it a go.
Most Glasgow (and Scottish?) chippies deep fry everything.