can you get chips and gravy where you are?
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No, it's sub-Bisto, cheaper grade catering stuff - keep up dear.
Impressed by the mention of proper gravy mind - never seen that in a chippy. Mostly I guess, because they don't serve any meat which could be used to make gravy from - unless they're sucking the filling out of out of date Pukka pies and boling it up surreptitiuously. Where else are they going to get the meat juices, let alone the meat stock?
But I salute the effort of people who make mince and carrot proper dan article gravy. That's a logical and highly creditable addition to the chippie menu- virtually a meal in itself.
But adding some prebought chemical-based swill to your chips? Betrayal of our finest English potatoes and traditions that!
Impressed by the mention of proper gravy mind - never seen that in a chippy. Mostly I guess, because they don't serve any meat which could be used to make gravy from - unless they're sucking the filling out of out of date Pukka pies and boling it up surreptitiuously. Where else are they going to get the meat juices, let alone the meat stock?
But I salute the effort of people who make mince and carrot proper dan article gravy. That's a logical and highly creditable addition to the chippie menu- virtually a meal in itself.
But adding some prebought chemical-based swill to your chips? Betrayal of our finest English potatoes and traditions that!
it has become pan_national...I know a shop in Penzance(up Queen Street along from The Lugger) that does it...and they have a healthy business all year round because the word got out to visiting Northern tourists who seem to make a pilgrimage to the place.
I know my memory comes and goes, but as kids did we used to call it liquor n chips(Pronounced as licker.)?
I know my memory comes and goes, but as kids did we used to call it liquor n chips(Pronounced as licker.)?
tarannau said:
I love Pukka pies...but old enough to remember when they got told off for serving up dog in their pies.
Bloody even stole 'liquor' from the cockernees too. Liquor's the green parsley based stuff that we've poured over our meat pies and mash for blinking generations.
Cor bleeding blimey. Nicking our bloody sauce terminology. Will these above-Watford heathens stop at nothing
Cor bleeding blimey. Nicking our bloody sauce terminology. Will these above-Watford heathens stop at nothing
Thumbs up to faggots and gravy too. It's the spread of fake gravy, corrupting our nation's virgin chipped potatoes, that I'm opposed to.
Sadly, some places in London even serve this lazy, degraded filth. They just pick up an extra powder/sauce mix from next to the 'chip shop curry sauce' row in the cash and card then offer it at £50p a smeggy portion addition to misguided MSG addicts in need of a chemical gunk kick. It's veh, veh sad indeed.
Sadly, some places in London even serve this lazy, degraded filth. They just pick up an extra powder/sauce mix from next to the 'chip shop curry sauce' row in the cash and card then offer it at £50p a smeggy portion addition to misguided MSG addicts in need of a chemical gunk kick. It's veh, veh sad indeed.
tarannau said:
I'm going to enquire at chippies in the future now. The thing that gets my blood boiling is the introduction of frozen chips in some places and the demise of the well-done but soft chip which was the hallmark of beef dripping frying and is getting rarer these days.
tarannau said:
nah you are right
...as I said mix up of culinary memories... I've got the liquor bit now.....the chopshop(?) at Mt Pleasant/Farringdon. BUT I think I had the same debate in a chip shop, in Keswick, with a Welsh bloke, when he asked for liquor & chips and then got served gravy & chips without being questioned with what he meant.
we have 'em the proper way.....chips smothered in chili which is then smothered in cheese sauce, with loads of onionsPoot said:
you guys are all pussies with your damn gravy and currys sauce
Wookey
Muppet is not a slur
Not only CAN you get chips and gravy where I live, but you HAVE to get chips and gravy where I live. They close the town down on a Wednesday, 'half-day closing for Gravy Day' we call it, and everyone clogs down the 'Canalside Chippy and Pawnbrokers' for their intravenous chips and gravy. Then we all share a lambert and butler and get back to our shift at the cliche factory.
I fucking love em, me.
I fucking love em, me.
Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
ebay sex moomin said:I'm wondering where the cut off point for chips with gravy is? I know if I meet anyone from the South, they think it's really weird... I got a theory that that's where the North South divide begins- where you can't get chips with gravy
Which chippy do you go to? I can't think of many round this way - I've passed one that is up Greenheys Lane/Cambridge Street way (it's one on of them roads) but I usually jump on my bike and go to The Battered Cod in Fallowfield or Withington.
Buzzrocks chips and Caribbean gravy is nice though - not proper chips but the gravy makes up for it.
I'm in China; I can't even get real chips. So the answer's no 
But the missus can make quite decent 'proper' chips.
But the missus can make quite decent 'proper' chips.
Detroit City said:we have 'em the proper way.....chips smothered in chili which is then smothered in cheese sauce, with loads of onions
you guys are all pussies with your damn gravy and currys sauce
That's why the obesity rate is even higher in the US than UK
Jambooboo said:
They used to do a great gravy when I used to go in twice a week in '88.
I've not had chips in gravy from a Chinese for ages. A few I used to go to used to serve it in a tinfoil tray with very dark but thinner gravy with a nice pleasant hint of spices from the wok. You could even add a spring roll
Jambooboo said:Which chippy do you go to? I can't think of many round this way - I've passed one that is up Greenheys Lane/Cambridge Street way (it's one on of them roads) but I usually jump on my bike and go to The Battered Cod in Fallowfield or Withington.
Buzzrocks chips and Caribbean gravy is nice though - not proper chips but the gravy makes up for it.
this thread is excellent! both funny and informative
jbb- there's a pretty good chippy down Ayres road on the left, tho I forget the name of it...
otherwise, I just pop into any promising looking chippy while I'm out n' about... you can't beat The Battered Cod in Withy village
Totally agree about the Buzzrocks chips; the Caribbean gravy more than makes up for the generic 'price-u-like' frozen chippage- plus their very generous array of condiments, including homemade Carribean chutney!
I got recommended their curried goat in the 'pubs' thread, and I really want to try it- it'll be worth it, even tho I'll have to suffer a few seconds of 'increasingly slack vegetarian' guilt while I'm ordering....
Fuchs66 said:Ditto for Germany it's all oven chips here, fucking uncivilised furrinners
best furrin place I've had chips was Amsterdam and, surprisingly, Paris. We always think of French ones as being, well, thin, but a lot of the algerian kebab places in Paris actually do thick chippie-style chips.Only thing in amsterdam is to tell them to go easy on the mayo - and even if you do they still put enough on to drown an elephant.
igrowonyou
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Everywhere does them where I live............nearsest place to me is just round the corner.
