Gravy on chips - yay or nay?

[rowan]

The humble chip is a model of beauty and tasty simplicity. A thick sliver of potato, just quickly fried (double fried if you know what's good) and then covered in copious amounts of salt and vinegar. Near potato perfection...

And add some Hammonds Chop Sauce for complete potato perfection...



Gravy on chips?

 

[aqua]

Bisto works fine

nope, no no no no no

it does NOT work fine there is a fine art to perfecting the fgood chip shop gravy and if I knew how to make it like they do in hull I would be a happy woman

 

[tarannau]

It's easy Aqua. Just go into Bookers and buy the same gravy-making slop that your favourite chippy buys. No need to perfect it - simply add water and stir.

It's the same with curry sauce and much takeaway fodder to be honest. It's slightly depressing walking round the cash and carry and seeing some of your favourite takeaways stocking up on exactly the same range of ready made sauces and products. It's amazing how fast word spreads - one second one chippie stocks a new product (the early days of seeing pies in chippies for example), the next week and every rival chippie is stocking the same one.

Chips on gravy is still wrong mind, no matter which packet the gravy comes out of.

 

[moose]

It's amazing how fast word spreads - one second one chippie stocks a new product (the early days of seeing pies in chippies for example), the next week and every rival chippie is stocking the same one.

You weren't born when chippies started selling pies

I bet they don't sell tripe in Southern chippies, either.

 

[citygirl]

I bet they don't sell tripe in Southern chippies, either.

they shouldn't sell tripe ANYWHERE!!! :very pukey faced smiley:

there used to be a tripe shop in rawson market, in bradford....and i BELIEVE, i was made to eat this rubbery tasteless material with only vinegar for taste, as a punishment...

legal child abuse was rife in them days

 

[milesy]

the very idea of it is turning my stomach. blee.

what is it the gravy of? ffs...

it is the gravy of a packet of gravy granules

 

[aqua]

It's easy Aqua. Just go into Bookers and buy the same gravy-making slop that your favourite chippy buys. No need to perfect it - simply add water and stir.

seriously do you not think I've tried many of them? Its the one thing I sorely miss

 

[Relahni]

Me and the other half are at loggerheads over the issue of gravy on chips.

Me being a Southerner, I think it's frankly vile. Gravy on fried foods is just wrong. The other half being a Northerner can't get enough of it. I did try it in a chippy in Stockport, but it didn't taste right (I was also shocked to discover that they don't have savaloys up North)

So is the gravy a north/south divide thing?

Chips and gravy?

How can you not like chips and gravy?

It's fucking lovely.

 

[citygirl]

Chips and gravy?

How can you not like chips and gravy?

It's fucking lovely.

and so well put!!

 

[pembrokestephen]

I voted "No", but that's mainly because, as a vegetarian, gravy's a bit of a dodgy subject.

Now, if you'd asked about mayonnaise on chips...

*feels his first-ever poll coming on*

 

[PacificOcean]

*feels his first-ever poll coming on*

There's a dirty joke there somewhere.......

 

[maximilian ping]

emergency!

this thread has made me have to have chips and gravy NOW. usually i make it at home. where can i get it...fish and chip shop? supermarket?

i work in Borough and i need chips and graveeeeeeeeeeeee

 

[Relahni]

this thread has made me have to have chips and gravy NOW. usually i make it at home. where can i get it...fish and chip shop? supermarket?

i work in Borough and i need chips and graveeeeeeeeeeeee

They don't sell chips and gravy in my area.

Just all that foreign kebabs nonsense!

 

[aqua]

and why do people think you can do proper fish n chips in a place that also offers pizza, fries, kebabs etc - its all so different

 

[maximilian ping]

its like those pubs and restaurants that do crazee global menus including chicken tikka masala, burgers, pizzas, thai green curry, bangers and mash, southern fried chicken, sweet and sour noodles, jerk chicken and muscles and pommes frites

as if any of that shit is going to taste nice

 

[loud 1]

gravy and chips is a big ten four over here..

yummadee

 

[mr steev]

REGIONALIST!!111!!

I'm a Midlander, and gravy and chips rock my world. But so does salad cream and chips too.

Indeed!

Although tbh, I prefer curry sauce or mushy peas

 

[maximilian ping]

i just got a pub chef to russtle some chips and gravy up. yumsers

 

[citygirl]

i just got a pub chef to russtle some chips and gravy up. yumsers

if your chips and gravy rustle, you got crisps


i'd get me money back if i were you!!

 

[May Kasahara]

Vom. Chips and gravy make me yak like a teenager. Especially since working in the union bar at uni, right next to a horrible chip concession that turned out C+G which (I kid you not) absolutely reeked of BO.

 

[dessiato]

I like gravy on my chips (but can't get proper chips or gravy here) I am living overseas so don't come into the catergories. But I was born in North, lived in South.

 

[pogofish]

Right sort of gravy my arse. What do they do to make this magical substance:

Dunno but I'm aware that chippers who do make good gravy also tend to treasure their individual recipies. Places with fatty slop or chemical crap tend to be pretty obvious.

IIRC, Parsley, onion & beef stock is the the basis for many a good gravy.

 

[Schmetterling]

Can we have a
'Yay - I'm from the continent and we eat that too'
option?

PS Where is the curry sauce on chips poll?

 

[subversplat]

PS Where is the curry sauce on chips poll?

You know where the "New Thread" button is.

 

[rennie]

Chips and gravy are wrong.

WRONG

seconded. gravy is rank anyway.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Chips, with vinegar followed by salt followed by gravy, is an absolute desert island dish for me, could eat it all day long, yummo classy food for classy people.

 

[maximilian ping]

Laughing Gravy

i might go into business with a chips and gravy bar. it's such a good snack and actually has some taste to it as opposed to plain chips, which get totally boring after the first 3 chips.

i would have different types of shapes and vegetables making up the chips eg potoato and parsnip mix, crinkly etc and loads of gravies eh veggie, rosemary, wine etc. the chips would have to be made crispy enough so they don't wilt in the gravy

i will call it Laughing Gravy after one of Laurel and Hardy's dog stars, so there

 

[citygirl]

i might go into business with a chips and gravy bar. it's such a good snack and actually has some taste to it as opposed to plain chips, which get totally boring after the first 3 chips.

i would have different types of shapes and vegetables making up the chips eg potoato and parsnip mix, crinkly etc and loads of gravies eh veggie, rosemary, wine etc. the chips would have to be made crispy enough so they don't wilt in the gravy

i will call it Laughing Gravy after one of Laurel and Hardy's dog stars, so there

you ought to see great yarmouth's market place during the week...it's a wonder how so many chips and gravy vans manage to keep themselves going

 

[tiki]

chippy do da

Chips and gravy = good
Chips and chesse = even better

 

[Strumpet]

Chips n gravy!!!!
Chips n curry sauce!!

*slurrrpppp*