Vinegar on your chips?
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I hear ya
Idaho said:Only because they dilute the salt content of your food
(this is a man I have witnessed pouring salt atop a fried sausage).
Err, no, it's just because they (ketchup and HP) taste shit and smother the flavour of the mighty chip. Anyway, this is a man for whom oven chips are preferable to real fried potatoes
gaijingirl
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I like a few chips with my vinegar... 
To be honest, nearly every place I used to visit with the family in Wales used to have a chip shop run by Chinese families, sometimes offering chinese takeaway classics as well. Often used to be the only takeaway in some of the smaller villages.
As Timothy Mo once suggested in Sour Sweet, Chinese families often turned to fish and chips because it was piss easy to cook, particularly compared to the greater kitchen skills and variety needed for chinese food.
Us Londoners always had vinegar on our chips. Course we did - what else could you have on cockles and jellied eels for christsakes. It's curry sauce and bastardisations like that we didn't used to see (perhaps helped by the rise of the chinese chippy). I hadn't seen curry sauce on chips until I went to Wales. it's slowly spread everywhere unfortunately.
That's just wrong innit. Poor quality curry sauce - a kind of wussy interpretation for chilli wimps and recovering invalids - poured liberally over and making your chips mushy. Like cheesestrings or potato flavoured pot noodles, curry sauce on chips is just wrong, wrong, wrong.
Down with curry sauce. Down with the heritage-free peasants who corrupt their noble chips with such gunk...
As Timothy Mo once suggested in Sour Sweet, Chinese families often turned to fish and chips because it was piss easy to cook, particularly compared to the greater kitchen skills and variety needed for chinese food.
Us Londoners always had vinegar on our chips. Course we did - what else could you have on cockles and jellied eels for christsakes. It's curry sauce and bastardisations like that we didn't used to see (perhaps helped by the rise of the chinese chippy). I hadn't seen curry sauce on chips until I went to Wales. it's slowly spread everywhere unfortunately.
That's just wrong innit. Poor quality curry sauce - a kind of wussy interpretation for chilli wimps and recovering invalids - poured liberally over and making your chips mushy. Like cheesestrings or potato flavoured pot noodles, curry sauce on chips is just wrong, wrong, wrong.
Down with curry sauce. Down with the heritage-free peasants who corrupt their noble chips with such gunk...
milesy said:there ain't nothing wrong with curry sauce on chips, sunshine
I laugh at you and your poor-quality curry sauce sunny-jim. You take that yellow gunk and spread it anywhere the sun doesn't shine...
...as long as it doesn't come near my noble chips, golden and glistening with plenty of salt and vinegar; all pleasable simplicity.
Go on. You cover your own stuff with that chemical-enhanced msg-laden gumph and see what happens. You'll be turning yellow from the inside, like a jaundiced chicken being force fed bananas. You mark my words.
Don't mess with the humble chip....
pogofish
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bigbry said:
Biggest profit margin of all chippy-prepared food apparently.
Owners love putting it on the menu here & now there is a whole sub menu of different cheese mixes plus chopped onions/chillies/peppers/whatever else takes your fancy at 60p to £1-odd on top of your poke. Normally, they garnish it with salt & vinegar as well.
Gravy? For christsakes.
Perverts. The lot of you. People used to be perfectly happy with beautifully cooked chips, fried in beef dripping and served in a piece of newspaper. Now they want to empty half the kitchen fridge over their shaped pre-frozen potato pieces, from cheese to leftover rancid tandoori sauces. Failing that they want the remainder of the Sunday Roast's Bisto poured over their chips, no doubts along with Linda Bellingham's and the rest of the Oxo family's love juices sloshed on for added measure...
Grrrr. Whatever happened to the beauty of simplicity.
Perverts. The lot of you. People used to be perfectly happy with beautifully cooked chips, fried in beef dripping and served in a piece of newspaper. Now they want to empty half the kitchen fridge over their shaped pre-frozen potato pieces, from cheese to leftover rancid tandoori sauces. Failing that they want the remainder of the Sunday Roast's Bisto poured over their chips, no doubts along with Linda Bellingham's and the rest of the Oxo family's love juices sloshed on for added measure...
Grrrr. Whatever happened to the beauty of simplicity.
Grimbo. You probably put ketchup on roast potatoes too.
Potato heathens all around me. Whatever happened to respecting the humble British spud, giving it a platform to shine.
All you folks want to do is piss nasty sauces over it, obscuring the wholesome potato goodness in favour of the latest fad. Poor old Mr Potato Head never had it so bad...
<sniff>
Potato heathens all around me. Whatever happened to respecting the humble British spud, giving it a platform to shine.
All you folks want to do is piss nasty sauces over it, obscuring the wholesome potato goodness in favour of the latest fad. Poor old Mr Potato Head never had it so bad...
<sniff>
reNnIe said:but then he met Ms Potato Head n fucked off to sunnier climes!
Course he would. After all, who'd want to be covered in some cheap curry sauce, filled with chemicals and mixed from a yellow paste by some 17 year old working in a chippie in Barnstable, when they could experience the real thing elsewhere. And then gravy; oh the indignity. Covered with a brown sludge and made into sloppy fodder for taste-challenged Northerners.
It's no wonder he's buggered off. Here's what he thinks of you and the bastards who keep smearing his golden appearance.
