onesea Posted January 12, 2021 Posted January 12, 2021 So long since I have had chance to explore enough... Down here New Forest area: I have all but given up on Fish and Chips - always cooked fresh for you, meaning a minimum of 20 minute wait (up to an hour if they are busy) and Expensive (near enough £10 a head for fish and chips and you need large chips), sausages occasionally battered sausages and pea fritters. All other extras come from the microwave, pies gravy peas, not even certain you can get curry in half of them. Crap when you just want ships and curry sauce, the gravy you can make better with instant at home. Go to a town outside Winchester an hour away and its a bit better atleast a large portion of chips requires 2 people to eat it. I know there is one mod on here who will correct me should fish not be left for a short time in the heat grill to drain and crisp properly? Not just shaken over the fat and wrapped in grease proof paper? Ride down to Westbay Dorset portions are not large but prices are not either, Menu is more extensive Calamari, Pineapple burgers. This summer Ramsgate was not bad for good affordable fish and chips but my misses was disappointed by the pie and mash in Norfolk. I miss the regional variations Fish Suppers, Deep fried mars bars and pizza or anything else come to mention it, fish bits, black pudding, spam, pie suppers. Am I the only one hating the standardisation of food - Greggs - Subway the like removing the local and regional delicacy's. Maybe I have just been cooped up to long and want decent fish and chips or a good pie supper (chips, pie, peas and gravy) and know no way of getting them.... 2 Quote
Tiggie Posted January 12, 2021 Posted January 12, 2021 A subject I have knowledge about finally!! I have always found that fish is best approx 5 minutes out of the pan. Gives time for the fat to drain away and it not be too ridiculously hot to eat! We are a busy enough shop that customers don't wait for it to be cooked as we usually have 7 or 8 up or more at busier times. Fish and Chips is very much a regional thing. Cod down south usually and haddock up north. We often get Londoners in asking for a saveloy or a pudding. A fish cake is a very different thing in Yorkshire as compared to the rest of the country (Yorkshire: Two slices of potato with fish in the middle) I have also been into some places (Birmingham was one) that won't do scraps 1 Quote
Trooper74 Posted January 12, 2021 Posted January 12, 2021 (edited) Fish mix up at our local chippie , the "Codfather" .... Tray of chips, fish, battered small sausage and either peas, beans or curry sauce in a separate container. £4.30 ... one of these feeds julie and I .. 2 of them is dinner for 2 adults and 3 children .... and its a great chippie .. We order and pay in advance and pick up at the arranged time .... We used to live between St. Andrews and Dundee at Leuchars. The village chippie did half a pizza dipped in batter and deep fried .. after 3-4 pints of Heavy it tasted great ... but white pudding in batter was my favourite ... Edited January 12, 2021 by Trooper74 1 Quote
onesea Posted January 12, 2021 Author Posted January 12, 2021 7 hours ago, Tiggie said: I have always found that fish is best approx 5 minutes out of the pan. Gives time for the fat to drain away and it not be too ridiculously hot to eat! We are a busy enough shop that customers don't wait for it to be cooked as we usually have 7 or 8 up or more at busier times. Thanks for that 5 minutes you say. Down here they seem to believe the sign of a good chip shop seems to be, how long you wait and how big the que is outside obviously the bigger these are the more you can charge. @Trooper74 that’s about 50p more than a kids meal, down here. The kids meal we stopped buying my daughter at 9 because she was still hungry... Quote
Gerontious Posted January 12, 2021 Posted January 12, 2021 I have fish and chips on average once per year. I find “traditional” chips to be utterly revolting. Cooked in beef dripping, which was fine decades ago in the age of coal fires, no inside toilet and a tin bath in front of the fire. When part of keeping warm relied heavily on what you ate. But not in this day and age. Yuck. I tend to seek out Cypriot owned chippies of which there are two in easy reach as they seem to do better than other nationalities. There isn’t an English owned chippie closer to me than Matlock. As far as I can tell. Quote
Mississippi Bullfrog Posted January 12, 2021 Posted January 12, 2021 No mention of pickled eggs so far. They seem to sit there untouched as a relic from an age when people thought it was a good idea to actually consume one. Never seen a sell by date on them which is probably because the jar has been there since before such things were thought of. Quote
Stu Posted January 12, 2021 Posted January 12, 2021 Does anyone's local chippy sell Breadcakes? 2 1 Quote
Gerontious Posted January 12, 2021 Posted January 12, 2021 2 minutes ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said: No mention of pickled eggs so far. They seem to sit there untouched as a relic from an age when people thought it was a good idea to actually consume one. Never seen a sell by date on them which is probably because the jar has been there since before such things were thought of. I actually like them, but they’re not a ‘thing’ here in the East Midlands. Though they were definitely part of the menu in my childhood in the Black Country. I actually bought a jar of them from Aldi or perhaps it was Lidl a few years ago and really enjoyed them. Quote
NeilM Posted January 12, 2021 Posted January 12, 2021 4 minutes ago, Stu said: Does anyone's local chippy sell Breadcakes? No. They sell fish in a tea cake..... 1 1 1 Quote
MikeHorton Posted January 12, 2021 Posted January 12, 2021 I like an egg in pretty much every format but pickled, they are the devil's work. I live in the west midlands the comment about scraps is so right we always used to be able to get them but not anymore. Our local chippy has pies from the local butcher which are amazing. Cod or haddock I love both but haddock probably edges it for me. Quote
Mississippi Bullfrog Posted January 12, 2021 Posted January 12, 2021 6 minutes ago, Stu said: Does anyone's local chippy sell Breadcakes? Define 'local'. If I traveled to our nearest chippy I'd get fined by the police. Fortunately the pub up the hill does amazing takeaway fish and chips with home made tartare sauce. But no barmcakes on the menu. Quote
dynax Posted January 12, 2021 Posted January 12, 2021 Unless you go to the coast nobody does fish & chips better than a yorkshire chippy, my local has the full range of extras including a choice of traditional curry sauce or chinese curry sauce, yes they are cooked in oil rather than the more tasty beef dripping ( friggin' veggies and vegans) but they are worth waiting 10 mins in the rain for during covid as they are cooked to order 1 Quote
NeilM Posted January 12, 2021 Posted January 12, 2021 Love them. They hate me... Last chippie tea i had was with our illustrious leader from Ull on Bridlington front. Seaside, tourist affair. Nice though. Haddock and chips, curry sauce with bits. Tea cake and mug of tea. Love it. But can't really eat them now due to stomach issues.... 1 Quote
S-Westerly Posted January 12, 2021 Posted January 12, 2021 I'm a once a year man for fish and chips but for me the essential question is what do you put on them? Posh people add tartar sauce, heathens put salt and vinegar while civilised peasants add tomato sauce. 1 Quote
NeilM Posted January 12, 2021 Posted January 12, 2021 3 minutes ago, S-Westerly said: I'm a once a year man for fish and chips but for me the essential question is what do you put on them? Posh people add tartar sauce, heathens put salt and vinegar while civilised peasants add tomato sauce. Salt n vinegar. But never ever any sauce barring the curry sauce out of the tub. Very occasionally whilst contemplating my impending middle class arrival i may go for a side of mushy peas. 1 Quote
Mississippi Bullfrog Posted January 12, 2021 Posted January 12, 2021 Context is everything. At home with a pub takeaway it's tartare sauce because their home made stuff is delicious. On the end of windswept pier it has to be salt and vinegar. Staggering back from a city pub it's curry sauce, which is handy to blame if you don't feel very well the next morning. 1 Quote
Trooper74 Posted January 12, 2021 Posted January 12, 2021 (edited) Super Chippy ... Hornsea , just by the start of the TPT ... Portion of fish and chips, feeds 2 adults ...£3.80 .... read it and weep southerners ...... Edited January 12, 2021 by Trooper74 3 1 Quote
Stu Posted January 12, 2021 Posted January 12, 2021 13 minutes ago, Trooper74 said: Super Chippy ... Hornsea , just by the start of the TPT ... Portion of fish and chips, feeds 2 adults ...£3.80 .... read it and weep southerners ...... Good chippy is that one Quote
NeilM Posted January 12, 2021 Posted January 12, 2021 28 minutes ago, Trooper74 said: Super Chippy ... Hornsea , just by the start of the TPT ... Portion of fish and chips, feeds 2 adults ...£3.80 .... read it and weep southerners ...... And cheap doughnuts next door... 5 minutes walk from our static. Spend half my life walking past that chippy. Next time you're in Hornsea give us a shout and I'll show you a proper nice chippy. Whiteheads on the estate away from the front is lovely but pricey. 2 mins walk from there off the front is the seaside chippy. Dinner time special £4 fish n chip's. Tea cake and a tea 1 Quote
Bender Posted January 12, 2021 Posted January 12, 2021 Fish n chips up here average 7.50, must be predominantly fat greedy fookers that's catered for as me and the wife struggle to eat one between us. Quote
Guest Posted January 12, 2021 Posted January 12, 2021 (edited) Our local chippy is great - good value, loads of choice (including scraps) and massive portions. But we are Northern I am one of those pesky vegetarian-vegans so I do ask about oils etc. @Tiggie what are the little bits in the curry sauce? Always steer clear unless I know for sure (or, in the past, I'd consumed the requisite quantity of ale). Some chippys say it's onion, others opine that it's bits of offal.... Do you know? Edited January 12, 2021 by Guest Quote
Tiggie Posted January 12, 2021 Posted January 12, 2021 Definitely onion in ours. Though it's not vegetarian friendly anyway as it has beef suet as part of the ingredients! Quote
stedebs Posted January 12, 2021 Posted January 12, 2021 2 hours ago, NeilM said: No. They sell fish in a tea cake..... sultanas with fish????? no thanks lol 1 2 Quote
Tiggie Posted January 12, 2021 Posted January 12, 2021 Oh, and some curry sauce comes with raisins in it. Not a fan of that myself 1 Quote
Gerontious Posted January 12, 2021 Posted January 12, 2021 a huge source of disappointment to me is the lack of Snake and Pygmie pies.. a delight despite the occasional risk of nose bones/choke hazards. I blame breskit. 2 Quote
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