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One thing I have noticed with our chips and a combination of sauce/seasoning is other Europeans find it horrible. Chips with salt & vinegar as an example, they think it totally ruins it (they prefer chips with mayonaise, which I think is horrible :disturbd: ). I have no idea what they would think about chips and gravy though :erm:

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You're joking ! :eeek:





I can't imagine gravy without a damn good lashing of vinegar. :D

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Its like having cheese on toast without Lea & Perrins :)

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Chips and Mayo is a Dutch/Belgian thing (as is chips with Mayo, Satay/peanut sauce and onions :) ).

Personally, I don't mind salt & vinegar (or even brown sauce), but I don't like British chips as they are too soggy from 1. not cooking them properly, 2. keeping them on a hotplate. Personally, I think the chips from McDonalds/Burger King etc. are much better than chips from the average chip shop.

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but they are not chips...they are french fries and completely different.:erm:

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They are indeed, thank God :)

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Chips & Gravy ?

Yuk, who likes soggy chips .....

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I do ! :D

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I'll admit I do prefer my chips crispy, but having the same thing over again does get pretty boring ;)

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At least we don't drink "lager tops" oop north - or as we call it - "shandy" :rolleyes:

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Together with a nice meat and spud pie, :D

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I get asked for them a fair bit when i'm working on the bar in the hotel, and have always done them with just a little bit of lemonade at the top, but i do shandy about half and half.
Some bloke kicked off once though saying a lager top was lager with a lime top:confused: Never been how i've done it. And yeah, thy mostly are southerners who ask for them, strange innit!

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They are different...

A Top has just a dash on lemonade on the top (hence the name)

Shandy is half Lager, half lemonade.

I'm a southerner, but i don't drink either- give me a nice pint of John Smiths any day :)

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Lager...ewww...give me a good pint of Guiness anyday of the week :D

Shame it's hard to find a decent pint these days.

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Hmmmmm.....Guiness.....:beer:

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A pub called The Pheseant (spelling?) in Dalbeattie Scotland, does an amazing Guiness.

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Gorgeous. One of my favourite school meals as a kid. There used to be a lovely chip shop at the bottom of Kirkgate in Wakefield - opposite Wilko - that did chips and gravy with battered sausage. I went in a while back and found it was a chinese :( Suppose it's progress :rolleyes:

I do love very crisp potato wedges dipped in sour cream n chive - yummy

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A friend of mine once tread a Nigerian Guinness... Apparently the seller had 30 million pints he needed to get out of the country, and needed someone to store those pints temporarily (for a 10 % fee of course).


:D

Actually, on a serious note, he did try a Nigerian Guinness. We were at a wedding, on our way to the reception and the coach hadn't turned up* , so he popped into the nearest offy and bought himself a Guinness. Didn't offer anyone else one... :( He said it was noticably stronger than the English, or even Irish (which, at that time, was stronger than the English) Guinness.



*The wedding was in Woolwich (South East London) and the reception was in a hotel near Gatwick, so the bride and groom laid on a coach for anyone who didn't have transport

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erm :erm: - I knew that, I was just extracting a morsel of micturation

ps - ask any Yorkshireman about John Smith's, and they will not be too complimentary - even if it does come from Tadcaster.