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Maggy

10-07-2006 14:49

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Originally Posted by danielf

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Originally Posted by Electrolyte

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:

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.

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

danielf

10-07-2006 14:57

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Originally Posted by Incognitas

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

They are indeed, thank God :)

Paul	10-07-2006 15:54

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Chips & Gravy ?

Yuk, who likes soggy chips .....

pedantic

10-07-2006 15:59

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Originally Posted by Paul M

Chips & Gravy ?

Yuk, who likes soggy chips .....

I do ! :D

Skatoony

10-07-2006 16:00

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

Hugh	10-07-2006 18:38

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Originally Posted by Millay

I like chips and gravy, and you can't get much further south than me unless you live on the IOW..

I did however vote nasty northern food... because i'm a southerner and it would be wrong to vote any other way. :D

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

AndrewJ

10-07-2006 18:45

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Originally Posted by Chris W

As the poll says, chips and gravy together? or are they two good things that should be kept seperate....

Together with a nice meat and spud pie, :D

Pia	10-07-2006 22:10

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Originally Posted by foreverwar

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

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!

Chris W

11-07-2006 00:06

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Originally Posted by foreverwar

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

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 :)

AndrewJ

11-07-2006 00:55

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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.

sarahlouise45

11-07-2006 01:00

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Originally Posted by Felinix_Devotion

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.

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

AndrewJ

11-07-2006 01:00

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

greencreeper

11-07-2006 07:50

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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

Stuart

11-07-2006 08:17

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Originally Posted by sarahlouise45

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Originally Posted by Felinix_Devotion

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.

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

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

Hugh	11-07-2006 19:06

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Originally Posted by Chris W

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.

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