Chips and Gravy
 

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

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Together, always, yummy!

Or chips, fried rice and gravy from the chinese.

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When I lived near London, I used to get strange looks when I asked chipshop people if they did gravy. I used to get it in Yorkshire, and I can get it in Portsmouth. Wierdo Londoners :)
I love chips and gravy.

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Fan bloody tastic, chips and gravy with either a pudding, peas or a Hollands pie or just on its own :drool:

I'm always devastated when I venture down south and end up with a battered sausage instead :erm: :(

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nooooooooo

chips are supposed to be crispy on the outside, gravy just makes them soggy & washes the salt off :(

/notices Fingy doesn't believe in the Atkins approach to nutrition :D

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*tries to resist urges to make obscene comments* :disturbd:

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I like chips and tgravy, and you cant get much further south than me unless you live on the IOW..


I did howether vote ansty northern food... because im a southner and it would be wrong to vote any other way. :D

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How anyone in Belfast, or anywhere in Ireland (North or South) could do atkins I don't know. How many types of bread do we have?

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Chips and gravy = yummy!

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have you tried a saveloy ? :angel:

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That sea air has rotted your mind! ;)

I know someone who refuses to mix what he calls dry and wet foods. No baked beans etc with chips for example. He and you are missing out!

You cannot beat pie, chips and gravy, with maybe mushy peas. Its not good for you, but it tastes great!

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Has to be McCain's oven chips with Oxo gravy otherwise yuk.

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Nooo oxo gravy is no good unless you thicken it up Russ otherwise it is like witch wee!

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You chuffin' can beat it, preferably with a stick so you don't have to eat it!

I'm with my wee chum here - I'm only an adopted Northerner, but the entire concept of gravy on chips is just plain wrong :shocked:

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I thicken it with Bisto ;)

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i never used to like them together.

now i have gravy with chips a lot

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OOoooooo Matron !!! oops:






I love my chips and gravy, with a couple of buttered barms too (the southerners call them rolls). :rolleyes: :D

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And Yorkshire folk call them cakes ;)

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Chips & Gravy = Nasty

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Theres no such thing as an adopted Northerner. Theres Northerners down South (me). Theres Southerners up North (you). But never the twain etc ;)

Its a combination of flavours, the sum being better than the two halfs.
Come on, you are reminding me of that no mark from wrong side o big hills.
Garlic Bread?

:p:

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cakes or Barmcakes ? ;)

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Yesssss!! We haven't had a good old "Nancy northern versus southern softie" pagga in ages!

This needs a thread of it's own :D

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Or Bread cakes.

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I went up to Nottingham a year or so back and someone offered me a barm... I thought he was a Terrorist with a strong northern accent :erm::D

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See what you have started Chris... you should just accept that chips and gravy is yummy and very normal. :p: ;)

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I'm with Gaz, gravy on your chips makes them soggy. The gravy is normally naff anyway.

Gravy is not normally that nice when its not combined with beef anyways...

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So, picking up from another concurrent thread. Should an option be added regarding chips and Pot Noodle?

Welsh Food?

:angel:

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Slight problem - I'm from the Midlands, so I'm not a Southener or a Northerner :disturbd:

And as for Garlic Bread? Just pizza without the cheese :D

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The southerners have a nasty dish called...............pie,mash and liquor (forgive the spelling if it's wrong lol) a green substance made from parsley I think, and they drown it in vinegar. :sick:

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Chips & gravy (or curry) any day! Something to dip ya'barm into :) I cant imagine dry chips, thats like a traditional Sunday lunch without the gravy... bin it!

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Pffft... you tried jellied eels? I ain't that bloody cockney! :sick:

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No mans land!
No wonder you moved. ;)

I can feel the red reps coming in!

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Bread cakes :p:

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http://www.hub-uk.com/foodpages36/1797.htm

I once went into an 'eel & pie' shop, i can honestly say that pie & liquor was one of the worst experiences of my life :sick:

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You can tell it was bad - it was apparently worse than working with me ;) :D

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or stotties ;)

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There's always one that has to be bloody difficult isn't there... ;)

I do feel sorry for you... Its all Bovril and Marmite round your old way isn't it? ;)

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Difficult? Me? How dare you sir :p:

Moi myte Marmoite? Lovely stuff :D Can't stand Bovrrrrrrrrrrrrrril though - tastes like last nights pants :sick:

Actually, last time I was at the family Nugs, we had curry followed by coal, and chuffin' bostin' it was too :D

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correct :erm:

but to get back to the point, chips, in my opinion, should be crispy, smothering them in anything watery, like gravy, is bad.

- good job the poll isn't about whether you have rice or chips, with curry, or it could really kick off ;) :D

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Never heard of it?

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You're probably too far west for that, me old mucker - more of a cockney thing :)

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You eat last night's pants in the West Midlands too? :erm:

Thank Gawd I only lived in Coventry 3 years then ;)

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I saw that beard you tried to grow while you were there - looked like a bottom eating a hedgehog, so you can't talk :PP:

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a scotch pie is much nicer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_pie

- and goes well with gravy & chips - (chips kept well away from the gravy, of course ;) )

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Chips and gravy should be seperate but chips and tomato ketchup are nice

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Ketchup!!?? :sick:

Gotta be brown sauce, my friend :)

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Chips + Salt + Vinegar + Gravy = Excellent :D

Even without salt + vinegar it's simply perfection. All you weirdos who like the chips "crispy" need to be shot ;) Or better yet, force fed gravy & chips until you like it :) (shouldn't be too long...)

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Well, that's my tea tomorrow night sorted out, chips and gravy with just salt and a buttered muffin :drool:

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604 at last count.

The famous "Chips and gravy" haute cuisine meal was invented by Finn McCool as they were the only things the chip van had to offer right after he built the Giants causeway.

It quickly overtook Irish stew (invented by Val Doonican) as the staple diet of Irelanders, north and south.

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Is that why McCool never finished it then?

:p:

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I hate you all :D

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So what? We've all hated you for ages :PP:

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why do you think ive stayed so long ;)

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Brown Sauce :sick:

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Apparently so. The legend goes that he got food poisoning and that Lough Neagh was actually formed from a pool of his boke*.

*boke = pavement pizza.

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Cos you're sick of people throwing bricks at you when you leave the house?

:D

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nah how do you think I built my house ;)

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Him indoors hates the chippies oop north, most if not all are Chinese with hardly any "English" ones so it ends up with us going to the Kebab or Indian instead (or me cooking which is always a risky business :erm: )

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Thats what will happen when you spend too much time in no mans land (Midlands)!

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Okay so now I want both, chips & gravy with lots of salt and vinegar... and mums irish stew.

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Why do you think I left :)

Well, that and the fact that I wanted to find out about this weird Northern food :D

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The best chippy I know is Greek!
Admittedly tho they do Doner Kebabs (as a sideline, the main shop is a chippy).

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Get on the phone to "James's Kitchen" now - but remember to book a cab to the City for about 11:30.

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Think I'll stick to Fuscos, or the local chinese.... well one of the 8 chinese we have locally... is there any need?

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Ahhhh...the F word, Fuscos.

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ok

fish & chips virtually as 'round here'

fish = haddock fillet

batter = usually a tempura style 'puffy' batter, but ideally no gungey layer, inside.

Chips - made from high starch straight cut 'old' potatoes like Maris Piper, crispy on the outside, soft in the middle.

Fat - yes, beef dripping is still used for frying in a lot in chippies round here

What more do you need, other than salt & maybe vinegar ?

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Preferably from Leons, Marklews or whatever that one by the Dolphin is called :)

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mmmmm chips and gravey from the chinese = much goodness (they do a luverly chinese gravy at the chinese opposite arriva garage in Redcar)

Chips and gravy from a chippy is also very good.
Must have vinegar on..

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Where have all the english chipy's gone? our local "jacks chippy" was famous all over salford! the kabab shop chips are crap, chinese are ok'ish but IMO you cant beat chips & gravy from a traditional english fish & chip shop.

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See, that's half my problem with chips and gravy - it's just wrong to mix gravy with vinegar :sick:

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Well considering chips are now deemed to be bad for you and they are now only cooked in sodding unsaturated oil I reckon anything that drowns them and improves the flavour can be considered.:mad:

The best chips I ate this year were in a pub in Blackwood in Wales..they were cooked in lard.Yum..:)

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Jellied eels :shocked: I aint that brave :D

Bad enough with that green stuff :disturbd:

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That's the stuff. :sick:

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The Leons at the bottom of Lord Street, apparently isn't so bad, I was close, down Richard St, earlier ;)

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You yorkshire people would be awkward. :PP: :angel:

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Was it all green like the liquor on here gaz ?
The wedding menu on that site is a must for anyone thinking of tying the knot. ;)

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Have to agree with that, chips without gravy, or even curry sauce just isn't the same. At the very least, you should drown the buggers in vinegar. oops:

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One thing about where you live.. The fish must be pretty nice...

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Quick: Someone tell the Brits please! British chips are soggy. With or without gravy/vinegar :(

Dear Brits: Chips should be cooked twice. Once at 160C, and then at 180C, to get a nice crispy chip that does not drip with oil. Oh, and don't leave them under hot lights for an hour. Cook them to order/no more than 5 mins in advance please.

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Yummy, so long as the chips aren't those fat canteen type ones that have been under hotplate for gosh knows how long and are lukewarm already, and go soggy. We have a fryer at home and the chips from that are lush with gravy.

I have noticed based on the posts in here, it tends to be the Northern ones who like it, and the Southern ones who don't... hmm.

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Chips and Cheese, yummy.

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Really? I thought the poll option was a bit of a giveaway:

:shocked:

Chips and Mayonaise for me :)

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I love chips and gravy. The chinese round here does the best gravy :)

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I think I'd prefer ketchup or vinegar on chips.
Save the gravy for some roast potatoes.

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I knew I shouldn't have read this thread. Now I'm even more hungry :disturbd:

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That's what I like about Yorkshire fish shops, haddock which has been skinned and boned in a crisp batter fried in beef dripping. I love gravy with chips when on their own or with a pie but never with fish and chips. The gravy must be just right though, just like my wife and mother makes.

Fish cakes should be of the Yorkshire type as well, two slices of potato with a layer of haddock sandwiched between fried in a crispy batter in beef dripping. Can't stand the mushy mashed poato and minced fish ones wrapped in breadcrumbs that other parts of the country pass on as fishcakes.

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In Canada they have poutine, which is chips, gravy and chesse curds. It tastes quite nice.

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In America, they have "Biscuits" and gravy. However, a "Biscuit" is a rather bland tasting scone, and goes surprisingly well with the gravy.

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Chips and gravy is OK, as long as the gravy is in a seperate jug, so you can dip your chips.

PS Pie and mash is bloody gorgeous - go to Arments on East Lane off Walworth Road, SE5. :drool:. So are jellied eels, and whelks, and cockles.

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It is quite variable, if the truth be told. It definitely pays to stick with chippies that know their stuff & deal with the best suppliers.

Grimsby still has an active fish market, but nowadays most fish sold there is delivered by lorry, rather than landed directly, so the time between the fish being caught & eventually being sold can vary quite a lot.

The best fish available, here, is either organically farmed, or fresh caught and delivered via air freight - but this tends to be the strategy for manufacturers, such as the one I work for, rather than the chippies, who still tend to buy daily from the market, or via an agent.

In my opinion the best fish available from chippies is in places like Whitby, where the fish is landed daily by local fishermen & is as fresh as can be :drool:

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I personally like Goddard's Pie and Mash in Greenwich. Been going there, well, since my dad took me as a small boy. I don't like eels, whelks, cockles or liquor, but they do a lovely Shepherd's pie and mash..

http://www.pieshop.co.uk/what-we-offer.htm

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agreed - round here they tend to be called 'scallops' :)

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too close to Labour headquarters, for me ;)

- I must have tried a poor shop, as the liquor was bordering on rancid, the pie had soggy pastry & the blandest filling imaginable, while the mash was watery & full of lumps....

- Cockles & Winkles, for me, Whelks are just chewy ;)

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Haven't a clue, it's just near my nannys house. You used to have to queue for about an hour just to get in the door.

I have to say, I like the pastry soggy, and the mash is supposed to have lumps in it. Maybe p&m just isn't for you.... :erm: And the vinegar has to have small dried chillie peppers in it too.

Lovely, with white pepper and vinegar on them. :tu:

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Scallops are just a single slice of potato, battered and deep fried in the fish shops I know.

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Same here :confused:

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I just found I am wrong, Labour Headquarters is no longer in Walworth Road :dunce: (it was when I attended South Bank Poly, but that is a few years ago, now)

I think you're right, not for me, although the vinegar sounds nice :)

Leigh on Sea on a Sunday morning for lovely shellfish :tu:

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oops, looks like I'm wrong again :dozey:

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Once = fish and chips, twice = 2 lots of fish and chips, 3 times is yes you guessed it 3 lots of fish and chips lol

Fish cake is two slices of potato with a piece of fish in the middle and dipped in batter before frying

Scraps = the bits of batter that fall off the fish as it is frying

Good old Yorkshire :D

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We used to call them scratchings, when I was a mere sprog. :D

Chips, scatchings and gravy for dinner, when I was at school. With lashings of salt and vinegar.

A hearty meal indeed. :D

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They are known as Fritters up here in Glasgow. I always thought a scallop was something do to with fish?

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You're right, a scallop is a shell fish. A scollop is the potato slice thing...

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Can I come and stay with you Homey? I adore fish but no one cooks it well round here and it's not worth doing my own 'cos I'm the only fishlover in this house.:(

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I was quite suprised at this thread when i saw the poll question, cos i thought chips and gravy was an obvious combination?!

Not keen on frozen oven chips in gravy, but fried with gravy is just delish, and has to have loads of black pepper on:drool:

Vinegar is a bit wrong though with gravy, ruins it totally i think!

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A lot of epople i know have chips and gravy with a dollop of ketchup on the side, not my cuppa tea either:D