10-07-2006, 14:49
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Re: Chips and Gravy
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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  ). I have no idea what they would think about chips and gravy though  |
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.
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10-07-2006, 14:57
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Re: Chips and Gravy
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but they are not chips...they are french fries and completely different. |
They are indeed, thank God
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10-07-2006, 15:54
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Re: Chips and Gravy
Chips & Gravy ?
Yuk, who likes soggy chips .....
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10-07-2006, 15:59
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Re: Chips and Gravy
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Chips & Gravy ?
Yuk, who likes soggy chips .....
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I do ! 
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10-07-2006, 16:00
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Re: Chips and Gravy
I'll admit I do prefer my chips crispy, but having the same thing over again does get pretty boring 
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10-07-2006, 18:38
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Re: Chips and Gravy
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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. |
At least we don't drink "lager tops" oop north - or as we call it - "shandy" 
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10-07-2006, 18:45
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Re: Chips and Gravy
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As the poll says, chips and gravy together? or are they two good things that should be kept seperate....
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Together with a nice meat and spud pie,
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10-07-2006, 22:10
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Re: Chips and Gravy
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At least we don't drink "lager tops" oop north - or as we call it - "shandy" |
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  Never been how i've done it. And yeah, thy mostly are southerners who ask for them, strange innit!
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11-07-2006, 00:06
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Re: Chips and Gravy
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At least we don't drink "lager tops" oop north - or as we call it - "shandy" |
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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11-07-2006, 00:55
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Re: Chips and Gravy
Lager...ewww...give me a good pint of Guiness anyday of the week
Shame it's hard to find a decent pint these days.
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11-07-2006, 01:00
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Re: Chips and Gravy
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Originally Posted by Felinix_Devotion
Lager...ewww...give me a good pint of Guiness anyday of the week
Shame it's hard to find a decent pint these days. |
Hmmmmm.....Guiness..... 
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11-07-2006, 01:00
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Re: Chips and Gravy
A pub called The Pheseant (spelling?) in Dalbeattie Scotland, does an amazing Guiness.
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11-07-2006, 07:50
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Re: Chips and Gravy
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
I do love very crisp potato wedges dipped in sour cream n chive - yummy
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11-07-2006, 08:17
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Re: Chips and Gravy
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Originally Posted by Felinix_Devotion
Lager...ewww...give me a good pint of Guiness anyday of the week
Shame it's hard to find a decent pint these days. |
Hmmmmm.....Guiness..... |
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).
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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11-07-2006, 19:06
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Re: Chips and Gravy
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Originally Posted by Chris W
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 |
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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