Chips & Crackling (and other chip shop ramblings)
Discussion
The OH is watching Eastenders and "Jean" is eating "chips & crackling" from the chip shop - is this likely to be chips and deep fried pork rind or do they call scraps / bits this down those parts?
I know they like a savloy rather than a jumbo sausage but this is the first time I've heard of crackling in this context.
While here and wittering on about such things - 2 slices of potato with fish between, battered and deep fried, in my home town this was a "scone", in Leeds it's a "cake" or "fish cake" - all of which could lead to potential confusion with other foodstuffs.
And finally... curry sauce with fish and chips, acceptable?
Obviously dandelion and burdock is the perfect drink to go with a greasy treat like this, isn't it?
I expect the crackling is scraps. Might be a London thing... certainly never heard it here in Kent, or where I work in Sussex, or where I used to live in Winchester, so it's probably not a southern thing.
Lots of regional differences in chip shops. Like mushy peas up north, and saveloys down south (not instead of jumbo sausage though, we still get those too). When I lived up in Scotland, near Aberdeen, there were loads of different things available at the chipper that you don't get in England... king ribs, scotch pies, macaroni pies, white puddings, smoked sausage... the list is endless.
And if you ask for fish & chips in England, you usually get cod... in Scotland, you usually get haddock.
Lots of regional differences in chip shops. Like mushy peas up north, and saveloys down south (not instead of jumbo sausage though, we still get those too). When I lived up in Scotland, near Aberdeen, there were loads of different things available at the chipper that you don't get in England... king ribs, scotch pies, macaroni pies, white puddings, smoked sausage... the list is endless.
And if you ask for fish & chips in England, you usually get cod... in Scotland, you usually get haddock.
Edited by calibrax on Tuesday 5th October 20:10
thetapeworm said:
While here and wittering on about such things - 2 slices of potato with fish between, battered and deep fried, in my home town this was a "scone", in Leeds it's a "cake" or "fish cake" - all of which could lead to potential confusion with other foodstuffs.
we call those a fish pattie in the north east!
Back when I was growing up as a kid in Cheltenham a visiting friend asked for scraps and the chippy looked at him like he'd crawled out from under a stone and was obviously thinking "you tight b
d". And I confess I was thinking much the same. 
d". And I confess I was thinking much the same. Edited by JonRB on Tuesday 5th October 22:59
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