A bit council (Vol 6)

[Skodapondy]

HTP99 said:

Chips and gravy is just wrong plain and simple, same as chips with curry sauce!

Chips with curry sauce with cheese will probably melt your mind then.

[donkmeister]

Skodapondy said:

Gravy must be thick and brown, not the tap water you lot have as liquor with your pie and mash.

Well I'll give you that. Gravy should have a consistency somewhere between emulsion paint and PVA glue. And liquor can get fked.

But chips... Traditionally served with vinegar, salt, and if you want to nod to the Dutch/Flemish origins, mayonnaise. Adding gravy to vinegar or mayonnaise is just weird.

You wouldn't pour gravy on a salad (unless you are Glaswegian, in which case the chips ARE the salad)

Edited by donkmeister on Thursday 20th August 13:48

[the-norseman]

I'm northern my gravy is super thick, I like eel liquour with my pie and mash though.

[nicanary]

donkmeister said:

Skodapondy said:

Gravy must be thick and brown, not the tap water you lot have as liquor with your pie and mash.

Well I'll give you that. Gravy should have a consistency somewhere between emulsion paint and PVA glue. And liquor can get fked.

But chips... Traditionally served with vinegar, salt, and if you want to nod to the Dutch/Flemish origins, mayonnaise. Adding gravy to vinegar or mayonnaise is just weird.

You wouldn't pour gravy on a salad (unless you are Glaswegian, in which case the chips ARE the salad)

Edited by donkmeister on Thursday 20th August 13:48

Absolutely this. What's the point of frying chips until they're crisp and then making them soggy with sauce ? Northern folk are weird. They pronounce barth as bath, but don't pronounce wash as wasshh. Very odd people.

[Skodapondy]

donkmeister said:

Skodapondy said:

Gravy must be thick and brown, not the tap water you lot have as liquor with your pie and mash.

Well I'll give you that. Gravy should have a consistency somewhere between emulsion paint and PVA glue. And liquor can get fked.

But chips... Traditionally served with vinegar, salt, and if you want to nod to the Dutch/Flemish origins, mayonnaise. Adding gravy to vinegar or mayonnaise is just weird.

You wouldn't pour gravy on a salad (unless you are Glaswegian, in which case the chips ARE the salad)

Edited by donkmeister on Thursday 20th August 13:48

I've told Mrs Skodapondy that Chips with mayo or salad cream marks you out as one stage from being a serial killer. Obviously I was a safe distance away when I said that.

[HTP99]

Skodapondy said:

donkmeister said:

Skodapondy said:

Gravy must be thick and brown, not the tap water you lot have as liquor with your pie and mash.

Well I'll give you that. Gravy should have a consistency somewhere between emulsion paint and PVA glue. And liquor can get fked.

But chips... Traditionally served with vinegar, salt, and if you want to nod to the Dutch/Flemish origins, mayonnaise. Adding gravy to vinegar or mayonnaise is just weird.

You wouldn't pour gravy on a salad (unless you are Glaswegian, in which case the chips ARE the salad)

Edited by donkmeister on Thursday 20th August 13:48

I've told Mrs Skodapondy that Chips with mayo or salad cream marks you out as one stage from being a serial killer. Obviously I was a safe distance away when I said that.

Chips with mayo, oh yes fantastic.

[DannyScene]

Skodapondy said:

This is why us Northerners think that the South is full of softies. Can't do chips and gravy - preposterous. While I'm on the subject, gravy must be thick and brown, not the tap water you lot have as liquor with your pie and mash.

I always thought liquor was parsley sauce not gravy

[DodgyGeezer]

on the subject of Northern chips (and gray-veh) - that vile green concoction known as 'mushy peas'

[SWoll]

HTP99 said:

Chips with mayo, oh yes fantastic.

Garlic Aioli is better.

Gravy, Curry sauce etc. should be kept purely for dipping into and never tipped all over the chips like they're some kind of roast dinner.

DodgyGeezer said:

on the subject of Northern chips (and gray-veh) - that vile green concoction known as 'mushy peas'

Only if you're having fish with your chips, and tartar sauce. Otherwise a no.

[thetapeworm]

otolith said:

Skodapondy said:

This is why us Northerners think that the South is full of softies. Can't do chips and gravy - preposterous. While I'm on the subject, gravy must be thick and brown, not the tap water you lot have as liquor with your pie and mash.

My OH is from London. I have converted her to the gravy cause - along with one of the two kids.

I'm northern, my wife has been imported from the south and was quite posh when we met, I'm a big fan of gravy (thick) on most things but there's a line I won't cross that she does - gravy on fish and chips.

I'm fine with curry sauce because fish curry is nice right? Tartare of course, ketchup on occasion but gravy is just wrong, it's meat on fish, she's making council surf and turf.

And she doesn't have scraps with fish and chips.

[otolith]

DodgyGeezer said:

on the subject of Northern chips (and gray-veh) - that vile green concoction known as 'mushy peas'

"I say, this guacamole tastes awful"

[Skodapondy]

DodgyGeezer said:

on the subject of Northern chips (and gray-veh) - that vile green concoction known as 'mushy peas'

That's it, you soft shandy drinking southern monkeys have gone too far Disrespecting mushy peas is an act of war! Well it would be if you had anything in you after eating quinoa with crushed avacardo and side of seeded sourdough toast minus butter.

[Tickle]

It's very rare we have chippy tea, but when we do it's chips, peas and gravy. Once had, it's not craved for again for months, but every now and again nothing else will do. Probably the only takeaway we ever have

[Landlubber]

I'm on thin ice here, but what about a nice Yorkshire fishcake? Wife loves em, im more, meh.

[donkmeister]

Landlubber said:

I'm on thin ice here, but what about a nice Yorkshire fishcake? Wife loves em, im more, meh.

What is that? A Yorkshire pudding full of fish?

There are a few good chip shops within a suitable distance of my house, but the one I usually go to is run by a Turkish family. So I always end up with chips and a kebab. Proper British chips, they are a chip shop that just happens to do kebabs too.

It's a very stodgy combo, less so since I realised I didn't need to order a large chips all to myself, to go with the large amount of bread and chili I share one these days, much better.

Has anyone ever ordered an egg, despite having previously had one? I had one about 20 years ago, never again.

[bobtail4x4]

its two slices of potato with fish inbetween,
then battered and fried

Yorkshire born and bred, but I dont like gravy or curry on chips

[Its Just Adz]

Sheets Tabuer said:

I saw a car today in a supermarket car park with window stickers saying RIP to a name I couldn't quite make out and reversed pictures of some lad either side of it.

I know grief is a deeply personal thing but it struck me as proper council.

I've posted a pic of similar before. On a Mokka, or course, with a picture of a quad bike.
A quick Google of the name and area confirmed my suspicions that the quad bike came to an end while being ridden illegally on the roads.

[Rob 131 Sport]

I loathe gravy and / or cheese with Fish and Chips. However a small pot of curry sauce for occasional ‘dipping’ is acceptable. Mushy peas are a great accompaniment to the meal.

[eldar]

Alorotom said:

Red9zero said:

Not sure if a Christmas Dinner Burger is council or genius

Back o/t - genius IMO while its not necessarily classic festive, it sounds ace and ill happily continue to out myself

Baconnaise sauce? WTF.

[DannyScene]

Landlubber said:

I'm on thin ice here, but what about a nice Yorkshire fishcake? Wife loves em, im more, meh.

Fishcake drenched in vinegar and salt, food of the gods *chefs kiss*