Chips: Salt or Vinegar first

[Johnny Doe]

I have a feeling I probably shouldn't say anything about brown sauce.

I may call the authorities to protect you from yourself

 

[discokermit]

If there is a Union representing our great chip making folk, I'd imagine he's been thrown out.

the union of scotland with the rest of the uk.

 

[Johnny Doe]

the union of scotland with the rest of the uk.

Yes, I was being deliberately obtuse

 

[discokermit]

I did once go visit that Bristol and found this place:
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i think bristol is the only place worse than london for chips.
the chippy shit list,
1 brean sands.
2 bristol
3 london, especially north london.

 

[Johnny Doe]

i think bristol is the only place worse than london for chips.
the chippy shit list,
1 brean sands.
2 bristol
3 london, especially north london.

I'm still convenienced the most unique chippy in the UK, is Michael's in Manchester. Chippy on front, barber at the side. I'm convinced, Michael himself used to serve food in between haircuts. I was a drunk student though, so memory is sketchy

 

[hitmouse]

Yes, I was being deliberately obtuse

I have actually been to (well, past) the headquarters of the National Federation of Fish Friers, it's in Leeds:

Sadly I didn't think to go inside and ask them their opinions on the salt/vinegar/ketchup question at the time.

 

[hitmouse]

i think bristol is the only place worse than london for chips.
the chippy shit list,
1 brean sands.
2 bristol
3 london, especially north london.

Go on, what did they do to your chips in Brean Sands?

 

[discokermit]

Go on, what did they do to your chips in Brean Sands?

they are just fucking horrible everytime i go there, over decades. they dont give a shit, they are the only chippy around. always a queu, always shit.

 

[Johnny Doe]

I have actually been to (well, past) the headquarters of the National Federation of Fish Friers, it's in Leeds:
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Sadly I didn't think to go inside and ask them their opinions on the salt/vinegar/ketchup question at the time.

I presume you didn't go inside and take a big dump in their foyer either? You may as well have done if you were going to insult their whole profession with ketchup

 

[Edie]

I have actually been to (well, past) the headquarters of the National Federation of Fish Friers, it's in Leeds:
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Sadly I didn't think to go inside and ask them their opinions on the salt/vinegar/ketchup question at the time.

Minutes walk from mine
killer b

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Swarfega?
Effing ell?

 

[killer b]

Minutes walk from mine
killer b

what wonders lie within?

 

[Edie]

what wonders lie within?

It’s never been open in the nearly two decades I’ve lived in this area.

 

[hitmouse]

I presume you didn't go inside and take a big dump in foyer either? You may as well have done if you were going to insult their whole profession with ketchup

Wait, I've just read back over this thread - are you both anti-ketchup and anti-brown sauce? You a mayo fundamentalist? Curry sauce hardcore?

 

[Johnny Doe]

Swarfega?
Effing ell?

Swarfega? A preferable addition to chips than ketchup? Well yes...but..

 

[Johnny Doe]

Wait, I've just read back over this thread - are you both anti-ketchup and anti-brown sauce? You a mayo fundamentalist? Curry sauce hardcore?

I'm for brown sauce with appropriate foods, ketchup for small kids, a mayo as a punishment for terrorists.

Curry sauce when done well, can be acceptable

 

[hitmouse]

It’s never been open in the nearly two decades I’ve lived in this area.

It's OK, their website's still up:

 

[Artaxerxes]

Gravy for sauce please, ketchup secondary

Vinegar first. It’s simple logic. Not only does the vinegar act as glue for the salt, as all right-thinking posters have said, but it stops the salt from being washed away.

The correct amount of vinegar on a bag of chips is “enough that your eyes water from the fumes.” Now, if you’re having some weak little sprinkle of vinegar, I can see it might leave the salt intact. But if the proper amount of vinegar is anointing your chips, it will have washed away the salt you’ve pointlessly applied beforehand.

Drench, then shake. It’s the only right way.

If you put enough vinegar on the salt it dissolves and coats everything in the bag on the way home regardless.

 

[Maggot]

Not on pizza. To dip. Not posh pizzas like domino’s. The little frozen ones from Asda.

I like the idea that Dominos is posh.

 

[Johnny Doe]

I like the idea that Dominos is posh.

Every few years I completely forget why I've not had a Dominos for ages, order one, and am I violently sick.

 

[Johnny Doe]

Me. I had it before, with my chips n egg.

Obvious wind up. No-one being serious would say 'chips n egg' not 'egg and chips'

 

[UrbaneFox]

Local chippy uses white vinegar.

White vinegar is to be used 1:4 with hot water, when washing walls following an invasion of pantry moth.

No other use is advised.

 

[spanglechick]

Obvious wind up. No-one being serious would say 'chips n egg' not 'egg and chips'

It’s “chips and egg” in the play/film Shirley Valentine. I assume it’s a north-west weirdness. Do scousers also say “chips and fish” or “chips and chicken” I wonder?

 

[Humberto]

No its large or small portion of chips.

 

[Humberto]

Not that I'm a scouser

 

[Humberto]

I just observe scouse chip shops sometimes.

 

[Humberto]

The salt will just bounce off if you do it first

 

[pogofish]

White vinegar is to be used 1:4 with hot water, when washing walls following an invasion of pantry moth.

No other use is advised.

When mixed with bicarb, white vinegar does a great job of getting severe coffee stains out of travel mugs and the like.

Plus, it is a far more environmentally sound alternative to bleach for a lot of household cleaning/sterilising tasks.

 

[petee]

vinegar?

it's ketchup obv.

 

[maomao]

vinegar?

it's ketchup obv.

I doubt you've even had chips, yank.