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8den said:
Poor veggie FEB. We've established to be a FEB it has to have egg, sausage and bacon, as a base.
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No but this is for the really poor man. The one who can only afford eggs, beans and a 20 pack of potato waffles from iceland. Bacon is a luxury.
 
Near starvation FEB.

I was recently served on a number of occasions a lunch that consisted of a weird sausage roll made using a frankfurt and mustard in pastry. And some beans. I remarked that english school children's dinner cost them 79p a day, the jammy shits.
 
I don't eat potato anymore but I eat Sweet potato chips all the time. Big chunky ones with chilli mayo.

Last year we were in Whitby (after a 14 year absence from the UK) and we had the greatest fish and chips I have ever tasted. IT was something I had been planning since we decided to come back to England.
The English make great chips. The greasiest shit I have ever touched, I actually think it acted like moisturiser on my hands.
Salt & vinegar all over. Anyone who doesn't like them is dead inside.
 
Ms T said:
There is a disturbing trend in pubs for the chips to be frozen. :( Proper chips are where it's at, freshly made.
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The quality of chips in most of the chain pubs is fucking diabolical. I've been known to leave chips in my local (Ember Inns pub).
 
Gromit said:
Chips is American.

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Gracious some things were really quite camp weren't they ?
e2a that post was meant to have the campbikerpolice picture in it but I'm almost at the bottom of a vodka and tonic and cba to correct it. Hic !
 
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I just had the worst chips from the takeaway. I had to throw them away. They had definitely been fried at least 4 times :(
 
8den said:
Christ people on a chip appreication thread saying how much they like a reconstituted frozen potato.

List. I'm making one.
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I love potato waffles! You can even cook them in the toaster. :cool:

Waffles squashed between two slices of liberally buttered toast is just the job for a quick starch binge. :)
 
Ms T said:
There is a disturbing trend in pubs for the chips to be frozen. :( Proper chips are where it's at, freshly made.
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I have a small deep fat fryer which I've put frozen chips in and made real chips in. Doesn't matter which I use they still seem really disappointing. Must be the fat I'm using?

I sautéed some potatoes in a frying pan last week instead and they were amazing.
 
Gromit said:
I have a small deep fat fryer which I've put frozen chips in and made real chips in. Doesn't matter which I use they still seem really disappointing. Must be the fat I'm using?

I sautéed some potatoes in a frying pan last week instead and they were amazing.
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TBF, it could be the frozen chips. Some of them (usually the cheaper end of the market) aren't cut chips, they're reconstituted potato extrusion (as a re most oven chips, except with added oil), and they really don't cook the same as cut chips do.
 
I am forever doomed to be disappointed by chip shop fare as I was brought up in a seaside town where everything was fried in beef dripping. That flavour just does not exist any more :(. I will never again know the pleasure of a post-pub bag of big fat crispy chips from my home town dripping in salt and vinegar....mmmm....

Potato waffles are horrible and also known by me as "potato awfuls". Dreadful things.

The weirdest chips are from KFC. They taste like they have been boiled or something. Most peculiar.
 
The best chips I have ever eaten were handed to me in a paper cone mostly finished by someone who didn't like them outside a caravan selling food on a windswept parking area at Port William, a tiny seaside town in Dumfries and Galloway the other week. I suspect as it surprisingly transpired it was a caravan selling well rated street food, they may have been thrice baked or had something done to them to make them so crispy. I will never know. That is my dull chip related anecdote because I am a bit bored and thinking about chips.
 
ViolentPanda said:
TBF, it could be the frozen chips. Some of them (usually the cheaper end of the market) aren't cut chips, they're reconstituted potato extrusion (as a re most oven chips, except with added oil), and they really don't cook the same as cut chips do.
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Perhaps I wasn't clear. Cut chips taste crap cooked by it too.
 
The best home made chips I've made have just been unpeeled thin cut spuds with oil, salt, pepper and paprika scattered over them and banged in a hot oven for 20 minutes.
Can't justify having a fryer in the house.
 
Both my Grandmothers used to make identical chips and they were the best in the world. Roughly chopped and in the deep fat fryer. Lots of s&v and ketchup on the side. Never bettered :)
 
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