Fish & Chips

The fact is that for fish and chips to work it has to be utterly non-corporate and preferably family-run. OK, so they might not be allowed to wrap fish and chips in newspaper anymore, but there should still be something rather amateurish and cheap about it - that's part of its charm. The shop should be really small with limited seating. The biggest concession to glitz should be the flashing lights on the fruity in the corner. The menu should be written in chalk or crudely painted. And so on.

They tried opening a Harry Ramsden's in Oxford. It was a huge failure. This is because Oxford, despite its poncey rep, has some of the best fish and chip shops I've been to.

Have the steep price rises come into effect yet?

Some Brits have ketchup. Others have salt and vinegar. In fish & chip shops it's more usual to be offered salt & vinegar.

Ed, who hates West London with a vengeance, will forget all about how much he hates West London if someone suggests a drive over there.

That and your dinner comes in pristine white box fastened shut with cute design-whore sticker of a baleful orange plaice.

Yes, Marcello, Carfax Chippie! The only fish & chip shop which is down a long corridor. But not only Carfax Chippie. The Mediterranean Fish Bar too - there are at least two of these, in Abingdon Road and Marston. I am fortunate enough to live equidistant between Carfax Chippie and the Abingdon Road one. Bizarrely, the latter has a small room where you can actually eat your fish & chips sitting down rather than taking them home. It has two tiny tables with gingham table cloths. I have never seen anyone using it.

And another thing - why can't you get gravy in London? Gah...

Liz, I am excited by your news that Fishco seems to be open once more for business! Each time I wander by, it seems to be lying fallow, oh alas! Alack! Perhaps I will have a stroll by on my way home tonight (or fair enough, maybe not) but I will FLAG IT FOR FOLLOW-UP! Oh boy oh boy!!

Mmmmm. Chips. Camden Fish Market is one of the best reasons one would ever need to go to Camden. Caaaaaamden. AND THEY DO GRAVY!

Our local chippie is good too. I do not know what it is called but it is on Claylands Road. They do Saveloys. I have never eaten a saveloy in my life and NEVER WILL.

One thing I do not like is the mixing of fish and chip selling with FRIED CHICKEN SELLING. Fried chicken is from the CHICKEN SHOP, not the chip shop!! HONESTLY!!!

Pete, I'm with you on the battered sossidge. Although I can happily eat fish, I never know which one to go for and the battered sossidge always seems a lot more appealing. Mmmm battered sossidge!!

Actually, I still want to try Madchens recipe of chips in goosey melting Camembert. Mmmmm!

Then again, yesterday I bought BUY ONE GET ONE FREE bags of sprouts so I er... need to eat them... quickly...

You even get funny looks at some for even asking. Naturally, they are the ones in the wrong, as any fule no that chips and gravy are the way things are meant to be. And proper gravy at that. Brothers and sisters, we must rise up - together we can save our Southern brethren from the spectre of dry chips.

One of the best fish suppers I remember having was bought in Greenock. Although this may have had something to do with it costing about £1.50. Can't remember the name of the place although I do remember it selling instant heart attacks in the form of battered haggis or battered beefburgers.

And, as Liz mentioned, Fishcoteque rules. Especially for the decor which contrasts pictures of whales and dolphins enjoying themselves with pictures of yummy fish dishes.

(Sheesh).

the Goldhawk Fish Bar on Goldhawk Road serves the BEST CHIPS EVAH! *drooooools*

Burdocks is living on past glories at this stage, there's a better fish and chips to be had at the north end of Capel Street. But I might take the Fox to Burdocks so he can live the Dublin dream.

I wonder is Burdocks in "Ulysses"?

Last night me and the missus had cod and chips and Mooro had haddock and chips. I forgot there were different makes of fish, so I just asked for fish and chips, but I got cod. Mooro asked for haddock.

it could do. me and the Pinefox ate from there last night. it was very tasty - I think it's on a bit of an upswing. which is good.

(bad pun just for the halibut)...

gareth you are 100 percent geezer and yr faulkners luv has redeemed yr plastikman hate for me.

read it now, read it here, for you will never see these words in the same sentence again...

1. a deep fried pizza

or

2. a deep fried pie

!

Tell me about making it home. Tips? We're doing f&c for Labor Day.

It's not that difficult but scares me because of the huge vat of virtually boiling oil you have on the stove...sooooo...get one deep fat fryer. Good ones work really well and they're a lot less hassle if only for the reason that you can get the temperature right from the start which as fish'n'chip man will tell you is crucial.

Thx, Ned.

We decided to cook this stuff outside in a fryer. MMMMMMMMMM.

I think this stuff made me sick Sunday (after eating Sat night)

I have no doubt that English F&C is superior to US F&C. Though I am off the idea altogether now. WHen I was a kid I loved F&C! We had a fast food chain that claimed to make it like the English, I think it even came in newspaper? Called H Salt Fish-n-chips, there was also Arthur Treachers? Last ime I had them was in a local pub, I was sick-to-my-stomach for 2 days. It was like eating a 10 oz lump of greasey batter!! Wait a mninute... that's what it was! I guess my middle-aged tummy can't take the grease like it used to...

English fish and chips are shit now they're cooked in cheap vegetable oil. You have to go to Belgium where they cook them in LARD. Lovely, lovely, lovely lard.

the midwestern friday night fish fry is a noble tradition

I'm sure it was all very tasty, but since I was the fryer, I didn't want any of it by the time I was done.

Fish and chips is one of my favorite things about no longer being a vegetarian.

The fish was cut into small pieces because I couldn't afford to feed the masses:
<img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y21/amdraheim/fried1.jpg";>
We just kept frying things and throwing it into this box. It never got half full.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y21/amdraheim/fried1.jpg

English fish and chips are shit now they're cooked in cheap vegetable oil.

Do not tar the whole nation with your crappy chip experiences. Many many fine fish and chips can be had in the UK.

One time I had f&c but with SALMON. wtf Hartford, CT.

I do this frequently. Usually I keep the fryer out for the next couple days and fry whatever else I have that might even conceivably be edible battered and fried.

I always use cod. Suggest me other fish.

Haddock can be just as good fried or battered.

The cod, it always falls to teeny bits when I try to make this!

!!
Has it been thawed and refrozen multiple times?

Frozen at least once, when I buy it from the store.

Inland New Mexico doesn't have a lot in the way of fresh seafood.

use Hestons method for the batter

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/heston_blumenthal/article631377.ece

Cod is pretty bland for fish and chips. Haddock's better, but I don't know what New Mexico's haddock stocks are like. Plaice is better than cod too.

http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/1960/beer+battered+fish+chips

Trending: serve your fish and chips in a box and charge a quid over the odds because it's a fine dining experience

oh yes, i had that in Margate. it came with the free pleasure of watching some EDL lunks in bomber jackets smacking the shit out of an arcade machine :-/

cafe downstairs from work is putting this on with their fish and chips, plus inflated "seventh most expensive city in the world" surcharge

They tried opening a Harry Ramsden's in Oxford. It was a huge failure. This is because Oxford, despite its poncey rep, has some of the best fish and chip shops I've been to.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 09:25 (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

things done changed

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MONKEY LOOK AT FISH