The Great British Fish'n'Chips Thread

[Marmite the Dog]

That Oh My Cod place near KSR is pretty good, but a pain in the arse to get to.

[sabang]

Khao San Rd?
Why are you all being so obtuse.

[Marmite the Dog]

^ Yes.

Obtuse about what?

[sabang]

Well travelled bunch we are, let's not forget ROW (thats the rest of the world for you non-obtuse types).
In London, at the end of Lisson Grove (google it) there's the Lisson Grove chippie. Londoners in the know go here. Whilst that is obviously a small minority, this visitor has been known to take a rip off London cab there. The Cab drivers that have English as their native language (a minority) approve.
In Swindon, on the Meadowcroft Rd in Stratton, there's Sims's Chippie. It's been there donkeys years, although I doubt the current Greek Cypriot owners answer to the name of Sim. It was an occasional treat, when Dad wasn't on strike from the Pressed Steel works, for him to come home with a big parcel of these on payday. Luvly, and it was still going strong when I was last there about three years ago. It's great when small businesses do not close down.
'The Shack', Longton/Fenton Stoke on Trent. This dump did the best fishn'chips ever. I sold computer stuff to the potteries 1982-84 in a fallacious attempt to make them competitive. Their secret was their cooking oil, which was Lard. Pottery workers commence their lunch hour at 12-12.30, but I was able to beat the rush and go there a little before. It was very popular, it was a dump, it was on a busy roundabout in this particular part of town, and it was the only reason to go to Stoke other than business (well there was this good Pub not far from Wedgewood's). I doubt it still exists, there's probably an Asda there now. It deserves a footnote in history however.
One good thing about Pommy chipperie's is that you can always get a pickled egg, and this I recommend.

[NickA]

^Obviously, northern chippies are much better than their southern counterparts. Stoke is a bit in the middle, so the chips are probably OK, but I would wonder if they really knew how to do gravy or mushy peas.

[sabang]

Nick they did gravy, curry sauce and mushy peas.
A surprising amount of people just had their chipsn'curry sauce for lunch.

[Marmite the Dog]

Well travelled bunch we are

Sorry, I thought we were discussing where to get decent F'n'C in Thailand.

[sabang]

Nah mate, anywhere. Best and worse. Philosophy of cooking oil. Species of fish. U name it.
sabang. Getting desperate.

[Marmite the Dog]

Ok.

I prefer plaice to cod, but getting any decent white fish over here can be a struggle. Virtually every fish I've had in Thailand has been more bones than meat, so I tend to steer clear of the fish now.

In the UK, most towns have a number of chippies, so finding a good one is pretty easy. I miss a decent kebab more than I do F'n'C. Sure, you can get kebabs here, but they're poor at best.

[NickA]

Yep, chips'n'curry sauce, chips'n'gravy, chips'n'beans or chips'n'mushy peas is more my kind of meal.

When I've won the lottery I have chips'n'gravy'n'mushypeas'n'curry sauce'n'beans.

[NickA]

I had decided not to go back to England for my normal biennial trip.

This thread may sway me the other way.

BTW Sabang, I'm from Crewe which is only a couple of miles away from Stoke.

[sabang]

Personally, I'd have that curry sauce on your chips Nick but not the fish- it makes the batter soggy.
Crewe had the RR works, but I never was able to sell them anything. Derby's RR works are huge, but they wouldn't buy from me either. I did do a good bit of trade with Courtauld's there though, and found a pub with the best pint of Marstons ever. Why are all the best beers in dumpy pubs. New thread topic I s'pose.

[NickA]

^I used to live in Nottingham. I saw a great report on East Midlands Today once.....Marston's (I think) were discontinuing their mild as no-one really drank it and were only going to produce bitter. Anyway they went to a pub were some 80 year old was complaining because he had drank four halves of marston mild for the last 50 years and was very upset. After a bit of talk they gave him a half of Marston's bitter.....he looked at it stangely, slowly took a sip and then said "Oh, that's fine that is".

[sabang]

Marston's Bitter, treated with due respect, is indeed fine.
It would wash down a good fish n' chips nicely.

[kingwilly]

Well travelled bunch we are

Sorry, I thought we were discussing where to get decent F'n'C in Thailand.

^ yeah wot he said!

BTW - i thought most eveyone knew (of) Khao San Road, prolly one of most famous backpacker areas in all of Asia - theres fuckn songs abt it fer fecks sake!

[sabang]

Believe it or not, I've never been there.

[kingwilly]

that looks truly disgusting!

[Marmite the Dog]

Those pictures have just done me in. Sadly the F'n'C situation in Ayutthaya is pretty grim.

I shall take a trip to Sherwood GH as I think they may have something just about passable.

[sabang]

I've had absolutely no FnC's recently, but the smell of a fry up is doing my head in.
This is not a cheap attempt to bump this pathetic thread to the top of the attention list btw, and the next time I do it it won't be either.

[NickA]

I had chips and beans for lunch today, although the chips were a bit undercooked.

[danbo]

I like chips well cooked, can't stand the anaemic ones. At home I have oven chips which I grill - crinkle cut oven chips are none too bad. My latest culinary invention is chips sprinkled with mozarella cheese - I think it's classy. I don't like fish in batter, too fatty - in breadcrumbs is okay.

[Mr Earl]

I like my fish and chips swimming in a good malt vinegar.

I believe I'll pop over to the Islander tomorrow for lunch.

[Marmite the Dog]

I had fish 'n' chips at the Robin Hood last night.

The fish was grey and a bit soggy and the chips were perfect steak chips. Not very good for 260B. At least the Guinness was only 120B/pint.

[sabang]

Yeh, that pretty much sums up my average experience with pub fish n' chips too Mtd. Except sometimes the chips are crap too.
Sometimes I'm just in the mood for fishn' chips, and it's a real let down when it's grey fish in soggy, doughy, greasy batter. Kinda taints my day.

[kingwilly]

and it's a real let down when it's grey fish in soggy, doughy, greasy batter.

dats the best way to eat them!