Derry Alli Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 26 minutes ago, tongue_tied_danny said: Marini's in Dundee It is good. You're fucking mental. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 1 hour ago, tongue_tied_danny said: Marini's in Dundee do a "crunchy box", where you get a pizza crunch, a battered burger, a jumbo sausage, chips and curry sauce for about a tenner. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 12 hours ago, DA Baracus said: The vast majority of chip shop chips are rank. None are hat bad you only take a half portion though. (Blue Lagoon's excepted) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 1 hour ago, Derry Alli said: You're fucking mental. It's rank but their "slicing puddings in half and allowing you to mix and match 2 of white, black, red and haggis" policy is world leading 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 12 hours ago, milton75 said: Avoiding chip shops is a lot easier since I moved to Bishopbriggs anyway, as they are uniformly appalling here. Frank's used to be excellent, but it few years back it went from excellent to shambolic almost overnight 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 The worst chippy I went to was in Linlithgow. Not the Golden Chip, the other one. Greasy, covered in black bits. Happy to report it has shut now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
German Jag Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 2 hours ago, tongue_tied_danny said: Am I right in thinking that you live in Germany? I once got fish and chips from one of those Nord See restaurants they have there. It was fucking rank. Possibly the worst meal that I have ever paid for. Marini's in Dundee do a "crunchy box", where you get a pizza crunch, a battered burger, a jumbo sausage, chips and curry sauce for about a tenner. It is good. Never EVER get anything listed as "fish & chips" in Germany. The "fish" will be some deep-frozen battered shite, the "chips" will be Pommes, ie French Fries, a la the crap you get from McDonalds. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt n Vinegar Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 6 hours ago, Derry Alli said: Mock chop is prime chip shop order. I've never had one. I think the first place I heard of it was on a "Scotland the What" cassette, decades ago. What, exactly, is a mock chop? Some form of glorified hamburger? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 2 hours ago, Salt n Vinegar said: What, exactly, is a mock chop? Some form of glorified hamburger? Basically, yes. Chunkier, denser. Formed into a chop shape. Delicious. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nkomo-A-Gogo Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 The worst fish and chips you will ever get are in Rep of Ireland. The boy goes in at 10am and batters/part cooks everything and then puts it in a fridge or worse leaves it in the window box above the frier all day so when you go in at night its sitting there 10+ hours. You can peel the batter like a banana. They dont see anything wrong with this because its apparently "the traditional way" And dont even bother asking for brown sauce. Chips are nice but. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alta-pete Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 23 hours ago, DA Baracus said: The vast majority of chip shop chips are rank. c.30 years ago in my first grown up job my first inspection was a chip shop on Cross Arthurlie Street in Barrhead. While I have since succumbed to the very occasional supper when nothing else has been available they are not somewhere I go looking for food. I’m sure food hygiene standards will have improved over the period but it’s a risk I’m still not comfortable with. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velo army Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 Chip shop chips when they're fresh made are simply incredible. Best fried fash I ever had was in Nairn. Chips were reheats, so weren't great. I had a haggis supper in Leith on Hogmanay about 15 years ago and I still think about it. One of my top 5 gustatory experiences. For a coastal place Aberdeen isn't well served with chippers. The Dolphin is decent, but we should really be aiming for Anstruther levels of chippery, rather than being merely a level above Glasgow. I'll bring it up at the next hustings. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 On 20/07/2023 at 05:39, Sergeant Wilson said: Where's the other half of the pizza? Half for Scottsdad and the other half for Derry Alli 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 Must be 15 years since I had a chipper tea/supper - white pudding / haggis / mock chop / jumbo sausage supper and a pickled onion would be my choice. Beans don't belong on the same plate as a chipper meal IMHO, the batter doesn't work with the sauce. Peas are acceptable, even better if mushy. Salt and vinegar a must. No sauce of any variety. No bread and butter. Cup of strong tea, milk and no sugar. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 3 hours ago, hk blues said: Must be 15 years since I had a chipper [The rest of this post is now automatically invalid] Thanks for playing anyway. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 4 hours ago, alta-pete said: c.30 years ago in my first grown up job my first inspection was a chip shop on Cross Arthurlie Street in Barrhead. While I have since succumbed to the very occasional supper when nothing else has been available they are not somewhere I go looking for food. I’m sure food hygiene standards will have improved over the period but it’s a risk I’m still not comfortable with. There was a small cafe at the top of the Byzantium complex in Victoria Street (now a posh chip outlet). I occasionally had omlette and chips in there and very nice it was. Later I found out the owner was banned for life after a court case because he'd been keeping a live pigeon in the kitchen. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velo army Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 2 hours ago, tamthebam said: There was a small cafe at the top of the Byzantium complex in Victoria Street (now a posh chip outlet). I occasionally had omlette and chips in there and very nice it was. Later I found out the owner was banned for life after a court case because he'd been keeping a live pigeon in the kitchen. Kept it for eggs for your omelette imo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 I'm trying to eat healthier so my last meal from the chip shop was roast chicken breast with mushy peas and a pickled onion and a surfeit of brown sauce (HP). The sauce was a bit sticky and the balance of the dish could have benefitted from using Daddies, or own brand at a push. Was quite good, despite the incident with the wishbone 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted July 21, 2023 Share Posted July 21, 2023 24 minutes ago, coprolite said: Was quite good, despite the incident with the wishbone Honestly, Doctor, I tripped over and sat on it. That is how it ended up there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted July 22, 2023 Share Posted July 22, 2023 Has to be this brown sauce... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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