Are gravy and/or curry sauce on fish and chips an abomination?
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Seeing it’s bloody cold across the country at the moment, what could be better to warm you up than a good portion of hot, freshly-fried fish and chips?
We all have our favourite chip shops, so let’s hear about them: all recommendations are welcome.
And what do you have on your fish and chips? I’m a purist: salt, vinegar, that’s it.
I know plenty of people who like mushy peas, tartare sauce, gravy, curry sauce, etc, but I am not a fan of any of those as they detract from the crispness and crunchiness of proper batter and well-cooked chips.
Come to think of it, time for a poll…
My vote seems to have disappeared for some unknown reason. Anyway, as someone from the North of England, I voted No. Gravy on chips is delicious, usually after the pub and a few pints.
I wouldn’t want gravy with fish and chips, though. Gravy wouldn’t go well with fish at all.
There aren’t any good chip shops in my neighbourhood, so I don’t have fish and chips very often. The best I ever had were in Wexford, on the front looking out to sea.
Chips have to be properly fried chip shop chips. Oven chips are rubbish.
“Gravy wouldn’t go well with fish at all.”
That’s my point: crisp batter should not be softened by gravy (or anything else). It’s akin to the bacon in a breakfast being plonked on or next to the beans – it’s just wrong!
Fish and Chips (with mushy peas) can’t go wrong. And if you live near a fishing town like Fleetwood just outside Blackpool all the better. Had the best fish in my live from Scarborough (another fishing town).
Cork, know your plaice. (sorry couldn’t help that pun).
You've got to accentuate the positive.
Eliminate the negative.
Latch on to the affirmative.
Don't mess with mister in between.Agree with RR. Fish and chips always tastes better on the coast.
“It’s akin to the bacon in a breakfast being plonked on or next to the beans – it’s just wrong!”
That opens up a whole different subject: what ingredients should be in a proper full English breakfast? I don’t believe baked beans should be, or if they are then they should be served in a pot to separate them from the rest of the ingredients.
Agree completely, CAS. Baked beans should not be included (nor should hash browns) and, if they are there, should be served in a separate bowl.
My “Full English” breakfast of choice is bacon, eggs (poached), sausage, tomato (grilled), black pudding and, finally, bubble. Toast, proper butter and a cuppa are obviously mandatory, whilst I always sprinkle some black pepper over the eggs and have some English mustard ready for the sausage(s).
But others will differ.
I would have a few mushrooms on my plate as well but otherwise agree.
I actually quite like hash browns but they do not really belong in a full English.
I would have a few mushrooms on my plate as well but otherwise agree.
MAGIC! (mushrooms)
A full english shouldn’t have chips on it.
My idea is Bacon, eggs (usually scrambled), hash browns, fried bread, baked beans, black pudding (Bury ones are the best)*, sausage, fried tomatoes and mushrooms.
*in my opinion
You've got to accentuate the positive.
Eliminate the negative.
Latch on to the affirmative.
Don't mess with mister in between.Got to have a fried slice (fried bread) for me with ketchup on it.
The more I know the less I understand.
The John Dory fish and chip shop at Belford ( it’s just down the road from what used to be Rose Dobbins stable). The fish is so huge you can’t eat all the chips so we usually get a couple more meals out of them ( they’re even better reheated). Mushy peas, cup of tea and lots of salt and vinegar. However, my cholesterol is supposedly sky high so last time I was oop north I didn’t have any. Just remembered that I’ve worked in several fish and chip shops. One in Birmingham then Mrs Pipers in Boscastle and Terry Dangers in Tintagel. The portions in the latter were embarrassingly small and ling and coley were substituted for cod. I hated working there but tried to make up for it by making the biggest candy floss you ever saw for the kids.
Sashimi for me with soy sauce and a big lump of wasabi. Have tried multiple types of fish, shell fish and octopus in Japan/South Korea, but never been brave/stupid enough to try Puffer fish raw.
Although, I have eaten it filleted, deep fried in batter and was very nice. The rest of the fish turns up later as a soup, equally nice.I like to keep it simple: fish, chips and mushy peas seasoned with vinegar, no salt, perhaps a smearing of tartare sauce. Washed down with best bitter if in a pub, strong tea in a cafe or at home.
Haven’t had better than in the Magpie Cafe in Whitby, which also serves other splendid fish dishes.
Rose-tinted glasses, blue-remembered hills and all that but when a nipper on visits to grandparents in Nottingham from Sheffield we always stopped off on the way back at a chippy in the suburb of Bradway whose F ‘n’ C seemed the business. I wonder if it’s still there.
These descrptions of full English breakfasts seem very like the all-you-can-eat breakfast buffets served by Premier Inn, my hotel chain of choice. I like hash browns but not keen on mushrooms.
Curry sauce on battered beef burger or battered sausage and chips, yes
on fish and chips, noCharles Darwin to conquer the World
Just fish and chips for me. A marriage made in food heaven. I don’t mind thick Batter as long as it’s crispy all the way through!
On the subject of a Full English, does anyone fancy taking on this lot?
It is an image I saw on another forum I use. I haven’t attempted it myself. I doubt I would need to eat again for a week if I did!
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