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Eloquent ..informative unlike some reporters today !

​@@luiathmorgan7709one of the very best

I agree but are you like 80

@@user-mb4qs7tg8d I am 60, which is just old enough to remember Fyfe Robertson on television and TV programming like this.

@@markhayward7400 I’m not English so I didn’t know how much longer he lasted after this video career wise

@user-mb4qs7tg8d Fyfe Robertson was on TV in the UK fairly regularly until the late 1970s. Certainly, as a teenager I can remember watching him.

@@markhayward7400 what’s your favourite story he did?

Yep. People would say “bloody rag, I wouldn’t wrap my chips in it”.

today's news is tomorrow's chip paper

Reminds me of a quote by Shakespeare when he describes some of the soulless romantic novels as “ to be fit only for bum fodder”

Maybe should have done his homework? 😂

@@stepheng8779 Typical BBC interviewer.

Fact checking at its finest

Well the interviewer should of done a bit more research.

​@@stepheng8779... He was On His Way To "THE THISTLE" 😂😂😂😂

My grandparents use to do that. I guess it comes from people who were born in the early 1900's

Apparently royal etiquette is that you put a teaspoon of salt on the plate and dip the food

Same here lol

He was a cultured man.

Grand parents did it.

newspapers where only ever used on the outside, the chips themselves where wrapped in clean paper as you see in the video

Mid 90’s it was

Yes! I was just starting secondary school around then and remember my parents watching his programmes. There was also Cliffe Michelmore, a co presenter of the programme I think.

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Using newspaper to wrap chips wasn’t as common as people think, and it certainly didn’t happen throughout the country.

newpaper where never used to wrap the chips, news papers where only used on the outside because the ink is poisenous. People seem to remember it all wrong

Dude your rose tinned glasses are blinding at this point.

M&M' s was the best chippy in Gateshead.

I'm February 65. What date?

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Please oh please describe some of these things. I can't find Pea and Bean buster on google. And what was mock chops made from? I love to hear about what people ate when they were kids.

@@coffeebot3000 A Buster was chips served with beans or peas. A mock chop was a lump of mechanically recovered meat, shaped like a chop, hence the name. They also did deep fried pizza. We used to fold it in half, and fill it with chips, and eat it like a kebab.

@@DasTubemeister Thanks. I could go for a nice buster.

Out of order.....

A chippy without salt and sauce is like a cheeseburger without ketchup.

My wife a Dundonian herself, reckons that he was 'awfy posh' when she watched the video - ! 😆

@@simongee8928aye, he sounds english

Considering he was an Edinburgh man, but they do sound posh in comparison - ! 😅

Wrapping chips in newspaper died out when printing presses started buying back unsold copies and recycling them. That started in the 70s on a mass scale, so it probably varied by area whether newspaper was used or not.

As a kid in the 60s I would get into terrible trouble if I sprinkled salt over my food, whatever the food was. The only polite way to do it according to my mother was to pour a little heap onto the plate and dip your food in it. I could never understand why my friends sprinkled instead.

Apparently it's still royal etiquette to put a little on the side of the plate and dip

I just got to that bit and thought the same thing 😂

i used to do that with sweet chestnuts

It must be an old fashioned thing. Apparently it's still royal etiquette to do that. Personally I think too much salt would go on each chip 🤷‍♂️

I concur, as a Jock living in England, look forward to heading back north for a chippy. Do bigger naan bread also.

Fyfe was true 'old school'. Prior to salt shakers, salt was served in a..........wait for it...........a 'salt'. A salt was normally silver, about the size of a Bluebell Matchbox and it had a Bristol blue glass liner so as to protect the silver from tarnish. Hope I'm not boring you too much as there's more! There was a tiny wee silver spoon that sat in the salt and you placed a small amount of salt on your plate and whenever something needed salted, you used the tip of your knife to move it on to the piece of meat for example. It was never spread about your food as it may not all have required salt. Salt was very expensive and way back in the day, Roman soldiers were paid in salt! Hence the saying, 'he's worth his salt' (his salary/wage). Now I'm off to do a nice plate of chips for my lunch!

@@chelamcguire Salts have been around since the 16th century. Wonder when someone sprinkled rather than dipped for the first time?

He also had a good run of rationing during the war I'm sure. Good way to not use too much salt.

Salary comes from the Latin word salarium, which also means "salary" and has the Salary comes from the Latin word salarium, which also means "salary" and has the root sal, or "salt." In ancient Rome, it specifically meant the amount of money allotted to a Roman soldier to buy salt, which was an expensive but essential commodity. root sal, or "salt." In ancient Rome, it specifically meant the amount of money allotted to a Roman soldier to buy salt, which was an expensive but essential commodity.

The past is a foreign country…

Tight fisted English? Bailing you out for years!!!! Can't afford to give away chips. Lol

No wonder they were all skinny then.😂😂😂

It's usually cod or haddock. Sometimes plaice

@@katethomas5712 OK, thanks. Where I live the most popular fish is probably flounder or salmon, but cod is pretty easy to find. The fresh water fish we like are trout, catfish, crappie, and bass.

@@Mick_Ts_Chick Interesting. I'm not sure I can imagine some of those fish battered though. I've not heard of crappie?!

@@katethomas5712 Crappie are in lakes and ponds and are a type of sunfish like large mouth bass and bluegill. They are delicious fried! We pretty much fry everything up in the south, lol. I'm in North Carolina.

In Scotland you're much more likely to get haddock as the fish in a fish supper (what we call fish with chips), whereas it's more commonly cod elsewhere.

A proper chippy doesn’t do kebab meat.

Well ya just never know.... 🤔

Unfunny r.sole.

Apparently, there was a study done recently and the favourite take away meal was an Indian Tikka Massala (sp?) - a dish created in Glasow!

@@chelamcguire Where?

@@lilacfloyd British fav take away dish of 2019. Tika Masala. Sorry, no up to date info!