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Imagine this: Its January , its 5pm and its pitch black, windy and it's been raining for 3 months straight. You eventually leave work and walk home in the rain, on your way back you pick up a chippy tea. You get home soaking and cold, you go into the kitchen, open up that bag and then the smell and steam hits you. You then lie on the sofa for an hour, stuffing your face and watching TV - that is the majesty of fish n chips, sir, right there!
Having your fish & chips, you should have covered them in salt & vinegar, and have ketchup on the side, along with your curry sauce, gravy ? and MUSHY PEAS, ( add a little mint sauce to the peas) also to be eaten with a slice of bread, or a bread cake, and washed down with a cup of tea, pickled onions and pickled eggs are optional. 😊😊😊 🇬🇧
@user-xz4rn8ho7r it's all about choice ? which they don't seem to have much of down south. You could have all of those conderments if you like, but traditionally in my neck of the woods, it's fish ( mostly haddock, not cod) chips, and mushy peas, covered with salt & vinegar ( sarsons vinegar) and heinz tomatoe ketchup and maybe a sachet or 2 of tarta sauce, if your posh, never with a slice of lemon, you chose what size fish you want, small, medium, or large, depending on you appetite.
british fish n chips rules, for me no1...must be a good chippy though thats highly recommended from good reviews as there are some places that are not so great
I know right like pick a hand and go with if FFS. They seem to have a blind spot where they just ignore how much time they spend passing the fork back and forth.
Exactly what I was about to say. Although I find it way more irritating than entertaining. I think I was taught to use cutlery PROPERLY when I was a CHILD!
@@shaunhandley3050 It's not the same, fully agree with the comment and feel your pain!! Been living in China for over 4 years now, tried making my own a few times but nahh. Just can't beat a good old UK chippy!
@@Charlie.202 It's not the same, it's better lol I make a fish n chips every week in our house and everyone prefers it over a chip shop. I do proper chippy chips from potatoes aswell as mushy peas and curry sauce. If someone prefers a battered sausage instead of fish then I'll do sausages aswell.
We are frequent travelers to the UK (from US) and sometimes our lack of good fish makes us sad. Whenever we return one of the first things we seek is proper fish and chips, a Scotch Egg, and a proper pint.
@@bookie5667 Yorkshire gave us all 1. Yorkshire puddings...2. Cricket legends=Geoffery Boycott nuff said...3. Stainless steel which we now use every day, is widely believed to have been discovered in 1913 by Sheffield-born metallurgist Harry Brearley..4. The Brontë Sisters..he books have been adapted for radio, TV, the silver screen and the stage - and Kate Bush’s musical tribute to Heathcliff and Cathy is a stalwart at most karaoke nights..5. The first commercial steam train..When we think of the early steam train, it’s George Stephenson’s Rocket that springs to mind. However, the first commercially viable steam locomotive, called Salamanca, was in fact designed and built by manufacturer Matthew Murray in 1812 - in Holbeck, West Yorkshire,,i could go on but you get my point
When it comes to chip shop curry sauce it's completely it's own animal. It ain't no korma, it ain't no madras. It's completely it's own animal and what a beautiful animal it is
Yes I'm 65 years old born and lived here in the UK all my life. I only tried curry sauce last year for the first time never fancied trying it until we stay with friends in Nottingham they got a fish&chip supper. And my friend Melvin ordered curry sauce. He said try it And I did , 😋😋 what have I been missing all these years simply lovely.
Bristish Fish & Chips! 🤤JOY!!! 🤗 ...I grew up to 80's beer batter fish and chips, mushy peas, salt, vinegar with extra scap (batter) on newspaper wrapper😌❤❤❤
Oh yeah, in the town were I grew up, we had a chippy which had the absolute best chip shop curry you have ever tasted. My girlfriend at the time made me go across town to get some. Didn't drive, no buses. So I hiked 2 miles there and 2 miles back, probably jogged as I was fit in those days. Things you do for love hey. She pissed off to Canada a couple of years later and married her cousin. But she never had that curry again! Karma.
@@katiewillison2730it's pretty much a Japanese curry sauce. You can buy it online in huge blocks like stock cubes but 10xthe size. Or you can make your own. Lots or recipes online but I dont get what the deal is with the lumps
We use different peas for mushy peas too which taste different to normal garden peas, they're called marrowfat peas, glad you enjoyed your chippy experience, also chip shop curry sauce is more a sort of Chinese style curry, it's so good, I love the stuff, another thing to try is chips drenched in gravy, more a Northern thing really, and with a meat pie it's lovely, I think that's also a big thing down under actually.
@@psilocyble3053 I grow peas, Marrowfat peas are a different variety to normal garden peas, but you're right that marrowfat peas are harvested later and allowed to dry on the plant, there are loads of varieties of peas.
Remember, if your here visiting and out and about, for a quick lunch, you cannot go wrong with a simple "chip butty" with scraps (There are a few names for 'scraps', but, it's just a serving of little bits of cooked batter) and lashings of salt and vinegar... Really tasty and it'll keep you going for hours! :)
We have been everywhere and tasted everything, and we know food. That is why we picked these things, because they taste amazing. Curry is so nice, it has become our national dish, but Fish and Chips is in our hearts!
Pickled onion✅️ Bread and butter✅️✅️ Pickled Egg🤬 Gherkin🤬 Savaloy🤬 What kind of foreign hell on earth country do you come from to think that is acceptable chippy food?? Oh yeah, London.
I can understand if yr sitting indoors why not use a plate and fork,, but usually its widely acceptable that this is the ultimate finger food !! (or you can get a traditional two pronged wooden chip fork, that kinda looks like the lil spoon paddle that u used to get w small tubs of ice cream)
THANK YOU!!! Now we just need to get him up north and away from that Rupert he's got with him on this video and he can try a proper chippy the proper way with proper fish and accompaniments.
I think Americans who say fish & chips is bad generally fall into two camps - either people who've never tried it and just believe the old line about all English food being bad, or people who have had some incredibly poor imitation in a restaurant/bar back home. The first of those probably dates back to tales from soldiers stationed here during WWII, when the country's food ingredients were rationed, or maybe a bit of snobbery from other countries due to the fact that British cuisine is 'comfort food', rather than fine dining.
There's a 3rd camp: They had it in a tourist trap place in London, usually a pub where they just heat something up instead of doing it properly like a chippy would. Greenwich is a hot-spot for those kinds of places. Fish & Chips needs to be from a dedicated fish & chip shop. Occasionally a restaurant will do a good job, but usually not.
Most UK fish and chips is poor and I say that as someone who grew up two doors down from one the the very best shops. It's now used as an Asian money laundering and drug distribution business.
I'm a Brit living in Yuma Arizona . This is cruel and unusual punishment , you can't do this to me . Here in America the septics haven't got a clue about fish and chips . There's a Brit pub in San Diego called the Shakespeare bar and grill . They do a pretty good fish and chips , the best i've found so far , except the batter is beer batter. I'll keep looking .They sell shepherds pie here made with beef and peas and seet corn . I keep telling them , that isn't shepherds pie .
😅 you poor man, i live in brum but still know a good chippy. Have you tried pointing out that shepherds look after sheep? I'll forgive them for the sweetcorn as that sounds okay. Haven't heard 'septics' in a while, i read they call them 'seppo's' in australia though.
Beer batter only works if it's John Smiths bitter, i tried with beer (lager) once with budweiser and it was crap, not crispy and bubbly batter like you get with John Smiths bitter!
Whoooooa, sweetcorn in Shepherd's pie? Are you mad? If they're gonna get it wrong, beef when it should be lamb isn't as bad a crime as putting the devil's food in it.@@seldom_bucket
@ajslambino fantastic, if you come to Scotland and go a chippy up here, then you can get battered hamburgers, pizzas and even Mars bars! Also, you need to have a proper Sunday roast dinner with all the trimmings. Especially Yorkshire puddings with a ton of gravy over it all. Irn Bru is also our nation's soft drink. A full Scottish fry up also. There's a Full English which is great but the Full Scottish has so much more going on. Namely, the square sausage and potato scones (tattie scones) Also, sausage rolls and steak pasties and steak pies are more staple foods. We do great stews and casseroles in the UK as well. And be sure to go to a great Indian restaurant as the British Indian food is incredible!
Definitely add salt and vinegar and try it, and a pool of tomato sauce on the side of the plate. Sometimes I find a chippy where the chips are so soggy and gorgeous that I just go salt & vinegar 🤤
Fish needs to be cooked when you order it. Having it in a warmer does it no favours. I've only ever found one decent fish and chip shop in London. Most serve up crap that has been sitting in a warmer for hours. Come to NZ for decent F&C...
I'm not sure I think of Guildford when I think of good fish and chips but, to be fair, there are good chippies all over the UK..... more good ones than bad, IMO.
I like the way it took them about 30 seconds to understand the basics of eating fish and chips. He started putting fish chips and peas together and involuntarily carried on, and on, and on.
Please, for your sake, get rid of whoever that Rupert is that is feeding you savaloy and telling you to use cutlery, only in London. Whitby is the best place but nowhere much south of Birmingham is worth it, you probably had Cod too, its haddock up north, major difference being that haddock has flavour. If you leave London you can try a proper fish cake too that has never seen mashed potato or breadcrumbs. You literally couldn't have found a worse place within these Isles than the enclave colony of Londumb. It would be less offensive to be having a battered Mars bar in Glasgow and being told that's traditional. Get rid of the Rupert who clearly only ever had fish and chips on his gap yah from private school the absolute muppet.
Your correct about Whitby, best fish and chips i have eaten in my life was from a restaurant there right out on one of the piers, cant remember the name of it…
@@stepheno1870 I'm not aware of any being actually on the pier, but if you got them and walked out there, they were hopefully from Quayside or Trenchers.
I live in Norfolk .. we often go to the coast (Sheringham) where there is a fish and chip shop that cooks in beef dripping .. it's just heaven on a plate .. a cut above other fish and chip shops
The HOT dog is nice with mustard weak or strong.Chips you can put anything on them like brown sauce,Ketchup or Mayonnaise,or vinigar.also you could add to your meal pickled onions.My favorite is plenty of scraps
The thing is it can be done in the US but do not add what the US wants you to have ie certain ingredients.The batter has to be made correctly and the fish dipped into it,chips have to have the right cooking oil but as I say again you MUST stick to UK way of doing the fish & chips it will bring rewards to the place you sell them.The ideal place to get noticed is have a building close to where people live and have it open to your desire but night time is good for a night supper or dinner time around 12 noon.You have to get all the information for cooking,The cooking items and all clock time for everthing you would prepare to sell,on the side you can sell vinigar,pop drinks,extras like pickled onions,have a restaurant in the same buliding,portions want to be in different sizes like tubs of curry sause large small etc,fish large and small,chips large and small,Scraps(off the batter you make but when the fish is cooked it leaves batter in the oil).If you do it right you will attrack the public and it will spread to a wider field.As I said before you need to be close to the public houses. It's ideal for workers to get home and have a meal too.Have a delivery service too but local to have the meal hot when it gets to the customer.A good Fish & Chip shop smell will bring in customers too.
I never get vinegar in the shop cause I think they steam the chips making them soggy on the way home. I then drown it ALL in vinegar and a bit of salt. I’d forgo the saveloy meself. But I’d have vinegar on the curry sauce and mushy peas.
Yes, but you have to completely drown the Fish and the Chips in malt vinegar (Sarsons) and cover them in salt, before you eat them. Vinegar before salt. And far more of both than you think you need. That's the only way to eat them properly; especially in the North of England, where they originated.
100% agree. Vinegar before salt because the vinegar helps the salt to stick to the chips, the other way round the vinegar washes the salt from the chips.
The saveloy is an acquired taste and far inferior to the battered sausage. If it’s not deep fried I don’t know why it’s sold at a chippy tbh it’s like my mate who used to get a pie?! 😮
Live in the states and have tried the fish and chips they have here in many different places. The chips are usually still just french fries and the fish come in small dry pieces rather than a single piece of good quality fish. Batter is always wrong. The one place i did enjoy was in Las Vegas, but that was Gordon Ramseys Fish & Chips :)
As a Yank that has travelled in the UK quite a bit, I sympathize. An ex-boss of mine moved to Florida from here in the PNW and found good F & C, he's been permanently spoiled (by his own admission).
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No because he was with some Rupert that took him to a london chippy fed him cod and a savaloy and told him to use cutlery, I'm surprised mayonnaise didn't get put on it or some nonsense
Heathens NO curry sauce on fish and chips! Just put your mushy peas on the plate and cover your fish and chips with salt and vinegar and a dollop of tomato sauce! Curry sauce is for chips you get from the Chinese takeaway!
Many years ago I found a resturant in San Diego Old Town that did really good Fish and Chips - they even sent out for malt vinegar for us and it was on the table the next visit. I hope it is still there - The Brigantine
As most Brits are commenting on....Fish & Chips (or sausage etc)...means for the *real* taste, you have gotta have _some_ Salt & Vinegar sprinkled on them (start little and then add when you see the diff). Without, it's just nice, or 'OK'....
Sorry for butting in but I agree it's much better when the shop person puts the shops salt&vinegar on 😂😂😂 I never can put the right amount the same way they do 😂
