Good old British chipper tea

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  • BruinsGal_91
    BruinsGal_91 Posts: 1,400 Member
    This whole thread is just making me want fish and chips!!!!

    Me too! Fish, chips and curry sauce. Food of the gods.
  • Dendenium2018
    Dendenium2018 Posts: 3 Member
    So shocking that no one has mentioned having it with a battered sausage, or a steak and kidney pie. Not that it would work with my calorie targets.

    North Midlands (Derbyshire), and its Breakfast, Dinner, and Tea for us.
  • debrag12
    debrag12 Posts: 1,071 Member
    edited October 2018
    So shocking that no one has mentioned having it with a battered sausage, or a steak and kidney pie. Not that it would work with my calorie targets.

    North Midlands (Derbyshire), and its Breakfast, Dinner, and Tea for us.

    North Midlands is it really an area ;) it covers the same areas as the East Midlands, from what I understand it's an informal term/loosely defined area. I'm from the East Midland - Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border.
  • OblasMummy
    OblasMummy Posts: 40 Member


    You're not from the west midlands are you ;) Could be that my mum's side of the family is from Yorkshire, I don't know ;).[/quote]

    No, East Midlands. My husband is from Lancashire but I can no longer remember if he said tea and I just beat it out of him! 😕
  • FL_Hiker
    FL_Hiker Posts: 919 Member
    I generally have breakfast, second breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, and then dinner. But I’m half Scottish and half English so obviously confused. Oh, and it’s got to be salt and sauce on a fish supper!

    Are you sure you’re not a hobbit? 🤨
  • Dendenium2018
    Dendenium2018 Posts: 3 Member
    debrag12 wrote: »
    So shocking that no one has mentioned having it with a battered sausage, or a steak and kidney pie. Not that it would work with my calorie targets.

    North Midlands (Derbyshire), and its Breakfast, Dinner, and Tea for us.

    North Midlands is it really an area ;) it covers the same areas as the East Midlands, from what I understand it's an informal term/loosely defined area. I'm from the East Midland - Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border.

    You're right, and I'd normally say East Midlands, but don't want to be confused with the Lincolnshire lot. I'm also on the border.
  • Tic78
    Tic78 Posts: 232 Member
    debrag12 wrote: »
    Tic78 wrote: »
    Also on a recent trip to NE England I went for my fish supper and I asked for a pickle.

    This led to the guy in the shop taking the pee out me just because I don’t call them pickled onions!

    He was going on a bit like Peter Kay and garlic bread 🥖

    But a pickle isn't a pickled onion, it's a gerkin.

    That must be what it is, the chip shops around here don’t sell gerkins so when people ask for a pickle they know what we mean. Guess regional like you having a chipper
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    Tic78 wrote: »
    This whole thread is just making me want fish and chips!!!!

    Friday is fish supper day is it not?

    Around here almost every restaurant and some Catholic Churches have a Fish Fry every Friday (used to be a lot of churches but most have stopped it). Deep fried fish, fries or potato pancakes, coleslaw, and rye or marble bread served family style.
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    edited October 2018
    Tic78 wrote: »
    debrag12 wrote: »
    Tic78 wrote: »
    Also on a recent trip to NE England I went for my fish supper and I asked for a pickle.

    This led to the guy in the shop taking the pee out me just because I don’t call them pickled onions!

    He was going on a bit like Peter Kay and garlic bread 🥖

    But a pickle isn't a pickled onion, it's a gerkin.

    That must be what it is, the chip shops around here don’t sell gerkins so when people ask for a pickle they know what we mean. Guess regional like you having a chipper

    When traveling through Asia, "pickle" is any veggie in vinegar. Around here, it is a large cucumber in a dill/vinegar brine. A gherkin is a small, sweet pickle.
  • Tic78
    Tic78 Posts: 232 Member
    earlnabby wrote: »
    Tic78 wrote: »
    This whole thread is just making me want fish and chips!!!!

    Friday is fish supper day is it not?

    Around here almost every restaurant and some Catholic Churches have a Fish Fry every Friday (used to be a lot of churches but most have stopped it). Deep fried fish, fries or potato pancakes, coleslaw, and rye or marble bread served family style.

    Yes I think fish Friday is kind of the same deal here.

    This thread is making me hungry, no fish tonight though it’s pizza instead!
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    Tic78 wrote: »
    earlnabby wrote: »
    Tic78 wrote: »
    This whole thread is just making me want fish and chips!!!!

    Friday is fish supper day is it not?

    Around here almost every restaurant and some Catholic Churches have a Fish Fry every Friday (used to be a lot of churches but most have stopped it). Deep fried fish, fries or potato pancakes, coleslaw, and rye or marble bread served family style.

    Yes I think fish Friday is kind of the same deal here.

    This thread is making me hungry, no fish tonight though it’s pizza instead!

    You don't happen to live near a large body of water, do you? I grew up in central Wisconsin and never heard of a Fish Fry. When I moved to Milwaukee in 1980, everyone went. They were huge all up and down eastern Wisconsin, especially the big cities, because 1) Large numbers of Catholics settled here and 2) The proximity of Lake Michigan and its whitefish. Churches would hold fish frys both to provide a Friday fish meal to parishioners and as a fundraiser.
  • motivatedmartha
    motivatedmartha Posts: 1,108 Member
    I'm from the UK and have never called it a 'chipper' tea...

    And yes, it's breakfast, lunch and tea, unless it's Sunday dinner (at lunch or tea time)... or you're my husband (northern) and then it's breakfast dinner and tea...

    May have meant 'Chippy Tea' as in take out from the Fish n Chip shop - lots of people refer to them as the Chippy. Afraid I'm old school - it's sausage and chips or fish and chips as far as I'm concerned. Cheesy chips was a reasonable recent aberration (my daughter loves it) but never heard of it with gravy. Gravy and mushy peas (and scraps) is what thems oop north do :smiley::D:D:p She says while ducking to avoid the missiles heading south.
  • Tic78
    Tic78 Posts: 232 Member
    earlnabby wrote: »
    Tic78 wrote: »
    earlnabby wrote: »
    Tic78 wrote: »
    This whole thread is just making me want fish and chips!!!!

    Friday is fish supper day is it not?

    Around here almost every restaurant and some Catholic Churches have a Fish Fry every Friday (used to be a lot of churches but most have stopped it). Deep fried fish, fries or potato pancakes, coleslaw, and rye or marble bread served family style.

    Yes I think fish Friday is kind of the same deal here.

    This thread is making me hungry, no fish tonight though it’s pizza instead!

    You don't happen to live near a large body of water, do you? I grew up in central Wisconsin and never heard of a Fish Fry. When I moved to Milwaukee in 1980, everyone went. They were huge all up and down eastern Wisconsin, especially the big cities, because 1) Large numbers of Catholics settled here and 2) The proximity of Lake Michigan and its whitefish. Churches would hold fish frys both to provide a Friday fish meal to parishioners and as a fundraiser.

    No I don’t, I was more meaning the religious connotations with fish on a Friday. That’s really interesting about the churches holding fish fry’s, sure they raised plenty of money for good causes.
  • ghudson92
    ghudson92 Posts: 2,061 Member
    I love how wildly off track this post has become :lol:
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    ghudson92 wrote: »
    I love how wildly off track this post has become :lol:

    Well, more like evolved since we ARE still talking about fried fish ;)
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    earlnabby wrote: »
    ghudson92 wrote: »
    I love how wildly off track this post has become :lol:

    Well, more like evolved since we ARE still talking about fried fish ;)

    Plus OP never came back, did they?
  • delaclos99
    delaclos99 Posts: 53 Member
    I really want a chippy tea now. Chips drowning in malt vinegar with plenty of salt, buttered roll on the side for a chip butty. The best things about my chippy are that they do scraps and even a small portion of chips will equate to about half a field of potatoes.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    FL_Hiker wrote: »
    I generally have breakfast, second breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, and then dinner. But I’m half Scottish and half English so obviously confused. Oh, and it’s got to be salt and sauce on a fish supper!

    Are you sure you’re not a hobbit? 🤨

    That was my thought as well!

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