Good old British chipper tea
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TavistockToad wrote: »This whole thread is just making me want fish and chips!!!!
Me too! Fish, chips and curry sauce. Food of the gods.1 -
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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.
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Dendenium2018 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.
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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! 😕
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tinkerbellang83 wrote: »I think it actually works out a lot more than that, I made the mistake of weighing my chipper (a word I never used in the UK but have started using in Ireland) and even a "small chips" was 400g which comes in at around 900 calories on it's own, then you're probably looking at 400-600 for the fish particularly if it's a heavy batter.
This average portion they speak of is around 280g of chips (1 large potato) and 170g of Fish (around the same size as a chicken breast), anyone ever had a portion of fish and chips that small
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http://www.federationoffishfriers.co.uk/pages/nutritional-info-605.htm
i feel like all my hopes and dreams have been destroyed in one little post.... :laugh: :sad:6 -
claireychn074 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? 🤨3 -
Dendenium2018 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.0 -
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 chipper0 -
TavistockToad 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.1 -
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.1 -
TavistockToad 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!1 -
TavistockToad 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.1 -
TavistockToad wrote: »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
She says while ducking to avoid the missiles heading south. 1 -
TavistockToad 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.0 -
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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.0
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claireychn074 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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