accountantpete
OAP
I remember getting chips and gravy wrapped in the Stoke Evening Sentinel after a match in the 60's - it tasted wonderful as I recall although that was probably down to the newspaper wrapping of course.
North / South divide question...
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Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
You can get deep fried mars bars at one Northampton chippy (the one next to the BP at Great Billing) so the North does encroach fair way down.
ayceejay
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Listen up all yon parochial gourmettes
'tis minus 16 in the degrees centigrade ici
and the neige be all around
hot gravy on the poutine is all
a poitrine needs
'tis minus 16 in the degrees centigrade ici
and the neige be all around
hot gravy on the poutine is all
a poitrine needs
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Hacienda71
Mancunian in self imposed exile in leafy Cheshire
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- Wilmslow, Cheshire
My mate from Walsall at uni was fully conversant with chips and gravy, my other mate who was from South Birmingham wasn't, so I assume there is a line running through the Birmingham area where it changes.
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- Manchester
Gravy on your chips 
, don't knock it until you've tried it.
I think it's the difference between a 'chippie' and a 'fish and chip shop.
Having grown up in Hampshire, but lived all my adult life around Salford, I appreciate the differences.
What about 'half rice, half chips and curry sauce'? Actually, I only tried it once!
, don't knock it until you've tried it. I think it's the difference between a 'chippie' and a 'fish and chip shop.
Having grown up in Hampshire, but lived all my adult life around Salford, I appreciate the differences.
What about 'half rice, half chips and curry sauce'? Actually, I only tried it once!
Dec66
A gentlemanly pootler, these days
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- West Wickham
'Kin 'ell... Savages.
There is no finer treat than the "pie dinner" or "sausage dinner"**. This, for those of you unfortunate enough to have been raised in Southern climes, consists of a deep tray of chips, buried with a mass of mushy peas, topped with the aforementioned pie or sausages, and smothered in thick onion gravy.
Southern fish and chips emporia simply do not have the panache, the flair or the daring to offer such delights. It's a cross I must reluctantly bear.
** actually, there is, and it's chips and rice, half and half, drowned with thick gloopy curry sauce and doused in salt and vinegar. Again, unheard of in the south.
There is no finer treat than the "pie dinner" or "sausage dinner"**. This, for those of you unfortunate enough to have been raised in Southern climes, consists of a deep tray of chips, buried with a mass of mushy peas, topped with the aforementioned pie or sausages, and smothered in thick onion gravy.
Southern fish and chips emporia simply do not have the panache, the flair or the daring to offer such delights. It's a cross I must reluctantly bear.
** actually, there is, and it's chips and rice, half and half, drowned with thick gloopy curry sauce and doused in salt and vinegar. Again, unheard of in the south.
AndyRM
XOXO
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- North Shields
Chips and gravy is lovely, but the true winner is chips with chippy sauce, which, sadly, I've never seen in a takeaway outside Edinburgh.
Make your own by mixing brown sauce and vinegar. Ratios to taste, there are no rules.
Make your own by mixing brown sauce and vinegar. Ratios to taste, there are no rules.
- Location
- Manchester
It's actually called 'a chippie tea'!
Piemaster
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Poutine. Yum. And smoked meat. I used to go to Montreal quite a lot 20+ years ago.
There was also a diner on St.Catherines that served breakfast 24 hours a day. Nothing like rolling out of a bar and going for breakfast, sort of having the hangover cure and getting that bit extra in bed before work the following morning. Well, more a bit later on the same morning..
Dec66
A gentlemanly pootler, these days
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- West Wickham
At your end of the East Lancs, perhaps...
ayceejay
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- Rural Quebec
Well now if we want to tread the demographic line accurately how many of the Northern Folk (hairy legs bad haircut) would recognize an eel pie?
DRM
Guru
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- West Yorks
chips & gravy is definitely a Lancashire/Manchester thing, you don't seem to get it this side of the Pennines, although our local fish 'ole has just started selling gravy.
+1 for Edinburgh's salt and sauce, had it on a fish supper up there, I have never seen such a huge portion of fish & chips before, it was like two portions wrapped up together!
+1 for Edinburgh's salt and sauce, had it on a fish supper up there, I have never seen such a huge portion of fish & chips before, it was like two portions wrapped up together!
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Piemaster
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I used to take chips, cheese and gravy when going to see my favorite barmaid in Aberdeen, sadly the pub has now closed, a victim of both 'dry' ships and the current fall in oil prices and its effect on Aberdeen.
Also the first place I heard the term 'fish supper'. Whats that? Fish and chips. 'Pie supper?' Pie and chips, etc.
Also the first place I heard the term 'fish supper'. Whats that? Fish and chips. 'Pie supper?' Pie and chips, etc.
Diggs
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- Billericay, Essex
A friend of mine was on the fringes of the Leyton Orient team many years ago, consequentally we watched a few games.
After a particulally thrilling cup tie against Oldham, I recall two already upset Oldham kids coming out of the chippy saying "What? No gravy?!" Topped off a bad evening for them
After a particulally thrilling cup tie against Oldham, I recall two already upset Oldham kids coming out of the chippy saying "What? No gravy?!" Topped off a bad evening for them
