North / South divide question...

[Markymark]

That is fair enough, I suppose.

Actually when I lived in Nottingham (sshh don't tell anyone) I had pretty good curries there.

 

[marknotgeorge]

If served that way I'd expect my chef to reduce the jus or serve it with a foam.

Obvs.

A foam of polymerised aromatic molecules, leavened with a blend of gases?

 

[Markymark]

A foam of polymerised aromatic molecules, leavened with a blend of gases?

Yes, and maybe a pickled egg.

 

[marknotgeorge]

Yes, and maybe a pickled egg.

They have those here too. By which I mean there's usually one bobbing about in an unfeasibly large jar somewhere in view. I haven't actually seen anyone buy one, and I'm not going to ask.

 

[mybike]

Ooh I love steak pudding. Proper, steamed steak pudding. They just don't do them in chippies down here

You could always make your own, I do.

 

[Piemaster]

They have those here too. By which I mean there's usually one bobbing about in an unfeasibly large jar somewhere in view. I haven't actually seen anyone buy one, and I'm not going to ask.

They are for display only. It's how you can tell you're in a proper chippy. Sort of a visual version of a Freemasons handshake.

 

[SteCenturion]

Can I put a word in for steak puddings?

Oh yes please ....

Can't beat a Snake 'n' Pigmy Pudding.

 

[SD1]

It's because we've got things called 'taste' and 'discernment'. Unheard of in the North...

Serving food on pieces of slate?

You sure about that?

The slates are of Northern roofs. They even steal the roof from over are heads...... And then become all pretentious about it. I suspect regurgitater thinks a sushi bar is a fish and chip shop.

 

[SD1]

There's the delineation between (not to put too fine a point on it) "English chippies" and "Chinese chippies". Chinese chippies stay open way later

Pity they finish cooking at 10pm and are still serving the same fish and chips at 1am!

 

[SD1]

Been living up here for 12 years now, and have mostly accommodated these northern culinary delights.
Gravy on chips, mushy peas, pickled red cabbage wi' me 'otpot, teacakes without currants. Still can't get my head round all the chippies closing at 7pm

It's the local type chippies I'm talking about, cos you can still get pretend chips from Chinese takeaways or Bannies.

7pm? Must be Southerners running them. They have to get ready for the dinner. They have dinner at 7pm, according to @martint235.

 

[SD1]

We go to one in prestatyn by my mates caravan, not far from rail station, they do fruit curry, my mates kids are addicted to it on their chips!

Fruit curry was and is the original Chinese chip shop curry.

 

[martint235]

7pm? Must be Southerners running them. They have to get ready for the dinner. They have dinner at 7pm, according to @martint235.

I think Auntie Wainwrights chippy on Beaufort St in Nelson is open later than 7pm but it may have changed since I was last in there.

 

[Dec66]

Steak pudding... Yum...

Are there any Wiganers about to describe to our Southern readers the delights of a "babby's yed flottin' "?

 

[SD1]

I think Auntie Wainwrights chippy on Beaufort St in Nelson is open later than 7pm but it may have changed since I was last in there.

Armstrongs 486 Bury Old Rd, Prestwich, Manchester M25 1NL
You start queuing at least 1 hour before you want it. I have never seen a chippy with a que outside every single time I passed.

Wednesday11:30am–9:30pm
Thursday11:30am–9:30pm
Friday11:30am–9:30pm
Saturday11:30am–6:45pm
Sunday4–9:30pmMonday11:30am–9:30pm
Tuesday11:30am–9:30pm

 

[subaqua]

Gravy is for a roast dinner, sausage and mash and that's it !!!!

no its for going over decent chunky chips , that have been arranged around the edge of a massive yorkshire pudding filled with sausages and mushy peas, and not runny mushy peas either nice thick gloopy ones the onion gravy can mix with.

mmmm hungry now .