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Hmmm needs more Spam.
The fact that every single fish and chip shop doesn’t do spam butties is a crime,
That’ll be on the adjacent spam board. Spam fritters, spam fritters with cheese in, spam and curry sauce, etc.
Fuck I love spam fritters
Spam, spam, spam, spam, chips, and spam.
Definitely needs “chips chips chips eggs and chips” as well as “lobster thermidore”
lobster thermidore with cheese beans tuna bolognaise curry and gravy please. Hold the slaw.
Chips egg sausage and chips
I’ve always been of the mind that anything over fries/chips fucking rules, but you guys need to chill out.
I want some carne asada fries now.
“Chips, Cheese and Gravy”
So, poutine?
(I’m not Canadian, I just live in the USA near Canada)
yes but the cheese is v different! (curds vs grated mature cheddar)
Has to be cheese curds. Anything else is an insult to Canadian cuisine.
Spam, spam, egg and spam.
Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce served in a Provençale manner with shallots and aubergines, garnished with truffle pâté, brandy and a fried egg on top and Chips.
Are “chips” in this context French fries?
chips aren’t thin French fries, more like steak fries! crisps are great in a butty too tho
Thanks. And crisps are potato chips?
correct!
Are there thin French fries? (Are they called fries?)
Yes, they’re usually called shoestring fries.
Edit: oh, you’re asking the Englishman.
…then what do they call shoestring potatoes?..
all of these things are under the wonderful chippy umbrella of✨🌈 chips 🌈✨
(we’d just call em shoestring chips or even shoestring fries if we were feeling sacrilegious)
Yeh, fries or french fries. Maybe thin cut chips.
Somewhere like McDonald where they only do french fries, we would just ask for chips
It’s a chip shop, what else was anyone expecting? Garlic bread?
Garlic chips at least.
Maybe not garlic bread, but they must have some bread options.
I want a chips & cheese butty*
*bun/roll/cob/breadcake/sandwich, depending on region
what else was anyone expecting?
A more efficient and proper menu board.
Why are they listing every combination of chips instead of simply putting the gravy, cheese etc under a toppings sub section under chips with the price for each topping instead?
It doesn’t add up properly for that.
If chips are £2.20 and cheesy chips are £3, then cheese is 80p. Then if chips, cheese and gravy/curry is £3.50, then gravy or curry is 50p… except if you just get chips and gravy, it’s £2.50, so actually gravy/curry is only 30p, unless you combine it with cheese, in which case it’s more expensive.
Perhaps the main reason is that they can stop someone asking for chips, gravy and curry sauce, which is a crime.
Or the quantities of toppings vary?
A more efficient and proper menu board.
There are many chippies most with efficient menu board design, they just won’t be worthy of doing the rounds on the Internet.
Why are they listing every combination of chips instead of simply putting the gravy, cheese etc under a toppings sub section under chips with the price for each topping instead?
It’s probably influenced by Chinese chippie designs where each dish is assigned a number for ease of ordering.
chips and tuna
That’s not how you do fish and chips 🤢
I know this is about French fries and not potato chips/crisps how I’m thinking of them, but unironically tuna salad on toasted wheat bread piled high with crisps is my go-to comfort food when I’m down. I can only imagine French fries would have a similar vibe. I’d urge you to try IF you like tuna salad anyway.
Crisps / potato chips are also cold though, like tuna generally is, so they do work together. Tuna mayo with crisps works really well.
Chips / fries are hot though, so that heat will warm up the tuna, and lukewarm fish that should be cold is just wrong. Maybe if you had a small portion that you could eat quickly, but I can’t see the appeal.
I could see that. Like, if you weren’t getting specifically a tuna melt, then the heat from the chips could be off putting. I didn’t consider that, I just thought “salty potatoes are great on tuna sandwiches”!
I’ll have a slice of strawberry tart without so much rat in it.
Why didn’t they just have “chips” and then everything else individually listed and I can make my own combination? It’s no difficult to make, and it takes up less space on the board.
Because that way you’d get people asking for unholy abominations such as gravy and curry sauce, tuna and beans, or coleslaw and bolognaise.
This sounds suspiciously like trying to make people do math
Let’s assume the currency is £ (but that doesn’t really matter for the example).
Chips = £2.20
Chips + Cheese = £3.00
That means, that just the Cheese = £3.00 - £2.20 = £0.80
Chips + Beans = £2.50
That means, that just the Beans = £2.50 - £2.20 = £0.30
Chips + Cheese + Beans = £3.50
£2.20 + £0.80 + £0.30 = £3.30
I guess they did this so people don’t notice they are getting ripped off…
Yes, I’ll have the chips, tuna, coleslaw, & curry please.
Maybe I’m too American to understand, but cheesy coleslaw sounds absolutely diabolical.
No one in their right mind would go to a chippy and order coleslaw. Half the time it’s disgusting anyway, but regardless if it’s from a chippy it’ll be soggy
But cheese coleslaw is brilliant.
Are these current prices? Assuming this is from England the cost is USD $4.54.
I can’t find chips, cheese, and gravy anywhere for that price.
Depends where you live in the country - but this looks about right for where I live. The portions aren’t small, either.
The battered fish tend to be quite expensive, but otherwise the fish & chip shop is literally “cheap as chips”.
It’s a bit of an anomaly though - most other hot food places are more expensive, and you can even spend £2-3 on a small pre-packaged triangular sandwich from a supermarket.
The portions aren’t small, either.
I’ve lived abroad for a few years now but where I lived beforehand, a £3 portion of chips could feed a family of four.
torn between chips & curry or chips cheese & curry
You know you’re getting the cheese
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