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Tartar sauce and vinegar are absolutely essential. But I mean real loving tartar sauce. A lot of shops around here will just serve up packets of Heinz Tartar Sauce, which is just heinous and totally inexcusable. Nothing ensures "I won't be coming back" from me more than a packet of Heinz tartar sauce.
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Theglavwen posted:real loving tartar sauce. This, a thousand times. Heinz Tartar sauce is an abomination that the world needs to be cleaned of. If you're not gonna bother putting in an effort then why should I bother paying for it.
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In my childhood (70's-80's), my family would make day trips to the coast (specifically to Hayling Island), and have fish and chips for tea on the beach (usually sitting in the car, because English Weather). We always got the fish and chips from The Sombrero Fish Bar. They used to list the cod in four sizes "Small", "Medium", "Large" and "Bloody Huge". A photo of Mr Wood showing the stab wound. Reports indicate that Mr Wood is a phoney, based on the fact that he bought pie and chips, and no fish was involved.
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My tea: Not the best chippy in the world but it filled the gap. I give it 6.5 out of 10.
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Theglavwen posted:Tartar sauce and vinegar are absolutely essential. But I mean real loving tartar sauce. A lot of shops around here will just serve up packets of Heinz Tartar Sauce, which is just heinous and totally inexcusable. Nothing ensures "I won't be coming back" from me more than a packet of Heinz tartar sauce. What region are you in, though? Are there definitive tartar sauce vs. curry sauce vs. brown sauce regions/towns, or is it more of a personal preference thing?
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Sorry to everyone who does not have access to fresh North Atlantic fish, your life of ignorance is probably for the best though please continue believing that your West Coast/Gulf of Mexico fish is edible. Gonna go eat some more delicious fish&chips now.
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Theglavwen posted:Tartar sauce and vinegar are absolutely essential. But I mean real loving tartar sauce. A lot of shops around here will just serve up packets of Heinz Tartar Sauce, which is just heinous and totally inexcusable. Nothing ensures "I won't be coming back" from me more than a packet of Heinz tartar sauce. Tartar sauce is for scampi not fish and chips  Gravy or curry sauce is the only acceptable thing to put on your chips.
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I'm in Fife in Scotland at the moment, but vinegar and tartar sauce with your fish is more or less universal, as far as I've seen. People'll have almost anything with their chips though, I do enjoy curry sauce myself, but only if I'm having them with something other than fish.Limp Wristed Limey posted:Tartar sauce is for scampi not fish and chips You're a mad man and I'll fight you for it! *Edit: To be fair though, when I say tartar sauce is the essential accompaniment, I wasn't speaking as a strictly regional thing, but as both what I enjoy, and what I've found to be 'the standard' generally speaking. While around here specifically, Fish and Chips is typically served just with salt, vinegar and a lemon, they do keep tartar sauce on hand for people who request it, and I've found it to be the standard accompaniment in Canada and Australia. Theglavwen fucked around with this message at Feb 12, 2013 around 19:37 |
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I have never once eaten fish and chips, or eaten anything that I have called "my tea". I am proud of that last part in particular  But there must be something special about fish and chips if they can command most of a mugging victims attention during said mugging. I now feel the urge to go eat some fish and chips. Twilight Matrix posted:Sorry to everyone who does not have access to fresh North Atlantic fish, your life of ignorance is probably for the best though please continue believing that your West Coast/Gulf of Mexico fish is edible. Gonna go eat some more delicious fish&chips now. Psshhh, west coast seafood is far more advanced (and why are you lumping in the Pacific ocean with that oil-puddle called the Gulf of Mexico?). You east coasters think you have it special with your stupid clam bakes and your chowders and your lobsters and your crab cakes. Well I can eat all that poo poo here too, but we also have dungeness crabs, which are superior to blue crabs and lobsters combined and we have more/better salmon than you, and our ocean is bigger and can beat up your ocean.
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What if we advance fish and chips to the next level. Wine battered great white shark fried in duck fat with a rose mary wasabi cream based dip and potato skins only stuffed, with optional poutine.
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Pacific halibut or gulf grouper are also both amazing fried in batter. Hell, even shark, as in fish tacos from somewhere like Ensenada: Double fried in delicious pure lard 
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Rah! posted:Psshhh, west coast seafood is far more advanced (and why are you lumping in the Pacific ocean with that oil-puddle called the Gulf of Mexico?). You east coasters think you have it special with your stupid clam bakes and your chowders and your lobsters and your crab cakes. Well I can eat all that poo poo here too, but we also have dungeness crabs, which are superior to blue crabs and lobsters combined and we have more/better salmon than you, and our ocean is bigger and can beat up your ocean. This is true, actually. North Atlantic fish is great, but North-west Pacific has the far superior crab (although I suppose it's a wash with the Atlantic's superior Lobster), and, frankly, nothing beats Pacific North-West Halibut. Gatts posted:What if we advance fish and chips to the next level. Wine battered great white shark with a rose mary wasabi cream based dip and potato skins only stuffed, with optional poutine. Fuuuuuuuuuuck
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Theglavwen posted:This is true, actually. North Atlantic fish is great, but North-west Pacific has the far superior crab (although I suppose it's a wash with the Atlantic's superior Lobster), and, frankly, nothing beats Pacific North-West Halibut. COOKED IN DUCK FAT SERVED WITH CHOCOLATE TRUFFLE MILKSHAKE WITH HIMALAYAN SEA SALT.
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Gatts posted:COOKED IN DUCK FAT SERVED WITH CHOCOLATE TRUFFLE MILKSHAKE WITH HIMALAYAN SEA SALT. Don't forget the Cambodian breast milk. This thread is making me hungry...and I gotta say that this poo poo: Cream_Filling posted:Pacific halibut or gulf grouper are also both amazing fried in batter. Hell, even shark, as in fish tacos from somewhere like Ensenada: Is truly worth sustaining stab wounds for.
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Gatts posted:COOKED IN DUCK FAT SERVED WITH CHOCOLATE TRUFFLE MILKSHAKE WITH HIMALAYAN SEA SALT. The gently caress is this, Taco Town?
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Limp Wristed Limey posted:My tea: This certainly looks a lot more like proper fish and chips than the last pictures. Chip quantity is much better (though still lower than what I'm used to), though there's something slightly off about the look... maybe they should be slightly darker? I'm not sure. The fish size is definitely right, though the batter should be crispier than that looks. That just seems a little too greasy and therefore soggy. Also, batter appears to be missing from some of the fish. I am sure that is just due to how it was handled, though it should have held better than that. Oh God I am such a snob about this stuff. Curse not being in the UK right now and thus able to provide photographic evidence of the best fish and chips around! The funny thing is that I am originally from Kent and the chip shop that I think is by far the best is most similar (food-wise) to chip shops that I went to up north. At least I have one to go to!
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Yuncemil posted:This certainly looks a lot more like proper fish and chips than the last pictures. Chip quantity is much better (though still lower than what I'm used to), though there's something slightly off about the look... maybe they should be slightly darker? I'm not sure. It was a solid performance but certainly not the best. The chippy was only 3 mins away in the car so I cant complain too much. The fish was too greasy (Haddock) and it fell to bits just getting the paper off. The chip butty was glorious though.
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Look what you made me do thread! The chips don't look like much, but they were amazingly greasy and crunchy. Fish was pretty good too, especially considering I'm from the Great Lakes, and therefore nowhere near a fresh source of cod.
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Rah! posted:Don't forget the Cambodian breast milk. This thread is making me hungry...and I gotta say that this poo poo: Of course. That's what the Great White Shark meat will be marinated overnight in. hcreight posted:The gently caress is this, Taco Town? Heathen! We are advancing the cause of Fish and Chips! Fine, how about tater tots, only while being battered the tots include banana, jalapeno, poblano, habanero peppers and cream cheese. So cheesy pepper potato tots. Dipped in a sweet mustard type sauce to offset the wasabi type sauce for the fish. Gatts fucked around with this message at Feb 12, 2013 around 22:33 |
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A whole thread about fish and chips and no one to represent welsh coastal towns?! The best fish and chips are golden greasy with a ton of salt and vinegar in paper that goes see through as you hold it. You can't do better than Eddie's in Wrexham or the university chip shop in bangor .
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Jewcoon posted:Look what you made me do thread! Is that lake perch then? Ain't nothing wrong with lake perch, son! Especially if we're talking Lake Michigan.
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utada posted:Is that lake perch then? Ain't nothing wrong with lake perch, son! Especially if we're talking Lake Michigan. Cod actually. Which as far as I know dont exist outside the atlantic  .
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Jewcoon posted:Cod actually. Which as far as I know dont exist outside the atlantic Ah, I mis-read that. I thought you were saying that you had fish that wasn't cod because you'd gotten fish and chips from someplace near the Great Lakes and thus didn't have access to fresh cod but something else.
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Love this thread. Food derails and regional trash talking.
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Jeza posted:This story really makes you think. You or I could be stabbed by a screwdriver literally at any time - even while eating fish and chips. Last time I was in A&E a month ago there was some poor rear end in a top hat that got clobbered over the head with a bottle while he was out getting fish and chips. He was attacked by 3 women and 1 bloke. The 3 women punched him while the bloke snuck up behind him and clobbered him. "We want your fish, your chips and your iPhone" I'd say I'd never eat fish and chips again, but a new place has recently opened near me in a sometimes rough area. It's really quite good so I'm prepared to take the risk. Stiff upper lip and all that, plus it's so hard to find great fish and chips these days. The one down the end of my road boasts of its awards in its windows but the chips are soggy and the fish batter is limp and greasy. I've noticed that the fish and chips shops in my area tend to up their game when they know there's a competition for best f&c on. Afterwards they go back to being mediocre at best. I'd also recommend buying a jar of Tescos Finest Tartare Sauce. It's super! It's tangy! It has capers! None of that wishy washy Hellmans crap in a squirty packet. I prefer to have it with lemon rather than malt vinegar, but that's a matter of taste. I believe that fish and chips should not be sullied with brown sauce or tomato sauce. VoodooSchmoodoo fucked around with this message at Feb 13, 2013 around 06:24 |
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Heaps of salt, heaps of vinegar. Carried home in paper. Fast food that doesn't have to be consumed while pissed. God I feel homesick now. I have HP sauce on mine, but then I would have that on pretty much everything if I could, which is apparently a bit weird. At least you know it's not horse.
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Gambrinus posted:
How can you be sure, everything else is 
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Jewcoon posted:Cod actually. Which as far as I know dont exist outside the atlantic Nah, Pacific Cod's huge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_cod
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Removed a "what's the big deal with horse" post after peeking at the dedicated thread and realizing it was rather silly!
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Limp Wristed Limey posted:My tea: I have that ruler. It's a great ruler.
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I wanted to try this place when I was in staying in the area, but they were closed at the time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJePyfBCtTo#t=128s
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drat, I love fish and chips. I had it like, three days ago. I have had many fish and chips from across the world and I have to say that australia has the best. I remember going to the fish and chips shop when I was a kid and getting a ridiculous amount of fat chips for like, 2 dollars. Fish and chips are great. I wish this dude pulled out the lemon wedge and squeezed it into the assailant's eyes.
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I saw a map of the UK years ago showing which areas predominantly eat haddock, which eat cod and which eat plaice, turbot etc (animals). Does anyone know what I'm talking about? It was very interesting because I assumed everyone ate haddock, but apparently a big chunk of the country is made up of cod-gobbling poofs. If anyone has this map I'd be grateful. Also, some haddock.
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Gatts posted:Good fish and chips are pretty loving awesome. What the hell is that crap supposed to be? I'm assuming you've never had proper fish and chips in the UK. That fish looks like some processed poo poo that came out of a freezer, and don't even get me started on those "chips" - they look McDonald's fries or something. Mr. Gibbycrumbles fucked around with this message at Feb 13, 2013 around 12:59 |
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Fish & chips is one of those things I regret never actually having tried while in the UK and I'm not sure there's anywhere here in Sweden that can do it justice. I'd love to be proven wrong, though.
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Mr. Gibbycrumbles posted:What the hell is that crap supposed to be? I'm assuming you've never had proper fish and chips in the UK. I've been to London for 5 days, had a few fish and chips. Problem being I didn't do my research at the time and ate at whatever sit down restaurant for them. I've eaten Fish and Chips in the U.S. and Dubai as well. It was better than in London but that's probably because I didn't eat at the right place.
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FYI, goons living in Portland, OR are lucky enough to have access to genuine British fish & chips. This place opened when I lived there - it's absolutely authentic but also makes allowances for local tastes (tartar sauce & side salads provided, etc). Fish & chips to take away is the real deal, down to the chip shop paper. Apparently the business has spread into the building next door now and the owner has made a Doctor Who theme pub. http://thefishandchipshop.com/index.html You're welcome. Only place I have had proper fish & chips in the US. I had disappointing fish and chips many, many times in the US. I think the most disappointing was the Horse Brass - authentic British pub my arse. Fish and fries, Bangers and mash with no peas or gravy? gently caress off. Decent pub otherwise though.
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Gatts posted:I've been to London for 5 days, had a few fish and chips. Problem being I didn't do my research at the time and ate at whatever sit down restaurant for them. I've eaten Fish and Chips in the U.S. and Dubai as well. It was better than in London but that's probably because I didn't eat at the right place. Yeah, fish and chips in restaurants are generally not the real thing. You need to find a proper "chippy". I've heard of a few proper chippies that are also sit-down restaurants but these are rare.
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God drat I'm taking my girlfriend to an Italian restaurant in an hour and all I wanna do is go to my local chippy  .
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This thread is making me crave taco chips and a batter burger. Sadly, I am having a roast this evening. Also, does Britain do the national fish and chips day? Fresh cod is like one euro fifty and they make a serious effort for it to be tasty glorious.
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