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ukrainius maximus posted:Arthur Ave. up in the lovely Bronx still keeps it going pretty well for the most part but I definitely agree with you about fake Little Italy down in Manhattan. Stay out of my neighborhood you goons! But yes seriously it's the only "real" Little Italy left in NYC. Go to Calandra's for cheese, they make it on site (my brother worked there for 6 years) but be advised the line can go down the block. Especially near Easter. Fish and chips are great but the pub near me makes it too watery so I usually pass. But I do love me some malt vinegar on chips!
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Funkysauce posted:Stay out of my neighborhood you goons! But yes seriously it's the only "real" Little Italy left in NYC. Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge in Brooklyn are still very Italian, and I don't think many tourists go there. And Staten Island is definitely very Italian in many areas. Although much like the original Little Italy, Bensonhurst is increasingly Chinese.
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If you're so keen to them, why don't you just marry a fryer and make your own fries? You fry them. They are fries. Chips are baked (preferably), and crunch when you bite them. Fahrenheit is dumb though, I'll give you that.
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Funkysauce posted:Stay out of my neighborhood you goons! But yes seriously it's the only "real" Little Italy left in NYC. Go to Calandra's for cheese, they make it on site (my brother worked there for 6 years) but be advised the line can go down the block. Especially near Easter. And then go to Borgotti's to get some ravioli! This thread is making me want fish and chips. Any good places in NY? Also, to get back to the original post, the story reminds me of the NYC guy who broke up a fight on the subway while happily stuffing his face with chips (crisps). http://gothamist.com/2012/04/10/pot...stops_fight.php
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PringleCreamEgg posted:Man falls on screwdriver, makes up a story to make it sound way cooler. But did he hold on to his fish and chips?
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Lancashire? Yorkshire? South Wales? Nope, the best fish and chips in the UK is in Somerset. Glastonbury precisely, home to Knights, the oldest fish and chip shop in the UK. They have the most amazing pea fritters there too.
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Mrs. Mahler posted:This thread is making me want fish and chips. Any good places in NY? I've had good experiences with both A Salt and Battery in northern Greenwich Village off of 14th Street and 8th and Chipshop on 5th Avenue and 7th in Park Slope, Brooklyn. There's also another Chipshop over by the Barclay's Center off of Atlantic, but I'm not really clear where. Chipshop is a bit cheaper and is a sit down type place with table service, while A Salt and Battery is a bit more expensive and feels a bit more authentic as a place where you go and just get fish. It's also right next a tea shop called Tea and Sympathy, owned by the same people. Both of the restaurants are run by English expats, so you should have no problem with the quality of the food. A Salt and Battery doesn't serve Cod anymore, since they say its overfished, and have switched to Pollock instead, but they're pretty much just there for fish and chips. Chipshop has a lot more British food besides fish and chips like pies and stuff. Man, talking about all of this has made me crave fish and chips now...
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Divine Disclaimer posted:If you're so keen to them, why don't you just marry a fryer and make your own fries? Baked chips are a crime against snackdom. You should be ashamed. But I do think that "crisps" is arguably more descriptive and accurate than "chips." And this is speaking as an American. When you think of wood chips, you don't think of thin slices of wood, either. Of course, this would then usurp the US definition of crisps, which means dough formed into a thin shape and then fried crisp (e.g., Pringles). And it would cut loose tortilla chips, though I suppose tortilla crisps is still acceptable and makes sense. I will instead defend Fahrenheit for thermostats and environmental temperatures, because one degree celsius is a bit too coarse compared to one degree Farenheit, but adding decimals to temperatures is just clunky.
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I can't believe nobody has mentioned Suffolk yet, the home of Adnams Ale and inbreeders! In particular there is a place on the coast at Dunwich called Doris' Cafe which is literally 30 meters from the sea. they close every day at 5 but this is only because they run out of fish. you see they get their fish direct from the fishermen who fish in the North sea in their small tugs and drag their boats back onto the beach at around 8am so every day they have a specials board with whatever else the fisherman manage to catch that day. Mostly it is lemon sole or skate, but sometimes they have lobster or crab. The fish is so fresh it's practically still moving, and they have the whole Adnams ale batter down to a tee to go with it. Anyone who gets fish and chips from London and thinks it is anything like the real thing is horribly mistaken. Even my local chippy will serve you a medium haddock which is almost a foot long with a bag of chips that could feed a small family for a week, and that's for about a fiver! 
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Limp Wristed Limey posted:My tea: I didn't notice at first but the ruler is sitting on a hamburger bun or "bap". A local restaurant does "gourmet" burgers and one is fish and chips in a bun. Where does this fit in the realm of fish and chips? Is it common in certain areas? Does it have a proper name?
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Cpt.Wacky posted:I didn't notice at first but the ruler is sitting on a hamburger bun or "bap". A local restaurant does "gourmet" burgers and one is fish and chips in a bun. Where does this fit in the realm of fish and chips? Is it common in certain areas? Does it have a proper name? Thats a bread cake not a hamburger bun. You buy the bread cake to put chips in. The bread cake and the chips together create a chip butty. Chip buttys are delicious and should always be created.
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The best fish and chips I ever ate was from Aldeburgh, I think it's because the fish has to travel so far to get to the frier and then my face
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Limp Wristed Limey posted:Thats a bread cake not a hamburger bun. You buy the bread cake to put chips in. The bread cake and the chips together create a chip butty. Chip buttys are delicious and should always be created. With scraps, you've got to have scraps in there. Just now, I live 900km from the sea in the middle of China. The picture that Limp Limey posted almost made me weep.
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Its like a quarter to 4 in the morning and this drat thread makes me want to go to a chippy. Fucks sake.
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This thread made me really hungry for fish and chips after talking about them earlier, so I went to Chipshop in Park Slope and indulged myself. So drat full right now...
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Limp Wristed Limey posted:Thats a bread cake not a hamburger bun. You buy the bread cake to put chips in. The bread cake and the chips together create a chip butty. Chip buttys are delicious and should always be created. Yeah, just in case you haven't got enough carbs with the whole "chips" thing. I never understood chip butties. I mean, how could bread be tastier than, I dunno, more chips? Anyway this thread has made me take a trip to my chippy for two evenings in a row. Now I've got to diet for the rest of the week, but it was worth it.
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I'm another one of those who prefers a battered jumbo sausage with my chips when I go to the chippy, but these days I live in Finland, where there are no chippies and the closest I can get to a decent British sausage is a German-style bratwurst. I miss my sausage suppers enough I would happily take a knife for one. I'm half-serious.
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Rah! posted:You east coasters think you have it special with your stupid clam bakes and your chowders and your lobsters and your crab cakes. The North Atlantic does have two sides to it, you know 
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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. The coleslaw is also a bit of an American giveaway. Motherfuckers can't get enough coleslaw with their 'fish and chips' 
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gently caress I made a big pan of baked steel-cut oats and now I want deep-fried fish and greasy potatoes. Do any San Francisco goons have a favorite fish and chips shop in the city?
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Otik posted:I'm another one of those who prefers a battered jumbo sausage with my chips when I go to the chippy, but these days I live in Finland, where there are no chippies and the closest I can get to a decent British sausage is a German-style bratwurst. Whenever my mum would go to the chippy I would always ask her to get me a big sausage not. Not that I enjoyed eating it or anything, just the thought of my mum asking for one amused me.
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devious pudding posted:Lancashire? Yorkshire? South Wales? Finally some sense in this thread. Somerset is great for it, and I'll add cornwall to that too. Freshly caught in the morning, then battered as gently caress by lunch. Also not to be a party pooper or anything but if you guys do have some fish and chips please don't get Atlantic Cod, Hake or Haddock. Populations of all of those fish are close to collapse and will be extinct very soon thanks to ridiculous fishing quotas.
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devious pudding posted:Lancashire? Yorkshire? South Wales? My aunt lives near Papa's Fish Bar in Weston-Super-Mare and I submit that establishment as a paragon of fishy wonder. Provincial fast food rivalry ITT
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NaDy posted:Finally some sense in this thread. Somerset is great for it, and I'll add cornwall to that too. Freshly caught in the morning, then battered as gently caress by lunch. Now you have made me want to eat them more!
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Dravs posted:I can't believe nobody has mentioned Suffolk yet, the home of Adnams Ale and inbreeders! Don't forget the Aldeburgh chippies. On a hot day you can find queues at both shops, stretching all the way through the town. Or (and this is the only reason to ever go there) Papa Noel's in Ipswich. edit: Beaten. Balls.
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"Is that a screwdriver?" "A phillips screwdriver... the worst kind!"
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Socket Ryanist posted:"Is that a screwdriver?" Actually probably not: http://link.springer.com/article/10...-0562-9?LI=true Quantification of forces required for stabbing with screwdrivers and other blunter instruments posted:In the UK, stabbing is the most common cause of homicide. The weapons used include knives, swords, screwdrivers and glass shards. Quantifying the exact force used in a stabbing incident is considered to be a difficult area due to the large number of variables present, such as sharpness of weapon, angle of attack and relative movements of the people involved. Having quantifiable data would allow a forensic pathologist to make a more informed decision when it comes to answering the commonly posed question in court “what was the degree of force involved in the stabbing incident?” The answer to this question is considered significant in determining an alleged assailant’s intent to cause harm. This paper presents results of the first detailed study relating geometry of screwdrivers to the forces required for penetration. Additionally, a range of other blunt weapons such as pens and chisels have also been studied. A silicone rubber–foam analogue has been used as the main skin simulant owing to it having similar mechanical properties to that of human skin and giving highly repeatable results. Different screwdrivers of varying shape and size have been tested (i.e. slotted, Phillips, posidriv and Torx), along with other implements including chisels and pens. The weapon geometry was characterised and related to the peak force required for penetration. Our results show that there is a direct correlation between the cross-sectional area of a screwdriver head and the amount of force required for penetration. Screwdrivers with larger cross-sectional areas require a significantly greater force to penetrate (forces in the region of 100–120 N) but “sharper” slotted screwdrivers penetrate with much lower forces (∼30 N). The forces required for penetrating the rubber–foam analogue with screwdrivers are higher than for “sharp” knives, but in some cases similar to the forces required for stabbing with “blunt” knives. For the other weapons such as chisels and biros, the force required for penetration was again high and there was found to be a good relationship between area of the implement making contact and penetration force.
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The best fish and chips I've ever had was in Birmingham. It was voted best chip shop 2007 or something (I went there in 2008 and have never been back to Birmingham so I don't know if it got any more awards) They fry everything in beef dripping. It tastes amazing.
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In a disappointing turn, it has emerged that pretty much all of the original story is a lie. Wisbech Standard posted:A PUB landlord has admitted to police he lied about fighting off four attackers outside a Wisbech fish and chip shop. Wisbech you continue to disappoint me. 
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That son of a bitch, I feel absolutely betrayed.
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shas posted:In a disappointing turn, it has emerged that pretty much all of the original story is a lie. Ah yes, in the great British tradition, some wanker gets a pint, a fight, and a takeaway (always in that order) - and then invents a story afterwards to make him look well 'ard.
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quote:Is nothing sacred in broken Britain? Fish and Chips.
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He is not just wasting police resources, he is harming our collective faith in all hard men who have fought off overwhelming opposition and lived to tell the tale down the pub.
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Poor old Winston is spinning in his grave, broken
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Fire Safety Doug posted:He is not just wasting police resources, he is harming our collective faith in all hard men who have fought off overwhelming opposition and lived to tell the tale down the pub. We'll still have this chap:  HERO CABBIE posted:“I’ve heard people say since that he was shouting ‘Allah!’ but I didn’t hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me”
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Mr. Gibbycrumbles posted:We'll still have this chap: Not if the referendum goes the way the SNP would like it to!
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I'm laughing so much. Don't mess with Glasgow!
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Mr. Gibbycrumbles posted:“I’ve heard people say since that he was shouting ‘Allah!’ but I didn’t hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me” We have reached peak , brings a tear to my eye just like the sound of spitfire engines and the thought of hanging immigrants who eat our swans.
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This whole story would have been way better if it took place in a tube station. At midnight.
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HatfulOfHollow posted:This whole story would have been way better if it took place in a tube station. At midnight. If that were the case then the muggers would have been fighting him FOR his fish n chips not in spite of them.
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