Beer, Chip butty and Dog's bollocks

Geoff, I hope that you're going to stick around here as the resident prog-rock expert ! B)

Are CWGC going ahead with removing the possibility to hyperlink or did they make a tactical withdrawal on that one ?

 

Geoff, I hope that you're going to stick around here as the resident prog-rock expert ! B)

Prog-rock? Expert?

I'll still be here, have not given up - I'm in my 'Operation Dynamo' phase...

Are CWGC going ahead with removing the possibility to hyperlink or did they make a tactical withdrawal on that one ?
I believe they've now realized links have to stay.

 

Geoff,
Never used your search engine but I've heard it certainly is the danglies - so good CWGC had to take up on it. Well done mate.

Geoff doesen't brew beer, but if he did it would probably be....

 

Tim you haven't lived until you've had a chip butty. And they have to be 'door stop' chips, not those little french fry things, with salt and vinegar in your butty! (For those who don't know what a 'butty' is, it's a 'sandwich' in polite terms)

Thanks Wendy

We too like our fresh cut fries with salt and vinegar. Catsup is an insult to good chips. Our American friends always look sideways when we ask for white vinegar for our fries.

The equivilent treat in Canada is a Quebec creation: Poutine


In the basic recipe for poutine, french fries are topped with fresh cheese curds, and covered with brown gravy or sauce. The French fries are of medium thickness, and fried so that the inside stays soft, while the outside is crunchy. The gravy used is generally a light chicken, veal or turkey gravy, mildly spiced with a hint of pepper, or a sauce brune which is a combination of beef and chicken stock, originating in Quebec. Heavy beef or pork-based brown gravies are rarely used. Fresh cheese curds (not more than a day old) are used. To maintain the texture of the fries, the cheese curd and gravy is added immediately prior to serving the dish.

 

Several Canadians of my acquaintance are of the opinion that poutine is a creation of the Devil himself and represents evil in its purest form.

Can't comment myself, as I've never tried it.

But IMHO chips taste best au naturel, eaten from the paper, seasoned with proper malt vinegar and heart-attack levels of salt, preferably accompanied by a hefty chunk of freshly-fried cod in crispy beer batter. Chip butty? Nah ...

 

Several Canadians of my acquaintance are of the opinion that poutine is a creation of the Devil himself and represents evil in its purest form.

Close to the truth.
Your arteries narrow and your heart rate increases simply by looking at it. Thankfully, I'm not all that fond of gravy so I rarely eat it.

 

My daughter always gets chicken gravy over her chips.

Quite popular here.

 

What is all this talk of French fries? Chips are not the same thing at all - and by chips I don't mean crisps!

In the basic recipe for poutine, french fries are topped with fresh cheese curds, and covered with brown gravy or sauce. The French fries are of medium thickness, and fried so that the inside stays soft, while the outside is crunchy. The gravy used is generally a light chicken, veal or turkey gravy, mildly spiced with a hint of pepper, or a sauce brune which is a combination of beef and chicken stock, originating in Quebec. Heavy beef or pork-based brown gravies are rarely used. Fresh cheese curds (not more than a day old) are used. To maintain the texture of the fries, the cheese curd and gravy is added immediately prior to serving the dish.

In England, gravy that goes on chips is gravy flavoured!

But IMHO chips taste best au naturel, eaten from the paper, seasoned with proper malt vinegar and heart-attack levels of salt, preferably accompanied by a hefty chunk of freshly-fried cod in crispy beer batter. Chip butty? Nah ...

Yes! With mushy peas and a saveloy! (Can't touch the fish myself as it causes illness).

 

Yes! With mushy peas ...
Don't mention peas, you'll get the Aussie on here telling us how Pie and Peas at Harry's Cafe De Wheels, Wooloomooloo, is so much better...

 

Don't mention peas, you'll get the Aussie on here telling us how Pie and Peas at Harry's Cafe De Wheels, Wooloomooloo, is so much better...

Mushy peas on a pie - Never had one or seen one in Oz in my life.

Now a nice beefsteak pie, mashed potato, whole peas and gravy is a different matter.

Just made up my mind what I'm having for tea.

Cheers

Geoff

 

Mushy peas on a pie - Never had one or seen one in Oz in my life.


Blimey Geoff, I'm shocked. :mellow: I thought they were world famous. Perhaps they only serve this to tourists, rock stars and opera singers.

Just to think I traveled all that way and I could have had pudding* chips and peas in Rochdale.


cheers,

geoff


*this is a pie filled with meat/gravy/pepper? but with a suet pastry, if I remeberr correctly. Been a while.

 

Blimey Geoff, I'm shocked. :mellow: I thought they were world famous. Perhaps they only serve this to tourists, rock stars and opera singers.

Just to think I traveled all that way and I could have had pudding* chips and peas in Rochdale.


cheers,

geoff


*this is a pie filled with meat/gravy/pepper? but with a suet pastry, if I remeberr correctly. Been a while.

Although I have never seen one I didn't mean to give the impression that that they did not exist.

There are many local dishes/cuisine in Australia (not unlike the UK) dependant on which state or "town" you may be in.

My brother in law is from Glasgow and is the only one I know who eats "Mushy Peas".

Cheers

Geoff

 

There are many local dishes/cuisine in Australia (not unlike the UK) dependant on which state or "town" you may be in.

Cheers

Geoff

Here, too. Drive 3-4 hours in any direction and the food can differ substantially, especially if you head down there where the Coon-asses live, that is, as long as you don't even consider those danged fast-food joints that pop up like mushrooms.

 

Don't mention peas, you'll get the Aussie on here telling us how Pie and Peas at Harry's Cafe De Wheels, Wooloomooloo, is so much better...

Hope it tastes better than it looks! Looks like a toss up vs the dog's bollocks.

 

Hope it tastes better than it looks!


Not the best way to prepare peas, which are best microwaved and never overcooked, but the pie is really good and a bit spicier than the pom/limey version, so the mushed peas works quite well.

 

Mushy Peas (throw up) but chips and curry sauce now you are talking preferably from the Chinese take away ... Lone Pine gets coat and dashes off the the local Chinese sod the roast dinner give me chips and curry sauce any day

 

This thread soon went off topic, should have chosen my title with more care.

Oh well, soldier on....

Chips and Beer