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I always find it amusing how much the fish and chips is lauded in the UK when most of it is terrible compared to NZ/Aus. The fish is tasteless, the chips are (g
by tech2 8y ago
I always find it amusing how much the fish and chips is lauded in the UK when most of it is terrible compared to NZ/Aus. The fish is tasteless, the chips are (generally) cooked in too low a temperature oil leaving them stodgy. Add to this that the fish requires the skin leaving on the fillet for most kinds so the whole thing can hold together, etc.
Haddock's about the most flavoursome of the UK fish available from a chippy, but when you compare it to Hoki (pretty much the cheapest NZ fish), Gurnard, or Snapper, there's no contest.
- fishnchips 8y ago100% agreed. Having lived in Ireland for years, and continuously visiting England for work, the best fish and chips I had was in OZ. NZ was meh but maybe I was just unlucky.
- fyfy18 8y agoDifferent tastes... as a Brit if I went to a chippy and the chips weren't a bit stodgy I would send them back. I ordered chips, not fries :-) I do agree with you a bit on the fish though, as I understand a lot of this is to do with fishing quotas which push the prices up so most places use cheaper fish. Ifou go to a good chippy in a seaside town, and specifically order cod or hadock, then you can get something good. As others have said the quality of restaurants really vary, even in the same town.
- tech2 8y agoI don't think the taste of the fish is necessarily quota-based, more to do with water temperature. Cold water fish are either "tasteless" (like cod, haddock, etc.) or oily (like herring and similar). As for chips, I think we'll have to agree to disagree there. :)