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Are you comparing them to fries? Chippy chips and fries are two different things
by ck425 7y ago
Are you comparing them to fries? Chippy chips and fries are two different things
- jjgreen 7y agoNo, to English or Welsh chip-shop chips. The salt-and-sauce I don't mind, but Scottish chips are uniformly awful.
- Normal_gaussian 7y agoCouldn't disagree more. I've lived in the north of Scotland, the north of England and now I'm in the South of England. Here has pansiest chips of the lot, nevermind the shops at the beach in Bournemouth whose chips feel like they've been fried by English willpower alone.
- jjgreen 7y agoWell horses for courses I guess. Chips is the south aren't great and you take your chances on pensioner beach, but you don't like north of England chips? I'd rate those as the best. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Normal_gaussian 7y agoNorthern chips are fine. I was strongly disagreeing with the notion that Scottish chips are the worst.
- ck425 7y agoWhere in Scotland were you? Quality varies everywhere in the UK I find but if you want a proper good chippy either go to a real Italian chippy or one of the Fife village chippies.
- jjgreen 7y agoMostly Glasgow & Edinburgh, intrigued by the "Italian chippie", that's the same priciple as the "Italian cafe" I guess (ex POWs who hung around to provide the locals with decent food) used to be so common in London, now mostly gone; thanks for the tips :-)
- ck425 7y agoThere are just a lot of chippies run by Italian families, particularly in Glasgow. As a general rule they tend to be better than most chippes. The often have Italian names, are family run and do pizza & pasta as well as chip shop food.
- garydevenay 7y agoThe Merchant Chippy in Merchant City, Glasgow. Not a finer chip has been fried.