British Expatriate Network

Is that what you called your local fish and chip shop?

When did you go? - After the pub or for Saturday lunch or was it your mainstay?

Mushy peas, Haddock or Cod and let's not forget Non Brewed Condiment or Malt - your preference?


Lastly ('cos I just thought of this) - best fish and chips you've had in the States?

All the bloody time -I worked there! lol

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We didn't have it very often once we moved away from Grimsby. Living in Grimsby it was always Haddock and chips with mushy peas. Definitely malt vinegar. Yummy.

the best fish and chips we have had in the states is definitely the pub down in Florida in Orlando. The real McCoy :P Even had apple crumble and custard for afters.

We go to a pub in Huntington, LI, which is very good and pretty close to the real thing. They don't have mushy peas though, so I have been tempted to bring my own can next time I go :wink:

The Chippy it was, and there was many local and the name applied to all of them

Pudding chips and gravy for me please. mainly on a saturday.

In Worcester it was fish and chips with an optional curry sauce from one of the many chippys.

In Crewe it was Faggots chips and gravy.

In America That could be a recipe for disaster!! o

Yep it was the chippy.

Gravy and chips was first choice. Then curry-sauce and chips.

Sometimes I'd dare to buy a battered sausage - one of those freakishly pink ones.

Didn't regularly eat Chippy fish and chips until my mum started getting luncheon vouchers at one of her jobs and would save them up for us all to be treated on a Saturday night.

Not really had a decent fish and chips since I've lived here but it can't be that difficult. I've done it myself a few times and quite enjoyed it.

The best though was last Christmas when my parents took my sister, her boyfriend and I to a really good local chippy with an attached restaurant (Jack 'n' Jills in Tavistock, Devon)and we tucked into huge portions of cod and chips. Definitely the best ever and I was annoyed as I worked in Tavistock for three years without ever sampling such delights before.

good chip shops and good pasties. Devon has it all!!! :wink:

Ah, lunch right before heading to the footy on a Saturday. The best chippy was right next to the Manor ground. Chips n pasty for me...

Have to import the decent pasties from "next door" though. Devon pasties don't look right to me.

We ate them in and out of season in Middlesbrough roll
I used to take bundles of newspapers to them when I was a kid and got a discount on my order.

Yes, we used to call it the Chippy.

I used to really like plaice, followed by haddock. Never quite got rock salmon. I used to eat saveloys too which I find hard to believe now.

I must say though I think the general standard of fish and chip shops has declined tremendously, especially in London and the south-east. Luke-warm old chips and fish that's been sitting around in heaters for too long and indifferent staff has become more the norm than the exception.

The number of chippys has fallen too.

Last time I was back (in January) we went to a chippy I used to go to that still IS very good and the manager/owner said they no longer make any profit out of fish because it's so expensive. They make most of their profits out of chips, followed by pre-packaged pies chicken and saveloys. Fish has gone from cheap plentiful fast food to endandered in a generation.

Luckily where I live there are a number of good fish and chip shops. (They're a Canadian maritime tradition too). One of my favourites here, (Harbord Fish and Chips) only does four kinds of fish; chips, and nothing else (well except a pickled onion perhaps). You have to wait as they batter the fish in front of you and cook it. Bags of Prince Edward Island potatoes sit around behind them.

It's well worth the wait.

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Have tried many American versions of Fish and Chips...but they can't seem to get it right. I usually go to the English pubs here which in San Diego are Shakespear and Princess of Wales.

I am a West Midlands gal and for me the best chippy was Carol's in the High Street of Stourbridge. There was also a great one in Wollaston. Also loved Blackpool's fish and chips.

Wouldn't it be great if an English couple started a chain chippys here...They would make a mint...

Thats worth a trip over the border to Cornwall for :wink:

I either forgot or decided I was dragged up all proper but I've just remembered that around our way (Sth Yorkshire) we called it 'the chipoyle.