Be Excellent To Each Other

I think the name refers to the shape. Like baguette

So good.

I know this'll further cement my rep as an utter ponce (entirely correct of course), but fish and chips should be eaten immediately, direct from the paper, with copious salt and chip shop vinegar, no condiments, and a super chilled, bone dry Moët. Preferably 04 Black Label, but hey, NV will suffice.

That sounds difficult to arrange. Do you take the Moet to the chippy and eat in your car, then?

As long as it is not on the beach....

From my experience, they're pretty common.

Are they maybe an Ayrshire thing? Or have you seen them elsewhere as well?

Ah, good point. Never really been to a chippy anywhere else though, so I wouldn't know.
If they are only Ayrshire, then the rest of Scotland is missing out.

And drive home drunk?

Heh. No.

Until very recently, Teen Angel #2 lived very close to fave chippy, so her hubby used to bob out and get the fish and chips whilst we all sat and had a glass of fizz.

One glass will suffice, no need to do the whole bottle yourself

I can't imagine drinking anything but ice cold coke with fish and chips but fair play.

Hmm. We don't appear to have a 'raised eyebrow' smiley.

Yeah, fair point. Who am I kidding, right?
/glug

Really fancy some potato scallops now.

Fritters in general are definitely not just an Ayrshire thing, but the fritter roll less commonly makes it out of Glasgow and the west in my experience. When - in the long distant past - a chip shop opened up near my secondary school (also in Ayrshire), I remember virtually the entire school going there every lunch time for said delicacy. In my case for 4 or 5 of them. With cheese in the rolls on top of the fritters. And all tomato sauce on.

Given that and the other excesses of my youthful diet, it's a wonder I'm not 20 stone, or entirely dead.

Welcome back, Stephen.

Fritter roll and curry sauce I can't eat them anymore because of all the gluten I might just have one anyway, they are so good.

What symptoms do you get if you accidentally eat it?

Death.

Has anyone ever tried Pukka Pies? They’re always available at the shops I go to, but fucked if I’m going to have one instead of a hunk of cod.

Yep, decent chip shop pies.

Hollands pies are better.

The steak pie from Pukka is ace. None of this kidney or potato bollocks to pollute the pie, just lovely meat and lovely pastry.

Only problem is, I can't think of a single chippie near me that sells just the steak pie - they normally only sell the potato/mushroom/kidney variants.

Their balti pie is awesome. I'm aware, of course, that a curry pie sounds so wrong on all sorts of levels, but the reality is bloody excellent.

(I wouldn't eat one of those with Champagne, though. Probably a recipe for Cold Fusion, I'd have thought)

Also, cod is wrongness btw, haddock all the way. Oh yeah.

I make a pretty good Thai pie.

Nice!

Haddock is better than cod under laboratory conditions yes. However under real life conditions the best is whichever is not already sat on the warming plate and so will be fried fresh to order.

Can't argue with that, trufax.

All fish, or just chippy fish?

All fish, shellfish, squid, or anything else that comes from the sea. Never been able to stand the stuff, and I think I'm too set in my ways to change although I have tried stuff from time to time.

On a trip to US, some re-enactor friends took me to an 'all you can eat' fish café that was quite famous where we were. Whilst they spent the hour woofing fish by the barrel down their throats, I awkwardly poked one on my plate for an hour but could barely get through it. I was still charge the full rate though. Gah.

I had seafood on Saturday. Before then I liked seafood. I may never have seafood again.

Couldn't you have just said "I don't eat fish" ?

Well, he did.