following on from dinner/tea thread, aibu to call it

[charliejosh]

chips and egg? dp thinks I am strange and should say egg and chips but we have always called it chips and egg - he says its a 'scouser thing' (I am a scouser, he isn't)

Also, we say Lolly Ice, not Ice Lolly....

[edwinbear]

It depends what you consider to be the main component of the dish I guess, arguably the chips are more important than the egg, but would you refer to bacon and egg as egg and bacon?

[TrillianAstra]

YABU

egg and chips
fish and chips
sausage and chips
sausage and mash

carbs are secondary to meat/protein

[Sarsaparilllla]

Lolly ice? nonsense :o

[CogitoErgoSometimes]

YANBU to honour your heritage and maintain your cultural linguistic traditions as a Scouser. 'Standard English' is for the BBC only

[notso]

Hmm lots of people round here say Lolly Ice and also Butty Jam, I thought it was a welsh thing.
As for the other thing I hate Eggs so it's just Chips for me!

[edwinbear]

Ah but it's chips and beans, rather than beans and chips. In which case the protein, (beans) comes after the carbs.

[charliejosh]

erm I do refer to it as egg & bacon

[MamBombadil]

Dh and i even manage to argue about how 'chocolate cake' and 'extra strong mint' are pronounced - we have out emphasis in different places for both...

[Paschaelina]

'Snot, its beans and chips. And both egg and bacon, and bacon and egg are allowed. Chips and egg sounds daft though.

I would eat a whole plate of mashed potato with nothing else quite happily.

[belindarose]

DH is scouse, although the only indication of that is that he says bloody 'lolly ice'! I've trained toddler DD to say 'ice lolly', of course.

[CurrySpice]

YANBU It's chips and egg. I'm not scouse. HTH