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Chips and gravy.

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Pippyls67 · 03/04/2025 07:34

Had this for the first time ever yesterday. Well! My oh my! What a revelation! Beats ketchup and Eve mayo any day of the week. Try it and see if I’m being unreasonable 😋. Also - any more fabulous foody wonders out there I might be missing? What do you knock up when you just want a once in a blue moon self indulgent treat?

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EmmaEmEmz · 03/04/2025 17:00

But the gravy has to be so thick that you can stand a fork upright in it. None of this watery stuff.

EmmaEmEmz · 03/04/2025 16:57

Chips, gravy and cheese

Gods food

Bjorkdidit · 03/04/2025 16:57

Mistyglade · 03/04/2025 13:00

KFC gravy is literally the sludge at the bottom of the fryers. Saw it on telly.

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How did you think gravy was made?

Have you never cooked a roast and made gravy using what's left in the meat tray?

It's the same as that.

Coffeeishot · 03/04/2025 16:56

MsNevermore · 03/04/2025 16:56

First time I gave it to my American DH he said it was close to a holy experience 😂

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I mean 😂

MsNevermore · 03/04/2025 16:56

Coffeeishot · 03/04/2025 16:53

Chinese curry and chips is the dogs dodahs !.

First time I gave it to my American DH he said it was close to a holy experience 😂

Coffeeishot · 03/04/2025 16:53

Chinese curry and chips is the dogs dodahs !.

Maddy70 · 03/04/2025 16:48

Up north we always have chips and gravy

MsNevermore · 03/04/2025 16:47

I’ll eat chips and gravy in a pinch…..but chips and curry sauce is top tier deliciousness 🤤

JustHereWithMyPopcorn · 03/04/2025 16:46

Mistyglade · 03/04/2025 13:00

KFC gravy is literally the sludge at the bottom of the fryers. Saw it on telly.

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I don't actually care if it's the dirt off someone's shoe, it tastes amazing! 😂

muddyford · 03/04/2025 16:45

Chips should be fried in dripping and haddock is the only decent fried fish. Cod is a bottom-feeder, as I was told in a Yorkshire chippie forty years ago. Haddock might be but tastes better! Vinegar on the fish, with tartare sauce, but only salt on chips .

Sminty2 · 03/04/2025 16:07

Yes, chips and gravy is amazing! Just wait until you try Scallops too, you'll love them.

singlewhitetrashheap · 03/04/2025 14:51

YES! Chips n gravy is BANGING.

Properchips · 03/04/2025 14:50

Whatafustercluck · 03/04/2025 07:41

I can't tell you how much this disgusts me.

Mayo, salt and vinegar are the only additions that should go anywhere near chips. It's the law.

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Definitely the law!

MaltipooMama · 03/04/2025 14:48

@IVFmumoftwoI didn’t realise it was going to be one of mine until I read this thread! And now I can’t stop thinking about it 😂 told my partner earlier the gammon is going in the fridge for tomorrow as we’ve had a change of plan for dinner tonight, and that he has Mumsnet to thank for it!

Words · 03/04/2025 14:44

I am from the North and hate that viscous thick artificial school dinner gravy.
I have meat juices or some sort of sauce with meat.
F and C just need loads and loads of vinegar and salt and some mayo also.
Curry sauce. Just no.
Oh and it should always be haddock. One between two if necessary as it's nice and meaty.

Saltedcarameltiramisucheesecake · 03/04/2025 14:41

The best thing I have ever eaten from a chippy was a battered fish cake in a buttered bread cake from a place in Sheffield. A taste sensation.

luna2025 · 03/04/2025 14:34

gollyimholly · 03/04/2025 14:31

Just curious - what kind of chips? Chunky chipshop chips? Or the French fry type?

I really fancy a poutine now...

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Either works but the chip shop ones are best

luna2025 · 03/04/2025 14:34

Chips cheese and gravy. Plus scraps and lots of vinegar
chips and curry sauce
pasty barm - with brown sauce and buttered barm

IVFmumoftwo · 03/04/2025 14:32

@Chemenger I don't understand why you have to fry everything. 🤷

gollyimholly · 03/04/2025 14:31

Just curious - what kind of chips? Chunky chipshop chips? Or the French fry type?

I really fancy a poutine now...

Coffeeishot · 03/04/2025 14:31

JustinOtherdad · 03/04/2025 13:56

Brace yourself, OP. Mince & chips!

Beef mince slow cooked with onions and a thick rich gravy, spooned over a pate of chips.

I used have this growing up but own mince never tastes the same as my Grans I tried everything.

BaronessEllarawrosaurus · 03/04/2025 14:28

I live not a million miles from the Holland pie factory and regularly pass it. Also local to me is an annual gravy wrestling competition, we take gravy seriously around here. And pies.

baileys6904 · 03/04/2025 14:27

Coffeeishot · 03/04/2025 13:50

Shut up! that sounds immense. Where would I get 1 of those?

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Now, that's the tricky bit. It's not a mega common thing, even in the north. According to Google, it's more a manchester/oldham, spreading to Lancashire thing. (However if you are anywhere nr oldham, be aware of park cake bakeries, they make m&s cakes and have an outlet shop...oh lordy, the bargains!)

And it's rag pudding not raging....although u may be raging if you arrive and they've sold out ha ha

aintnospringchicken · 03/04/2025 14:26

Chemenger · 03/04/2025 07:47

I would add Edinburgh chippy sauce to your list. I don’t understand why English people have to have gravy on everything.

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Heck yeah,chips from the chippy in Edinburgh have to be with salt and sauce.
None of this salt and vinegar nonsense you get in other areas.

LetsGoFlyAKiteee · 03/04/2025 14:26

Mmmm cheese chips and gravey! Chippie near me used to do it lovely and now sadly gone downhill a bit:(