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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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MilnersGold · 03/04/2025 14:22

Chips cheese and gravy is the Manx national dish and there is a day dedicated to it every year! I'm being completely serious, it's great

wherearemypastnames · 03/04/2025 14:21

Chips and gravy or chips and curry sauce - I can’t decide which I like best

with real big slightly soggy chips

Laughingdoggo · 03/04/2025 14:18

I found a chippy in Hythe on the south coast, and they do gravy. And it’s Good. The sort that kind of sets after a while. It’s factors like this that push up house prices.

nomas · 03/04/2025 14:17

BumbleBeegu · 03/04/2025 14:07

Hush your mouth 🤣🤣 ‘Bisto’ does not good gravy make 🙀

Proper gravy…made from meat juices 👌🏻

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Ah sorry! I do love real gravy!

Seagullsandsausagerolls · 03/04/2025 14:13

Gravy chip onions and mushrooms
Curry Chip onions and mushrooms
Spice bag chips (salt and chilli)

DS loves cheesy beanoo chips (not for me).

Dirty chips. Many varieties. Our favourite is chips, pepper sauce with cut up chicken goujons.

MoanasTummy · 03/04/2025 14:12

Used to have soup and chips as kids. Heinz vegetable and homemade chips. Delicious but not as delicious as chips and gravy. 😋

Clarinet1 · 03/04/2025 14:10

No, I’m afraid I agree with those who say that the essence of a chip is its crispness; Put gravy on it and you completely spoil it. I don’t even like chips with any kind of sauce-covered dish and when I have chips I just like to dip them in ketchup as I eat.

BumbleBeegu · 03/04/2025 14:07

nomas · 03/04/2025 13:52

By gravy do you mean Bisto type stuff? Gross 🤮

It’s just potato starch flavoured with MSG. Hardly food of the gods.

Hush your mouth 🤣🤣 ‘Bisto’ does not good gravy make 🙀

Proper gravy…made from meat juices 👌🏻

Whimsicalgrape · 03/04/2025 13:56

Us northerners have chips and gravy running through our veins. It's a dietary staple.

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.

nomas · 03/04/2025 13:52

By gravy do you mean Bisto type stuff? Gross 🤮

It’s just potato starch flavoured with MSG. Hardly food of the gods.

Coffeeishot · 03/04/2025 13:50

baileys6904 · 03/04/2025 12:55

Raging pudding.

So it's the soft yet thick suet pastry of a steak and kidney pudding, flat and rectangular shape, steamed (traditionally in a rag) , similar filling of steak but no kidney.

Once cut, like a well made omelette, the insides start oozing out their goodness, to be mopped up with the odd chip or dipped muffin....just a smudge of ketchup, and voila....chefs kiss 💋

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

NautilusLionfish · 03/04/2025 13:32

BumbleBeegu · 03/04/2025 07:37

As a die hard northerner, I concur. Food of the gods 👌🏻

Add mushy peas and scraps, and it’s a veritable feast 😘

I need a gravy recipe from a Northerner. I make the bog standard bbc food gravies

IVFmumoftwo · 03/04/2025 13:29

MaltipooMama · 03/04/2025 12:00

Chips and gravy is the BEST (from a West Midlander!) followed by…

Chips and curry sauce
Chips and mayo
Chips and ketchup

And now my pregnant self wants all of the above! 😭

Chips and gravy was one of my cravings.

steff13 · 03/04/2025 13:09

Do you mean like poutine? I had it at a Blue Jays game in Toronto. I didn't love it, but I'm not a gravy person.

cloudydays2 · 03/04/2025 13:08

Chips and beef stew gravy with onions through gravy...delicious!

JustWalkingTheDogs · 03/04/2025 13:02

Chips, grated cheese with gravy on top

MoodEnhancer · 03/04/2025 13:00

When I was at a Northern Uni in the 90s, the uni canteen would do chips and gravy for 65p. It was a very frequent and loved dinner of mine!

Mistyglade · 03/04/2025 13:00

JustHereWithMyPopcorn · 03/04/2025 12:11

KFC gravy is actually nectar.

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

Mistyglade · 03/04/2025 12:59

Southern fairy here.

I find the very thought absolutely disgusting!

BatchCookBabe · 03/04/2025 12:58

Oh, beans and egg toasties (made with a Breville snack sandwich toaster!) 😍

TheeNotoriousPIG · 03/04/2025 12:58

All of my favourite childhood meals involved carrots, chips and gravy! I am a northerner, so my blood is 50% gravy.

Needless to say, when I briefly lived "down south", I was amazed to find supermarkets that didn't sell gravy. I mean, in the north, there are aisles full of gravy! Eventually, I found it in a dark corner of a tiny Co-Op, so I felt like I was buying an illicit product!

I remember a school trip to Deep Down South. On peering into a chip shop, we were all going, "Where is the gravy, and what on earth are mushy pea fritters?!"

Try rag pudding (a Lancashire/Yorkshire thing, involving suet, minced beef, onions and gravy), chips and more gravy. It's amazing!

BatchCookBabe · 03/04/2025 12:57

I'm not a fan but DH loves it. I suppose you have gravy with potatoes/mash, and chips are just potatoes.

baileys6904 · 03/04/2025 12:55

Coffeeishot · 03/04/2025 10:54

A whatnow?

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Raging pudding.

So it's the soft yet thick suet pastry of a steak and kidney pudding, flat and rectangular shape, steamed (traditionally in a rag) , similar filling of steak but no kidney.

Once cut, like a well made omelette, the insides start oozing out their goodness, to be mopped up with the odd chip or dipped muffin....just a smudge of ketchup, and voila....chefs kiss 💋

JustHereWithMyPopcorn · 03/04/2025 12:11

TheBuffetInspector · 03/04/2025 07:51

In that case I'm slightly too Southern still.

Curry sauce absolutely. If it's Chinese style curry sauce, even better!.

What if I don't like the gravy? Good gravy is something to behold. What if it's just a bit of mixed up granules?!

I never thought I'd KFC gravy, but my word, it's quite lovely 🤣

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KFC gravy is actually nectar.