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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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GasPanic · 03/04/2025 10:37

Chips and gravy is awful.

The best thing about chips is the slightly crunchy outside and fluffy inside.

Putting them in gravy just makes them go soggy.

You wouldn't soak your crisps in water because it makes them soggy, so why put gravy on chips ?

If you want gravy and potatoes gravy and mashed potatoes is better and more sensible and doesn't waste the crunchiness and taste of the fat.

treesandsun · 03/04/2025 10:37

BumbleBeegu · 03/04/2025 07:53

@PrancerandDancerI had steak pudding last night…I buy 4-packs of Hollands Steak Puddings for my freezer. Our local chippy doesn’t sell them…which is of course outrageous 😬

wtf - it should have its status as a chippy revoked.

ginasevern · 03/04/2025 10:35

Eyesopenwideawake · 03/04/2025 08:06

Fish and chips with gravy is the food of the gods.

Chips and gravy I get but fish and gravy. Really?

Cheepcheepcheep · 03/04/2025 10:34

SeaShellsSanctuary1 · 03/04/2025 10:03

YABU to suggest people try it.

You are the last person in the nation to have done so!!

She's not, I've never had chips with gravy! But sorely tempted to do so after reading this thread...

Eyesopenwideawake · 03/04/2025 10:34

faerietales · 03/04/2025 08:32

Fish and gravy is all kinds of wrong 🤢

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Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it.

3678194b · 03/04/2025 10:32

This definitely was about the only thing we would eat at the high school canteen in the 90's.

DCs now don't seem to have it. Maybe it's not allowed in school anymore!

Differentstarts · 03/04/2025 10:30

Chips cheese and gravy for the win. The gravy has ti be really thick

Missey85 · 03/04/2025 10:26

Chips and gravy is the best ❤️ put some grated cheese on top and you have Poutine 🤤

MrsSkylerWhite · 03/04/2025 10:24

Yuk, yuk, yuk. We have our favourite place where the chips are cooked to soft, fluffy inner, roughed up crispy edged perfection, like mini roast potatoes. Why would I ruin that perfection by dunking them and making them soggy?

Cannaeberught · 03/04/2025 10:22

Standard where I come from and absolutely fucking lush! The food of the gods.

FlowFoldFine · 03/04/2025 10:21

Bonsaibaby · 03/04/2025 07:35

Chips and curry sauce?

But only from a Chinese takeaway, chip shop curry sauce, is not nice usually

xILikeJamx · 03/04/2025 10:09

I do like chips and gravy, but chips and cheese in a roll / bun / bap / softie / whatever you call it (let's not start that argument) is the ultimate post night out filler upper!

RedPony1 · 03/04/2025 10:07

BritishFoodFan · 03/04/2025 09:04

I've never understood how people have not had chips and gravy.

Boggles my mind. If one makes a pie, and chips, there will definitely be gravy involved.

How have individuals in the UK got to voting age with never experiencing this combination?

This!!

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 03/04/2025 10:06

The best chips and gravy I’ve ever had was at the cafe at Barter Books in Alnwick.
Agreed!

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 03/04/2025 10:06

Chips and sweet n sour sauce was a standard Sunday dinner when I was a student.

SeaShellsSanctuary1 · 03/04/2025 10:03

YABU to suggest people try it.

You are the last person in the nation to have done so!!

ItisIbeserk · 03/04/2025 09:53

Chips and gravy is wonderful. Brought up in the south by a northern mum so we ate them at home all the time. Now live in the north so all good. Most chip shops just offer a pot of bisto stuff - nothing’s artisan.

The best chips and gravy I’ve ever had was at the cafe at Barter Books in Alnwick.

Newtrix · 03/04/2025 09:48

Flidina · 03/04/2025 07:38

Chips , cheese and gravy food of the gods

This was always what we got after a night out!

mydogisthebest · 03/04/2025 09:46

Chips should only have vinegar and maybe tomato ketchup on.

Gravy is vile and doesn't belong on any food in my view. Why make lovely crisp foods like chips, roast potatoes, yorkshire puddings etc soggy with gravy? I am not a baby and have teeth so don't need to eat slop

BritishFoodFan · 03/04/2025 09:04

I've never understood how people have not had chips and gravy.

Boggles my mind. If one makes a pie, and chips, there will definitely be gravy involved.

How have individuals in the UK got to voting age with never experiencing this combination?

Dita73 · 03/04/2025 08:59

NO! It’s perverse!!

Peachy2005 · 03/04/2025 08:59

For a bit of variety at home on yummy chips, cheese and gravy, substitute sweet potato fries: heavenly!! Add some garden peas to pretend it’s healthy, a thin base of peas works best. Scatter some chopped up chicken breast over the peas and under the chips to cover (almost) all the food groups 😄

Bjorkdidit · 03/04/2025 08:55

It pains me to say it, as a northerner, but the best chips and gravy I've ever had was in a pub in Plymouth. Annoyingly it cost me about £15, because I had it with lamb or something I don't remember, but the chips and gravy were outstanding and would have been enough on their own.

But fish and gravy is wrong, I like mine with curry sauce and pilau rice.

Lurkingandlearning · 03/04/2025 08:52

BitOutOfPractice · 03/04/2025 07:41

I'm a northerner living in the south but regularly drove up the M1 to a client in Hull. I can confirm that the North starts at Leicester Forest East as that is the first service station going north where gravy is offered as standard with chips.

Food of the gods. I feel sorry for you OP that you've had such a deprived life up until now.

Very specific information like this makes my day. Thank you. I'd been feeling a bit grumpy.

Coffeeishot · 03/04/2025 08:50

Westfacing · 03/04/2025 08:48

Does the gravy touch the fish? Shock

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Yip, it's not for me either