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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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Westfacing · 03/04/2025 08:50

FetidMoppet · 03/04/2025 07:46

Displaced northerner here, couldn't agree more but you need mushy peas as well.
my local chippy sells this as 'northern mix' 😁

Northern mix Grin

Westfacing · 03/04/2025 08:48

Eyesopenwideawake · 03/04/2025 08:06

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

Does the gravy touch the fish? Shock

Noseydog · 03/04/2025 08:44

Yes!!! And put vinegar on the chips before the gravy, delicious! (I'm southern)

SnakebitesandSambucas · 03/04/2025 08:41

Chips and gravy!! Spam fritter on the side 😋😋😋😋. I used to the frying in the chippie long ago! And the scraps heavenly 😁

Coffeeishot · 03/04/2025 08:33

faerietales · 03/04/2025 08:32

Fish and gravy is all kinds of wrong 🤢

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faerietales · 03/04/2025 08:32

Eyesopenwideawake · 03/04/2025 08:06

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

Fish and gravy is all kinds of wrong 🤢

Devilsmommy · 03/04/2025 08:31

No, no, no. Gravy on chips is just pure wrong. Ketchup, fruity sauce or brown sauce. Weirdly was having this conversation the other day with my cousin who is also a weirdo gravy on chips person😂

Coffeeishot · 03/04/2025 08:28

I'm scottish and hate chips and cheese and definitely not with gravy. .should I hang my head in shame 😀

Dairymilkisminging · 03/04/2025 08:27

Chip cheese and gravy thank me later. Its a scottish thing

Coffeeishot · 03/04/2025 08:25

Bisto is fine I did have chicken gravy with mine on Monday and it was delicious though,

GaspingGekko · 03/04/2025 08:22

If you're ever over in Canada OP, give poutine a try. I think it will be right up your street.

fourelementary · 03/04/2025 08:20

Could the gravy just be bisto gravy and still okay? Or does it have to be fancy?? Scottish here and can’t say I have ever tried chips and gravy. Chips and cheese is popular here but it’s literally chips then grated cheese shoved on top. Chips and curry sauce (the sauce is a powdered substance made up with boiling water) is popular too.

ChimpyChops · 03/04/2025 08:19

I'm from Devon and it's always been chips.and gravy for me. When I moved to London, you would have thought I'd have asked them to hand over their chip shop when I asked for it 🤣

Mikart · 03/04/2025 08:15

I'm northern and have never had chips with gravy or curry sauce. Only mushy peas

Coffeeishot · 03/04/2025 08:12

The world will be a brighter place for you op. Chips and Gravy are heavenly, I had it on Monday with left over roast chicken was better than my Sunday dinner.

itsmeits · 03/04/2025 08:07

Staple at school was pizza chips and gravy.
Chips, pizza on top then the gravy.
We also had gravy on jacket potato's with cheese.
Non of my local chippy's do scallops though! have to drive 20/30 mins to get scollop and gravy 😩

Eyesopenwideawake · 03/04/2025 08:06

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

minnienono · 03/04/2025 08:00

You need to take yourself to Canada on holiday … they not only cover in gravy but add cheese curds, can’t stand it myself but if you’re a gravy fan I recommend trying Poutine. Garlic mayo or better still proper aioli is best with fries, steak cut or skin on type chips, tartar with chip shop chips or just salt and vinegar

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 😬

BitOutOfPractice · 03/04/2025 07:51

@PrancerandDancer I'm in Essex too - fancy a jaunt up the M1?😃

TheBuffetInspector · 03/04/2025 07:51

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.

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 🤣

Gogogo12345 · 03/04/2025 07:49

FetidMoppet · 03/04/2025 07:46

Displaced northerner here, couldn't agree more but you need mushy peas as well.
my local chippy sells this as 'northern mix' 😁

Chips and gravy fine. Mushy peas - just no. Nasty.

I'm from Essex and don't recall chips and gravy sold around here

Chemenger · 03/04/2025 07:47

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.

Edited

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

AreolaGrande · 03/04/2025 07:46

In NI in the late early 00s our post-pub chippy meal was chips, peas, stuffing and gravy 😍.

Didn't half soak up the Bacardi Breezers.

FetidMoppet · 03/04/2025 07:46

Displaced northerner here, couldn't agree more but you need mushy peas as well.
my local chippy sells this as 'northern mix' 😁