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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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PrancerandDancer · 03/04/2025 07:45

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.

As another northerner living in Essex this is very valuable information 🤣

I used to live in Cornwall and the outrage when I asked for gravy down there.

These southerners don't do proper gravy anyway. It hits better when we are back north. Particularly when pairred with a steak pudding 😋

faerietales · 03/04/2025 07:43

You need to add cheese! Chips first, then cheese, then gravy all over - mmmm!

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.

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.

CharlotteCChapel · 03/04/2025 07:40

Chips and gravy is only acceptable when you're having pie and chips.

I have to admit I rarely eat chips but when I do they're drowning in vinegar or dipped in brown sauce.

Thismomlikesknitting · 03/04/2025 07:39

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 😘

Omg scraps they don't do them here in London I miss them.

Blackcountrychik83 · 03/04/2025 07:38

Cheese chips and gravy :)

angelopal · 03/04/2025 07:38

You need to add cheese to the chips and gravy.

Flidina · 03/04/2025 07:38

Chips , cheese and gravy food of the gods

Thismomlikesknitting · 03/04/2025 07:38

Gravy and chip now that's what I'm having for lunch.
Originally from up north was a regular in our house.

Bonjovispyjamas · 03/04/2025 07:37

Bonsaibaby · 03/04/2025 07:35

Chips and curry sauce?

That's what I was going to say, so good 😋

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 😘

Rooroobear · 03/04/2025 07:36

Chips and gravy with ketchup is amazing!

Bonsaibaby · 03/04/2025 07:35

Chips and curry sauce?

DustyLee123 · 03/04/2025 07:35

So you’re not northern then, we wean our babies on it up here 🤣