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To serve chips as a side dish with Quiche Lorraine?

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BigFishLittleFishy · 23/01/2026 18:43

Help us solve a family debate!! If you don’t serve chips what is the best side dish for a quiche?

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Squeakydogtoy · 24/01/2026 19:38

Baby new potatoes and baked beans , is what I have with a quiche, with a sprinkle of grated cheese

billiongulls · 24/01/2026 19:35

BusyExpert · 24/01/2026 06:12

Salad. Why on earth would you want to add carbs?

Because carbs are delicious, and the thin pastry case in a quiche isn't enough carbs? Obviously.

SkinnyLatteExtraHotPlease · 24/01/2026 19:33

Whatever you want, no rules, serve the chips, life too damn short 😋

billiongulls · 24/01/2026 19:30

1DinosaurAnd3Giraffes · 24/01/2026 18:47

Eh?
Is everyone out here having Quiche for a meal and not just as a small wedge from a buffet at a party?

Are you telling me Quiche is not just a party food?

Yes, have it most weeks for dinner. Homemade spinach and feta quiche, baked spud, salad. Delicious.

fluffiphlox · 24/01/2026 19:28

Salad. Pickles at a pinch.

Greenfingersofderby · 24/01/2026 18:58

My hubby loves quiche real chips n beans . I’ll have quiche chips n salad or jackets or new potatoes whatever you want don’t really get why youre asking ?

1DinosaurAnd3Giraffes · 24/01/2026 18:47

Eh?
Is everyone out here having Quiche for a meal and not just as a small wedge from a buffet at a party?

Are you telling me Quiche is not just a party food?

Buttercup1976 · 24/01/2026 18:42

Potato salad

dontforgetme · 24/01/2026 18:35

Salad and spicy rice in this house.

DeltaVariant · 24/01/2026 18:35

Chips, quiche and some salad? Retro really but a super tasty classic!

Flomingho · 24/01/2026 18:35

Usually salad or vegetables. I would personally find it a bit stodgy having chips with the pastry.

Marmite27 · 24/01/2026 18:34

I only eat quiche Lorraine and I do that with beans!

Millytante · 24/01/2026 18:32

BauhausOfEliott · 24/01/2026 13:52

Good grief. ‘Quite rich’? It’s a quiche, not a chocolate fudge cake.

OP, of course you can serve chips with a quiche Lorraine. It’s eggs, cheese and bacon. These are all things that go well with any form of potato, and chips will add a nice texture contrast.

If I was serving a quiche I’d usually serve it with chips and salad. No coleslaw for me because I loathe it, but I can see a lot of people seem to get excited about it.

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Chips, quiche, and coleslaw was a staple lunch at my Comprehensive school, circa 1973. Certainly I always looked forward to it!
If I were eating quiche now (and Jerseys weren't around) I’d deffo still have chips with it.

At uni, still in the 1970s, I absorbed a habit of serving a dollop of mashed chickpeas or Puy lentils alongside any quichey thing (anything slopped into a scant pastry base was a handy meal to cook in a large shared house).
I served this to my parents once, when I was home for a Summer visit, and my poor dad hadn't any idea what the alarming gloop might be, nor what to do with it. He avoided quiche after that, for fear of encountering the stuff again.

Growlybear83 · 24/01/2026 18:31

mathanxiety · 24/01/2026 18:30

I've never eaten anything but a tossed green salad with quiche.

I'm raising my eyebrows at quite a lot of the suggestions here.

Why? I can’t think of anything more revolting to have with a quiche than a green salad but I’m not raising my eyebrows and people who want to eat things like that. 😆😆

mathanxiety · 24/01/2026 18:31

ProfessionalPirate · 24/01/2026 15:45

Good grief, how thick are you making your pastry crust if it accounts for a third of the meal?!

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One third is a limit, not a target.

Trishyb10 · 24/01/2026 18:31

Depends where you live, chips all the way if you live in the north east,or mash n beans

mathanxiety · 24/01/2026 18:30

I've never eaten anything but a tossed green salad with quiche.

I'm raising my eyebrows at quite a lot of the suggestions here.

Dawnb19 · 24/01/2026 18:27

My favourite meal at school was quiche, beans and chips. 🤣 Although that's probably banned now.

I would eat chips with quiche. My local café also serves it with a hand full of chips and salad.

hattie43 · 24/01/2026 18:26

Salad , chips and coleslaw

HappiestSleeping · 24/01/2026 18:23

Depending on the type of quiche, I would go for a side of sausages, baked beans and chips.

CrowsInMyGarden · 24/01/2026 18:22

Chips and salad

NoisyViewer · 24/01/2026 18:22

Salad is the only thing I’d put with a quiche

Ponoka7 · 24/01/2026 18:22

My DP has just had cheese and onion quiche with hash brows and tomato sauce. We had a large lunch. Quiche Lorraine is eggs and bacon in a pie crust, so anything goes.

TidyPinkEagle · 24/01/2026 18:20

Quiche,chips and tinned tomatoes nom nom,or for lunch quiche, fresh tomatoes and salad cream... heaven

inappropriateraspberry · 24/01/2026 18:11

Green salad, new potatoes or potato salad here usually, but I’d happily eat chips with it.

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