A sign in my local chip shop has confused me

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So, had a cheeky fish supper tonight.

Standing in the queue I read the various signs, and apparently their chips are made from 100 percent potato.

Seriously, am I naive or are chips ever made from anything but potato?

My sister also gave my niece chips with a flour coating by accident, she’d check the label in the past but the recipe must have changed without them putting any ‘new recipe’ information. She has coeliac disease so it really did matter!

Giantsquid That sounds like the start of a joke!

It’s an expression we would use if you generally watch what you eat and then have something a bit less healthy as a wee treat. A cheeky donut, or a cheeky pint on the way home from work...

Mrs Jay, some people with gluten problems can't touch the stuff as it irritates their skin as much as it does their insides.

Well guess what I'm craving for dinner?! Thanks a lot OP.

Packet grated cheese also have a flour coating my friend has ceoliac disease was tellibg me I had no idea

Fair enough smidge I didn't give that a thought

Enjoy @Bugjune

Can you repost this in AIBU so I can tell you how YABU for having a cheeky fish supper?

Packet grated cheese also have a flour coating my friend has ceoliac disease was tellibg me I had no idea

Yes, it's quite a problem for some people.

Likewise, chips that are dipped in milk to help them brown, plus the use of powdered flour/starch to help them stay separate.

Ours are 100% potato, cooked in oil.
No salt, no flour, nor any other coating.

It may be a reaction to all the news stories about hidden ingredients.

For the record our cod is
Cod
Flour
Water
Salt.

So fish and chips are a very natural product with no artificial preservatives, or colours etc (well ours are anyway). Not many other takeaways can make that claim.

But how have you had supper at 5:30pm?

JesusInTheCabbageVan I got them from a food van at a festival. It was an old fire engine truck called the Fryer Engine very tasty, especially topped with grated cheese and crispy onions!

Lots of oven chips have a coating, but it's nowhere near as good as a proper batter.

Pretty well all chips that are chipped on site have this added

I’m in the West Midlands and most fish and chip shops sell battered chips

Many years ago, where I lived at the time, my local chippy used to do deep fried mushrooms in batter. As I dislike fish, my chippy meal was the mushrooms and chips - cholesterol country or what?!?!

I am shocked by these revelations. I've never thought I should check the ingredients on frozen oven chips for things like dextrose.

Ours are 100% potato, cooked in oil.
If they are cooked in oil then they are not 100% potato.

A fish supper = fish and chips (in Scotland)
A single fish = fish with no chips
A single sausage = 2 battered sausages with no chips
A sausage supper = 2 battered sausages with chips

A single sausage = 2 battered sausages
Makes sense.

Of course

@MongerTruffle

If they are cooked in oil then they are not 100% potato

I think you will find that the comma makes the pause. If you really don’t understand I could replace the comma with
‘And then’. Our chips are 100% potato AND THEN cooked in oil. Grammatically correct, and you understood, you are just trying to be clever and score points.

Absolutely excellent response quitmoaning

Did Elvis write the sign??