Egg and Chips

[BadgerHair]

Our American friend won't believe egg and chips is a meal (egg, chips and beans, to be precise).

It got me wondering, is this a meal specific to my location (the north west of England), or is it enjoyed all over the U.K.?

I'm in my 30s and my mum still makes me egg and chips if I'm sick.

@DoingItMyself

Kippers are a blast from the past. I fancy some now, will get some when I go shopping.

[quote BadgerHair]@DoingItMyself

Kippers are a blast from the past. I fancy some now, will get some when I go shopping.[/quote]
Make sure they're Manx!

I am familiar with it as a meal, but haven’t eaten it myself (SE England). Is it fried egg?

Add ham and you have the meal that my SEN and with sensory processing disorder DS closes his eyes and 'mmmmmmmms' at.

So it gets my vote.

Egg and Chips - best comfort food there is! Prefer it without beans, but wouldn't be too picky...

We used to have it over at my nan's house on a Saturday. Food of the Gods.

Egg chips and beans would be my last meal on death row along with a proper Yorkshire

From the north west, frequent Saturday lunch. The eggs were cooked in the chip pan after the chips came out. They used to spit like mad, I was terrified of the chip pan but loved egg and chips

Love egg & chips with thickly buttered, crusty white bread. Also like it with ham or bacon or sausages

My chap went touring round the Himalayas once and got sick of eating veg curry. They found a roadside cafe that did egg and chips.

MIL cooks deep fried egg and chips every Boxing Day to have with cold meats from Christmas Day. Oh my days it’s good.

Surely if you're from the northwest it's chips and egg
(always called it egg and chips myself until I met ExH from the Wirral)

Egg and chips
Once a week family dinner in 60s/70s. North london/Irish

Nothing else - no ham or sausage or beans. Just proper home made chips, two fried eggs, lots of salt and vinegar.
Food of the gods

eggwidge

Was there bread and butter though?
You need it to dip in the yolk, then another slice to put the chips in.
I'm intolerant to eggs now, but still eat it from time to time and just put up with the consequences.

@Justanothernametoday Absolutely not if you’re east of the Mersey!

@Babygotblueyes

We used to have it in London. And I will never forget Shirley Valentine with her Chips and Egg.

I immediately thought of Shirley Valentine. I think her husband didn’t regard it as a proper meal?

My autistic son was having a meltdown because we couldn’t go out as planned, so we had a very early lunch of egg on toast. It worked like magic (chips wouldn’t have been quick enough)

@Abracadabra12345 it was because he usually had steak and chips that night but Shirley fed the steak to the neighbours vegetarian dog

I immediately thought of Shirley Valentine. I think her husband didn’t regard it as a proper meal?

She’d given his usual steak to the neighbour’s vegetarian dog, and served him egg and chips instead 😂

I was recently horrified to learn I’m almost the same age as Shirley, 42 😬 (I’d thought she was 50+ when I was younger).

X post 😂

[quote Betterthanexpected]@Abracadabra12345 it was because he usually had steak and chips that night but Shirley fed the steak to the neighbours vegetarian dog[/quote]
Thank you! It’s been years since I saw it and I remember being in awe that the actor could deliver her lines at the same time as cooking, and with perfect timing and no pauses!

Mmmm, yes please.

Two fried eggs
Crinkle cut chips

and because I’m starving

Baked beans
And a couple of really decent sausages as a breakwater between the eggs n beans.

All served up in the grubby orange 1970s kitchen of my childhood in the West Midlands.

Two things that came to me as an adult and were a revelation...

Omelettes and chips was a Thursday dinner, because Friday was payday, it was clearly spun as per previous posters because I truly thought we were being indulged.

We also used to think we were winning when we were allowed our dinner on a tray in front of the Disney programme that used to be on, on a Saturday evening. BBC I think.

Years later I realised they were enjoying the peace and quiet in the kitchen.

North wales and its my favourite bloody meal! With lashings of bread and butter, brown sauce and a mug of tea.

@OhWhyNot

Oh yes forgot about the cup of tea

That’s just a given really

And what do the French know about food

Many years ago as a student in France I was invited into a local's house for dinner. Not sure if their intention was to make us feel at home, but they served up a plate of fried eggs and boiled lettuce. It wasn't nearly as good as egg and chips.