The Great Food Divide

[TheGreatFoodDivide]

NC because this post will definitely be recognisable to friends that have spoken about this recently (👋🏻 If you’re reading).

We were talking about different things that appear in different places in the country.

Where you live, can you order:

• Spice on your chips (not salt & pepper chips, or chilli chips, but Chip Spice),
• A pizza platter, or,
• Lemony minted cabbage?

And where are you?

Spice would not be put on chips in these parts!

Pizza platter, never heard of but Yorkshire pudding wraps are all the rage.

The lemon minted cabbage looks fab and I'll be making that, looks perfect for summer bbqs.

Agree with others about the Fishcakes between slices of potato, not had one for years. Might get one as a weekend treat

Is the cabbage sold in the chip shops?

It looks very much like what a hipster burger joint c. 2015 would be calling ‘slaw’.

I found a recipe for the cabbage thing, and it looks lovely.

www.bonappetit.com/recipe/lemony-cabbage-with-mint

That lemony cabbage would be lovely with roast chicken for a summary dish, with jersey royals.

First two yes. Not the third. Lincs.

I'm always shocked at takeaways in other areas. Especially the south (though I appreciate it may be just my experience). No specials at the chip shop! No meal deals or offers at pizza places! No little bag of prawn crackers free with your Chinese takeaway!

I've lived in the North west, the midlands and the south. And not heard of any of them...

Never heard of any of them. South London.

@DrCoconut

I'm always shocked at takeaways in other areas. Especially the south (though I appreciate it may be just my experience). No specials at the chip shop! No meal deals or offers at pizza places! No little bag of prawn crackers free with your Chinese takeaway!

I know.

So expensive and rice or chips costs extra at the Chinese takeaway instead of being included for free.

Indian restaurants charging for poppadoms and pickle trays. Here it appears for free just after they've given the menus out.

I have the chip spice, I think it was from b&m. We prefer the salt and chilli seasoning though. We have a deep fat fryer so freshly cooked fries with seasoning is amazing.

Hull or scunny for chip spice surely!
Condiment of the gods

I've never heard of any of these! North Scotland. Guessing platter is different name for a munchie box?

We used to get battered chips in Lemington - apparently it was a Wolverhampton thing. Loved them.

I’ve only had chip spice in Hull. Gorgeous stuff! Never heard of the other two.

Ah! I recently wrote on a post about what I think of as a fish cake! I’m deepest West Yorkshire (now overseas and I make my own!)

I want to know where each of these delicacies are from now. It's all parmos and lemon tops round here.

I'm in Lincolnshire and know of the 1st 2 but not the cabbage.

Top tip btw, Chip spice used on roast potatoes is absolutely AMAZING!

@JaninaDuszejko

I want to know where each of these delicacies are from now. It's all parmos and lemon tops round here.

I bloody love a lemon top

Never heard of any of those. In South West- Devon born, now bristol

@Ingeriort

I've never heard of any of these! North Scotland. Guessing platter is different name for a munchie box?

A pizza platter is half a pizza, chips and coleslaw.

I have never come across chip spice before, nor the pizza platter nor lemony minted cabbage. The spice you can get in Barnsley is certainly not anything you would want to put on your chips!

I know what you mean about Leeds “fish cakes” @BarbaraofSeville. When I first moved to Leeds from South London I remember going to the chip shop near where I worked in Hunslet and was completely baffled by the fish cake I had asked for.

Where is chip spice served?

@RampantIvy

I have never come across chip spice before, nor the pizza platter nor lemony minted cabbage. The spice you can get in Barnsley is certainly not anything you would want to put on your chips!

I know what you mean about Leeds “fish cakes” @BarbaraofSeville. When I first moved to Leeds from South London I remember going to the chip shop near where I worked in Hunslet and was completely baffled by the fish cake I had asked for.

Where is chip spice served?

Chip spice is usually available at the pizza & burger places.

I don't tend to go to pizza and burger places TBH.

@TheGreatFoodDivide

www.bonappetit.com/recipe/lemony-cabbage-with-mint

This looks like the right type of recipe - you’ve got to let it sit for a while and soften though.

As @supadupapupascupa says, it comes in kebabs (I’ve not had one for about 15 years - vegetarian) but it also comes in side salads - delicious!

Oh, right. That's just kebab shop salad down here (although they tend to use fresh parsley instead). 'All salad?' means cabbage, onion (usually with a little lemon and olive oil), lettuce, cucumber, tomato wedges, pickled green chillies and a lemon wedge.

Add some nuclear power homemade chilli sauce mixed in with garlic sauce and the shish lamb marinated in chilli, cumin and paprika - and maybe a portion of helim chips (cheesy chips with Turkish goat/ewes' milk cheese melted all over, extra pickled chillies optional compulsory) and it's probably the healthiest takeaway around in terms of nutrition.