following on from dinner/tea thread, aibu to call it

[charliejosh]

chips and egg? dp thinks I am strange and should say egg and chips but we have always called it chips and egg - he says its a 'scouser thing' (I am a scouser, he isn't)

Also, we say Lolly Ice, not Ice Lolly....

It depends what you consider to be the main component of the dish I guess, arguably the chips are more important than the egg, but would you refer to bacon and egg as egg and bacon?

YABU

egg and chips
fish and chips
sausage and chips
sausage and mash

carbs are secondary to meat/protein

Lolly ice? nonsense :o

YANBU to honour your heritage and maintain your cultural linguistic traditions as a Scouser. 'Standard English' is for the BBC only

Hmm lots of people round here say Lolly Ice and also Butty Jam, I thought it was a welsh thing.
As for the other thing I hate Eggs so it's just Chips for me!

Ah but it's chips and beans, rather than beans and chips. In which case the protein, (beans) comes after the carbs.

erm I do refer to it as egg & bacon

Dh and i even manage to argue about how 'chocolate cake' and 'extra strong mint' are pronounced - we have out emphasis in different places for both...

'Snot, its beans and chips. And both egg and bacon, and bacon and egg are allowed. Chips and egg sounds daft though.

I would eat a whole plate of mashed potato with nothing else quite happily.

DH is scouse, although the only indication of that is that he says bloody 'lolly ice'! I've trained toddler DD to say 'ice lolly', of course.

YANBU It's chips and egg. I'm not scouse. HTH