To think that gravy on chips is illogical.. and working class...

[vinegarandbrownpaper]

My heart sinks when I have a meal with fries and (it IS always) a working class server decides without asking that any liquid on the plate is there solely to turn something that is clearly cooked for crispyness into mush. Its the same with beans or anything.

Its double illogical (which I think is a class thing) because NOT doing that means you can have soggy and shit or crispy and lovely, whereas once a fry even remotely touches mush, its fucked.

I know about Iceland, but are all working class meals flavourless gullet swilling mush? Is that where it comes from?

OP you are so wrong, KFC chips with gravy is the best thing ever.

Grunt the north thanks you

Tea's ready!

No idea whether I'm more of a disgrace to my working class roots or my middle class sensibilities. Bloody delicious, though.

Lobscouse is stew made with left overs mainly - blind scouse is meat free (for the proper poor!)

where the term Scouser comes from

I love chips and gravy, hate southern chip shops and am working class. So there we are.

Gravy and chips is great, especially when made into butties!!

Cheese and chips is also good

Gravy chips and cheese isn't good :( I have tried, but it just doesn't "go"

I can't read anything by the OP without hearing it in a proper horsey voice, complete with the odd neigh here and there.

barm cake?! its a muffin!

I don't think the op is Katie Hopkins because she is working class. Well her dad is an electrician so she definitely isn't rooted from gentry stock.
My Mum always said class was how you spent your money not how it was earned. Dunno about that though.
I eat my dinner in the middle of the day because I can. Eating it in the evening because you have been at work all day is logically a working class thing to do, isn't it?
This may mean my eating habits make me a member of the aristocracy. Oh I feel dead posh now.

Just ate chips & curry sauce.

Delicious.

Naice.

Op, you are hilarious!

This thread has made me all nostalgic for the chips and gravy of my northern, working class childhood.

On the other hand, I'm trying to work out how this research piece will work its way into a newsper. Observer Food mag?

Oh, and less of the sneering at the working class, OP.

Oh ffs! I'm in Burke's I have mushy peas with my fish and chips. Dh has gravy.

I'm born and bred in west yorks. I'd never thought of having chips with gravy till I met my partner. We were brought up having fish and chips with salt, vinegar, ketchup and mushy peas. No variations on that theme. And up to a few years ago, chips meant ketchup or very occasionally tartare sauce. But I am a gravy convert. It's very comforting in a school dinnery sort of way. Curry sauce on chips though - I can't even.

Dawndonna mushy peas are sublime.

Fish and chips with gravy? What's the gravy made from?

I've never had mushy peas either.

I think its just chips with gravy Grunt not fish

To mop the booze up !

I thought that DawnDonna meant her DH has gravy with his fish and chips when she said "Oh ffs! I'm in Burke's I have mushy peas with my fish and chips. Dh has gravy."

Blech

I'm a northerner who says breakfast, lunch and tea. I'm obviously a bit strange.

Reading this thread makes me want to discard the naice steak that I'm having for tea and get a sausage dinner from the chippy instead!

I was always taught that talking about class is common. So there you go OP, you obviously didn't learn that lesson from your etiquette book.

And you're talking out of your arse, as everyone knows chips are great with gravy, peas or curry sauce. Only Northern curry sauce though, the southern stuff is rank and WRONG.

FWIW, my family decends from the Hanoverians. But you probably don't care because it doesn't fit your goady and classist world view.

Im from the West < breaks up fight>
We have some bloody great Fish and Chips, lovely fresh fish, crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside chips.
Gravy - no .
Salt and vinegar-yes .

Mushy peas do unspeakable things to me.

Best avoided, really.

My younger colleague introduced me to chips and cheese with gravy a few weeks ago when I was pished. I've had chips and cheese once for my lunch this week and chips and gravy last night. I LOVE them.

OP, my daughter is a 'working class server' and if you ever spoke like you have on here to my face I'd knock your teeth down your throat. Then you wouldn't need to worry about eating anything that 'working class' serve you as you'd be drinking slop through a straw.

Well tea was a bit of a mixed bag, I did tell the DC what the burger meat was and they wouldn't believe me until I showed them packaging. They both went for the kangeroo and left the crocodile for DH and me, it was thumbs up for Skippy and DH enjoyed his croc n chips but I wasn't keen on the texture, it was a bit loose,
Chips were gravy-free but still nice.