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

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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?

Isyourclock have you read the thread? No one is rising to it - we are discussing chips

although grunt is trying very hard to take the OP's thunder

I remember going to Brighton and asking for gravy on chips. They obviously thought I was deranged by the look on their faces. Has the OP tried proper chips n gravy from, you know, proper northern chippies that do a GOOD gravy. Rather than the thin sorry excuse for it that I got in London.

BTW DS 1 who lives south of Watford says I make the best gravy ever. And I was taught by my granny who was a Londoner lol.

0/10 for effort OP.

I remember when goady troll cunts were interesting or at the very least entertaining.

I'm feeling a bit queasy
I don't think crocodile agrees with me, I should have just had a chip butty.

Gravy on chips is just completly wrong, mayonnaise is absolutely the only thing to put on chips.

(What class does that make me? Oh, I know, clever class )

I really fancy some cheesy chips now.

Do people just order chips with some crappy sauce
well I never , I thought most people had fish and chips.

Thanks, flightywoman. Northern curry sauce definitely sounds a lot better.

I think this is a very interesting thread. Quite edumacational.

Just to throw it out there one of my local chippys in town does deep fried mars bars oh so rank sounding but fooking amazing . Also nutella pizza which is pizza base with nutella topped with mini marshmallows yet to try it but may blame pregnancy cravings as an excuse to oh and chips and gravy is lush as is chips and cheese. OP your a fool if you think otherwise

I've had a deep fried mars bar. Was fooking gorgeous. But I'm a chocoholic. And definitely overweight.

Oh I'm so lusting after a deep fried Mars bar, and love deep fried cheese too!
In fact, batter improves almost everything!!

Anytime you walk past a restaurant and catch a waft of something gorgeous it's usually a potato being fried.

If 'one' is really so middle class, 'one' should not be sullying one's middle class taste buds with .... fries !!! Fries are working class to the nth degree and, fabulous with mayo or tomato sauce or curry sauce or gravy: either dipped or drenched depending on preference.

If you do like/eat fries, how can you live with being such a traitor to your class! You really should be eating baby new potatoes cooked in their skins then drenched in garlic butter and artistically covered with chopped fresh parsley. It's the (middle class) law. Tut tut.

Chips should be "dressed" saturated with salt and vinegar.
Beans must never be on the same plate as chips. Or toast. Only ever jacket spud. And needs worcester sauce and cheese.
Gravy is for roast potatoes.
Cant believe it needed explaining.

Who mentioned a mug of tea? Mmmmmm.

ghosty your baked beans and coleslaw sound like ds2' s idea of heaven
However, he did elaborate on this somewhat the other day. Baked beans on toast topped with coleslaw, sausage roll and kitkat

Chips n gravy and a cup of tea...off t'chippy!
OP- don't want you to be left out. Have a

Thanks for just making me crave some chips and gravy when I am on a diet OP! I can't believe I stopped to read this thread and it's a load of twaddle and now I want chips n gravy

I bet the Queen eats whatever is put on her plate, whether it's chips and gravy or anything else, because it's good manners.

(Although I suspect she is more a pie and mash person).

Half rice, half chips (I think)

Yep

So OP, would you clutch your pearls, if I mentioned large battered sausages?...oh I'm frightfully sorry, I meant Tempuraed Savloys.

Chips? How terribly common. My mother wouldn't have them in the house because she said they were not our sort of thing.

(I love chips and curry sauce. Damn my diet! Want some now)

i honestly don't think ive ever had the chips in gravy that you are discussing. I feel i have missed some right of passage. chips in curry sauce? could anything be so wrong? chips and mayonase is where its at.

So it was scallops then Owl?

what is it about certain foods with certain drinks? sausage and chips needs a can (has to be a can!) of fat coke. Fish and chips has to be tea!