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?

Oh god - are there people out there really so desperate for attention that they have to start a thread like this?
They have clearly gone back to using their last MN name and it's too much of a faff to keep changing back to comment.
BTW dearie, if you have to set an alarm clock to wake up for WORK, and have to WORK to pay your rent/mortgage, you are WORKING class.... don't delude yourself...

I'm common as muck but not a northerner and I hate chips with gravy, curry sauce or anything other than mayonnaise! Learned to love that working in Germany along with Bratwurst and senf.

Classy and tasty too.

I fucking love my working class server dh and he loves chips with salt n sauce!

I loved the reference to folk only working as servers temporarily whilst studying. That's how most of my hospitality mates started off, then they got hooked and stayed in hospitality. Some of them make more money than I'll ever make, some now own their own bars and restaurants.

I reckon the OP is a wind up merchant and is currently digesting her own chips and curry sauce.

makemine we had those orange chips in brum too. Never seen them anywhere else. On the way home from school we'd all get a bag of orange chips.

I moved north as a young adult and encountered chips and gravy for the first time. Bloody lovely.
I remember asking for it in America, not long after that. They looked at me as if I had two heads.

fish, chips and mushy peas / or chips and gravy or curry sauce/ or even babies yed, chips, mushy peas and gravy, vinegar but not salt.

Battered chips?

I live in Glasgow and even the Glaswegians don't batter their chips. That's just dirty, dirty resolves to try battered chips if ever in Midlands

Yeah, the orange chips are mini scallops by the sounds of it. Incidentally, scallops are the only part of a chippy tea that I very much don't want anything other than vinegar on.

I can't believe there's a place in the UK that can out batter Glasgow!

morethanpotatoprints I'm almost afraid to ask, but what the heck is 'babies yed'?

Scallops aren't already fried before they're battered. They cook within the batter. They really are lovely, I'd recommend anyone try it with salt and vinegar at least once.

Has anyone had currywurst? I had it in Germany when my brother first moved there. It's a big frankfurter and plate of chips which are both absolutely saturated in what I can only describe as a sweet, viscous,tomato ketchup to which a load of cheap curry powder has been added. Kids are taken out for currywurst like we'd take our kids out for a fish and chip supper. It was quite the culture shock.

You can't beat chips and cheese.

Special friend gravy

Nice piece of work you are, eh?

ahhh Currywurst I used to serve them all day long when I lived there

Firstly I cannot believe this OP has not been taken down by the powers that be.

Secondly, how do you know your "server" is "working class"? God, two horrendous, nasty British terms.

For all you know, the "waiting staff" may have Phd's in Philosophy or Medicine. It happens sometimes you know.

Kiev pizza, garlic mayo, chips for tea
No parmo today

OP, wind your neck in and get a Wigan kebab down your throat.

Chips and northern chippy curry sauce mmmmmmmm... pity I'm miles away.

To the pp who asked, Parmo is the common name for Chicken Parmesan (can't say that after a bevvy of two) so you're not wrong!

Also Vind, I suspect that if they made you queasy, they wouldn't have made good Parmos =(

Damnit, I want a chippy tea. The chicken I cooked had gone off and veg wasn't half as enticing as a fish supper =(

I'll not be popping into Iceland to try the crocburgers, then, Vindscreen. I'd have to tell DS1 they were chicken, anyhow. DS2 wouldn't care, so long as they're brown enough.

German curry ketchup is lush.

I have a bottle of the Heinz curry sauce in the fridge. It's so... unsatisfying. The German stuff is quite mustardy.