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

364 replies

vinegarandbrownpaper · 14/03/2015 14:48

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 posts:
ouryve · 14/03/2015 23:52

notnaice - if you ask for gravy in the US, you're somewhat likely to get white sauce, with or without mashed up sausage meat in it.

HellKitty · 14/03/2015 23:55

I'm fucking starving now Confused

squoosh · 14/03/2015 23:57

I'm going on a road trip to Newcastle to get my choppers around some parmo.

IrmaGuard · 14/03/2015 23:58

Anyone had deep fried lasagne? It's crumbed rather than battered. Bloody delicious and will probably kill ya.

ouryve · 14/03/2015 23:59

You're probably better going further South Squoosh. Lived on Tyneside for 15 years and had never heard of it! Teesside is the place, but there's parmo places in Durham, now.

Local chippy can't fry a decent chip to save its life, so we go no further than that.

monkeysox · 15/03/2015 00:01

Sorry squoosh you won't get parmo in Newcastle. Tees not tyne

squoosh · 15/03/2015 00:03

Thanks for letting me know, I'd have been quite irked to drive all that way in vain!

HellKitty · 15/03/2015 00:03

You can buy Parmo in my Morrisons Shock
My local one, not my personal one..

CapnMurica · 15/03/2015 00:05

I never had gravy with chips until I was in Montreal and had poutine.

It is fucking immense and not able to be replicated here (not properly anyway, we don't sell cheese curds Sad).

I'd kill for a massive poutine right about now.

OP - get the chef to make your own chips when you get home. Then you can be sure s/he won't slather it in a moist maker.

squoosh · 15/03/2015 00:07

'poutine' sounds vaguely vulgar.

ghostyslovesheep · 15/03/2015 00:08

Cap look for Paneer in supermarkets - it's basically cheese curd - or make your own

I used to love waiting for the curds to separate when my mum left a milk bottle on the window ledge in order to make Yorkshire curd tart!

monkeysox · 15/03/2015 00:17

No bother squoosh. Get to asda and buy a Jeff the chef parmo ready meal Grin

Ubik1 · 15/03/2015 09:53

We had the most amazing curry wurst in Amsterdam. I still daydream about it. Flipping amazing.

I'd also forgotten about the little shops that do fries and loads of different sauces.

DP thinks the battered chips sound like 'fritters' which were hot scraps of chips eaten in a heavily buttered (well fired) roll

Boswollox · 15/03/2015 10:19

Chips and gravy/cheese is rank and I'm as working class as they come. Mayo or taramasalata all the way here!

Idontseeanydragons · 15/03/2015 10:27

For those up thread who asked about Northern curry sauce, due to extensive taste tests in the Idont household we have found that Sainsburys curry sauce is the closest you can get to proper decent curry sauce for chips, both in taste and colour.
You're welcome Grin

dreamingofblueskies · 15/03/2015 10:38

Whilst growing up I lived in the same street at Peter Mandelson, so vairy posh and I would often stagger past the police hut in his front garden with a tray of chips and gravy after a drunken night pleasant evening spent playing bridge and drinking gin fizzes.

dreamingofblueskies · 15/03/2015 10:41

And although it's half past 10 in the morning and I now live in the gravy-less South I would scarf down a plate of chips and gravy as a Mother's Day breakfast in bed. Grin

BsshBosh · 15/03/2015 11:11

notnaice but biscuits and gravy are American food of the gods. I still crave them but can't find anyplace here in London that serves it.

IHavemyownLighthouseyouknow · 15/03/2015 11:36

Chips??? It's saute potatoes in my mum's house, she thinks chips are common! (Waves at OP who I have a horrible fear may be DM in disguise...)

I don't care what people put on their chips, but call them chips FFS. Plural. When I lived oop North, I couldn't get my head around people saying they were going out for a Curry Chip or a Gravy Chip. I mean, come on, who goes out for just one chip? Confused Angry

windchime · 15/03/2015 11:40

It took me 45 years to try chips with gravy and I have never looked back. Yum.

BsshBosh · 15/03/2015 11:45

windchime I'm 45 this year and have never had chips with gravy. This thread has inspired me. Wonder if my local London chippy does it....

RitaOrange · 15/03/2015 11:46

IHave is her surname Bucket ??? Grin

DoJo · 15/03/2015 11:50

BsshBosh
Biscuits are really easy to make - this recipe has always worked for me:
southern.food.com/recipe/southern-buttermilk-biscuits-26110

Not sure about a gravy recipe as I am not a huge fan, but I'm sure there must be one on that site which would work!

RitaOrange · 15/03/2015 11:53

They are just scones aren't they ?

and I think they are served with a savoury white sauce but call it gravy ??

BsshBosh · 15/03/2015 11:57

DoJo thanks for the link. I'm not a baker but in my craving for biscuits I may have to persuade DH to make them. Surely, though, there must be somewhere in London that makes authentic biscuits and gravy !