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?

worldsgonemade
I am northern and say breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Chips and gravy are alright - chips with salt and vinegar are much better though. However, 'cheesy' chips constitute a crime against mankind.

OP get over yourself

Right I have skimmed the thread.

Parmo's should be mathimatically 2:1:2 for me

Chips with Gravy or Chips with Cheese is lovely, but not Cheesy chips with gravy (one friend I had loved this)

Ive never had a Parmo while drunk (they didn't have them in York where I grew up, but do up where I live now, but I dont go out and get drunk anymore) but I would love to.

And its Breakfast, dinner and tea.

Very funny OP!

Love poutine by the way.

But you have to go to Montreal to get the best

"Northerners have breakfast dinner and tea"

You do realise that's totally inaccurate don't you worldgonemade.

It's a big 'ol sweeping generalisation.

I know many southerners who have tea instead of dinner.

So there.

I don't want any kind of liquid on my chips - and that includes vinegar amothersplaceisinthewrong. I have never even seen chips with gravy let alone eaten them. Yuk!

I'm Northern and I have breakfast, lunch and dinner

Incidentally, I'm going to Canada in May and I won't be ordering poutine. I've seen it in the TV series "You Gotta Eat Here" and it looks revolting.

What a nasty thread. All sorts of people from different walks of life eat a whole range of foods. I am a thoroughbred northener, and am comfortable and secure enough to enjoy whichever foods appeal to me, without wondering whether someone will be petty enough to try to elucidate my class background from the food I choose. I know they will, but I am far too upper class to worry about it ;).

Chips and gravy is awesome, but the biggest surprise to me here is that there are people who don't have gravy with roast potatoes. All elements of a roast dinner must be covered in gravy. Tis the law, innit.

I'm from the North west and have breakfast dinner and tea all with gravy on and a barm cake

I like chips with salt and vinegar. Never been offered gravy with them! South East.

WHAT ARE CHEESY CHIPS? Is the cheese melted - they sound brilliant!

Chips and gravy? Never heard of it and I'm as common as muck.

Drharleen, what is a parmo? I saw signs up for them when I was in a chippy but didn't want to ask

I love gravy and chips, I love chips with anything, curry vinegar, cheese, cheese and gravy, garlic yoghurt-very rare I'd turn a chip down!

I'm a bit like this that people have never had chips and gravy, or seen it before!

Orinoco yes that's right, grated cheese on too of chips

OP sounds like an absolute fud.

I've discovered Balti sauce on chips at 3am on the way home, it's the food of the gods ??

Wondering where OP eats that automatically serves gravy on chips? I love chips and gravy, or even better a nice bowl of oxtail soup with chips in. Im originally northern but live in east anglia now where they don't make proper fishcakes

Chip shop gravy is the fucking business.
As are;
Corned beef hash (tinned) with mash, beans and brown sauce.
Lob scouse
Greggs Christmas slice
Crackling
Yorkshire puds cooked in dripping

Ive been super rich and super poor and they've always tasted fantastic

Gravy and chips = real food.

I'm hungry now.

I'm Northen scum and we have brekkie, dinner and tea

Fcukfifa... A Parma is basically a chicken breast, covered in cheese sauce or white sauce, topped with cheese & cooked. Doesn't sound very special but they are de-lish!!

Just wanna though chips cheese & gravy into the mix. It was a staple part of school dinners where I come from. Still love it!!

Looking forward to dinner, now. Will be served with M&S curries just to add a "stuck up" vibe to our dinner, as per another thread.

Disagree Hesterton. Bag of Chinese cooked chips with salt and soya sauce beats Indian anytime.

And a blob of ketchup on plain chow mein.