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?

ooh nice ouryve, we'll be having chips with our crocodile and kangeroo burgers.

Notta I hope you are talking proper fish cakes - or savoury cakes?

white fish and spuds mushed up with chives , battered and fried I miss them so much

Chips with Hendersons & gravy is just bloody gorgeous & I don't give a flying fuck if you think I'm working class

hesterton the secret is to use a shitload of vinegar in the liquor. All over the mash and pie as well. Otherwise it's pretty tasteless.

I'm southern but love chips and gravy. Got the habit in secondary school. Haven't tried it with cheese though...

Is op Katie Hopkins? Show of (virtual) hands!!!!

Not sure it's a class thing but there should never be gravy on chips.

No KH would reply more and be more of a cunt funny

Chips and curry sauce. the northern irish just don't make it like the chippies in the Midlands

I thought that Ikea was a reclaimed middle class enclave, like Lidl and Aldi? Y'know where the trendy but frugal got their socktopuses and tealights?

I really fancy some chippie chips right now.

chips and gravy are the tits! Same principle as roast potatoes and gravy really: ie, world-class cuisine.

I thought the OP was quite funny- but then I've never even eaten chips and gravy, never mind suffered some weird tribal urge to defend it

Bloody Northerners. And you wonder why we all think you're so miserable.

Enormouse , that may be true but there was something strangely satisfying about a curry half and half from the Chinese after a night out in Belfast

Ah nostalgia

That Parmo thing looks like a bastardisation of a chicken Parmesan?!

Bet I could annihilate one of I was tres in my cups!

Ahh heck I'm illogically doubley hungry now for some soggy fucked up gravy chips

I have to say I have never had chips and gravy or chips on their own with anything.
I just have fish and chips or chips and a fishcake- our chip shop does them and they are gorgeous, lovely but parsley not chives.

"a curry half and half"

What's that?

That's true nocturne. They do fantastic Chinese here. Indian otoh… . I have yet to find a good one.

Half rice, half chips (I think)

gloriously deliciously working class

Don't mind gravy on chips, but I was a bit when DP wanted gravy on his fish the other day. Never seen that before.

Gravy chip butty is the best - soggy chips AND soggy bun.

Working class - tick
Northern - tick
Couldn't give a shit - tick

A parmo is a food for kings?

Chicken breast baked in béchamel sauce then bread crumbed fried and covered in cheese. You can too it with pepperoni or veg and mushrooms!

All are welcome to visit and we can have Parmos and chips and gravy after we've spent the night in thw local social.
Blue nun eee your posh!

Has to be chips and mushy peas. A chippy meal is incomplete without peas. My southern DH and in laws don't get it at all.

Oh I say! This thread has become quite frightful! I'm so glad that I've never been oop North.
I've also just realised that I haven't been in a chip shop since I was quite a young child, so that'll be over 50 years then.

Gruntfuttock, try poutine at least once. I always thought it sounded rank, but it's actually lush. Lots of lovely gravy, fraightfully common