In thinking chips...

[Mysterian]

...get more disgusting the closer you get to a pier? It's like the chipmongers think the piery ambiance offsets the dry chewiness of their product, so they don't try as much as their pierless competitors.

Similar issues with crazy golf courses too. I ate chips today close to a pirate themed course and an 'adventure" one: chips mediocre at best, served with a plastic fork so cheap the tines were all floppy.

I'm in the SW, all chippies are desperately bad here

Sorry to hear you chippapointed Op

Least I'm not getting battered in the replies.

Maybe because they get more expensive but churn out thousands a day in peak season so don’t really care as much about the quality as decent chippies? I guess people will stay pay £££ for them so don’t need to create a reputation as a decent chippie because the location does all the work for them.

Probably not a popular view, but imo chips are horrible where ever you eat them.

Plastic fork Op

Says it all

Grim

There's a chip shop on the pier in glamorous Cleethorpes, they're gorgeous.

I hate chips.

There is/was (we moved away long ago) a Harry Ramsden’s near Bournemouth pier, that place is expensive and grim.
Worse as it’s a well known chain.
All the best chips I’ve had are in cones, and nowhere near the sea.

I'm going to Cleethorpes this week then! Seriously! I'm on holiday near Lincoln and Grimsby/Cleethorpes is on my to do list for next week. On the pier? Any name?

Sounds like you've got a chip on your shoulder

I've had Bournemouth Harry Ramsden chips next to the pier. Horrible. All their branches are. They did accidently give me 2 jumbo sausages instead of one though.

It is the cheap potatoes and cheap oil, tubs of gunk in many cases, rather than proper oil and the use of the dreaded palm fat.

A good chippie is hard to find. The sea front or pier is no longer the 'plaice' for good fish & chips. Usually there is a proper chip shop a little way from the sea front and not Harry revolting Ramsdens with it's half cooked crud.

The chippy on the pier is a restaurant more than a take away, here's the linky:

papasfishandchips.com/cleethorpes/

I used to live in a seaside town. The best chip shop was away up the north of the town, away from the main areas. No locals used the tourist ones.

YABU. Chips at the seaside are the best type. Especially if they're bought, and then sat outside with your little wooden fork and tray of chips enjoying the sea breeze.

battered in the replies
I saw what you did there op.

Thank Monkey. Looks good, but I still think the other pier chip places are terrible.

There is no pier in the seaside town near me.
The chips from the all local chippies there are very good.

Mysterian

You might be right... Off pier and near pier may be shite.. but on the pier is different.
Bear in mind of course, I may like papas chips and their fish etc etc doesn't mean you will.

But it's worth going just to experience the juxtaposition between the locale, building, aesthetics of the room and the food itself.
Eating chips and battered sausage in a gorgeous and elegant ballroom complete with chandeliers and a stage with a guilded piano.. something so weird to me about it.

@Mysterian made me laugh so much I was just going to say are you in cleethorpes!

@MonkeyToesOfDoom better than Ernie beckets?

You know what, I love Ernie Beckett's I really really do. It reminds me of 1980s trips to the seaside. The tiny little restaurant at the side, wobbly tables, huge servings, builders tea, it's so so perfect.

I couldn't pick between the two tbh.

@MonkeyToesOfDoom 😂😂😂