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Original poster

In thinking chips...

69 replies

Mysterian · 07/07/2019 22:56

...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.

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HarrietSchulenberg · 08/07/2019 00:04

Your problem is that you're picking the wrong pier food. You have to eat freshly fried donuts on or near the pier. Preferably whilst they're so hot that you have to blow on your fingers between bites. The chips are always crap when there's only a tiny frier and 1000 customers in the queue.

Seaside chips are best eaten in a fugged up car when it's lashing it down outside. In February.

bananaontoast1 · 08/07/2019 05:36

Sullivans chippy in Hornsea is good, apparently Whiteheads is too but I've never actually managed to find it 😂

Papas is always nice, though I've never been to the one in Cleethorpes!

brainfrying · 08/07/2019 05:39

The ones on the pier in Cleethorpes are the best I have ever had. Haven't been this year but friends went this weekend and said they were amazing.

Myfoolishboatisleaning · 08/07/2019 05:41

This may be my most favourite initial post ever. Are you a journalist/writer OP?

Monny1 · 08/07/2019 05:58

The best fish and chip shop was called Worley’s, l think the owner was Frank Worley in West Sussex. People used to come for miles around to eat the food from there.

LadyRannaldini · 08/07/2019 07:35

Worst I've had, and the most ridiculously expensive, were in Anstruther, Scotland, where people actually queue out of the door having made a special journey for them! Why??

Sandybval · 08/07/2019 07:40

Brighton has amazing chips! I can't remember what it's called, but it's near the pier on the seafront, best portion I've ever had I think!

RockinHippy · 08/07/2019 08:24

I'm far south & the only good chippy we now have here IS on our pier 🤷‍♀️

RockinHippy · 08/07/2019 08:26

Okay, maybe we have 2 & I now scouring for the second one mentioned above 😂

Comet456 · 08/07/2019 08:30

Oh yes! The Hornsea chip shop is epic (the one near the water fountains).

Next best is the one in Aldborough in Suffolk.

BikeRunSki · 08/07/2019 08:33

I agree with @MonkeyToesOfDoom about the Papa’s Fish and Chips.

Harry Ramsden’s are like Clark’s kids shoes. Used to be brilliant, but now surfing on a reputation they no longer deserve, whimsy knocking out a mediocre product at inflated prices.

AlecOrAlonzo · 08/07/2019 08:35

Fish and chips in Ullapool are fabulous!

x2boys · 08/07/2019 09:02

We had some horrible the and chips once in Blackpool they looked lovely and fresh the chips were too hard and when I bit until he fish I got a mouthful of oil😷,gravy makes chips taste better .

RockinHippy · 08/07/2019 09:03

Harry Ramsdens are a franchise business, so everyone is different. Here they are dreadful. I got really bad food poisoning a few years ago & according to a microbiologist friend, the way I got sick, as in feeling sick before I even left the restaurant, indicated my meal was contaminated with faeces 🤮.

When I rang to tell HR how ill I'd been from their food, they were very rude, denied it was their food & told me I was only after a free meal & wouldn't be getting one 😐 not sure what part of I've spent 3 days with my head down the toilet so wouldn't eat your food again if you paid me, they didn't getHmm

BikeRunSki · 08/07/2019 09:46

Fish and chips in Ullapool are fabulous

Absolutely! I watched the fisherman bring the fish in, and was eating it 30 mins later. Veggie now, but those fish and chips - in 1987! - have stayed with me.

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Mysterian · 08/07/2019 11:13

Agree with Ullapool. No pier there.

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Mysterian · 08/07/2019 11:14

In Grimsby now. Not as nice as it sounds.

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PawsForPizza · 08/07/2019 11:14

Hands up who needs a chippy tea tonight now

EssentialHummus · 08/07/2019 11:23

YANBU. But the ones I ate in the rain on the shore somewhere in or near Newcastle next to the bus depot where we went to retrieve my friend's handbag (that she'd left on the bus) were properly wonderful. I'm foreign and they represented my peak integration with British life.

(Can any Newcastle mumsnetters identify the place, incidentally? Caught the bus near Jesmond if that helps.)

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Mysterian · 08/07/2019 12:23

I had haddock and chips. The chips were full of beefy flavour from the dripping, crisp and crunchy outside, soft and creamy inside. Fair portion of tiny crispy bits. The fish was firm and keeping together not just bland fish mush you often get. The batter was crispy and so light it disintegrated as I bit through it.
They were the best fish and chips I have ever had.
Not really a pier though. It was a chip shop/restaurant on legs. No other attractions. I think my original point still holds.

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clpsmum · 08/07/2019 12:46

@Mysterian clue in the name GRIMsby! Cleethorpes is much nicer. Run for your life lol

MonkeyToesOfDoom · 08/07/2019 14:06

@Mysterian

Was that in papas in Cleethorpes?
What did you think to the ballroom setting?

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Mysterian · 08/07/2019 15:52

Classy looking place but I ate outside on a furniture.

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DitheringBlidiot · 08/07/2019 15:58

The one on Felixstowe pier is very good! They cook everything in beef dripping

The80sweregreat · 08/07/2019 16:02

Best fish n chips I've ever eaten was in Scotland in 1995! Close to a place called Balquider ? (On the road to Stirling somewhere. )
Harry Ramsdens are just another chain that trades on its name.
Most chips don't taste like they did years ago anyway. Most are disappointing. I like sweet potato fries though or McCain's gorgeous chips. Cooked properly , they are great.