To just want good old chippie food not bloody crayfish, swordfish and minted petit pois?

[TheDevilWearsPrimark]

I've just been to the coast for the day to visit a friend

It is essential to have fish and chips at the seaside so we went to the only place that was open and I couldn't believe it.

Battered tiger prawn, swordfish, etc

fecking minted petit pois

and not a butty or bottle of ketchup in sight.

We paid £2.60 eah for a tiny portion of (admittedly lovely) chips and huffed off.

Leave chip shops alone - they don't need poncery

ponces

There is a time and a place for poncery, it is annoying that even the humble chippy is now being taken over.

I miss the traditional pubs where you could get an old fashioned blt and chips or chilli con carne. In our area all the pubs now only offer slabs with cured meats, hoummous and pitta bread which is lovely when you are in the mood for all that poncery but sometimes you just want to sit in the corner of an old pub with half a cider and comfort food.

Would drive me mad. We live near the sea and enjoy a chip takeaway down on the beach. So long as its not too much it wont harm your health so I agree. Keep the chips the way we like them.

Must be the type of place you went to - Blackpool, Rhyl and Weston still have bog standard chippies.

Was it Whitstable by chance?

You don't get a more poncetastic seaside town than that.

Wooden forks.

Warm bottles of pop.

Scraps.

Mmmmm. The best things about the chippy are the simple pleasures.

Minted petit pois my arse!

Or Aldeburgh?

No ketchup? That's no chippy

Can't be proper seaside either. Where was it - Southwold by any chance? (Though I'm sure I've had proper chips there)

But there is a proper chippy in Aldeburgh, isn't there?

thing is that until we ween ourselves off the idea of cod and haddock as cheap fast food we're bound to be disappointed! they are rare species...they are EXPENSIVE. fish is expensive and only going to get more so as we've fished the oceans out.

I hear your pain devil, but fish and chips as we knew it (cheap and cheerful) is a thing of the past, unless we can get over our aversion to more sustainable fish like pollock and fast.

my sympathies.

try Bridlington!

But I don't think the OP has a problem with being Codless, she has a problem with being Ketchupless and buttieless. With Minted Poncey Peas offered instead of proper mushy peas.

Aldeburgh isn't proper seaside though

what bit of the coast was this?

I don't think many chippies are being overhauled in this way

as long as it was deep fried in beautiful calorific cholesterol packed oil i'm not sure i'd care.

Am intrigued by Aldeburgh not being proper seaside.

yes and mushy peas aren't on the MSC's endangered list.

where aLDEburgh?

YANBU

Suffolk

There is a proper chippie in Southwold. It does proper fish and chips and mushy peas. And bread and butter (gotta love a chip butty! Oh god, now salivating - chip butty with tonnes of vingar and salt. MMMMMMMMM!). Opposite end of main road in to beach. Formica tables and everything as it should be!

Also good pub up on Southwold harbour (opposite Walberswick) that does ginormous F&C portions. As does Red Lion on town green. Southwold can be 'normal' and not just Hampsted On Sea...

Never heard of a chip shop selling chip butties.

Love swordfish-hope it wasn´t battered, though.

No - they sell the bread and butter so you can make your own butties (you can eat in at this plaice (sorry, couldn't resist!) or take away.

yuk
i hate fish anc chips

vile grease

Occasionally I can manage a poke of chips, no problem. But I feel kinda dirty afterwards. And I can never manage a fish supper.