Is there something wrong with this?

[powerhousesandra]

I'm a long time reader of this site and signed up to prove a point to my husband.

I made a nice meal of chicken, rice and crisps but my husband thinks it's weird.

It's no different to adding potatoes, crisps are just a different form. Am I wrong here???

A lot of restaurants in Spain serve spuds & rice with main courses.

Weird for ex-pat Brits, but they don't have to eat all the stodge.

Not appetising or nutritious, but if that’s the way you like to eat, then it’s up to you, I suppose.

I've had a Brazilian chicken stroganoff before which was topped with those, it was really tasty surprisingly.i think it's probably just the presentation that's making it seem so bad, but I am one of those people who likes to plate up my food to look pretty 😂.

https://braziliankitchenabroad.com/brazilian-chicken-stroganoff-recipe/

Rice and potatoes doesnt go. No matter the form. Two different types of carbs is weird. You dont mix rice with pasta either or pasta with potatoes (unless its älplermacarone in austria or something but thats weird too!)

Too carby and beige for me, I don't care if it's Brazilian, French or Martian. I wouldn't eat it.

Traditionally pasta and potatoes dish

https://www.nigella.com/recipes/ligurian-pasta-with-basil-beans-and-potatoes

Traditional rice and potato dish

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masala_dosa

I don’t make a curry without potato’s in it. It’s delicious served with rice and a mixed chopped salad on the side. It’s the way it’s done where I live. Having the potato’s in it means you don’t eat so much rice so it’s not really a double helping of carbs. And if we had a paratha with it we wouldn’t have rice.

I was thinking about game chips as well

It's no different to adding potatoes, crisps are just a different form. Am I wrong here???

Yes, you're very wrong. Crisps, and potato sticks, don't belong in a main meal. With a sandwich in a cafe, possibly - with chicken and rice, absolutely not. It's just weird. I wouldn't have any kind of potato with chicken and rice, come to that - would you have chicken, rice and chips? Or chicken, rice and a baked potato?

This is fake, surely

@DuesToTheDirt when in the Uk Im quite partial to half a portion of special fried rice and chips.

I’ve just remembered what it reminds me of. It’s potato chat with the crispy things sprinkled over the top.

Everybody’s so creative

Exactly.

We had a meal in rotation called chip chicken - instead of using Panko or breadcrumbs you’d use cheese and onion crisps smashed up with a rolling pin. It was delicious It could be served with rice, I suppose, but we used to have potato wedges and salad.

There does feel like this thread has a bit of an underlying tone of racism with its “yuck, foreign food, we don’t do that here” statements. I’m Indian and can confirm that we eat potatoes with rice and potatoes with bread in traditional meals.

Agree @karmakameleon seems to be a lot of culture carb police who've decided what is acceptable in the UK.

I hope you enjoyed it @powerhousesandra and it brought good memories for you. Food as part of our culture is important and powerful.

I was heartbroken once in Portugal when I ordered "fried potatoes" and received crisps and not the chips I was expecting 😭

Agree! I think it’s a lack of exposure to different food and ways of eating that makes a lot of the posters on this thread sound very narrow minded.

My mum used to make some sort of pie involving tinned soup in the 80s and it had crisps crumbled up over it
. I'm not sure if it was just to get me to eat it 😂

Not weird at all!

For a drunk uni student with no money and empty cupboards..

This comment has been bothering me all night and I'll have you know my feet are beautiful actually, thank you

Why? Did you not read all the replies saying that it is a Portuguese/Brazilian dish?

This is todays meal with the crisps

Is that crisps and breadcrumbs?

Your mince and tattles look delicious and yes, I’d eat it with the crisps.