I want to eat vegan fish & chips on the beach

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Any U.K. recommendations? Thanks.

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Tedious hostility towards anything vegan. Wind yer necks in, OP isn’t commenting on anyone’s else’s dietary choices.

I think some of the people who swarm on to these threads work in the meat industry. Others are the type of self obsessed people who have to centre themselves in everything. So feel a vegans choice of diet is a personal criticism of them and become defensive.
Few people are comfortable with the idea they may be contributing to animal suffering, not choosing the healthiest lifestyle or doing their best for the environment, so they are very invested in discrediting veganism as non viable, unhealthy, hypocritical, socially unacceptable and unpalatable to demonstrate that its not a viable alternative to consuming animal products.

I think it’s actually called beef drippping now I’ve googled pork fat is lard. I’ve never used either to cook with at home. It was definitely beef though (the pack had a picture of a cow on front!) I thought it was butter initially as it came in enormous blocks that were wrapped the same way.

Lots of the chippies near us on the East Anglia coast use beef dripping.

So all of Yorkshire, and commonly in Scotland and East Anglia, it appears, use beef dripping. Plus likely other places.

So far from 'very much in the minority'.

I couldn’t agree more. What they hate in us is what they lack in themselves.

Agreed. This thread certainly brought the trash to light.

There’s approximately 10.5k fish and chip shops in the UK, only a few hundred of them use beef dripping. That is very much a minority. Just because they have a higher concentration in some areas, like Yorkshire, doesn’t mean they’re not a minority nationwide.

I don't think it is all of Scotland... and it seems - from doing a deep dive into fish and chip oil choices (I know, I know... but this thread riled me.. and I haven't got much to do!😂)... that chips cooked in beef fat is in the minority, and often when chippies cook in beef fat, they have started having a separate fryer for non animal fat oil, for a variety of reasons - partly because of attracting the growing veggie/vegan market, people avoiding animal fats for religious reasons and also because of cost and taste.
There is a good article about it the fish and chip magazine (who knew!!) here...
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I know that map online is not accurate but it shows Dorset has none. I’ve obviously not been to every chippy in the County but I have never found them using BD - Harry Ramsdens at Bournemouth sea front is the exception and states cooked in vegetable oil on request but I do wonder if that has caught some people out. Unless they have clear signs up.

in the 60’s it was the norm but not now

@HazeyjaneIII happy to see the best chippy ever ‘Chez Fred’ in that article ❤️ they have a blackboard in the shop with what foods they are using and where they are from that day, all from UK and what sort of oil they are using

@CalzoneOnLegs ... that's my favourite chip shop!! I mentioned it earlier in the thread... it does the best fish and chips (including the vegan ones!😂)

I noticed they mentioned Poppy's in London, which is also great, but you have to be careful as they fry in groundnut oil, so not great if you have a nut allergy (we only realised they did when we went there with dd1 who has a nut allergy🤦🏼‍♀️)

@HazeyjaneIII

its so good ❤️ are you.local ? Have you tried Lakeside in Poole, also lovely nicer premises as well, food not quite as good

Chez Fred opened especially for Jack Black one day, he walked from town along the seafront especially to go there and it was shut

Despite the best efforts of the good people of Yorkshire and Scotland, and what Yorkshire people would have you believe, they are not most if the U.K.

One interesting thing from that article:

Many operators will refuse point-blank to switch their frying medium, while others have taken the bold step. John Molnar, owner of the five-strong chain The Cod’s Scallops, moved his shops to vegetable oil after nine years of frying in beef dripping in a bid to attract vegetarians and vegans.
“Ultimately I did it because, during lockdown, we provided about 5,000 meals over six months to less fortunate families – not fish and chips but pasta and rice meals – and what I found was 25% were vegetarian. I thought there were customers there that I was missing out on.”

If only more restaurants would realise that there are so many vegetarians and vegans out there.

Agreed, and ‘The Cod’s Scallops’ is a fantastic name too

It is a great name. I hear so often restaurants saying that they don’t get any call for vegetarian or vegan food but what they don’t understand is that people with dietary needs will usually check the menu out in advance. If there is nothing on the menu or just one sad item people just won’t go.

Thing is that if you run a chippy using BD you are missing out on hundreds of potential customers, whereas meat eaters can eat the veg oil. Seems like a no brainer. It’s like when a perfectly good Macaroni Cheese has some genius adding ham to it when it’s not the recipe and excludes that dish for some people.

@ChompandaGrazia exactly right

I know I would be able to taste BD on chips, our pizzas got muddled up one time and I ate a slice with ground beef in even though it was invisible as covered In cheese there was no mistaking the taste it was ‘alien’ actually, only had one bite.

That happened to me once when I was served beef lasagne instead of the Quorn one and it was so obvious. 🤢

@Rhaenys 🤮🤮🤮 it’s the grease oozing out isnt it ? In fact it’s the grease which I think is the horrible taste ? There is no mistaking it 🤮🤮🤮🤮 I bet that mouthful of lasagne was slightly ‘gritty’ too

You're not helping!🙄

Click the quote button on the bottom left of whichever post it is you wish to reply to rather than just throwing your random thoughts out to the ether.

If there's a civilised debate going on it must be on another thread because this one is full of self obsessed and opinionated blowhards.

In the spirit of this thread, I'm off to have some vegan fish fingers, chips and peas and leave all you vegan bashers frothing at the mouth at the audacity to want to eat something that is called fish, looks like fish AND tastes of fish, but isn't fish.

To my fellow vegans and vegetarians. Solidarity my beautiful non animal eating people ✊️ I think some folk should lay off the meat as it seems that mad cow disease has ran rampant through this thread.