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libnnc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 01:31 AM
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Who here likes fish 'n chips?
Edited on Wed Jan-17-07 02:05 AM by libnnc
I can't pass it up. It's like beer-battered heroin to me.

Foothills Brewery here in W-S, NC fries theirs in one of their many house brews.

all these damn food threads... x(
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amitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 01:32 AM
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1. Now WHY did you have to go and bring that up?!?!
Now I'll crave some like wild until I finally get some!
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libnnc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 01:33 AM
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3. I blame it on Redstone...
He had to start the burger wars...
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gemdem Donating Member (975 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 01:33 AM
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2. Pass the salt and malt vinegar
And I'll take a pint of Guiness while you're at it. Yum!
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libnnc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 01:35 AM
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6. awww....Guiness.....mmmm.....
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Nicole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 01:36 AM
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7. I wanna sit with you!
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Rambis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 09:45 AM
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21. Ahhh!
Has to be good malt vinegar or it ruins the experience.


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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 01:34 AM
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4. Love 'em!
And I'm snowed in, dang it! x(
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PaddyBlueEyes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 01:34 AM
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5. Im Irish.....
you kiddin me....
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Nicole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 01:37 AM
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8. Me!
I love fish 'n chips.
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fizzgig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 01:38 AM
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9. oh damn that sounds good
a plate of that and a pint of cider and i'm good to go

:drool:
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Little Wing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 01:45 AM
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10. I do. Pretty much the only form of fish I eat
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Ghost in the Machine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 01:52 AM
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11. Waaaaay back before Captain D's & Long John Silvers....
and I think even before Red Lobster, we had "Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips" restaurants. Am I the only one who remembers them? Anyone know of one still being open somewhere?

Ghost
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 01:53 AM
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12. I remember them. Don't know if they are still around though. n/t
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 08:57 AM
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20. There was one left that I knew of
Edited on Wed Jan-17-07 09:12 AM by hippywife
and that was in Columbus, OH. Grandview Hts., to be specific. One guy bought it and serves other types of fish dishes, too, but keeps the original AT fish and chips. My gran and I used to go there often for lunch on Saturdays.

I moved away from there almost ten years ago so I don't know if it's still there now. I'd have to check with my family back there.
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gemdem Donating Member (975 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 01:54 AM
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13. I remember Arthur Treacher
The man and the shoppes. So far as I know the shoppes are all long gone, much like Mr. Treacher himself. :-(
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 01:54 AM
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14. I remember them too
but i haven't seen one in a long time
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Tyrone Slothrop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 10:53 AM
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28. There's one in Manhattan a few blocks from my office
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ForrestGump Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 01:58 AM
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15. Grew up on it
Like the English-style meat pies, it's better Down Under than in the UK, in general.

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enigmatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 02:02 AM
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16. I love Fish And Chips
w/ Malt Vinegar on the chips; oh yeah...
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 05:51 AM
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17. And they need to be wrapped in newspaper,
hosed down with malt vinegar and salt.
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 09:59 AM
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24. Montrose, Scotland 1967
Fish and Chips, bought from a vendor on the corner. Wrapped in newspaper and soaked with vinegar. The paper was sopping. The meal, delicious. Incredible culinary delight.
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sarge43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 10:50 AM
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27. F&C shop outside of the South Ruislip tube station
Always picked up supper after work. Vinegar soaked F&C, bottle of beer, latest Penguin paperback or Marty Feldman on the telly. Good times.
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emmajane67 Donating Member (401 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 06:28 AM
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18. Yum.
Gotta be beer batter and somewhere where the fish was caught that day!

These days I'm more likely to rock a spring roll and chips or the like but have many childhood memories of fish and chips at the beach out of the newspaper.

Mmmmmmm
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TheFriendlyAnarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 06:29 AM
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19. Only Brit style with vinegar!
I hate how they go and put tarter sauce on everything over here . . .
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crim son Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 09:47 AM
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22. Me me me me me me me me!!!!
With vinegar of course! In New Zealand we had it every Friday from the fish man. It was wrapped in newspaper and came home in a white paper bag. That sounds fantastic right now.
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Nye Bevan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 09:48 AM
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23. Me, and here's where to get them in Brooklyn...
http://www.chipshopnyc.com/

Real chips, not "French Fries", and they even give you single serving containers of malt vinegar.
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seemunkee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 10:22 AM
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25. Who ever designed that website needs to be shot
Reminds of the one that Homer Simpson made.
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Tyrone Slothrop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 10:55 AM
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29. Ugh...I don't like Chip Shop
I've been there twice and both times my fish was burnt and gross.

There's a new Australian place by me (W-Burg) called Wombat though that has fish n' chips; I'm thinking about checking it out this weekend.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 10:33 AM
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26. DON'T GET ME STARTED
Edited on Wed Jan-17-07 10:38 AM by Skittles
as a child in England I would eat them sometimes three times a day....I remember my grandma telling me YOU CAN'T LIVE ON BLOODY FISH AND CHIPS...but honestly, I could have....to this day if I'm in a restaurant and fish 'n chips is on the menu, that's what I get, although nothing beats the rain-soaked newspaper full of chips, doused in malt vinegar, I ate all those decades ago :)

I took this pic on my last trip to England, in Great Yarmouth on the east coast:

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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 11:05 AM
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30. I LOVE some good cod fish and chips -- soaked in malt vinegar
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montanto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 01:04 PM
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31. Yes, but once you've had them in Ireland
with a nice pint of brewery fresh Guinness, you're pretty much screwn when you get back home!!
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noonwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 01:07 PM
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32. My favorite place for it went out of business
Brown's Fish and Chips in Dearborn. It used to be on Greenfield, between Ford and Michigan. My uncle worked there, too.

Long John Silver's is okay, but not the best. When I was a kid, there was a chain called H Salt, or something like that, and it was good.
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ChoralScholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 01:10 PM
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33. There's a pub in Branson
called "Waxy O'Shea's" that has awesome fish and chips.
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T_i_B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 01:38 PM
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34. Of course!
Edited on Wed Jan-17-07 01:38 PM by Thankfully_in_Britai
Mind you, I am English! :rofl:

The best fish & chips I've ever had has been from the Fish Shop in Wivenhoe, Essex.
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 01:40 PM
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35. If They Are Good!
I lurve 'em

no Long John Silver's though thank you very much!


:shrug: :hi:
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JackBeck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 01:42 PM
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36. I love, love, LOVE fish and chips.
When I lived in Brooklyn, I worked across the street from "The Chip Shop". I must of put on 15 pounds from eating there at least once a week.
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jakefrep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-17-07 03:05 PM
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37. I do...
The best I ever had were at a little diner (the name of which escapes me at the moment) in Hamilton, Ontario on the shore of Lake Ontario.
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