Culinary delights of the West Midlands

[Blink Bonny]

Ay up!

On my way home from Model Rail Club last night I was afflicted with a terminal attack of the munchies so bought some takeaway chips. Battered chips.

Thses are like chips with the bits sorta cooked onto 'em.

They're not the same though.

Yours

From the bits-on-chips-less desert that is Wolverhampton

P.S. Never make the mistake of asking for a large bag of chips round here. You get a carrier bag full!

[52D]

Ive seen these abominations advertised in chip shops round Dudley, not tried em yet.

[giner]

You lot haven't been born. Round here, you'd be lucky to find a decent bag of chips anywhere. It's usually variations on the McDonalds distorted idea of chips. Bits or no bits, I could murder a bag of proper British chips right about now.

[Coboman]

we should start a UK good chip guide . Theers about a dozen chippies here (Rugeley) and not one of them is fit for anything other than pigs swill. I do know to about half a dozen right gooduns round the country mind you.
Which club do you attend Mr BB?

[60800]

Messingham road fisheries in Scunthorpe is good, as is the Newland Fryer, also in Scunthorpe

[Blink Bonny]

we should start a UK good chip guide . Theers about a dozen chippies here (Rugeley) and not one of them is fit for anything other than pigs swill. I do know to about half a dozen right gooduns round the country mind you.
Which club do you attend Mr BB?

Ay up, Coboman

Wolverhampton Model Railway Club, yes, them with Stoke Summit. I'm building my own layout in their clubrooms at the moment. Have a look at the website: http://moleendsandd.webs.com/

I have to say, I've yet to find a chippy round here that's worth revisiting. It's no good - I'll have to revisit Yorkshire, good chippies WOT SERVE BITS!!!!

Best one I know of is in Settle, down by the viaduct. The one in the Town Square ain't bad but not as good as the lower one. Oh, and if you're in Potmadoc, Allport's is worth a visit but be warned - they fry in dripping so they're very filling and you get enough chips to keep an Irish potato farmer in clover for 6 months! Pretty good burgers, as well.

My mouth's watering. Must be feeding time!

[Coboman]

Nearest top nosh one that I know to near you BB, is in Newcastle U Lime! Beef dripping, and chips to die for! I know a couple of black country lads, I'll ask them if theres a decent old fashioned chippy tucked away somewhere....

[2002EarlMarischal]

I have to say, I've yet to find a chippy round here that's worth revisiting. It's no good - I'll have to revisit Yorkshire, good chippies WOT SERVE BITS!!!!

BB, please educate a poor ignorant Midlander, (only in the born and bred sense, not in the railway allegiance sense of course, despite visits to the "red side"), but what are these "bits on yer chips"?

I am very partial to the little bits of chips that lurk in the bottom of the paper, but I sense these may not be the same!

Our local Chinese takeaway in Burbage probably do better chips than the actual chippie, but then those aren't bad either.

Now I'm feeling hungry! Why did I read this thread?

[Blink Bonny]

Ay up!

As fish is fried in batter, little bits of the batter detach themselves from the main body and cook on their own. These are then scooped up and, in civilised places, are offered as an accompaniement to the main event. Provided the fat is clean, they are crisp and tasty - the best part of fish and chips IMHO.

Ask any Yorkshireman!

[strang steel]

As a kid in deepest Lincolnshire, a bag of scraps (as we called them at the time) could be bought for 1d, if they had any. The trick was to go to the chippy after an hour or two of opening, when they would have built up to reasonable proportions.

Lovely.

Also, when Smiths crisps had a factory in Lincoln the local sweet shops in our area used to sell bags of broken crisps for 1d as well. We were well catered for on our measly pocket money, although these days nutritionists would be horrified at what we were eating on a regular basis.

[Blink Bonny]

Ay up!

I've just slobbered all over my keyboard.

(squelchy typing)

Yeuk!

[PGBerrie]

The bits came free with a 3d bag of chips when I was a boy. What I really liked were "chats" - halves of tiny new potatoes, done in their skins I think, which of course came only for a limited period in summer and not at all "fish 'oyls". My home town still has at least one fish and chip shop, but the last time I asked for a mixed and a fish I was met with a blank stare. Ee by gum, what's the world coming to!

Peter

[52D]

Scraps is the correct Terminology in South Yorks as well. A fine culinary delight from Sheffield is Steak and Kidney pie with chips and mushy peas sprinkled with the nectar that is Hendersons Relish.
I am also taken with the Nottingham habit of Pie and peas with mint sauce.

[Coboman]

As a kid in deepest Lincolnshire, a bag of scraps (as we called them at the time) could be bought for 1d, if they had any. The trick was to go to the chippy after an hour or two of opening, when they would have built up to reasonable proportions.

Lovely.

Also, when Smiths crisps had a factory in Lincoln the local sweet shops in our area used to sell bags of broken crisps for 1d as well. We were well catered for on our measly pocket money, although these days nutritionists would be horrified at what we were eating on a regular basis.

But were any of us fat? I dont remember any fat kids at school and we lived on all sorts of whats termed rubbish nowerdays. Just look at the kids going in and out of school nowerdays, they are either emaciated or bulging.

[giner]

I remember the bags of broken crisps for a penny in our neck of the woods (Stevenage), too. And the 'bits', 'scraps', etc., we knew as 'scrumps'.