We’ve just had chips, curry sauce and mince beef and onion pies for our tea. Spur of the moment thing as we discovered that we didn’t have any potatoes in the cupboard. As lardy suppers go that rated up there with sweet and sour chicken balls and donner kebabs (although they’re only really edible if beer has been previously consumed in vast quantities). Every time we have a chippy supper (which is admittedly not very often) I am stuck with the quandary of what to order. So what do YOU like to order?
scary suppers in manchester In Derbyshire, you can ask for a pea mix ..which is a tray of chips with mushy peas dolloped on top. . Over here it's just fish and chips or scallops and chips peas curry sauce or chips and gravy or with cheese!oooo the calories and cholesterol!
Oh dear old goody two shoes here.
I cannot remember the last time I had shop bought chips. A good 8 years ago I would think. LOL Then it must have been with fish.
Wendy
It's a quick and easy option when away for the weekend. (no time for sitting in a cafe waiting for the order at Folk Festivals, theres something on all day, you can even watch and eat fish out of newspaper).
But whatever we order we always get too many chips.
Citrine wrote:Effie, I have absolutely no idea what you've just 'ordered'. Perhaps you'd like to explain???!!! (Before you get labelled a cannibal!)
In my world a baby’s head is a steak and kidney (or sometimes just steak) suet pudding, scraps are the bits of batter that fall from the frying fish but I’m not sure what chip barm is, sounds nice though.
Ohh scraps - you can get a lovely cone full at our chippy. Chip barm is a chip sandwich, chip muffin, chip teacake,.........I believe this is a northern thing? I asked for one in poole, Dorset and they looked at me very strange!!
Two main theories why they’re called babies heads… the first is because they are pale soft and roundish. The second is that the naval slag for the toilet is Heads and that once they were opened up they look like a full potty. The problem is that word tend to migrate to and from the service so it can be difficult to tell if either are true but I know which one I like the best…
Thanks to all who translated for me, I confess I did it to confuse but it is what I always get and would get the right order if I went into a chippy and asked for that bizarre sounding meal.
Musn't forget, the soft white bread of the roll must be heavily doused with vinegar such culinary sophistication
" -zere isn't much to do 'ere, unless you like cooking and chickens!"
such culinary sophistication 
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. Over here it's just fish and chips or scallops and chips 
