That's because mushy peas don't work with anything.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
mushy peas and chips are amazing. i like to have them with faggots, even though mash is probably more common there.
― tending tropics (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
marrowfat peas are one of my favourite things.
― tending tropics (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
good mushy peas is food of the gods. i'm starving btw
― cockroach shakespeare (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah mushy peas, chips and faggots = hell yeah altho today's faggots are wildly inconsistent
so many starch-on-starch violations
mac and cheese pizzachip buttyspaghetti burrito
― housedress? maxidress! (La Lechera), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
roll and pie.macaroni pie.piece and pizza (a slice of pizza in between two bits of buttered bread)
― tending tropics (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm getting very fed up with semi-upscale eateries serving a Jenga-style cross-stacked block of enormo-chips. Even if the exterior is crunchy, the interior is too firm. And the size of the chips prevents a satisfactory chip-condiment ratio on the tastebuds, because there's too much potato in every bite.
Order of fried potato preference1/ Properly good, posh triple-fried chips; flaky and golden on the outside, soft and yielding inside. Served only with salt.2/ Soggy chip shop chips, swimming in salt and vinegar, eaten from paper.3/ Thin-cut fries. Served with salt and mayo.4/ Jenga chips. Yet to work out a condiment combination that really works. Probably ketchup here, to add moistness to the interior.
― Now working on a documentary about Sham 69's recent tour of China (ithappens), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
mushy peas and chips are amazing. i like to have them with faggots,
3 Reasons I'm more of a francophile than britophile. Overcooked peas make me want to cry.
― Si tu parles, tu meurs. Si tu te tais, tu meurs. Alors, dis et (Michael White), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
The "put some rice on it" line is actually stolen from mw, who suggested that course of action w/r/t lasagna pizza that has actual pasta on it.
Just feel like something is categorically wrong with the starch-on-starch. For the love of god add some protein and a vegetable or two.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
thing is this whole starch on starch thing is a Platonic law that doesn't allow for exceptions, like of course most of those things don't work but a chip butty does as long as you are prepared to believe in it.
Traditional Hull chip shop meal = patty and chips, where the patty is basically mashed, seasoned potato dipped in batter and deep fried. That does weird me out a bit tbh.
― cockroach shakespeare (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Fishcake and chips is a CLASSIC starch-on-starch violation given how often the fishcake is just fish flavoured mash.
― Now working on a documentary about Sham 69's recent tour of China (ithappens), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
So it's like a breaded, deep-fried hash brown, sort of, served with...french fries? This isn't even remotely appealing-sounding. xp
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost Mushy peas aren't overcooked peas. They are dried peas rehydrated into a thick pea-flavoured slop. They are very distinct from "garden" peas.
― Now working on a documentary about Sham 69's recent tour of China (ithappens), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
a fried battered potato patty and some fried potatoes?
that just sounds like the sort of food people eat after the apocalypse, when there is nothing growing but there are still some potatoes left.
― housedress? maxidress! (La Lechera), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I know, I wouldn't eat one with chips either. The inside is a lot fluffier than a hash brown and it's usually flavoured with parsley and thyme or occasionally a little fish (though that's called a fish patty usually). Thing is, I will eat a patty sandwich tho. \o/
― cockroach shakespeare (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
this is comfort food btw guys, not our staple diet. even losers who eat nothing but take out food have a bad pizza every now and then.
― cockroach shakespeare (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link
i just want something more nutritious for the good people of Hull
― housedress? maxidress! (La Lechera), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Of all the British foods in the world, mushy peas is the one I most want to try. They sound fucking amazing!
― the 'hip' thing nowadays — gay Mormon missionaries (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Mushy peas are amazing but the one thing that bothers me about them, at least the canned variety you can get here, is the color. The add food coloring so that they're an unnatural shade of green. I still get them every now and then but try not to think too hard about the coloring thing.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
weirdly tho the coloured tinned ones are often better than some of the overstewed ones you get in chippies.
― cockroach shakespeare (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
my one exception to starch on starch violations are potato pierogi.
― housedress? maxidress! (La Lechera), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
there is a place in my life for starch-on-starch action. I've only had a couple of chip butties in my life but they were AWESOME
also: did someone say macaroni pie?????? :D
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh while I'm pro chip butty I will tell you one thing that was just too much, a scallop batch. First of all I thought it was going to be like a friend scallop (the shellfish) sandwich so that was confusing. I thought it would be amazing but it was just too much potato. Also, way too greasy.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Man, I want a chip butty so badly, but dinner is already sorted, and is way healthier than a chip butty. Am totally going to the chip shop for my lunch tomorrow though.
Macaroni pies are vile.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
x-post - I had a mac and cheese pie in Scotland because, well, I had to really. It was divine.
― housedress? maxidress! (La Lechera), Wednesday, April 13, 2011 1:27 PM
samosas? knishes??
― am0n, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost At the annual Goose Fair in Nottingham - a centuries old tradition that is Europe's largest fun fair - there is stall after stall after stall selling mushy peas, each boasting that theirs are more mushy and more authentic than anyone else's. It must be the world's greatest concentration of mushy peas.
― Now working on a documentary about Sham 69's recent tour of China (ithappens), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
oh god good knishes are the best
― ENBB, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I would go to that fair.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
oh E i miss scallops/scollops so much, they're a Midland thing and they don't do them round here, when somebody tries they fuck them up.
scallops, fried roe and peas with crusty buttered bread = taste of my nan's house when i was 10
― cockroach shakespeare (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
and if you're in NY and want a good knish - this place is great: http://knishery.com/
― ENBB, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
NV - I only tried the scallop batch once so maybe I got a bad one? \o/
scallops can be greasy cos of the batter it's true. u wouldn't wanna live off them. well i might.
― cockroach shakespeare (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
hahahaha
― ENBB, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
we're having chilli and brown rice for tea btw, we are not monsters.
― cockroach shakespeare (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.cookipedia.co.uk/wiki/images/thumb/9/91/Macaroni_pies.jpg/300px-Macaroni_pies.jpg
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I want one
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah I was just thinking that this thread makes it sound like all I eat is starch. I mean in my dream world that might be the case but I just had a salad (totally unsatisfying in light of this discussion) for lunch tho I'm not contemplating picking up some mushy peas on my way home.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
And for those of you suffering from trypophobia...
http://assets.mydish.co.uk/interface/members/234798/200711718441431-878332-263318-208230.jpg
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
x-post meant "I'm NOW contemplating" not "not contemplating"
― ENBB, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i've always said there's nothing that can't be improved by making it into a pie but i think we've found something
― cockroach shakespeare (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Wait I was doing pretty well with the terminology here until we got to faggot???????
― quincie, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
one's diet could easily be misconstrued from this thread.
Should be retitled 'CHIPS VS FRIES' (BUT WE EAT VEGGIES TOO!)
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
x-post
they're meatballs - sort of
― ENBB, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Hmmmm. I am going to have to look into this further.
― quincie, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
http://artiewayne.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/faggots.jpg
I still can't even handle it.
I am speechless. . .
― quincie, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I know.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Roll and pie:
http://www.bitsofbobs.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/rollandpie.jpg
Really, we Scots are kings of redundant carbohydrates.
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link