CHIPS vs FRIES

Crisp sandwiches! Man, I love this thread. THat second roll and pie is the real deal, that abomination with the ashet pie is just all kinds of wrong. Scotch pie ftw.

what is scotch pie

A spiced mutton pie in a water crust pastry - much favoured half-time snack of football fans before they started having McDonald's and shit in stadiums.

Add me to the chorus of admiration for the roll and pie. Would also say that a point in favor of chips is being able to douse them in malt vinegar.

I've seen someone have a deep fried battered pizza (colloquially known as a pizza crunchy) on a roll.

There are also amazing spicy pea fritters... in Malta.

Clockwise from top-left: chips, yer other national drink, pizza crunchies
http://pugwash.cat5.org/articles/pizza/deep-fried-pizza-9.jpg

Just out of shot: hardened arteries.

oh my god

that looks amazing

how is everyone in Scotland not morbidly obese?!

british ppl and food again *shakes head lovingly*

We have our fair share of heavyweight and a terrible record for heart disease, strokes, high blood pressure & everything else you'd associate with that photo.

One of my favourite meals used to be spam fritters, Heinz spaghetti with cheese melted into it, and chips.

You guys really like tan/beige foods, huh?

and orange!

If you think about it, it's positively colourful compared to our grey country.

your country is bright green!

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Faggots

re. faggots. when i was a kid there were commercials for that brand and it wasn't the word faggots that was weird about it (that americanism wasn't used much in the uk then), but the fact they were BRAINS faggots. check out the advert on youtube.

Brains Faggots

how is everyone in Scotland not morbidly obese?!

Scotland is second in the world for obesity.

xp Timothy Dalton (James Bond #whatever) on voiceover duty

annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd...

Only America has a higher percentage of overweight adults

As Frankie Boyle said, just think what we'd be like if it wasn't for all the heroin.

xxp

Family of faggot fans fly the flag
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ah63153bXx0/TPcsKOI2m_I/AAAAAAAAEgU/eov5x8C_KY0/s1600/Faggot-Family.jpg

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hanging%20brain

i like to think of this discussion as a parallel of Tastiest of America's Most Fattiest Foods

most of these starch-on-starch concoctions are as mind-boggling for me as for the americans btw, we don't do like that in the south at all

apart from the faggots

starch-on-starch concoctions

They shouldn't boggle Americans as much as they do, in a country where we love our biscuits and gravy. The gravy is really just another biscuit in liquid form.

CHIPS
(are not steak cut fries or anything I have found in the US).

yeah otm. chips are a funny shape as apparently the vegetable you use to make them is all roundy.

knew someone would post a primanti's pic on this thread

The best chip butties need to be artfully arranged with bits of oven-cooked fishfinger and individual peas painstakingly placed in any gaps between chips, and an even layer of ketchup on sliced white Hovis. Preferably while watching Noel's House Party or some such shit.

In my mind chip butties and fish finger sandwiches are two separate things.

And the fish fingers have to be cooked under the grill. They dry out in the oven.

oh yeah, that's what I meant. When I was a kid Saturday tea was chippy chips and fishfingers & peas which I would combine into one almighty sandwich. Nowadays that would require way too much effort and I'd need my brother round to go round the chippy.

In my mind chip butties and fish finger sandwiches are two separate things.

patently.

my favorite are these
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfainkYGzg1qgvpo5o1_500.jpg

Those can be good but are prone to sticking together into a big mass and coming out underdone. (/fat connoiseur)

don't mind the sticking together but yeah I've had curly fries underdone a few times.

I love curly fries cause they've fun and you can make them go sproing!

I like to dip curly fires in a mix Louisiana Hot sauce(the brand) with ketchup.

Does England have an equivalent to Louisiana hot sauce?

idk but I feel like hot sauce is a pretty american thing

Yeah, I think curly fries are my fav type of fry.

we don't really have any home grown hot sauces, we have to import.

i like to mix ketchup with english mustard for a hot chip dip

waffle fries are kind of fun too tho

I like to mix greek yoghurt and harissa

can't find the button for waffle fries = poll is broken

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_iYu-Q0jwPKM/TTr_jdqK2tI/AAAAAAAAAFc/3s_siJmUZCQ/s1600/ChickFilA_WaffleFries2.jpg

I'll take mine drenched in vinegar & sprinkled modestly w/ strong blue cheese plz

& plz make sure the salt shaker is FULL

hey i just went and checked the cupboard cos we've got this hot sauce from the Indian store which I assumed was from that neck of the woods but apparently it's from Louisana! It's called Crystal and it must be for export cos there's lots of Urdu-looking text on the label.

Good waffle fries are great.

Right? They have to be good ones though.

Man, I never realized I had so many opinions about fried potatoes.