CHIPS vs FRIES

I really REALLY want to go to the chip shop at the end of the street and eat a big bag of chips. Proper chip shop chips are one of the best things in the world.

Fries. I hate chip shop chips, all soggy and mushy and greasy.

I think the divide here is between who want the 'hearty feelgood fluffy potato centre' and those who want it primarily crunchy - a proper double fried French 'frite'.

As an American francophile, it's not surprising that for me the normative version is the one we mostly have here and the first time I ate chips in England, I burned my palate on the fluffy potato center.

best chips imo:

fresh chips straight out of the fryer into the fish & chips wrapper, SO hot that you can hardly hold onto them and you tear a little hole in the top of the wrapped up parcel and eat them on a cold day <3

or

chips at the bottom of the bag of chips & gravy, soggy and full of gravy love <3

oh chips how I miss you

eating a chip is like cramming 5 fries into your mouth at the same time
fries
(but tbf i have never had chips that were anything but soggy and overwhelmingly greasy/heartburn inducing)

I don't find fries as comforting as chips

I really REALLY want to go to the chip shop at the end of the street and eat a big bag of chips. Proper chip shop chips are one of the best things in the world.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 16:32 (1 hour ago)

just had fish and chips, thanks to this very thread, though i might well have got some anyway i guess

chips and fries can both be pretty great, given the choice will always order the former cuz fries can be those shitty reconstituted potato things

chips from crap chip shops can be pretty bad too

bad chips are definitely the worst...(shudder)

Potato product sandwich idea so disgusting. Put some rice on there while you're at it.

then wrap it in a tortilla to hold it together

Yeah.

Good chips >>> fries >>>>>>>>>>>>>> bad chips.

Chip butty is tremendous! Rice butty just wouldn't work rilly.

tremendously gross, maybe

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Wb7gmBhM3z4/TK7o-sn7YvI/AAAAAAAADWc/blmi0YMT6zw/s1600/chips.jpg

I was going to experiment with a ravioli butty but I'm glad I didn't.

I think I've only actually ever had one chip butty (maybe 2) but iirc it was AMAZING. Then again in my mind all that carb on carb action could only yield positive results. SO DELICIOUS.

eating a chip is like cramming 5 fries into your mouth at the same time

^^^ this is one reason why chips are so awesome.

Proper chip butty you need either thick bread or a breadcake (roll, bap, stottie, whatever), proper butter on the bread, shitloads of salt and vinegar, ketchup.

Different cuts/textures required depending on what they're going with. Frites with moules, crinkle cuts with a burger, chips with fish; not going to say one is best. I think crinkle cuts (or that approximate size) are the best of both worlds.

Not sure if this is a challop or not, but I really like the new fries at Wendy's.

also, fries don't work with mushy peas imo

That's because mushy peas don't work with anything.

mushy peas and chips are amazing. i like to have them with faggots, even though mash is probably more common there.

marrowfat peas are one of my favourite things.

good mushy peas is food of the gods. i'm starving btw

yeah mushy peas, chips and faggots = hell yeah altho today's faggots are wildly inconsistent

so many starch-on-starch violations

mac and cheese pizza
chip butty
spaghetti burrito

roll and pie.
macaroni pie.
piece and pizza (a slice of pizza in between two bits of buttered bread)

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 preference
1/ 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.

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.

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.

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.

Fishcake and chips is a CLASSIC starch-on-starch violation given how often the fishcake is just fish flavoured mash.

So it's like a breaded, deep-fried hash brown, sort of, served with...french fries? This isn't even remotely appealing-sounding. xp

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.

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.

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/

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.

i just want something more nutritious for the good people of Hull

Of all the British foods in the world, mushy peas is the one I most want to try. They sound fucking amazing!

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.

weirdly tho the coloured tinned ones are often better than some of the overstewed ones you get in chippies.

my one exception to starch on starch violations are potato pierogi.

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

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.

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.

x-post - I had a mac and cheese pie in Scotland because, well, I had to really. It was divine.

my one exception to starch on starch violations are potato pierogi.

― housedress? maxidress! (La Lechera), Wednesday, April 13, 2011 1:27 PM

samosas? knishes??

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.

oh god good knishes are the best

I would go to that fair.