CHIPS vs FRIES

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.

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

and if you're in NY and want a good knish - this place is great: http://knishery.com/

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.

hahahaha

we're having chilli and brown rice for tea btw, we are not monsters.

http://www.cookipedia.co.uk/wiki/images/thumb/9/91/Macaroni_pies.jpg/300px-Macaroni_pies.jpg

I want one

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.

And for those of you suffering from trypophobia...

http://assets.mydish.co.uk/interface/members/234798/200711718441431-878332-263318-208230.jpg

x-post meant "I'm NOW contemplating" not "not contemplating"

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

Wait I was doing pretty well with the terminology here until we got to faggot???????

one's diet could easily be misconstrued from this thread.

Should be retitled 'CHIPS VS FRIES' (BUT WE EAT VEGGIES TOO!)

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they're meatballs - sort of

Hmmmm. I am going to have to look into this further.

http://artiewayne.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/faggots.jpg

I still can't even handle it.

I am speechless. . .

I know.

Roll and pie:

http://www.bitsofbobs.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/rollandpie.jpg

Really, we Scots are kings of redundant carbohydrates.

omg lol

wait

now THAT is obscene

a pie inside a roll?!

my god

is there a sandwich sandwich?

I mean, I have to admire the ballsiness of it but...man that is hysterical

But is it a potato pie?

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2020/2189707962_758b35abde.jpg

Served with brown sauce.

Roll and pie

If you covered that in batter and deep fried it...

it's a rice pie

Btw, quincie and ENBB, faggot as derogatory term for a gay man is an Americanism though there is a prior use as a term of derision for old women.

I know, I know but when you grow up knowing the word in a certain context it's still pretty insane to see it used otherwise esp in things like "4 faggots in a rich country sauce".

First of all I thought it was going to be like a friend scallop
I just spent a few minutes finding your friend scallop and since I spent that time finding him, I figured I would post him too
http://i54.tinypic.com/2ag84gh.jpg

hahahahah <3

Authentic fat chips fried in beef tallow are available less than 200 metres from my house, but nothing beats perfect pommes frites dipped in aioli or mayo. I am spoiled.

For the poncey Jenga chips, I generally mix mayonnaise with either ketchup or sweet Thai chili sauce for dipping. Chip-shop chips get ketchup only.

I make mushy peas all the time because it's super-easy. Melted butter, cooked peas, a few mint leaves, salt, pepper. Maybe a few leaves of parsley if there's no mint in. Blend. This is also really good with ham, not just fish and chips.

Those aren't mushy peas - they're puréed peas.

Mushy peas must be made with dried marrowfat peas, not fresh peas.

For those who dream of mushy peas that have, by some miracle, been deep fried … the pea fritter!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3039/2945337564_ce3f573879.jpg

I was aware of "faggot" being used for a piece of firewood and (derogatorily) for a gay man, but not for a *meatball*.

!!!!!

Peas, in general, are one of my favorite foods. Sometimes I eat a bowl of reg ones just as a snack. Would try a pea fritter.

Quincie, a faggot isn't orginally a piece of firewood but a bundle of sticks. It is thought to derive from fasces, just like the word fascist.

Mushy peas are the worst, but then I hate peas with a vengence. Can only really enjoy them as mange tout, but otherwise I'd rather not.

While we're on the subject of starch-on-starch foods, I think the chip butty's poor cousin -the crisp sandwich- needs a shout out. Completely terrible but totally my number one guilty secret food.

http://www.thedailyspud.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Crisp-sandwich.jpg

I've had pea fritters, they weren't all that

So ashamed btw.

And while we're on the firtters:

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Zucchini flower fritters

I used to work with a few people from Wigan (north west England and nationally famous for its pies) and alongside the pie and roll combo upthread ("pie barm") they would also insist upon the following whenever they visited a chip-shop:

"pey wet" - or "pea wet" ie. the watery liquor of mushy peas, usually slopped all over whatever else had been bought.
"babby's yead" - literally "baby's head", a steak pudding whose shape vaguely echoes one.

One of the things I love about England is that this lot lived about 15 miles away from me but I could barely understand them at times, such was the local dialect.

And yeah, CHIPS all the way.

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