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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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The staple diet of your average northerner, but what do the rest of us think about them?
I don't eat them too often but for some reason I always want fish 'n chips from the chippy when I come back off holiday. Straight of the paper in a windy English seaside town that doesn't know the meaning of "refurb" is another time when eating chips has a certain charm about it. I was walking down the front in Mablethorpe (visiting a friend out of duty, not there by choice) last year with my wife and we stopped and grabbed a bag of chips to share. I'd go so far as to say that it was almost romantic.
In the Black Country, where people don't really care about their health too much, they cook them in beef dripping or something. Whatever it is, they come out of the fryer bright orange. They're actually quite fantastic but utterly sinful and no doubt the fastest route to coronary heart disease.
It's probably I only once a year I eat Black Country chips. Then again, even though I'm in the Black Country every 2 or 3 weeks, I probably only eat anything there once a year. When it's a choice of chips in dripping or faggots and mushy pays, you tend to put up with the hunger pains until you get back across the border. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I usually fancy chip shop fish and chips after I've been too ill to eat."
Maybe for the best if you try to avoid falling ill in Dudley if that's the case. |
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"The chippy by me makes rank chips, thank god, otherwise i would be in there more than once a year"
That doesn't seem to stop people using them though.
Greeks and Cypriots run the best chippies.
Bangladeshis run the best curries houses. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I usually fancy chip shop fish and chips after I've been too ill to eat.
Maybe for the best if you try to avoid falling ill in Dudley if that's the case."
I can't think of any reason why I would be in Dudley, so I'm safe  |
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"The chippy by me makes rank chips, thank god, otherwise i would be in there more than once a year
That doesn't seem to stop people using them though.
Greeks and Cypriots run the best chippies.
Bangladeshis run the best curries houses."
This is a turkish husband/welsh wife combo and the only chippy for miles so it gets very busy |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I usually fancy chip shop fish and chips after I've been too ill to eat.
Maybe for the best if you try to avoid falling ill in Dudley if that's the case.
I can't think of any reason why I would be in Dudley, so I'm safe "
The canal scenes in Peaky Blinders were filmed there.
It's got a zoo, a castle, a shopping mall the size of a small town and the best chippy in the whole of...erm...Dudley.
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One of my sons recently invested in an air fryer. It can literally cook chips without oil or fat. The same with fish, and with duel heat even jacket potatoes. This must be a much healthier option, and the chips are very tasty too. Which is good because I like my chips, especially with mushy peas. Lovely! |
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"One of my sons recently invested in an air fryer. It can literally cook chips without oil or fat. The same with fish, and with duel heat even jacket potatoes. This must be a much healthier option, and the chips are very tasty too. Which is good because I like my chips, especially with mushy peas. Lovely!"
Surely oven chips don't have any fat on them anyway?
I cook most of ma food from fresh then freeze portions of it  |
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By *i1971Man
over a year ago
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"One of my sons recently invested in an air fryer. It can literally cook chips without oil or fat. The same with fish, and with duel heat even jacket potatoes. This must be a much healthier option, and the chips are very tasty too. Which is good because I like my chips, especially with mushy peas. Lovely!
Surely oven chips don't have any fat on them anyway?
I cook most of ma food from fresh then freeze portions of it "
Oven chips from the supermarket are covered in fat. I slice up my own spuds & might give them a squirt of fry light (or very often not) & just put them in the oven. Cooks absolutely fine. |
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The best chips I have ever eaten have been in Amsterdam and Brussels. Something to do with the type of potato and cooking method I think. Otherwise I can take or leave them... It's rare to find a really good chip in n the UK these days |
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"I usually fancy chip shop fish and chips after I've been too ill to eat.
Maybe for the best if you try to avoid falling ill in Dudley if that's the case.
I can't think of any reason why I would be in Dudley, so I'm safe
The canal scenes in Peaky Blinders were filmed there.
It's got a zoo, a castle, a shopping mall the size of a small town and the best chippy in the whole of...erm...Dudley.
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Scenes for Peaky Blinders are filmed at The Black Country Museum, the museum is an excellent day out with its own on site fish and chip shop which are very tasty!
As someone has already pointed out the chips are battered it is nothing to do with lard and faggots and pays are not compulsory, born and bred in Dudley and I've never had any.
The health blackspot in the midlands is Walsall which is a lot nearer to Lichfield than it is to Dudley! |
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"Are chips the staple diet of the average Northerner? Not sure about that.
The nicest chips I’ve ever had were in Northern Cyprus. The tastiest chippy chips were in Rotherham "
Dudley is in the midlands so it's not in the north of the country! |
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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago
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"Are chips the staple diet of the average Northerner? Not sure about that.
The nicest chips I’ve ever had were in Northern Cyprus. The tastiest chippy chips were in Rotherham
Dudley is in the midlands so it's not in the north of the country! "
Oh I’m not saying it is. I think the OP is from the Midlands and he said that chips are the staple for the average Northerner
I do live up North at the moment |
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The chips on Yarmouth Market are amazing. Making my annual pilgrimage there this weekend to see some friends and will be getting my chip fix Saturday!
I've never had black country chips but I want to try them now! |
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"Are chips the staple diet of the average Northerner? Not sure about that.
The nicest chips I’ve ever had were in Northern Cyprus. The tastiest chippy chips were in Rotherham
Dudley is in the midlands so it's not in the north of the country!
Oh I’m not saying it is. I think the OP is from the Midlands and he said that chips are the staple for the average Northerner
I do live up North at the moment "
Yes the Op said it so not having a go at you.Why do people make these generalisations |
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"The chips on Yarmouth Market are amazing. Making my annual pilgrimage there this weekend to see some friends and will be getting my chip fix Saturday!
I've never had black country chips but I want to try them now! "
Have a day out at the Blackcountry Museum and sample the on site chippy too, well worth it. |
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By *abs..Woman
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"Are chips the staple diet of the average Northerner? Not sure about that.
The nicest chips I’ve ever had were in Northern Cyprus. The tastiest chippy chips were in Rotherham
Dudley is in the midlands so it's not in the north of the country!
Oh I’m not saying it is. I think the OP is from the Midlands and he said that chips are the staple for the average Northerner
I do live up North at the moment
Yes the Op said it so not having a go at you.Why do people make these generalisations "
You’ve lost me now I’m afraid. I didn’t take it that he was having a go at me for a second. He made the generalisation not me. I joined in the thread and said what I like, I took it as a bit of fun |
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Some of the nicest chips I have had recently were cooked in duck fat in a street market behind the Royal Festival Hall back in the summer. They were lovely.
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"Are chips the staple diet of the average Northerner? Not sure about that.
The nicest chips I’ve ever had were in Northern Cyprus. The tastiest chippy chips were in Rotherham
Dudley is in the midlands so it's not in the north of the country!
Oh I’m not saying it is. I think the OP is from the Midlands and he said that chips are the staple for the average Northerner
I do live up North at the moment
Yes the Op said it so not having a go at you.Why do people make these generalisations
You’ve lost me now I’m afraid. I didn’t take it that he was having a go at me for a second. He made the generalisation not me. I joined in the thread and said what I like, I took it as a bit of fun "
Yes that's what I said, the Op said northerners live on chips which is clearly untrue. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The chips on Yarmouth Market are amazing. Making my annual pilgrimage there this weekend to see some friends and will be getting my chip fix Saturday!
I've never had black country chips but I want to try them now!
Have a day out at the Blackcountry Museum and sample the on site chippy too, well worth it. "
They don't sell the orange chips that the OP is talking about though. But they do sell the nicest fish ever |
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"Are chips the staple diet of the average Northerner? Not sure about that.
The nicest chips I’ve ever had were in Northern Cyprus. The tastiest chippy chips were in Rotherham
Dudley is in the midlands so it's not in the north of the country!
Oh I’m not saying it is. I think the OP is from the Midlands and he said that chips are the staple for the average Northerner
I do live up North at the moment
Yes the Op said it so not having a go at you.Why do people make these generalisations
You’ve lost me now I’m afraid. I didn’t take it that he was having a go at me for a second. He made the generalisation not me. I joined in the thread and said what I like, I took it as a bit of fun
Yes that's what I said, the Op said northerners live on chips which is clearly untrue. "
Facts don't seem to be the Op's strong point
1. Dudley is in the midlands not the north.
2. The orange chips are battered not cooked in lard.
3.He thinks the average northerner ( is there such a thing!) lives on chips.  |
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"The chips on Yarmouth Market are amazing. Making my annual pilgrimage there this weekend to see some friends and will be getting my chip fix Saturday!
I've never had black country chips but I want to try them now!
Have a day out at the Blackcountry Museum and sample the on site chippy too, well worth it.
They don't sell the orange chips that the OP is talking about though. But they do sell the nicest fish ever "
True but they still taste good. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I usually fancy chip shop fish and chips after I've been too ill to eat.
Maybe for the best if you try to avoid falling ill in Dudley if that's the case.
I can't think of any reason why I would be in Dudley, so I'm safe
The canal scenes in Peaky Blinders were filmed there.
It's got a zoo, a castle, a shopping mall the size of a small town and the best chippy in the whole of...erm...Dudley.
Scenes for Peaky Blinders are filmed at The Black Country Museum, the museum is an excellent day out with its own on site fish and chip shop which are very tasty!
As someone has already pointed out the chips are battered it is nothing to do with lard and faggots and pays are not compulsory, born and bred in Dudley and I've never had any.
The health blackspot in the midlands is Walsall which is a lot nearer to Lichfield than it is to Dudley! "
Distance from Walsall Saddlery Museum to Dudley Zoo: 8.7 miles.
Distance from Lichfield Cathedral to Dudley Zoo: 9.9 miles. 
Although, work takes me to all of the Midlands town centres, Walsall is up there with the worst in terms of appearance.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Are chips the staple diet of the average Northerner? Not sure about that.
The nicest chips I’ve ever had were in Northern Cyprus. The tastiest chippy chips were in Rotherham
Dudley is in the midlands so it's not in the north of the country! "
I never said it was. |
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When I have the time:
Maris Pipers.
Peeled, chipped, washed (remove starch)
Boiled for 5 mins. Onto kitchen paper stuff, on a baking sheet, paper on top, into freezer. (20 mins).
Into chip pan 130 degrees, 5 mins.
Paper, freezer, baking sheet, 20 mins and all that shit.
Chip pan onto 180 degrees, cook for 5 mins or so but don't over load the chip pan either time.
Dry with paper. Sea salt and pepper and chuck a garlicky steak on your plate.
Crispy as fuck, crunchy like a bastard and yet fluffy like a mofo 
They are worth the effort |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"When I have the time:
Maris Pipers.
Peeled, chipped, washed (remove starch)
Boiled for 5 mins. Onto kitchen paper stuff, on a baking sheet, paper on top, into freezer. (20 mins).
Into chip pan 130 degrees, 5 mins.
Paper, freezer, baking sheet, 20 mins and all that shit.
Chip pan onto 180 degrees, cook for 5 mins or so but don't over load the chip pan either time.
Dry with paper. Sea salt and pepper and chuck a garlicky steak on your plate.
Crispy as fuck, crunchy like a bastard and yet fluffy like a mofo
They are worth the effort"
I think you've got OCD mate |
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"When I have the time:
Maris Pipers.
Peeled, chipped, washed (remove starch)
Boiled for 5 mins. Onto kitchen paper stuff, on a baking sheet, paper on top, into freezer. (20 mins).
Into chip pan 130 degrees, 5 mins.
Paper, freezer, baking sheet, 20 mins and all that shit.
Chip pan onto 180 degrees, cook for 5 mins or so but don't over load the chip pan either time.
Dry with paper. Sea salt and pepper and chuck a garlicky steak on your plate.
Crispy as fuck, crunchy like a bastard and yet fluffy like a mofo
They are worth the effort
I think you've got OCD mate "
Only in regards to my pegs having to match on the washing line. Colours, materials and style. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The chip shop in the Black Country Museum (the set for Peaky Blinders)does amazing chips. They cook them in beef dripping.
Also the Belgian chip/frites shop in Brighton, one street back from Marine Parade. Awesome chips. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Every now and then I grab a cheeky lunchtime chippy feast of chips with loads of salt and vinegar and curry sauce. And a pie. And sometimes a buttered roll too. Dammit! I'm hungry now!!  |
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