Being a svelte
chip shop afficianado i can safely say that English chippies are shit. Well, that's a bit sweeping, the FISH is fucking rank. Why o why do they insist on keeping the stinking fucking skin on one side of the fish? It's black and grey and fucking horrible, get.it.to.fuck. Also the batter is usually rank as well, greasy, with pockets of stinking fucking liquid randomly placed. You simply cannot beat fish and chips from Louis's in Port Glasgow, admittedly the whole town is a cadaver, but that chippy reigns supreme.

When i lived in Derby there were maybe 2 chippies that sold gravy, it was quite rare, although peas and all manner of other shit could be bought. the only thing i liked from the english chippies was teh fact that the asked if you wanted them opened or closed. An offer i have NEVER heard in a scottish chippy.

n the whole though, chippies are pretty expensive these days, 5-6 quid for a fish supper, and that's even before the buttered roll, can of fizzy pop, turkish delight, pickled eggs, onions, 3 fritters and a single poodin (for the walk up the road. There is a chippy in greenock that will do you chips, gravy and onions, cooked onions, ones like you would get with a steak, and i must say, they are fucking incredible. They also do these old school cheeseburgers. No bullshit like salad on, just a thin burger with some very nice cheese...Quite dry and chewy, like something you got in an uk based italian cafe when you were on holiday. I can choke down 2 AND the chips with gravy and onions. Bring on the heart disease!!
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Tue 21 Jul 2009, 17:00, Reply)