So ashamed btw.
― ridic beau (NickB), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
And while we're on the firtters:
http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0PDoX8L5qVN0S4AKcqjzbkF/SIG=14e356rfv/EXP=1302746763/**http%3a//1.bp.blogspot.com/_cxZklUorbes/TFMYwQ_CrsI/AAAAAAAAAP4/1O3vVP7SqE8/s1600/fried%2bzucchini%2bflower%2bopensource.jpg
― Si tu parles, tu meurs. Si tu te tais, tu meurs. Alors, dis et (Michael White), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Bill A, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link
what is scotch pie
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― death, taxes and (onimo), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― bentelec, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I've seen someone have a deep fried battered pizza (colloquially known as a pizza crunchy) on a roll.
― death, taxes and (onimo), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
There are also amazing spicy pea fritters... in Malta.
― a modest broposal (suzy), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Clockwise from top-left: chips, yer other national drink, pizza crunchieshttp://pugwash.cat5.org/articles/pizza/deep-fried-pizza-9.jpg
Just out of shot: hardened arteries.
― death, taxes and (onimo), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
oh my god
that looks amazing
how is everyone in Scotland not morbidly obese?!
― ENBB, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
british ppl and food again *shakes head lovingly*
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 13 April 2011 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― death, taxes and (onimo), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
One of my favourite meals used to be spam fritters, Heinz spaghetti with cheese melted into it, and chips.
― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
You guys really like tan/beige foods, huh?
― I love my puppy -- and she loves me! (Viceroy), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
and orange!
― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
If you think about it, it's positively colourful compared to our grey country.
your country is bright green!
― housedress? maxidress! (La Lechera), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Faggots
― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― fit and working again, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Brains Faggots
― fit and working again, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Scotland is second in the world for obesity.
― fit and working again, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
xp Timothy Dalton (James Bond #whatever) on voiceover duty
― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd...
Only America has a higher percentage of overweight adults
― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
As Frankie Boyle said, just think what we'd be like if it wasn't for all the heroin.
xxp
― death, taxes and (onimo), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Family of faggot fans fly the flaghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ah63153bXx0/TPcsKOI2m_I/AAAAAAAAEgU/eov5x8C_KY0/s1600/Faggot-Family.jpg
― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hanging%20brain
― am0n, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
i like to think of this discussion as a parallel of Tastiest of America's Most Fattiest Foods
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― The Louvin Spoonful (WmC), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
CHIPS(are not steak cut fries or anything I have found in the US).
― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah otm. chips are a funny shape as apparently the vegetable you use to make them is all roundy.
― Will.Have.Known (Local Garda), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
knew someone would post a primanti's pic on this thread
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
In my mind chip butties and fish finger sandwiches are two separate things.
― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
And the fish fingers have to be cooked under the grill. They dry out in the oven.
― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
patently.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
my favorite are thesehttp://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfainkYGzg1qgvpo5o1_500.jpg
― JacobSanders, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Those can be good but are prone to sticking together into a big mass and coming out underdone. (/fat connoiseur)
― The Louvin Spoonful (WmC), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
don't mind the sticking together but yeah I've had curly fries underdone a few times.
― cockroach shakespeare (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I love curly fries cause they've fun and you can make them go sproing!
― ENBB, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I like to dip curly fires in a mix Louisiana Hot sauce(the brand) with ketchup.
― JacobSanders, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Does England have an equivalent to Louisiana hot sauce?
― JacobSanders, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
idk but I feel like hot sauce is a pretty american thing
Yeah, I think curly fries are my fav type of fry.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― cockroach shakespeare (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
waffle fries are kind of fun too tho
― ENBB, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 22:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I like to mix greek yoghurt and harissa
― Si tu parles, tu meurs. Si tu te tais, tu meurs. Alors, dis et (Michael White), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link