Anyone own/run a chippy?

[loriusgarrulus]

The Chippy near the Kings Locke canal chandlery in Middlewiche cook their chips in beef dripping. They are superb.

[Gordon R]

Browning 525 - most chip shops in Huddersfield use beef dripping. There are two on Reed Street Huddersfield, plenty around Halifax, Leeds and Wakefield.

[rodp]

Is chippy local a brand? I only remember it as I was going out with a girl over that way and used to pass it on my way home. Not sure I could ever find it again. The first few times i bought them I did not know they were in batter just a funny colour but some of the best I have had anywhere.

In another life i did some of the funding for BCLM its an impressive attraction.

Perhaps I should have said "a local chippy" As in, a chip shop near me

 

And yes, the BCLM is quite good. I grew up in an area very close to there and in an environment very similar to the one it portrays IE, slum houses backing on to a cobbled yard with communal outside toilet etc. Bath night was a tin bath in front of the fire, gas lamps on the wall and coal fetched from the coal yard in an old pram. And I'm glad to have seen that side of life

[Duckandswing]

Use beef dripping rather than the usual rubbish vegetable oil. Far healthier at cooking temperatures. You will stand out from the others producing tasteless fish and chips.

 

We travel to Yorkshire, most weeks, for proper fish and chips. You can't get any decent ones our side of the Pennines.

Being a Yorkshire man its nice to see that Lancashire finally accepts the superiority of the white rose.

[Vince Green]

It must be very expensive to cook in drippin'. Chip shops (or at least the good ones) change their oil every day and it ends up running buses.

 

Years ago, I was working in Goole and we went out about 9pm absolutely starving and bought some fish and chips and I can still remember how good they were today. Never had better.

Edited April 23, 2016 by Vince Green

[oowee]

Perhaps I should have said "a local chippy" As in, a chip shop near me

 

And yes, the BCLM is quite good. I grew up in an area very close to there and in an environment very similar to the one it portrays IE, slum houses backing on to a cobbled yard with communal outside toilet etc. Bath night was a tin bath in front of the fire, gas lamps on the wall and coal fetched from the coal yard in an old pram. And I'm glad to have seen that side of life

I worked in Oldbury for a few years covering the four BC Boroughs. When I first went in 1985 I struggled with the accent but its a place for which I have very fond memories. Not least of which was my pa seeing a tinky winky doll face down in the cut and calling the police as she thought it was a baby .

[Danger-Mouse]

Being a Yorkshire man its nice to see that Lancashire finally accepts the superiority of the white rose.

 

lol Well played sir

[mel b3]

There's a chippy local that does battered chips ........... ace

 

Black Country museum chips are also good. The sad thing is I can remember going in their new chip shop (there's two now, one up the top and one over the bridge) when it was still trading up the road in Hall St, does that make me old

 

Try the lardy cake from the BCLM

The fish and chips at the black country museum are the very best in the country , I would defy anyone that has actually tasted them to disagree.

 

Youre right rod , youre older than a conker tree :-)

[lord_seagrave]

The fish and chips at the black country museum are the very best in the country , I would defy anyone that has actually tasted them to disagree.

 

Youre right rod , youre older than a conker tree :-)

And, a little off-topic, but the pork scratchings at the BCM are a thing of majesty - huge fatty ****ers -

 

Maybe your proposed chippy should branch out into crackling?

 

LS

[figgy]

I grew up in a coastal fishing town and we still have loads of fish and chip places but competition from pizza and kebab places has taken the after night on drink crowd. Also general takeaway crowd goes for Indian or Chinese food more.

 

True a well known and well cooked fish and chips is a joy to eat, a place on Hartlepools Headland used to do fantastic fish and chips and the que was round the block. But it's not like that at all places.

 

Didn't think it was big darn sarf fish and chips.

[Danger-Mouse]

 

Didn't think it was big darn sarf fish and chips.

 

Very popular in London during the Victorian era, or so I`ve heard. That was the last time their chippies were any good compared to those up north though

[mel b3]

And, a little off-topic, but the pork scratchings at the BCM are a thing of majesty - huge fatty ****ers -

 

Maybe your proposed chippy should branch out into crackling?

 

LS

Strangely enough , their is a pork scratching factory just down the road from the black country museum.

By far the best scratchings that I ever had were made at a pub down the road from where I live(i live five minutes awat from the black country museum), they used to cook a fresh batch of scratchings on sunday mornings(cooked in an old out buildingk), it cost 50p for a huge bag of warm scratchings , each one was as big as a pork chop.

 

Sadly, the pub was knocked down and a five storey , bright yellow , storage facility , was built in its place.

[Vince Green]

Fish and chips as we know it, allegedly originated in the Jewish East End of London. Many Jewish refugees lived in very poor accommodation with no cooking facilities and it was the original cheap hot takeaway for them to eat. It also (being fish) bypassed Kosher food requirements. Its still regarded by the Jewish community as a traditional Jewish food and you will always find a good fish and chip shop in Jewish areas.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_and_chips

 

When I was a kid growing up in London chippies were nearly always run by Jewish people and chippies still sell gerkins which again is a link to the Russian origins of the owners/ customers.

Edited April 24, 2016 by Vince Green

[rodp]

Strangely enough , their is a pork scratching factory just down the road from the black country museum.

By far the best scratchings that I ever had were made at a pub down the road from where I live(i live five minutes awat from the black country museum), they used to cook a fresh batch of scratchings on sunday mornings(cooked in an old out buildingk), it cost 50p for a huge bag of warm scratchings , each one was as big as a pork chop.

 

Sadly, the pub was knocked down and a five storey , bright yellow , storage facility , was built in its place.

Do you remember KVE, the scratching factory by the five ways Mel? My old man was manager there for a while, can remember going in on weekends as a kid and stuffing myself with proper scratchings (the meaty ones, not crunch)

[BrowningB525]

Browning 525 - most chip shops in Huddersfield use beef dripping. There are two on Reed Street Huddersfield, plenty around Halifax, Leeds and Wakefield.

I must have just been unlucky with the chip shops that I've been to. I'll look a bit harder.

[Gordon R]

To the White Rose members - I would not move from my side of the Pennines, but if I had to live in another county, it would be Cornwall, with Yorkshire - a reasonably close second.

[mel b3]

Do you remember KVE, the scratching factory by the five ways Mel? My old man was manager there for a while, can remember going in on weekends as a kid and stuffing myself with proper scratchings (the meaty ones, not crunch)

thats the factory that im talking about , theyve moved half a mile up the road .

[rodp]

Didn't know that, thought they'd long gone. Ken Whittle used to own it, wanted my old man to become part of it. Should have really but hindsight's a wonderful thing. KVE, kenneth, Victor and Elizabeth. Funny the things that stick in your mind.

[BrowningB525]

you talking about this lot http://harpersfishandchips.co.uk

 

 

Thank you for posting this. I've just been to their Acomb branch. Delicious.

[fern01]

If your near York, Wetherby or Guisley then Wetherby Whaler takes some beating.

[Wilksy II]

Has your chippy served its time? ..........oops! Sorry! Wrong thread!

[Wilksy II]

The lad who has our local chippy said that veg oil can be carcinogenic when raised to the temp needed to deep fat fry fish and chips he uses lard but beef dripping has got to be best!

[Gordon R]

Went to Harpers at Staxton last year. Mediocre at best. Fish okay, but pale, undercooked chips.

[955i]

Use beef dripping rather than the usual rubbish vegetable oil. Far healthier at cooking temperatures.

So vegetarians will................?

[Bleeh]

So vegetarians will................?

Used to have a summer job in a very popular seaside chippy.

 

Everything went through beef dripping, vegetable burgers and all.