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Cod Or haddock??  

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  1. 1. What's your Regional Preference in your Fish & Chip shops??



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I don't eat fish, which seems to amaze non-anglers. You fish and you don't even eat them.

 

So for me, it would be.

 

Sausage in Batter

Cornish Pasty

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Rock salmon - or in the more truthful chippies, "huss" - was commonplace from WWII until about 1970. I rarely see it offered nowadays.

Rock salmon (aka "flake") was also a term used by the back street chippies to cover lesser spotted dogs, greater spotted dogs, spurdogs, smooth houind, tope and anything of the same shape - depending upon age it was either too sweet or else diabolical (I mean ammoniacal)

 

Like Ajay, I find any decent chippie these days offers both cod and haddock I too don't know which I like best

Some of the "upper class" chippies in the Southeast also offer "Plaice and chips" for those that think cod is too proletarian - it is a good way of disposing of witches, megrims, flounders etc to the ignorant at a premium price.

 

"Skate and chips" is now rare - fine if its thornback, less so if its a lump of common skate - both on gastronomic and on conservation grounds.

 

Last time I was in Brixham one desperate sea-front chippie was offering "sustainable" pollack and pout to the gullible. Well the pout is certainly sustainable as far as I am concerned - the old fishermen who called them "stink-alive" certainly had a point - they begin to rot the moment they leave the water. Grilled instantly on the beach seconds after catching, they are not too bad, but any delay via wholesaler and fishmonger - ugh !!

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Slightly off topic, but I can remember our first Mexican Holiday in Puerto Vallarta. It was the year Leeds United were in the Champions League semi final v Valencia.

 

Wife & I made friends with 3 other couples & it was decided that the lads would go to a bar to watch the match & the girls spend the day around the hotel pool.

 

Well Hammered after beer & Tequila slammers, we decided to walk back to our hotel along the beach, whereupon I found a Shovel nosed Ray about 4 foot long (a skates head with a shark's body) On closer inspection I could see its gills still working, so I picked it up in my arms & walked it back into the water. :showoff: After a couple of minutes, it started to kick & back he went.

 

The lads said - what were you doing!!!! Didn't you hear the locals behind you shouting "No Senor No" - They'ed caught it for their Tea. :bb:

 

"Don't Butter Any More Bread - He's put it Back"!!

 

Looks like they'll be opening a tin of beans instead then was my reply.

 

At least I did my bit for conservation then :fish:

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I used to love Rock n chips but haven't seen any chip shops selling it for years.

 

My favourite now is Cod and chips although I occasionally have haddock.

 

There's a brilliant five star chip shop at Brightlingsea just south of Clacton that sells huge pieces of cod and also haddock and Skate that is bigger than a large plate and hangs over the edges of the plate, and that's just a medium piece, the shop is always full no matter what day of the week it is (even on a sunday) and even it's chips are to die for.

 

I'm surprised that some of you northerners haven't mentioned 'Battered Mars Bars' yet; a delicacy that we southerners are yet to experience Lol..

 

Keith

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Battered Mars Bars are not that popular in the North of England Keith, but in Scotland I believe they're One of their "5 A Day". :bigemo_harabe_net-193:

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Battered Mars Bars are not that popular in the North of England Keith, but in Scotland I believe they're One of their "5 A Day". :bigemo_harabe_net-193:

 

 

never eatin one myself, never seen anyone eating one, never even heard anyone ordering one. never even seen one on the menu. It's only you English that try it and the daft tourists that dont know any better :crazy:

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Battered Mars Bars are not that popular in the North of England Keith, but in Scotland I believe they're One of their "5 A Day". :bigemo_harabe_net-193:

Two a day your forgetting the grain in the batter

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Two a day your forgetting the grain in the batter

... or three if you put some malt vinegar on the chips. Finish off with a cup of tea and a fag and that's your five sorted :)

 

 

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World species 471 : UK species 105 : English species 95 .

Certhia's world species - 215

Eclectic "husband and wife combined" world species 501

 

"Nothing matters very much, few things matter at all" - Plato

...only things like fresh bait and cold beer...

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