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Just thinking back to the time I went into a chippy in Tynemouth and asked for a fish supper.....and then had to explain what that is :suspect: so what do they call a portion of fish and a portion of chip round your way?




And don't say "dinner" :lol:
 
Simply 'Fish and chips' - you go in and ask for 'Cod and chips' 'Hake and chips' etc :)
 
Still a fish supper here in Aberdeen.
I lived in Banff for 2 years and remember going to the chipper after a few beers, as you do, and asked for a fish supper only to be told they had no fish. Its a fishing village for God's Sake!!
 
If I go into my local chippy and ask for fish and chips they will ask me if I meant a fish supper.

There is a difference apparently according to my local chippy in so much a fish supper comes with less chips :shrug:
 
Surely a fish supper comes with a couple of pints as well????
 
what is it about gravy and chips???? i just do not get that one..and it's fish and chips where i come from.
 
Fish and chips here and a pot of curry sauce for the chips :D
 
I normally ask for a medium haddock and small chips. Asking for straight fish'n'chips invariably gets the reply of "What fish, size of fish and size of chips?" Pretty sure asking for a fish supper would just get a blank, slackjawed look!
 
A fish supper could be absolutely anything.......round here we say "once" for fish'n'chips, with miscellaneous peas/curry/t cake tagged on the end...:)
 
Fish Supper up here although being from Warrington I still feel a numpty asking for it.
 
Is now a good time to do the define a fishcake diabolicalism....

ya can take yer patties and shove em


:)
 
I told a friend in Wolverhampton I had a fish supper for lunch in Glasgow and he thought that meant fish, chips, bread & butter plus tea.
 
I usually say "Can I have a piece of cod 'n' some chips? Cheers".
 
Flash In The Pan said:
They're an urban myth, deep-fried pizza on the other hand.....
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They definitely used to exist, many years ago when I spent a couple of months working in Glasgow! They apparently still do at the Eastern end of the M8, at a chippy near the Conan Doyle pub just off the Eastern end of Prince's street (so I was told when I inquired somewhere else a couple of months ago). Actually, I was after a deep fried Curly Wurly rather than a Mars bar!
Come to think of it, a couple of years ago, there was an episode of No Reservations (Anthony Bourdain's eating show) where he sampled a few deep fried specialities including Mars bars and pizza.
 
Flash In The Pan said:
Just thinking back to the time I went into a chippy in Tynemouth and asked for a fish supper.....and then had to explain what that is :suspect: so what do they call a portion of fish and a portion of chip round your way?




And don't say "dinner" :lol:
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How can it be a fish supper if you have them in the afternoon :) or even for breakfast :D
 
Its definately a fish supper. although down here you gotta ask for haddock,cod and chips..that's if you can find a decent chippie(which I haven't yet)
 
Fish n chips here (cod/skate etc) ohhhh and a wally :)
 
can you all get scallops (potato ones)? Where I used to live I loved them, but they are rarer round here

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That's the thing, those who ask for a fish supper....what do you ask for at lunchtime? Or dinnertime, or teatime :D

It's a "Fish and chips" here.
I heard one forum member call it a 'Fish lot' at the Sunderland air show. Freak :D

And scallops are potato ones, not the proper seafood.

"Fish and chips please love, and a scallop"
 
Nod said:
They definitely used to exist, many years ago when I spent a couple of months working in Glasgow! They apparently still do at the Eastern end of the M8, at a chippy near the Conan Doyle pub just off the Eastern end of Prince's street (so I was told when I inquired somewhere else a couple of months ago). Actually, I was after a deep fried Curly Wurly rather than a Mars bar!
Come to think of it, a couple of years ago, there was an episode of No Reservations (Anthony Bourdain's eating show) where he sampled a few deep fried specialities including Mars bars and pizza.
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I think any place that offers them does so in response to the myth, it's another Glaswegian dig at gullible English people :naughty:
 
I've known a few places sell battered mars bars for as long as I can remember TBH.

Here it's fish and chips, though the local chippy it's more like a whale! They're huge!
In the parts of County Durham I grew up in, it was the kind of fish....oh and erm, everyone avoided one place like the plague, after the chef had been caught putting "extra" ingredients in the batter...
 
MagicMynx said:
....oh and erm, everyone avoided one place like the plague, after the chef had been caught putting "extra" ingredients in the batter...
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A CHEF ...! to make fish & chips? Wow ... That must have been a posh chippie :D
 
Ha! I love battered Mars Bars. Ive always wanted to try one since hearing of them.
There's a chippy near me that does them, but you have to take your own in :p They batter it and deep fry it, serve it with syrup.
Has to be done just right, comes out still solid, but tastes like a melted mars bar. Quite nice, but very sickly. Could only manage half.

Round here we have a chippy that does a jumbo cod :D
And by jumbo, it's about 3 foot long :D
 
So basically, on examination of replies so far, it seems that 'fish supper' is a Scottish thing, the rest of the country asks for fish n chips [usually with fish specification included] which is much more logical :p

FTR, mushy peas is very acceptable with a fish, tub of curry sauce for chip dipping is borderline, and gravy a definate no-no if fish on the plate. Without the fish though, anything goes :D Pour me some more gavy on there lad!

scallops [pronounced scollop] are definately potato in batter, and luverly :cool:
scallops [pronounced sc-a-lops] are strange slimy shell fish reserved for fishaholics and other oddity people :D
 
That's pretty much bob on Yv, but don't discount fish chips n gravy, tis nice!
Although fish chips n curry is even better (curry on the chips, then the fish on top is a must) Batter must be kept as dry as possible but drowned in salt and vinegar.

And I dont care who disagrees with me. Chippy salt and chippy vinegar is NOT the same as supermarket / shop bought / sarsons and saxa.
 
Yes 'Supper' is a Scottish thing.

'Scratchings' on the other hand aren't - or am I showing my age ?
 
Marcel said:
Although fish chips n curry is even better (curry on the chips, then the fish on top is a must) Batter must be kept as dry as possible but drowned in salt and vinegar.

And I dont care who disagrees with me. Chippy salt and chippy vinegar is NOT the same as supermarket / shop bought / sarsons and saxa.
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Fish, chips, curry sauce. Boss :D
 
Yv said:
So basically, on examination of replies so far, it seems that 'fish supper' is a Scottish thing, the rest of the country asks for fish n chips [usually with fish specification included] which is much more logical :p

FTR, mushy peas is very acceptable with a fish, tub of curry sauce for chip dipping is borderline, and gravy a definate no-no if fish on the plate. Without the fish though, anything goes :D Pour me some more gavy on there lad!

scallops [pronounced scollop] are definately potato in batter, and luverly :cool:
scallops [pronounced sc-a-lops] are strange slimy shell fish reserved for fishaholics and other oddity people :D
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Also get:-
Chicken supper
sausage supper
pie supper, and
black puding supper!
 
Marcel said:
That's pretty much bob on Yv, but don't discount fish chips n gravy, tis nice!
Although fish chips n curry is even better (curry on the chips, then the fish on top is a must) Batter must be kept as dry as possible but drowned in salt and vinegar.

And I dont care who disagrees with me. Chippy salt and chippy vinegar is NOT the same as supermarket / shop bought / sarsons and saxa.
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See thats the thing, its having a soggy sauce and a crispy batter that doesn't mix...mind you, if your chippy is good and will wrap fish seperately, you can have anything with the chips :D

Also agree that chip shop salt and vinegar IS different! Even you buy theirs and put it on later, its NOT the same. Chippy fish btw, HAS to have salt and vinegar, even if on every other occasion, you put lemon on your fish. FACT! :D
 
Yv said:
See thats the thing, its having a soggy sauce and a crispy batter that doesn't mix...mind you, if your chippy is good and will wrap fish seperately, you can have anything with the chips :D

Also agree that chip shop salt and vinegar IS different! Even you buy theirs and put it on later, its NOT the same. Chippy fish btw, HAS to have salt and vinegar, even if on every other occasion, you put lemon on your fish. FACT! :D
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That is dead right, but make sure they put the vinegar on first.
If the salt goes on first the vinegar then washes it off.
 
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