I could murder fish&chips

and beetroot :|

mm and either gravy or curry with some bread and butter

I finish work at 8pm,so i will pop to Nashs on the way home

Hope you dont mean the mid80s racehorse

Was that Cumani? Won the Extel h'cap?

Did Fish & *****win the Cambridgeshire?

Might have plaiced!

yeah did it skate it?

Just checked on the google monster, Fenway - Dallas was the Cumani hoss that won the Cambr. around that time.

he was the cod father that cumani

In the 150 years since Joseph Malin is said to have opened the country's first fish and chip shop in Cleveland Street, London the classic takeaway meal has changed very little.

A survey in 2009 reported that the nations favourite accompaniment to fish and *****is salt and vinegar (51 per cent) - vinegar was first splashed over fish and *****by Victorian cook, Eliza Acton, as a means of sweetening the fish - followed by tomato ketchup (15 per cent) and mushy peas (8 per cent).

The hunger for a fish supper reached its peak in 1927 when there were about 35,000 fish and chip shops in the UK. Now there are about 11,500 (that's eight chip shops for every McDonalds).

Today shops are judged on their sustainable sourcing practices, customer service, hygiene and staff training, and most importantly, the quality of their fish and *****

TOP 10 CHIPPIES

1. Linfords Traditional Fish & ***** Market Deeping, Peterborough, Eastern Eng
2. . Finnegans, Porthcawl, Wales
3. Metro Fish Bar, Bury, Lancashire, North West England
4. Atlantic Fast Food, Scotland
5. Scooby Snax, Brightlingsea, nr Colchester, London and South East England
6. The Fish and Chicken Inn in Ballymena, Northern Ireland
7. Daniels Fish & ***** Weymouth, South West England
8. Royal Fisheries, Whitby, North East England
9. Great British Eatery, Birmingham, Midlands
10. Broughton Fish & ***** Milton Keynes, Central & South England

mint sauce on the peas is a nice touch i`m tellin ya

Scottish fish and chip shop named best in UKAtlantic Fast Food in Coatbridge named best fish and chip shop in UK Scotland's third win in a row

A North Lanarkshire chippy today scooped the title of best fish and chip shop in the UK, beating off competition from thousands of rivals.

Atlantic Fast Food in Coatbridge was awarded the accolade in the annual competition organised by the industry body Seafish.

The winning chippy is owned by Gianni Fionda a Scot with Italian heritage whose parents ran fish and chip shops for many years. He was crowned champion after a rigorous judging process, which included a customer vote, taste tests, two rounds of shop inspections and a presentation to a panel of industry experts.

Shops were judged not only on the quality of their fish and *****but also on responsible seafood sourcing, customer service, food hygiene, staff training and community spirit.

The competition is now its 22nd year but the latest win completes a hat-trick for Scottish chippies. The UK boasts around 11,500 fish and chip shops. Finnegan's Fish Bar in Porthcawl, South Wales, was named the second best shop in the country with Midlands regional winner, The Great British Eatery, in Birmingham, third.

Fionda said: "To win this competition as a first time entrant is a dream come true. It's the best thing to have happened to us in our professional life and has made all the hard work worth it. We've worked in the fish and *****business for many years and it's always been great fun."

Nikki Hawkins of Seafish commented: "Fish and chip shops are well-placed to prosper in the current economic climate as they offer value for money and a quality product with a feel good factor. Despite the credit crunch, people still want to enjoy small luxuries. In fact 183m portions of fish and *****were sold last year alone. A national institution, fish and *****have survived the test of time and will be around for many years to come."

you can`t beat a nice bit of tartare sauce i`m tellin ya

I struggle to find a chippie that does both, good *****and good fish. They usually do one or the other. I buy my fish in one chippie and the *****in another, they are only 5 mins apart. Sad i know , but i am at that age now where i don't care. I know what i like.

Good man, Paddy. Always take care of your belly.

I agree with Bill.

When I was a kid and it was fish and *****for tea on a Friday, we too used to get the *****from one shop and the fish from another.

I feel like Green Willow

Ha ha Bill!

Too late now, Toes. You split my infinitive.

I love the idea of *****from one shop and fish from another. We could extend it for salt and vinegar. Mushy peas, for those as likes em. Curry sauce.

FFS! We could start a business if we had a bike.

Funnily enough, we never used to have vinegar from the place we got the *****from (it was non-brewed condiment, I think). The place which sold the fish did good vinegar, though.

Oh, and the 'chip' shop did poor peas too. Much better from the 'fish' shop.

How did you keep them hot, Tommy? They used to wrap them in a towel in my village (one chippy, take it or leave it). Nowadays they use freezer bags.

It was a bit of a task, Bill, but they used to 'double wrap' in newspaper at the 'chip' shop.
We used to go there first as the old chap refused to fry more than a colander full of *****at a time (that's probably why they were so delicious).
We were big eaters and we had about 10 portions of *****between the 4 of us - at least two fries worth! Consequently, I used to have to queue up for the *****whilst my mum and dad visited my mum's brother around the corner.
They'd call back for me about an hour later.
Then, we'd go to the 'fish' shop, who were much speedier and with a bit of luck, would then be back at home to eat them about 5 mins later, if there wasn't much traffic.
Mum always wanted piping hot food, though, so would put hers in the oven in between making her 'doorstep' sandwiches of them!

That's a beautiful scene, Tommy. Really beautiful. I used to love meals with the family. I spent a lot of time away at School and treasured every moment at home. We didn't get fish and *****as often as I would have liked but when we did, I was sent with a large towel, pre-warmed by the fire, to get them. The chip shop was about a mile away and I would saunter there, saving my energy for the gallop home. Happy days.

Lovely story, Bill.

When I was a kid, and too young to be left on my own (no such thing as baby sitters then), I was always allowed to stay up late on Saturday nights to watch MOTD.
The closing music always heralded a call for 'Yorkshire ***** (the name of the good 'chip' shop was 'The Yorkshire Fisheries', and me and dad would go up in his car to get them whilst mum put the oven on (to bung hers into when we returned) and buttered the bread.
The theme tune still makes me say out loud at times "Shall we go to the Yorkshire, dad?"
Happy days.

My chipshop heyday was in the 80s. I timed my return for the start of Only Fools and Horses. I can't hear that theme tune without watering at the mouth. That bloke Pavlov knew his job.

Ha ha Bill, he did indeed!

used to like em as a kid, not the same now. dunno if they arent as good or if its me. *****pretty much make me feel sick now. especially if theyre greasy. used to always have fish n *****on friday at school, not sure why. it used to be swimming in cheapo parsley sauce for some reason.

Trying to eat, laugh and not choke is a skill best acquired young, Tommy. That Trigger must have cost the Prudential a few quid in payouts, though.

Cunny, all fish and *****used to be cooked in beef dripping 20+ years ago.
That's why they tasted so good.
Very, very few chippies use beef dripping now.

I think most of us had fish on Fridays at School, Cunny. It goes back to the days when people abstained from meat on a Friday and just became a habit even though the restriction was lifted. Like Monday was washing day.

Re that list on here Top 10 Chippies, Hanbury's, Princess St, Babbacombe, Torquay,
should be on that list, I've seen several good chippies down South, but that is one of the best I've ever been to,
also Knights -Glastonbury, and Pappas - Weston, also very good indeed.

TOP 10 CHIPPIES

1. Linfords Traditional Fish & ***** Market Deeping, Peterborough, Eastern Eng
2. . Finnegans, Porthcawl, Wales
3. Metro Fish Bar, Bury, Lancashire, North West England
4. Atlantic Fast Food, Scotland
5. Scooby Snax, Brightlingsea, nr Colchester, London and South East England
6. The Fish and Chicken Inn in Ballymena, Northern Ireland
7. Daniels Fish & ***** Weymouth, South West England
8. Royal Fisheries, Whitby, North East England
9. Great British Eatery, Birmingham, Midlands
10. Broughton Fish & ***** Milton Keynes, Central & South England

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you're fish and *****are truly fkn shiit. shiit to an epic standard of shiitness. soggy fkn battered shiitty cod or horrible haddock with undercooked fat *****which are normally precooked with the fish and left sitting to sweat and amazingly increase their sogginess to unforseen levels under a heat lamp. you have a fkn lot to learn about fish and ***** in fact as a mation you should be fkn embaressed to f ukkck about your fish and chip shops

no wonder u fkn smother the soggy disgrace with fkn mushy peas and 1/2 a bottle of vinegar.

You visited that list then? Man you seem angry. Where you get your f and c from coney ?

the cottage. blackpool. heaven.

You are right about the standard of *****btw. Quite incredible how a shop that deals in one of the easiest things to cook and does it incredibly often so you'd imagine the practice would aid perfection, yet they can be inedible at times.
It is insulting.

Fish and *****were always best cooked in beef dripping, the taste was so different.
But nowadays people more concerned about healthy eating and all that,
not the same, although there are still a few shops around who still fry in dripping.

Haddock a favourite up North, cod always favoured dahn saaaf.