Fish & chips - where do you put your ketchup?

iam the same as your lady blob and dip

In the cupboard, I have a bit of an issue with tomato sauce.

Also she gets nervous if I go near her plate with the bottle in my hand, just in case I spread it all over

I'm sorry, I don't answer leading questions.

Side of the plate, and much closer to the chips than the fish.

so far looks like I am the odd fecker

blob and dip.

I put it in the same cupboard as all the other childrens foodstuffs. It astonishes me that anyone over the age of 10 actually uses this stuff.

Agree with desmond, I could never trust anybody who had fish with tomato sauce.

side of the plate. T sauce is for dipping

I am losing the battle, in my defence I blob and dip Sausage rolls

I don't eat fish and chips, I don't like fried food apart from bacon that is but if I did there would be no ketchup involved.

Could you not grill your bacon Slippy?

Brown sauce for bacon anyway

proper mayo. side. blobbing and dipping.

Of course HP for bacon jamov everyone knows that, it's in the rules. Grilled bacon is nowhere near as acceptable as fried, it's one of the very few exceptions, I'm a fussy git when it comes to food though it has to said.

Sauce with Fish and Chips?? crikey whats happened there? surely only salt and vinegar could be the accoutroments for fish and chips.

Only thing i can possibly think of using tomato sauce on would be a bacon butty if there was no HP available within a 100 mile radius (even then it's close to sacrilige).Each to their own i guess but I genuinely thought ketchup was a kids thing??

Curry sauce all of the chips for me.

ffs * over

salad cream on the side for me.

Oh - sorry, wrong thread.

As you know UTI, your fascination with Salad Cream sickens me to my soul and makes me deeply suspicious of someone who, in every other regard, seems a reasonable type. Nonetheless, even I would concede that that abomination is more suitable to a plate of fish and chips than ketchup (or for our less affluent contingent 'red sauce'), being, as it is, a very poor mans version of tartar. [:)]

ketchup just doesn't go with fish, or chips, imo.  Think i'd rather have no sauce than ketchup.  Mayo or Tartare if you're desperate, but salad cream just goes really well with good quality fish and chips.

'All over' is ridiculous - where's the control if you've smothered the f&c in ketchup?

The OP is clearly a deeply disturbed individual and almost certainly a bicycle seat sniffer.

BBQ sauce all over, even on the bread

^ serial killer.

Sauces like ketchup ruin decent food, horrible stuff. I knew someone who'd put it on steak!

You're such a heathen UTI. 'Good quality fish & chips' and then you want to destroy it with salad cream!

Tartare sauce is the only acceptable condiment for fish in the civilised world.

and pepper, no salt

Curry Sauce for me.

People who put sauces all over haven't developed from when they were a baby when their food was an all-in-one mush

What about gravy on your Sunday? Same thing.

dinner

Gravy is more watery than ketchup/salad cream

when I see people squirt their sauce (ooermissus) all over their chips and stuff I just
think they're wronguns.

More watery, well that is just sooooooo wrong then.

yes but you can't exactly put a watery substance on the side of your plate can you, it'll go everywhere, hence you just put it over the whole meal.

Same principle though, you are putting something over your food. Am I missing something here UTI?

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As you know UTI, your fascination with Salad Cream sickens me to my soul and makes me deeply suspicious of someone who, in every other regard, seems a reasonable type. Nonetheless, even I would concede that that abomination is more suitable to a plate of fish and chips than ketchup (or for our less affluent contingent 'red sauce'), being, as it is, a very poor mans version of tartar.



What is he jibbering on about? He's full of it this moron is

Well you can't spread a thick sauce like ketchup evenly like you can a watery liquid like gravy.  if you put ketchup all over your meal you'll inevitably have too much on some chips and not enough on others and that's no good in my book.  so if you have it to the side you can decide with each mouthful how much sauce you want with it.  Gravy you'll get a, give or take, even covering all over either way.

Save it for yer burger an' fries

What about putting SOYA Sauce on your chinese meal Is this a big no no?

I think having Tarter sauce with fish is disgusting. Anything named after a prostitute is a big no no is my eyes.

Huge blob at the side, can't be doing with all over

Some very disturbed people on this thread mo

Oddly including a SEED,i thought they just started threads??

No comment on putting Soya sauce on chinese food. Enough said chaps.

[;)]Ketchup for burgers ^ chips ¬ I am out. nothing more to see here move along

A favourite childhood sandwich of mine was; fish, chips and mushy peas (from The Yorkshire Fisheries) all liberally doused in vinegar, with a big dollop of Daddies tomato ketchup liberally spread over them, amply distributed between two doorsteps of Allan's Bakery farmhouse loaf.

A concertina jaw was required to eat said sandwich.

Once at the football I got the salt and sugar shakers mixed up and had an unexpectedly sweet portion of chips (but luckily I didn't have a salty cup of tea to go with it).

I can understand that cooks get upset when people smother their creations in salt or ketchup without even tasting the dish.  But a basic foodstuff like chips needs a bit of condiment to liven it up. 

Anyway, back to the original question, I like a few splashes of ketchup over the chips, not smothering every single one, so that every few chips there is a tomatoe-y one to eat.

You are all demented

All these replies and not one mention of the only thing you should have with fish n chips apart from a barrel load of salt and vinegar.

MUSHY PEAS

Bet you're all southern puffs and drink shandy with it instead of Mild too

AgentR: "...fish, chips and mushy peas...". My post @13:12

mushy peas were mentioned two posts before your one agent R

Home cooked fish and chips i'll have tom sauce on my chips.

But from the chippy never anything but salt and vinegar. Tom sauce doesn't seem to go with

that variety.

Yeah but TT's a pie, mash, whippets and ale Northern monkey so his point still stands.

I just saw with a big dollop of Daddies tomato ketchup liberally spread over themand was nearly sick as I scanned the posts you big mentalist.

Mushy peas are an abomination.

I have to say I'm not a fan either.

Very funny AgentR! - and MoMM and UTI!

Mushy peas are magnificent!

Jamov is wise. ALL OVER is manly.
Blob and dip is for pansies, fairies and ladies.

I must say; when I was a kid and had fish fingers and chips at home, I always covered the whole lot with Daddies tomato ketchup.

Blobs at the side just aren't adequate!

ketchup just ruins the taste of food for me, would never spoil a chip shop dinner with ketchup, burgers and hotdogs are fine ketchup material though

"All over for me - G/F has it one blob at the side of the plate and uses it like a dip - I say that is odd"

Really doesn't matter, whichever you prefer, but for me, the same as your good lady,
one blob at the side of the plate.

Also, when you put salt and vinegar on, put the vinegar on first
so it doesn't wash the salt off the chips.

I've never been one for slathering my food with sauce either. I go as far as tartar with fish and chips and brown sauce on bacon sandwiches.

Last summer we had a barbie and I cooked my brother a plate of food. It was beautiful. It was a quarter of chicken, a rib eye steak and a lamb chop all nicely barbecued. It was accompanied with some rice and salad. He smothered the lot, meats,rice and salad in ketchup. I could'nt believe it. He regularly has ketchup with:

Cooked breakfasts
Jacket potatoes
Egg sandwiches
Pasta

I dont know what to do with him.

I'd buy him another bottle of tommy ketchup. If you like something - you like something. Nothing wrong in that!

Treble had you prepared your bbq food with any marinades or sauces?  or did you just not bother knowing the Tommy K would be out for the night. 

Another good story is a colour blind colleague of mine who ordered the bacon roll at the pub, and then got the ketchup sachet and the mint sauce sachet mixed up.  He claimed the bacon and mint roll tasted delicious, but I haven't been tempted to try this concoction yet.

Er, where's my post about 'home made' mushy peas gone? I posted it - and saw it on the forum - sometime this afternoon.

It's disappeared now.

Are mushy peas banned now, yet every mentalist going allowed to spew their bile?

Betfair you really are a total disgrace.

Apologies to Betfair. They hadn't pulled my mushy peas after all - although my comment about mentalists being able to run riot still stands.

For anyone the slightest bit interested (which won't be many!) this is from the tinned food thread:

Tommy Toes     09 Mar 11 16:40

 
For any Mushy Peas fans, who want their own at home - without going through the mither of soaking the  tins dried ones for hours on end, or don't want the expense of 'Batchelors Mushy Chip Shop Peas (currently 45p for a 300g can), try a tin of Tesco's Value Marrowfat Processed Peas (16p per can).

It's very importsnt how you warm them through, though.

Place in a small saucepan with a lid on, and warm them through at the lowest gas setting for (approx) 10-15 mins. Then, strain off most of the liquid, and stir vigorously with a fork.

This makes for beautiful mushy peas - already infused with a slight taste of mint (as added by Tesco).

Trial and experiment will enable you to have your mushy peas just as you like.

Even if that means throwing them in the bin!

No ketchup.

the drier the mushy peas are the better TT

v important to drain.

I'm a salt and vinegar man me.

malt vinegar preferably though cider vinegar has health benefits.

Are 'mushy peas' the same as 'processed peas' or 'marrowfat peas'?   They used to feed me processed peas at primary school and I went off them for years. 

A few seasons ago I went to Morecambe's old ground where they serve LHP (Lancashire Hot Pot) pies, with mushy peas and gravy.  After a gap of decades, proper mushy peas were actually quite nice, and when I see them in a chippy I always ask for them now. 

Since then I have enjoyed tracking down football club's local grub.  (Morecambe still do the same assemble at the Globe Arena, but it just doesn't seem the same being served from a proper catering outlet built into the stand).  I think it was still a locally produced pie. rather than the mass-produced homogenous Pukka pies.

Last week at Stockport, they also did an LHP and mash concoction, but served in a soup cardboard mug, with the mash at the bottom, and the meat gravy and veg all on top. 

Leaving Crewe, they had a chips and gravy-steak at the chippy, so I gave it a go, but the gravy all over the chips was a bit overpowering for a Southern softy like me.  (I suspect the gravy was enhanced with a load of colouring and oxo cubes and MSG)

C-C, surely it's all a matter of taste about the moistness of a  mush pea? I don't like mine dry at all - and would engulf them in vinegar if they were the slightest bit dry - or not, even (I do love vinegar)!

Billy Hill; Yes, mushy peas are marrowfat, processed peas.
Some are good, some are bad - There is an 'art' to them!

all over for me, same as the OP

TT

I discovered 'dryness ' when I ate some that had been left over from yesterday.

Okay C-C. Not my pottage of peas though!

Las Ketchup...

Wrong, but you would.

Give ( dry mushy ) Peas A Chance !

~  John Lennon

As said before, judged on the replies it looks like I am the odd one, I will try the blob and dip method tonight.

In the back of my mind I am thinking I may noy enjoy them as much

Thick period blood on your food eeerrk!

in my country you would never serve fish with chips.

you only have mayonnaise or mustard  on chips

you only have ketchup and relish on burgers

mustard on chips!!  I've heard it all now.

Over 80 replies? fook me

Leave the Ketchup in the cupboard, well away from Fish and Chips.

Vinegar and HP sauce

HP!! With a Pork Pie perhaps, but must never be allowed near Fish and Chips. That Sir, is a filthy Scottish habit.

It's nice on haggis too.

talking of filthy habits ...mushy feckin peas

Mushy peas are dried marrowfat peas which are first soaked overnight in water with bicarbonate soda/baking soda,[1] then rinsed in fresh water and simmered with a little sugar and salt until they form a thick green lumpy soup. In Northern England and the Midlands they are a traditional accompaniment to fish and chips, although their appeal has spread and sometimes mint is used as a flavouring. All over Britain, but particularly in Northern England, they are commonly served as part of the popular snack of pie and peas (akin to the South Australian pie floater, but with mushy peas instead of a thick pea soup) and are considered a part of traditional British cuisine. Mushy peas can also be bought in tins (cans in North America). They are also sometimes served in batter as a pea fritter.[2]

often wondered about the colour as well ....

Green colouring is often used to colour mushy peas. It is typically achieved by adding the yellow and blue additives, Tartrazine (E102) and Brilliant Blue FCF (E133), which together produce the green effect. The use of artificial colours results in bright green mushy peas. Pure mushy peas, with no colouring, tend to form a more grey-green end product. Sodium bicarbonate (E500) is often added to soften the peas to enhance the colour and to inhibit fermentation during soaking, which reduces later flatulence in consuming said foods. The British Food Standards Agency, on 28 April 2008, asked for a voluntary ban on artificial food colourings and suggested that the ban would be practical by the end of 2009. This would mean that certain foods, including mushy peas, would need to be free of the additive, otherwise the item might be removed from sale.[8] Mushy peas present a particular problem since there is no alternative to tartrazine that gives it the bright green colour.[verification needed] Without the colourant the dish would be murky grey. Ministers have stated that they will pursue a ban through law if food manufacturers do not phase out the food colourings.[9]

Have never ever ate the stuff and dont intend to ,also was in a weatherspoon a couple of months back and they offered me a choice of curry sauce with my fish and chips the durty bastids .

Salad cream is the only thing that should be added to fish n chips ,maybe a sqeeze of lemmon but on no account RED sauce ,thats just not normal .

Small dollop of tomato sauce on the plate by the chips, def not all over ! And some tartare sauce for the fish. Absolutely hate it when you go out for a fish and chip meal and they don't put everything on the plate, i.e. you get the peas in a seperate dish on the plate. Recently had it all served on a board with the chips in a wire basket. This bloody pretentious idea for not serving food on plates, trying to be fashionable and serving it on various objects. Stupid daft ways, just put it all on a plate........

Brown sauce - HP - Rarely use Tomato ketchup on chips.
Usely eat my chips naked with salt n vinegar.
they're on my banned list just now. not allowed to eat them.

You eat your chips naked?!

Yes, you put salt in your belly button and dip the chips in there.

Another Scottish habit?

Keep the ketchup away in the fridge and allow the fish & chips to swim in a pool of tangy vinegar....delicious

Ketchup is fine in the cupboard. Only anal people put it in the fridge.

aye
salt and vinegar on fish and chips
never dream of having ketchup on em

was saturday lunch every week when I was a kid, father went to the chippy and the vinegar pot in the shape of those old drinking casks with the thumb loop was put on the table

....with a cork in the top that was older than me

Some of the people on here are weird enough to have ketchup with fish and chips but the real weirdos are the ones who use plates.

Fish and chips were designed to be eaten from paper and remember that fingers were invented before forks. If you must use ketchup (fancy name for tomato sauce), put it on whichever corner of the paper that you choose.

Posh g!ts, the lot of you.