Chips

Armadillo is an animal
We're talking chips.
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My local Tesco has sold out of oven chips

So much for their assurances that they have plenty of everything.

 

Those were the days. None of this veggie oil. Good old dripping. Sunday night supper, had to include bread and dripping. Into a cafe. Tea and two dripping toast please. Now you buy a joint of beef and it's got a sticky plaster kind of fat added to it.

Out of the cinema and a bit of late night window shopping, whilst eating chips wrapped in newspaper. As kids, we would gaze into the window of our friendly chippy. In time he'd hold up a wrap of the crispy bits from the pans, cracklings cost now't.

 

Some years ago. (ere we go again). We had fish & chips in a small place at Witby. Rhe fish mented in the mouth, the chips were good also.

Then more upto date. In Eastbourne, we tried the famous, Harry Ramsdon establishment. Honest. What a plateful of waste. I love fish and could live on it. I doubt if this establishment actually had a deep fat fryer. The chips were dry and flavourless, mike some oven chips, and the cod. Forgive the language but. It was the fiddly arsed portion id'e ever had. I suspect it was supermarket purchase and heated up in the microwave.

 

There was some memories, I remember my family was so skint in the 70's, there was times when drippin on toast, sprinkled with salt was tea, I do like chips cooked in beef drippin, but I also like my arteries, none of this funny resturant michelin stuff, served with a foam made of Koala gibblets stuff.

 

@Mike Allen I too tried the Harry Ramsdens in Eastbourne not least coz its where I live, the town not the chip shop, but it was on Airbourne weekend about 5 yrs ago so maybe they were just too busy but I agree they really weren't very nice at all not to mention overpriced and tiny portions. I also remember proper dripping on bread or toast as a child and it was sooooo yummy. Sunday teatime fave. I thought it was a treat but of course it was really because my parents couldnt afford butter. Pudding was tin peaches and evaporated milk. Cant get 'proper' dripping anymore in my opinion.

 

My Aunt (who brought me up after my Mother died when I was Seven), always had butter which was used sparingly. We bought it in Sainsbury's (downtown Luton) and they chopped it off a huge chunk with wooden paddles.

Auntie made her own dripping from the Sunday roast.

Oh yes, tinned peaches and evaporated milk.

Life was simple and good.

 

Isn't it cute!

We know it is an animal but refer to the fact that it is hard on the outside and soft in the middle. Probably a bit like me.

Actually Armadillo in Spanish means "little armoured ones" so crunchy chips.
In certain parts of Central and South America, Armadillo meat is eaten; it is a popular ingredient in Oaxaca, Mexico.

 

I've never had dripping, even though we weren't rich it was always butter or margarine, bread and scrape, as it was know.
Evaporated milk was always on the menu with everything we had for afters.

Anstruther, wow, that's some name for a place.

 

I used to love evaporated milk, until I got older, and my grandma only used evaporated milk, in tea and coffee, it was then called scab milk. Same with instant whip or angel delight, full on sugar rush, one of my favourites was a dessert from east Kent called Gypsy tart, brown Sugar in large quantities whipped together with evaporated milk, then baked until set in a pastry case, too sweet for me nowdays. Used to get some good chippies in Ramsgate, not so much last time I went, it was all kebabs and chinese and pizza, nether been to Whitby, but if you ever go to Bury Port in south west Wales, pop into Barrys chippy, and treat yourself to his Salmon Rissoles and chips, corned beef Rissoles aint bad either.

 

Used to sometimes have condensed milk in tea and coffee, it saved on the amount of sugar you needed.

 

i love this! Also had it as a kid. I even had it on some tinned peaches the other night for pud...husband can't stand it.

ooh yeah and condensed milk in a coffee...grandma used to do us that as a little afternoon treat when i went to stay.

As I'm a Grimsby girl born and bred, we know our fish. Grimsby folk NEVER eat cod...EVER. I'll spare you the reasons why. You only get Haddock in Grimsby and Cleethorpes-have to ask for Cod if you want that.


Up the Mariners!!
Harry Haddock...GTFC's original mascot. Later followed by Mighty Mariner lol.