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[Food] Traditional fish n chips

Cod or Haddock

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Eric the meek

Eric the meek

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Aug 24, 2020
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Cotton Socks said:
Odd that we've both mentioned the locations of robbery! I expect Brighton to cost a fortune!!! :lol: I suppose it's some sort of snobbery for me, sort of thinking to myself 'You can't charge that much, this is Hastings not Brighton'. I like Hastings though!

Uncle Sams doesn't cost £17 per person, even if I upgrade all of them to a milkshake!
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I think that one thing we can all do, is keep a keen eye on the prices of anything we buy. In terms of fish and chips, I have lost count of the number of times we don't eat all the chips, and fish varies in price, even on the menus in chippies. So you could choose the cheapest one and save say, a pound a portion. Buy a large chips instead of two regular portions. Not easy with kids of course!

My Dad, who frequently went hungry in his childhood, always chose the very cheapest item on the menu in any cafe and restaurant he was in. Always.
Ok, he took it to extremes, but there was a good reason for his extreme behaviour. Today, I still have to finish my plate. A legacy of having parents who went through the war.
 






WATFORD zero

WATFORD zero

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Jul 10, 2003
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Eric the meek said:
I think that one thing we can all do, is keep a keen eye on the prices of anything we buy. In terms of fish and chips, I have lost count of the number of times we don't eat all the chips, and fish varies in price, even on the menus in chippies. So you could choose the cheapest one and save say, a pound a portion. Buy a large chips instead of two regular portions. Not easy with kids of course!

My Dad, who frequently went hungry in his childhood, always chose the very cheapest item on the menu in any cafe and restaurant he was in. Always.
Ok, he took it to extremes, but there was a good reason for his extreme behaviour. Today, I still have to finish my plate. A legacy of having parents who went through the war.
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If you don't finish it, it goes into the fridge to be cooked into at meal later in the week :thumbsup:

And my kids do the same. You can't throwaway food, there's plenty of people in the world who would be glad of that :wink:
 


PILTDOWN MAN

PILTDOWN MAN

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Sep 15, 2004
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Had Huss and chips tonight. Rarely do I go and get it. It was lovely
 


















albionalba

albionalba

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Aug 31, 2023
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sadly in Scotland
Scotland has a sad fixation on Haddock. Probably a supply chain thing. Always head for the luxury of Cod and Chips when back in Brighton or Hastings. Here's another question though - skin on or skin off before battering? The former is great if the fish is nicely cooked and the skin crisps up in the batter. In (this bit of) Scotland serving skin on would be shocking.
 




North of Robertsbridge

North of Robertsbridge

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Sep 22, 2023
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East Sussex
Eric the meek said:
I once went into a cafe up the hill in Hastings and asked for fish and chips.

When it came, it was a small portion of frozen fish in batter. In Hastings. The site of the biggest beach fishing fleet in Europe.

Beyond ridiculous.
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We always go to the Mermaid on Rock-a-Nore, fish is fresh and good. A newer place Maggie’s has become popular but need to book for a summer weekend lunch
 


Eric the meek

Eric the meek

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North of Robertsbridge said:
We always go to the Mermaid on Rock-a-Nore, fish is fresh and good. A newer place Maggie’s has become popular but need to book for a summer weekend lunch
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Thanks. Both of those are good. Maggies has become our first choice these days.

The cafe that served frozen fish is at the top of the west funicular. We went there in the days (c. 20 years ago) when our son needed to go on the funicular. It may have moved on from those days. I hope so, but I'm not going to find out. These customers have moved on instead.
 


North of Robertsbridge

North of Robertsbridge

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Sep 22, 2023
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East Sussex
There used to be a chap selling fresh fried whiting in a bap by the net huts in Hastings; delicious and cost around £4 from memory (you can also buy fresh whiting from the fishermen’s shacks along the beach at Rock-a-Nore for almost nothing)

The fry-up stand disappeared with Covid, it would be good to see it back
 




Comrade Sam

Comrade Sam

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Jan 31, 2013
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Walthamstow
My great grandfather ran a kosher chippy in The Cut in south London from the 1930s to the '70s. He claimed cod was riddled with parasites so my mum always has Haddock. Personally prefer cod, but my local chippy has become a tourist attraction since Banksy daubed it.
 


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Machiavelli

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Oct 11, 2013
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Fiveways
WATFORD zero said:
The answer is Cod unless you're some type of Northern monkey.

Bankers do the best fish and chips in the people's republic of Brighton and Hove.

No restaurant, no matter how expensive, do better fish and chips than a proper fish and chip shop.

These are simple facts of life :wink:
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Born in London, so that makes me a northern monkey. Cod is second best though, as is Bankers. Bardsleys is the best in the PRoB&H
 




Not Andy Naylor

Not Andy Naylor

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Dec 12, 2007
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I still miss Sing Li. One of the many pluses about the place was that he's only give you a few chips if that's what you wanted, rather than overcharge you for 'small' chips that would feed the average household for a week.
 




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Greg Bobkin

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May 22, 2012
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Just chips. All that batter around the fish is SHITEHOUSE.
 


Eeyore

Eeyore

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Apr 5, 2014
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Whatever happened to Huss and chips ?
 


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