[Food] Traditional fish n chips

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

Whatever happened to Huss and chips ?

Lesser spotted dogfish is a pain in the backside to most anglers. However, despite the fact that the skin is hard to get off, is one of the tastiest fish in the sea. Totally sustainable by the sheer volume of them and no small bones in them. All it takes is one of the TV chefs to make it flavour of the month and we won’t get enough of it.

 

[The Clamp]

I used to love Fish and Chips in Weymouth as a kid. I spent some time in my early years living on Portland (Dad was RN), we’d visit my Gran and she’d take us for fish supper.

Walking along the harbour side munching chips from a newspaper scoop and doing a bit of crabbing. Happy days.

I went back not so long ago after 30 years away, got fish and chips and relived my youth. It tasted just as good.

 

[Eeyore]

Lesser spotted dogfish is a pain in the backside to most anglers. However, despite the fact that the skin is hard to get off, is one of the tastiest fish in the sea. Totally sustainable by the sheer volume of them and no small bones in them. All it takes is one of the TV chefs to make it flavour of the month and we won’t get enough of it.

I loved Huss. Just a big bone down the middle, I seem to recall.

 

[OzMike]

No cod here, though hoki is similar.
Usually baramundi when ordering fish and chips, though when getting fish and chips here, you always get 2 peices of fish.

 

[John Byrnes Mullet]

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

Stopped going to Bankers. Cod portion was shaped like a fish finger. When I complained was told all portions are same weight.
Can't beat Ramsbottoms in Blatchington Road. Family owned and excellent quality at a reasonable price.

 

[jcdenton08]

Lexden fish and chips for Seaford after a recommendation from here. After a couple of rubbish Trawlers in a row, never looked back.

 

[stewart12]

My favourite in the whole country is the Harbour Fish Bar in Amble, Northumberland.

This is my mums home town and we probably go there every couple of years. It's a village best known for being the place where a bloke got caught (allegedly) giving a handjob to a dolphin in the harbour.

Anyway, it was always a bit of a dump when I was younger but it's got a bit "trendier" now, ultimately though it's a working class fishing village. There's two chippies by the harbour, the slightly more upmarket Quayside which most people go to, but the one you want is the Harbour. Nothing I've had down here even begins to compare

Also a shout out to the Fenham Fish Bar in Newcastle, again it's in a slightly rougher bit of town but it's the best in the city I'd say

Oh and always cod for me

 

[dazzer6666]

Lesser spotted dogfish is a pain in the backside to most anglers. However, despite the fact that the skin is hard to get off, is one of the tastiest fish in the sea. Totally sustainable by the sheer volume of them and no small bones in them. All it takes is one of the TV chefs to make it flavour of the month and we won’t get enough of it.

Had a decent huss on a fishing trip last week…….delicious. Almost meaty texture and agree re lack of bones. I use pliers for skinning

 

[Bakero]

Lesser spotted dogfish is a pain in the backside to most anglers. However, despite the fact that the skin is hard to get off, is one of the tastiest fish in the sea. Totally sustainable by the sheer volume of them and no small bones in them. All it takes is one of the TV chefs to make it flavour of the month and we won’t get enough of it.

Between 2010 and 2023 it was illegal to land spurdogs, which, apparently, were the ones sold in chippies as huss.

 

[Harold]

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.

That would have been Brakes Brothers cash and carry rubbish for tourists. Should have gone to the Lighthouse in Mount Pleasant. Top class line caught Haddock.

 

[Harold]

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

Pat and Tush's fish rolls. Quite famous in the town.

 

[Hamilton]

Crossways at Hurst is a simply amazing fish n chip shop. Dave and Nikki run an amazing operation and cook the best FNC you’ll find.

With them guys it don’t matter what fish you want.

 

[Cordwainer]

Lesser spotted dogfish is a pain in the backside to most anglers. However, despite the fact that the skin is hard to get off, is one of the tastiest fish in the sea. Totally sustainable by the sheer volume of them and no small bones in them. All it takes is one of the TV chefs to make it flavour of the month and we won’t get enough of it.

Whiting and Gurnard also delicious imo and currently plentiful as are Pouting albeit the latter don’t lend themselves quite as well to battering as the first two.

 

[Bakero]

Whiting and Gurnard also delicious imo and currently plentiful as are Pouting albeit the latter don’t lend themselves quite as well to battering as the first two.

Apparently, the big 5 (cod, haddock, tuna, salmon, prawns) make up 80% of fish/seafood consumed in the UK. It would be good if chippies started promoting some alternatives.

 

[Cordwainer]

Apparently, the big 5 (cod, haddock, tuna, salmon, prawns) make up 80% of fish/seafood consumed in the UK. It would be good if chippies started promoting some alternatives.

100% The f n c industry plus commercial fishers that source fish for them maintain they supply those 5 cos that’s what the public wants, but as most of the public lack the means/interest to obtain other species then they are completely at the mercy of what is sold at f n c outlets. If there was a shift to more prevalent but equally as ‘tasty’ fish then eventually most people would just accept it. However any fish species that suddenly attains culinary popularity has risks of being over exploited unless methods used to capture them are sustainable and their stocks closely monitored. Think I’m right in saying that as an Island nation we export more fish/shellfish caught in UK waters than we consume here!

 

[jordanseagull]

Crossways at Hurst is a simply amazing fish n chip shop. Dave and Nikki run an amazing operation and cook the best FNC you’ll find.

With them guys it don’t matter what fish you want.

Hi, Dave!

 

[The Oldman]

Lexden fish and chips for Seaford after a recommendation from here. After a couple of rubbish Trawlers in a row, never looked back.

Agree Lexden but went to Trawlers last week. New owners? Had Haddock and Plaice. They were both fine

 

[jcdenton08]

Agree Lexden but went to Trawlers last week. New owners? Had Haddock and Plaice. They were both fine

Could be, they let me down several times in a row and when I complained the manager (older white guy, thinning hair) he got arsey.