Topic: Unpopular Opinions

[TepidT2O]

Chips with gravy. Grim. 
Ruins the Chios and the gravy is foul too.

[BarryCrocker]

Chips with gravy. Grim. 
Ruins the Chios and the gravy is foul too.

I concur.

Either malt vinegar/salt or just chicken salt.

[bradders1011]

Curry is better, but good gravy is magic. Poutine is also boss.

[ToneLa]

Ban the Grand National I reckon
And any horse racin really, on grounds of animal cruelty

And yeah chips shouldn't ever be soggy unless it's with a bit of vinegar

[Terry de Niro]

Chips with gravy. Grim. 
Ruins the Chios and the gravy is foul too.

Erm, Nah...

[rob1966]

Ban the Grand National I reckon
And any horse racin really, on grounds of animal cruelty

And yeah chips shouldn't ever be soggy unless it's with a bit of vinegar

Never happen, too much money involved.

I'd be all for a ban on cats though, in the UK alone it would save the lives of up to 270 million wild animals each year, almost 70 million of which are birds, American reckons its in the billions

[rob1966]

Chips with gravy. Grim. 
Ruins the Chios and the gravy is foul too.

You must have shit gravy where you live.

Our kid could never get his local takeaway in Bournemouth to get their heads around a sausage dinner, so I ended up taking him one down one time and our Ma used to take him one when she went to visit

[Crosby Nick]

Chips with gravy. Grim. 
Ruins the Chios and the gravy is foul too.

Told you.

[BarryCrocker]

Ban the Grand National I reckon
And any horse racin really, on grounds of animal cruelty

I was a fan until I did a horse riding course. That coupled with the constant number of horses put down stopped me from ever going again.

Never happen, too much money involved.

I'd be all for a ban on cats though, in the UK alone it would save the lives of up to 270 million wild animals each year, almost 70 million of which are birds, American reckons its in the billions

Could you imagine how mental things would be with all those extra animals? They'd strip trees, forests, fields, farms. There'd potentially be an increase in fleas and diseases as well.

I must admit to being a cat owner, however I'm a firm believer they should not be outdoors and always neutered

[Kenny's Jacket]

I'd be all for a ban on cats though

Absolutely

[TepidT2O]

You must have shit gravy where you live.

Our kid could never get his local takeaway in Bournemouth to get their heads around a sausage dinner, so I ended up taking him one down one time and our Ma used to take him one when she went to visit

When I went to secondary school about 60% of kids would have a tray of chips and gravy. Definitely grew up in a chips and gravy area. Disgusting.

Curry sauce? I’m not opposed ethically, but mostly the curry sauce is gross.

[rob1966]

When I went to secondary school about 60% of kids would have a tray of chips and gravy. Definitely grew up in a chips and gravy area. Disgusting.

Curry sauce? I’m not opposed ethically, but mostly the curry sauce is gross.

Its gotta be good quality gravy though. Fish, chips (or a pie) and curry is gorgeous with a decent chippy curry

[TepidT2O]

Its gotta be good quality gravy though. Fish, chips (or a pie) and curry is gorgeous with a decent chippy curry

But the gravy is always dreadful (and even if it weren’t I’m still opposed)

[rob1966]

But the gravy is always dreadful (and even if it weren’t I’m still opposed)

I must be lucky as its always been good in the chippys I've used.

[Kenny's Jacket]

But the gravy is always dreadful (and even if it weren’t I’m still opposed)

So when you do a roast do you allow Gravy on the roast potatoes?

[Terry de Niro]

But the gravy is always dreadful (and even if it weren’t I’m still opposed)

You must have been to the wrong chippys.
Our local chippys gravy and curry are to die for.
Many more places are lovely too.

[TepidT2O]

So when you do a roast do you allow Gravy on the roast potatoes?

Two things.

Roast potatoes are not chips.

Preferably I keep them apart, but then my gravy is top notch.

Still, when my dad used to live near Sefton park he used to live on tripe and chips from the local chippy.  Fuck knows what you’d have to put on tripe to make it edible.

[rob1966]

Two things.

Roast potatoes are not chips.

Preferably I keep them apart, but then my gravy is top notch.

Still, when my dad used to live near Sefton park he used to live on tripe and chips from the local chippy.  Fuck knows what you’d have to put on tripe to make it edible.

Don't think it's possible to do that 

[ToneLa]

Food is more divisive than animal death

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Vegetarianism is grand but not convinced it changes much on its own so is a personal choice

or put another way, if it was required I'd go veggie
but me bird is veggie and doesn't give a toss and I've not managed to flip the switch on my own (though I always try to buy ethically)

[rob1966]

Food is more divisive than animal death

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Vegetarianism is grand but not convinced it changes much on its own so is a personal choice

or put another way, if it was required I'd go veggie
but me bird is veggie and doesn't give a toss and I've not managed to flip the switch on my own (though I always try to buy ethically)

Every year around this time I'll get a run to Carlisle or Scotland and every year I'll look at the little lambs in the fields and feel horrible for eating them. Then a few weeks later, I'll either make a Moroccan Lamb Stew in the slow cooker, or be in Crete and will order Lamb Kebabs or Lamb Kleftiko...

If we all go veggie, we'll never see a Lamb, Calf, Chicken Chick, Kid, piglet again, there will be no cows, sheep, goats, chickens, turkeys or pigs on farms and in the fields, as there will be no need for them

[Buck Pete]

I'll look at the little lambs in the fields and feel horrible for eating them. Then a few weeks later, I'll either make a Moroccan Lamb Stew in the slow cooker, or be in Crete and will order Lamb Kebabs or Lamb Kleftiko...

[Sheer Magnetism]

So when you do a roast do you allow Gravy on the roast potatoes?

Roast potatoes have a harder outer skin which makes them more structurally resistant to the gravy. Chips don't, which means it just makes them soggy. I agree that salt and a little vinegar is ideal, maybe tomato sauce/ketchup if you're eating them with chicken or something else that doesn't gel with vinegar.

[Elmo!]

The key to gravy or curry sauce on chips is to not have so much that it completely drowns them. Ideally your chips are on average only half covered so you get a bit of sauce and a bit of crispiness, and not completely soggy.

[Kenny's Jacket]

Soggy Chips are ace

[SamLad]

Soggy Chips are ace

damn right.  some ppl don't know they're born. chips AND gravy!

[Kenny's Jacket]

damn right.  some ppl don't know they're born. chips AND gravy!

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or curry  or beans or mushy peas.

[rob1966]

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or curry  or beans or mushy peas.

Food porn

[Kenny's Jacket]

Food porn

Just had a flashback of driving along Hyde Road on a Frida for the morning commute listening to Chippy tea by the Lancashire Hotpots

[SamLad]

those peas aren't anywhere near mushy enough.

[TepidT2O]

Fucking savages

[Crosby Nick]

For once I’m with Tepid (partly). Chips and gravy (yes). Chips and mushy peas (absolutely not). Think I’m scarred by school dinner mushy peas and I just can’t face eating them ever since!

[rob1966]

Fucking savages

Even better with a runny fried egg on top 

Imagine lashing one of those in the microwave at 11pm when it was bought at 6pm and travelled 270 miles in a car, cos that's what our kid did when I delivered it to him

[God's Left Peg]

Just had a flashback of driving along Hyde Road on a Frida for the morning commute listening to Chippy tea by the Lancashire Hotpots

Remember that song! Pure nostalgia.

[TepidT2O]

Even better with a runny fried egg on top 

Imagine lashing one of those in the microwave at 11pm when it was bought at 6pm and travelled 270 miles in a car, cos that's what our kid did when I delivered it to him

I don’t like fried  eggs either.


The smell of them turns my stomach

[Elmo!]

I don’t like fried  eggs either.


The smell of them turns my stomach

There's genuinely something wrong with you Tepid. 

[Crosby Nick]

There's genuinely something wrong with you Tepid. 

He’s a Physics teacher. How normal did you expect him to be?

[rob1966]

I don’t like fried  eggs either.


The smell of them turns my stomach

You're a freak

[TepidT2O]

Genuinely have to leave the room if someone fries an egg.

Mostly I just don’t like any British breakfast products very much.  I think I have German dna. They’ve got breakfast sorted

I mean, Chips and gravy is just odd, a British fry up is mostly inedible.  Fried egg? Urgh.  Mushrooms? Urgh. Bacon? Acrid.  Tinned tomato? Almost impossible to ruin a tomato, but they managed it. Black pudding? Why? It’s usually like rock and doesn’t taste of much anyway.  Scrambled egg? Nope.  Omelette? Nope.
Saved only by sausages and baked beans, but these sickos put them in little pots.

[TepidT2O]

Have  I shared too much?

I’ve gone too far havent I?

[Elmo!]

I rest my case.

Agreed on the tomatoes though.