Chip shop cuisine (was Re: Need British Menu Suggestions)

[Neil Ward]

Barb said:

<<He watched in horror as she removed a small disk from the freezer that
could  have been a pizza in a former life and then THREW IT INTO THE DEEP
FAT FRYER with the fish and chips!
Ah--pizza Scottish-style!>>

Oh, the joys of the local chip shop.  There was a time when the only things
that ended up in the fryers apart from the chips were battered or breaded
fish, scampi, roe, chicken, sausages, potato wafers or fishcakes (meanwhile
pies and pasties would be heated in the ovens).  These days, anything and
everything goes in the name of faddism, the yuckiest item being deep-fried
Mars bars, i.e. chocolate bars, while chips are shoved into pitta, served up
alongside chow mein (in Chinese-chip shop hybrids) or covered in curry sauce
that, to me, resembles baby diarrhoea.

My favourite meals used to be 'potato wafer and chips' (the good ol'
potato-potato diet) or 'chicken & mushroom pie and chips with mushy peas'
(the latter served in a polystyrene cup).  Every Friday, my parents would
get the dinner from the chip shop and it always came wrapped in yesterday's
newspapers.  Those were the days.

Neil, showing his age again