I just ordered steak and kidney pudding, chips, mushy peas and English curry from a chippy that isn't my regular and got a skeptical ".... you sure?"
What are your unusual chippy orders?
I have chip and fish supper: a single, solitary chip on top of a pile of about 70 battered cod. Expensive, mind.
You've got a chip on your shoal there
Bloody brilliant.
Top class. 10/10. Unsurpassable.
No matter how many votes, this will be undersung
Love it.
🥇
Not bad mate , not bad at all 🤝
Don’t forget a refreshing pint of vinegar to wash it down with
Specifically the vinegar from the pickled eggs.
The virgin dirty egg Martini.
Posh
Scandalous but I aint saying no.
Ahem... NBC.
Big Sam special
With calamari as scraps?
Saw a guy ask for them to batter and deep fry some of the large pickled gherkins 20 years ago and thought he was a freak.
Now you see them as a side order in snobby posh burger places
Frickles if you will.
Love frickles! Especially beer battered. Gherkins can do no wrong regardless of their form
Where can I get a Frickle?
Sounds an immense improvement on a DF Mars bar
DF mars bars are also amazing. I made frickles at home last night. They are available on menus, I’ve seen them various places in the UK, hopefully Google will direct you to somewhere near you.
For fucks sake man 🤣
That sounds amazing
They are really common in Dallas where I used to live. Sometimes they're even free depending on the bar that you're in.
Not snobby at all over there, but definitely are in the UK.
First time I ever came across them was an upscale bar/restaurant in downtown Chicago a good few years ago now. Very glad they caught on over here!
Yeah I've had them in soul food places in Atlanta.
They have them here at our local chippy. We get a portion every time, absolutely delicious.
My mate created the 'way home sausage' that has now become a thing for a lot of people in my town...
There’s a word for this in Norwegian, “ventepølse”, or sausage you eat while you’re waiting :D
That's excellent
People at my work have a pocket sausage if they're running late and can't get a full breakfast, they nip into the canteen for a paper cup with some sausages and beans in then stick in the top pocket of their boiler suit.
Bob Mortimer is famous for his love of pocket meat
And the cheaper meats
And trapped potatoes
And so is Frank Reynolds
Pocket cup
Somebody's been watching Alan Partridge. Do they use the sausage as a spoon?
I went to a chippy near where me brother lives an got a scollop to eat while he was frying our fish..according to me bro its a regular thing ..if its busy he hands em out to.people in the que while there waiting.and it was a nice chippy too.
You can't just leave it at that!
Sausage to tide you over on the way home whilst waiting for the main event.
I do the same with single cheeseburgers at Maccies.
There’s a reason I’m fat.
Saveloy strapped to a sat nav.
Satnaveloy
Perfection.
Now we need a GPS version for the Americans
I used to call it the walking sausage, the treat you get for being the one to go and pick up the chippy order.
A bit like rollers' rights. They who skillfully roll the spliff get to light it.
Hahaa, not just me then! Along with the obligatory driving out of Maccy Ds with a cheeseburger to tide you over whilst getting yours and everyone's meal.
Was doing this in the mid-2000s as the preferred chip shop was 4 miles to home. It was the eat-in-the-car-so-you-have-the-energy-to-drive-home sausage. My metabolism also allowed this at the time! 😄
Cheaper than a kebab, I guess.
Edit to add oh wait. or do you mean a car sausage.
Which is not dogging, despite how it sounds.
Just what you scarf on the way home, alone in the car, guilty like.
We call it a road sausage!
I do this with a pancake roll from the Chinese
That's why I always get a double cheeseburger from McDonald's with every order. Got to have some travelling food.
Travel sausages are the best!
Haggis supper.
Hell yes, it's been over a decade since I lived in Scotland and I STILL out of habit order haggis and chips with chippy sauce!! I miss it dearly ...
chippy sauce
East coast I assume?
Falkirk yeah :)
Aye, I'm not even that far away but the more west you go people just say broon sauce.
Haggis supper and some curry sauce is great
Black pudding supper > haggis supper
I sometimes like chip shop curry on my fish, which I'm told is a bit weird.
My wife covers her chips in baked beans which always looks awful to me lol
Curry sauce on your fish is definitely not weird.
Definitely not weird. The only reason I don't do it is because I don't want my batter to lose any crispy batterness.
If it’s weird they wouldn’t sell the stuff
My daughter enjoys the chip shop gravy on her fish
I've been told it's normal on chips, sausages, pies, but weird on fish
Fish and curry goes together well, you have actual fish curries. But gravy is a meaty sauce I guess (even though it is probably just powdered onion Bisto). Similarly tartare sauce with a pie seems iffy. Parsley liquor is a thing in London though, so no idea really.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that likes beans on chips, it's is lush, plenty of vinegar on the chips and ketchup over the beans.
I used to think it odd, but then you've got Katsu Curry - which is roughly the same
Fish curry is very much a thing in Asian restaurants lol. It's not a weird combo. Billions enjoy it.
Nah. I always put curry sauce on a fish supper from the chippy
Fish chips and gravy, and I put the gravy on everything if it comes in a pot. Including the fish. My wife thinks that's really weird and unpleasant.
Does it not go all soggy and just taste the same? I'm imagining a really sloppy texture.
(I also don't put gravy all over a roast dinner, so I might just not be able to appreciate what gravy does for a meal)
It does go slightly soggy I suppose? But not unpleasant. I find 9 times out of 10 the batter is soggy anyway. I rarely get fish and chips because the idea of them is nearly always better than the reality.
The one chippy I do go to sometimes because I know it will be good, the batter is crispy, and it doesn't go significantly soggy with the gravy, just a bit softer.
And funnily enough, the last time I made a roast dinner I commented "that was a load of hassle and everything just tastes like gravy, what's the point?" So you're probably right to not throw the gravy all over everything.
Next time I eat roast dinner or fish and chips I'll try it out.
Throw some mushy peas on the side and you're on to a winner
As long as you put loads of vinegar in the gravy, you’re all good.
Not my order but from my local chip shop Chips, chicken and lamb gyro meat, curry and peas
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Saveloy, chips and a curry sauce.
So essentially a British currywurst. Still a great order.
Cut it up. Sprinkle some curry powder on the sauce. And that's exactly what it is.
Battered Mars Bar and chips 😋
A "cowboy Supper" which is sausage chips and beans, then smother it in vinegar
I used to work at a chippy. Sausage, chips and beans in a bap was my go-to for my free meal.
Chips and mushy peas. I’m vegan.
Me too, and me too. A couple of local chippies have jumped on the bandwagon and started offering vegan mains too (pies, tofish and so on) and are doing a roaring trade, but nice simple chips and mushy peas is a dependable favourite wherever I go
Mushy pea fritters are fabulous
Place near my work does a banging Chicken Shish.
We have been there for a work lunch a few times and have yet to order Fish & Chips let alone anything else.
Our chippy is a Turkish chippy. They do proper decent Turkish kebabs and various shish dishes. Typical Turkish side orders are available too if you fancy it.
It’s none of that bossman greasy doner. We usually get a couple of lahmacuns with chips. If you get a burger, it comes with proper hand cut salad with homemade sauces too. Lush
If a pizza crunch supper slathered in gravy with a liberal douse of salt and vinegar counts, then...
My chips to be well done - more often than not the chips come out soggy and way too soft than that should be
This is why i dont like chippy chips. They are never cooked enough. Even when you ask for extra well done chips, they dont care and give you a soggy mess. I prefer chips from the chinese. More likely to have a bit of crunch
Chips, mushy peas, curry (yes, on top of the peas).
Now this is madness.
You've gotta do chips then peas then curry, otherwise all the curry ends up on the peas and none gets on the chips
Fish, salt and pepper chips and chipshop curry sauce. Combo of the gods
Children’s portion of Fish and Chips. It’s more than I can handle. Portions are massive these days
I wanna live where you live! The exact opposite is true where I am
Theres a popular chippy in town that has a sit in restaurant plus a takeaway area. If you sit in, portions are huge, plates piled high, you cant cut into the fish without chips falling off the edge of the plate. If you get a takeaway, the portions are so stingy. Box isnt even half full and the fish seems to be a smaller fillet than if you were sitting in. If you plate it up when u get home its just a meh portion. Its the same staff serving up for both areas so i dunno whats going on.
Steak and kidney pie, saveloy and chips
Or
Sausage in batter, chips and curry sauce
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My local does banging fried chicken, I get some and a curry sauce.
My dad always says that's weird, I just ask 'you never had chicken curry before?'
My local does banging fried chicken, I get some and a curry sauce.
My dad always says that's weird, I just ask 'you never had chicken curry before?'
Fish, mushy peas and gravy. No chips for me, usually nick a couple from hubby's until I remember I dont like them.
Chips, cheese and gravy. I picked it up as a student in Wales and its lush but everyone I've mentioned it to in England looks at me like I'm crazy.
I’m in England and have this, not sure the Welsh can claim it, it’s a version of poutine so the Canadians can be thanked for that. The flavours work so well! I prefer it to proper poutine. Haven’t had it in ages actually, maybe one for the weekend!
Is that an unusual order? Sounds pretty standard although not many places near me do a pudding.
Unbattered fish. Breadcake. Unbattered sausage. Baked beans.
Samosas
Small Fish, chips, curry, peas, then either a spam fritter, haggis or white pudding
Battered pizza
My nearby place has the nicest local sausages - so either two of those, or a piece of cod/haddock (with chips and scraps)
Chippy near me also does Chinese, so I like getting fish and salt n pepper chips sometimes
Thanks, now I want a chippy.
Chip muffin & gravy all together and then a meat pie on the side.
Depending on where about you are in the country that order is either completely average or so unusual the staff double & triple check it’s what you actually want
Chip muffin and gravy is my go to order as well
I love a battered haggis and chips and will always order that whenever I'm somewhere they're available.
Apparently fried rice, chips and Chinese bbq sauce is weird for most the country
My kid, 10yo, has somehow developed a taste for spam fritters. I have no idea where he got the idea in the first place, but finding a chippy that does spam fritters is VERY hit and miss
My local is the first chippy I've ever seen do spam fritters, I've never tried one myself but I've seen people order them on a barm with pea wet.
Yorkshire?
I have an observation about the North/South divide when it comes to chippies. I don't think I've ever seen a saveloy north of Watford Gap, and never seen scraps in the south. Can you confirm either of these to be true?
Wigan.
I've never even heard of a saveloy and I love scraps on a chip barm with a bit of curry sauce so yepp, can confirm.
What is English curry?
Its like a fruity yellow curry that isn't spicy
Stornoway black pudding supper. Haven’t seen it anywhere but my local chippie, it’s delicious.
Nothing crazy, but instead of £7 on a big bit of fish, I'm £2.50 on a saveloy, £2.50 on a fishcake. Curry sauce.
Fishcake cob gets some weird looks at times
Seen a bloke order at a local Chinese Takeaway/ chippy: prawn curry with extra prawns and mushy peas.
smoked pork sausage in batter with chips with a side of curry sauce or sometimes mushy peas
I love the English curry bit
Every time I go to visit my husbands family in Scotland have deep-fried pizza and chips with battered black pudding.Thought it a weird combination the first time I tried it but it works so look forward to it at least once a year.
I'm from Ireland so when I go to the English chippy I get exotic things I can't get at home. Saveloy, spam fritter, large pickled onion and chips. Loads of salt and vinegar.
Who asked “you sure?” Hopefully not the people running the chippy 😂
Usually get a fishcake most times as they never accept card and never have that cash on me nowadays
Fish, chips and Gravy for me, I ALWAYS get comments in how weird it is but I LOVE it.
I only get potato scallops, battered sausage and curry sauce. The fish from fish and chips shops isn’t actually any good so sausage it is
Large cod and chips, jumbo battered sausage, chicken portion, battered burger, spring roll and 2 large curry sauce.
There was a reason I almost hit 22 stone before sorting out my portion control.
Battered haddock,scallops ( potato slices in batter not the seafood ) and Irish curry sauce
Chips, savaloy, fruity curry. Not so unconvential, but to some savaloy and fruity curry aren't a thing which is mad to me!
Where are my pickled egg brothers?
Normal - fish, chips and mushy peas Unconventional - chips with cheese and curry sauce
My local chippy is a Chinese as well and last time I got Salt and Pepper Chips, two battered sausages and satay sauce, was great, will get it again next time I want a chippy.
I normally order Chips, mushy pee, Smokey sausage and spam fritter.
Sometimes I like chip shop curry on chips with dollops of ketchup with at least 4 slices of Warburtons bread smothered in lurpak
In St Helens a steak & kidney pudding with chips, peas and curry sauce was referred to as “Babby’s head split”
Order chips and curry sauce from the Chinese Takeaway, nip next door and order a cod.
The fish is amazing but his chips are soggy, greasy and poor, the chinese cooks them to perfection.
I saw a picture of a deep fried colin the caterpillar....... I'm thinking of adding it to the order.
In my local area at least, battered burgers. Used to get them all the time from all the local chip shops, but moved literally the county over and none of the locals do them!
I like to get a large cod, chips, a couple of sausages and some mushy peas. They think I’m minted.
Battered sausage cob.
Steak and kidney pie, chips cheese and gravy. Cheese on the chips, gravy on top. Gravy melts the cheese and it's fucking amazing. As close to pootine as you can get in this country
I once got funny looks when asking for chips, cheese & curry sauce in a chippy in Glasgow. I thought that was a standard order but apparently not.
Three little fish and BBQ sauce got to be red Chinese BBQ sauce though
Triple Sausage (Normal, Battered, Saveloy), Chips, Curry Ssuce & Ketchup
Most unconventional for me is cheesy chips with gravy. I'm not sure how unconventional that actually is, though, it's on the menu at some chippies. I've got two close to me where it's on the actual menu as a meal, one where it's not an actual option, but cheesy chips is, you just have to order gravy with it.
I wouldn’t say unconventional, but being vegan, it’s chips, mushy peas, beans and (if vegan) vegetable spring rolls!
My go to every single time! 🤤
This sounds pretty good!
A tray of chicken kebab meat.
Possibly the healthiest thing on the menu without getting nothing but salad.
I keep asking for them to batter my chips, 0 out of 3 attempts so far.
Mine is Battered fishcake with chips, cheese and curry sauce. Most chippys give you the side eye when you ask for a battered fishcake
A chippy? Sorry but I can't get a loan to be able to afford it.
At my brother's wake the ladies from the local chippy came, told of the his name special
Every week before football he would order a chip, chicken goujons, coleslaw, chicken gravy and sweet chili sauce on top - if it wasn't rude to hit someone in a coffin, we would have had fisticuffs, and why BEFORE football?
They meant are you sure you don't want two steak and kidney puddings! I wish they sold them more regularly where i live!
Chips, mushy peas and salad cream
Fish, chips and gravy
I've been asked if I want the gravy under the fish, no I want it all over that fish
Either spam fritter, corned beef fritter or a large cod, but remove most of the fish and just eat the batter laden in salt and vinegar. Dog has the fish. Obviously a large chips.
I wish more places did orange chips or even better, just a massive slab of batter. I miss batter bits, nowhere does them now except M&S, randomly.
Two chop suey rolls, portion fried rice, portion chips carton of curry sauce, yum
Crocodile and chips please, and make it as quickly as possible.
I wouldn't call it unconventional but an excessive amount of onion vinegar is required. Used to get a chip roll after school, i would drown it in onion vinegar to the point that my mates held their bag under mine to catch the waste
Deep fried cream egg
Halloumi wrap & chips from my local. Curry sauce on the chips.
Not that unconventional in Scotland, but if available I'd always go half a deep fried pizza and chips. Food of the gods.
What's English curry? Never heard that before. Every chippy I have been to it's always just called curry sauce.
Never had a deep fried pizza but I'd love it if my local chippy did haloumi
Sausage, chips and a spam fritter. Covered in red and brown sauce. Plenty of salt and vinegar. Yummy 😋
Saveloy you can munch on whilst you walk home!
Fish ,chips ,peas and gravy or Fish dinner around here .
Fish chips curry sauce and a John Bull. Bonus points if you know what a John Bull is.
Not particularlyunusual, but...
"Burger, no batter." "For the dog?" "Yeah."
Every single time.
Spam fritter and potato scallop butty.
Sometimes with a splash of gravy.
mince pie in a roll with brown sauce
Double fried chips, a large battered sausage and a pickled egg. + curry sauce. Not many people go for crispy chips or an egg.
If I don't want a pizza supper I have a fritter supper - 2 fritters, a bag of chips and a roll. Carbs on carbs on carbs. Yum.
Chips, cheese and gravy. Get the evils if you’re not ordering in Lancashire.
What’s an English curry?
2 fish no chip
Battered saveloy and a Coke. Maybe add a chip butty if I want a full meal.
Chips, coleslaw then curry sauce 😋
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