My one is owned by Turks and they have had to do southern fried chicken to cater for the locals, I sometimes call it the chicken shop but a chippy is defined by fresh cut potatoes sitting in water rather than the frozen muck that the new school curry,kebab chicken shop serves....
I do know that in roddy Doyle books it's always referred to as the chipper but that probably doesnlt mean anything. I call my local one the curry, burger, chinese, pizza and fired chicken shop.
My Collins says chipper is noun Irish and Scot informal a fish-and-chip shop. The rest of us call it a chippy. You get a good size fish and chips for a fiver in my local chippy. The bird serving is asian with nice smile and large breasts. I'm there quite often.
I don't know anyone who calls it a chipper. Mind you, we have salt and sauce on our chips, unlike those ruffians in Glasgow who have salt 'n' vineger.
Those Aberdonians like there deep-fried Mars bars as well, don't they? Is your local Chinese takeaway called a Chinkies?
Chipper it is then. Chippy just sounds so ****in gay. Anyway anyone that eats fish covered in batter is a **** and a phillistine. Salt and sauce on chips is definitely gay. I dont take salt on anything, ruins the taste.
Does make me laugh that mamny people bang on about the price of cod and how it's very difficult to buy - then when they do eat it they can't taste it because it's battered or breadcrumbed to ****.
We're lucky up here having a wonderful selection of fish fresh from the north sea. To cover it in batter is criminal. May as well put tomato sauce on freshly farmed salmon. Or vinegar on mackerel or herring, ****in obscene.
The best chippy in England s in hove e Sussex, fact ... I take my family on a pilgrimage annually and Hey appreciate good ****ing haddock/cod n chips.. I even go the whole hg pickled eggs mushy peas.... The girl even suggests taking away in a cardboard box that breathes so as not to make the contents soggy...
