Off Topic Good Friday - Fish & Chips

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tigerincanada said:
My preferences to accompany fish and chips are mushy peas, salt, malt vinegar and an English style pale ale (not too hoppy like North American brews). I have never tried curry sauce or gravy both sound wrong to me. That said, in Newfoundland the dish is cod and chips with dressing (like stuffing for fowl) and gravy. When I was in St. Johns I had the cod and chips which were brilliant but passed on the dressing and gravy.
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I'm a traditionalist when it comes to chippy. Peas, salt and vinegar, chips, fish. Maybe bread if I can be arsed to butter it. Gravy with fish seems odd. Gravy and chips, yeah, all day. But not fish, not for me. Ditto curry.

To me it's like saying I'll have ketchup on a Sunday Roast, or salad cream on anything that exists ever.
 
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Steven Toast said:
I'm a traditionalist when it comes to chippy. Peas, salt and vinegar, chips, fish. Maybe bread if I can be arsed to butter it. Gravy with fish seems odd. Gravy and chips, yeah, all day. But not fish, not for me. Ditto curry.

To me it's like saying I'll have ketchup on a Sunday Roast, or salad cream on anything that exists ever.
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Ended up using frozen garden peas to accomodate my wife. She's not "er indoors" she's pretty spectacular and ... enough said. Used cider for the batter and to be honest I didn't notice a huge difference from beer ... Perhaps a touch lighter and sweeter. Did you see the moon tonight? That was almost as good as my dinner.
 
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Ended up using frozen garden peas to accomodate my wife. She's not "er indoors" she's pretty spectacular and ... enough said. Used cider for the batter and to be honest I didn't notice a huge difference from beer ... Perhaps a touch lighter and sweeter. Did you see the moon tonight? That was almost as good as my dinner.
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Yes the moon here yesterday morning was excellent
 
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Ended up using frozen garden peas to accomodate my wife. She's not "er indoors" she's pretty spectacular and ... enough said. Used cider for the batter and to be honest I didn't notice a huge difference from beer ... Perhaps a touch lighter and sweeter. Did you see the moon tonight? That was almost as good as my dinner.
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"The Moon's a Balloon."...
...great read.
 
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tigerincanada said:
My preferences to accompany fish and chips are mushy peas, salt, malt vinegar and an English style pale ale (not too hoppy like North American brews). I have never tried curry sauce or gravy both sound wrong to me. That said, in Newfoundland the dish is cod and chips with dressing (like stuffing for fowl) and gravy. When I was in St. Johns I had the cod and chips which were brilliant but passed on the dressing and gravy.
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TC give the curry sauce a try followed by an IPA that I was introduced to by a chap from Baltimore a couple of weeks ago. Can you get, or have you ever tried Dogfish Head IPA?
 
SW3 Chelsea Tiger said:
Hopefully the one on Railway street in Pock will be open for me. Stay safe everyone
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I prefer that one to Stuart's, most people rate Stuart's but my experience was often used frozen fish not fresh, which having been in the fish business all my working life I could tell the difference. Much prefer fresh fish rather than sea frozen.
 
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BlackAndAmberGambler said:
TC give the curry sauce a try followed by an IPA that I was introduced to by a chap from Baltimore a couple of weeks ago. Can you get, or have you ever tried Dogfish Head IPA?
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Is it Glen Burnie, Baltimore. My cousins live there. Tom is a massive Ravens fan and follows City from afar. Like a lot of us, nowadays, I guess.
 
I can cope with curry sauce on chips but I cant see the point in buying premium fish and covering it in any type of sauce. Malt vinegar for me, then I can taste what I'm eating. Am old enough to remember re-heated school dinners, with nuns that made you eat it, whether you wanted to or not. Can understand ANY type of sauce to kill the flavour of the **** we were given described as fish, but try not to remember the experience.
 
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BlackAndAmberGambler said:
TC give the curry sauce a try followed by an IPA that I was introduced to by a chap from Baltimore a couple of weeks ago. Can you get, or have you ever tried Dogfish Head IPA?
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I have heard that Dogfish Head is very good but I have never seen it in Canada. I have tried many Canadian and US craft pale ales and IPAs and generally speaking, I find them too hoppy and too citrus flavoured. I think they use Cascade hops. A local brew pub, Bushwackers, makes a variety of excellent beers of which 'Regina Pale Ale' is probably my favourite. Incidentally, they do pretty good fish and chips!
 
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