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sebzilla posted:If I was going to concoct the perfect chippy tea in my town it would involve going to three separate establishments. One for high quality and generously-portioned chips, one for vegan delights (battered pickles and tofish) and one for the best curry sauce (Chinese-style)  e: to win 76-0 we need to score every 35 seconds for the entire second half
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Jun 22, 2021 20:56
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Guavanaut posted:What's the significance of June 25 anyway? I've always felt it was weird that something like Trafalgar day or something isn't a big celebration of Britishness.
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Jun 22, 2021 20:57
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EvilHawk posted:I'm always very confused that chinese chippies aren't really a thing down south, because my local when I was growing up and my now-fiance's family chippy are both chinese as well so it just always seemed to be normal to me. Nothing better than chips and special fried rice imo I can only speak for Reading and Basingstoke but both are full of Chinese/Cantonese chippies.
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Jun 22, 2021 21:01
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Do they not do chips at the chinese takeaway down south? I've never known anywhere that is like, a combination chinese food place and fish and chip shop, but I thought everywhere had chinese chips.
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Jun 22, 2021 21:04
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I remember reading bill brysons travelogue of the UK, and he described a combo chippy/Indian/Chinese in Thurso ran by two locals with no background in any kind of foreign food who enthusiastically tried their best and actually did decent business as at the time the only place in town that did takeaway
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Jun 22, 2021 21:09
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OwlFancier posted:Do they not do chips at the chinese takeaway down south? I'm at the Chinese Shop I'm at the Fish and Chip Shop I'm at the combination Chinese and Fish and Chip Shop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ8ViYIeH04
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Jun 22, 2021 21:10
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OwlFancier posted:Do they not do chips at the chinese takeaway down south?
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Jun 22, 2021 21:11
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Guavanaut posted:What's the significance of June 25 anyway? In 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that recitation of a state-sponsored prayer in New York State public schools was unconstitutional. It's also National Catfish day too apparently. I was thinking maybe as it's the day after Midsummer's Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LNEvCV837Y (Yeah I know this was May but anyway)
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Jun 22, 2021 21:11
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Update on this: apparently the government have scheduled their day for indoctrinating kids on the importance of the union after scottish schools break up for holidays. That is perfect. That song has some real "lame attempt to be North Korea" vibes
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Jun 22, 2021 21:12
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Borrovan posted:Guessing you mean Joe's for the chips (if that's still there), but the one at Cainscross absolutely blows them out of the water for fish Big Fish up on Nelson Street for quantity of chips, Simpson's for the fancy vegan poo poo, Jolly Fryer in Cashes Green for lurid orange curry sauce. Where is/was Joe's? e: Fortune Takeaway in Cainscross has a door at the front for fish and chips and a separate one round the side for Chinese and they seem to operate different business hours. Very confusing but the chips from the Chinese side were very crispy and nice, from memory. sebzilla fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Jun 22, 2021 |
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Jun 22, 2021 21:13
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keep punching joe posted:"We call them buns." I think that's a 'vanishing tradition' thing rather than regional. Americans call flatbread muffins 'English muffins' because that's what muffins were here. See also 'cupcakes', which are also buns as far as I am concerned.
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Jun 22, 2021 21:13
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Oh dear me posted:I think that's a 'vanishing tradition' thing rather than regional. Americans call flatbread muffins 'English muffins' because that's what muffins were here. See also 'cupcakes', which are also buns as far as I am concerned. I see you've played muffinbuncake before
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Jun 22, 2021 21:14
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Maybe it's just the area where I moved to that it's unusual!
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Jun 22, 2021 21:15
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I mean if there actually are combination chinese takeaways/fish and chippies then I think we should be pouring funding into them because imagine the kind of fish we could have if we applied chinese chip technology. Also I kinda want a fish and fried rice with sweet and sour now.
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Jun 22, 2021 21:17
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Borrovan posted:I am very Southern & also thought this was a universal thing Might just be an east London thing but I can think of three round here - "proper" chippies in that they have the glass hot cabinets over the fryers, but also have a kitchen out the back where they do Chinese dishes, plus another chippy that was run by Chinese (well east Asian at least) people. Now let's get really racist - the best chippies are in fact run by Greek Cypriots, with Italians coming a close second.
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Jun 22, 2021 21:19
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Now let's get really racist - the best chippies are in fact run by Greek Cypriots, with Italians coming a close second. Most of the chippers in Ireland are Italian
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Jun 22, 2021 21:20
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I was thinking maybe as it's the day after Midsummer's Day
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Jun 22, 2021 21:21
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sebzilla posted:Big Fish up on Nelson Street for quantity of chips, Simpson's for the fancy vegan poo poo, Jolly Fryer in Cashes Green for lurid orange curry sauce. Googling around, most of the places I know aren't there anymore  Apart from the High Street Chippy, which was always poo poo for everything apart from willingness to batter anything for 50p
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Jun 22, 2021 21:21
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OwlFancier posted:I mean if there actually are combination chinese takeaways/fish and chippies then I think we should be pouring funding into them because imagine the kind of fish we could have if we applied chinese chip technology. Also I kinda want a fish and fried rice with sweet and sour now. One of the chippies I just mentioned did do cod balls (stop that sniggering) fried in batter with sweet and sour sauce, and they were awesome. On reflection I realise that during my school days I probably continued going out with a girl because I used to meet her there rather than any particular thing she bought to the relationship.
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Jun 22, 2021 21:23
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Guavanaut posted:That'd be a good fairly neutral day of observation if it weren't for that whole song thing. It's the day the sun shines the longest on the British Isles so we get as close as possible to it never setting on the Empire.
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Jun 22, 2021 21:24
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goddamnedtwisto posted:One of the chippies I just mentioned did do cod balls (stop that sniggering) fried in batter with sweet and sour sauce, and they were awesome. On reflection I realise that during my school days I probably continued going out with a girl because I used to meet her there rather than any particular thing she bought to the relationship. Imagine super crispy scampi with chinese rice.
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Jun 22, 2021 21:24
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goddamnedtwisto posted:One of the chippies I just mentioned did do cod balls (stop that sniggering) fried in batter with sweet and sour sauce, and they were awesome. On reflection I realise that during my school days I probably continued going out with a girl because I used to meet her there rather than any particular thing she bought to the relationship. I've repeatedly told my fiance that one of the main reasons we're still together is the free food I get. The power you feel walking into the back of the shop, straight to the counter and grabbing food whilst the waiting public look at me with intense jealously... it's intoxicating.
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Jun 22, 2021 21:25
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goddamnedtwisto posted:It's the day the sun shines the longest on the British Isles so we get as close as possible to it never setting on the Empire. No, the other one
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Jun 22, 2021 21:27
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goddamnedtwisto posted:It's the day the sun shines the longest on the British Isles so we get as close as possible to it never setting on the Empire. e: ^^^ lmao 
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Jun 22, 2021 21:28
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EvilHawk posted:I've repeatedly told my fiance that one of the main reasons we're still together is the free food I get. Lol no, this was just literally her school was around the corner so I'd bunk off and go meet her there at lunchtime. My mate did go out with a girl who worked the late shift at Cannon Street McDonalds, which was always absolutely deserted after 6pm, so we'd go an hang out there, normally behind the counter, of an evening, but that was about it. To be honest that power of waltzing past queues into The Forbidden Zone is one of the big reasons I'm still doing volunteering at the vaccine centres. That I get to do it in hi-viz makes it all the more heady.
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Jun 22, 2021 21:30
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Guavanaut posted:The sun still doesn't set on the British Empire due to the seasonal overlap between that island famous for being ruled by child molesters and Pitcairn. I thought we'd dumped Pitcairn off on NZ now? e: Just remembered that one of the contestants on The Chase this afternoon was going to use his winnings to go to Pitcairn, which was a pretty odd choice, or at least a pretty odd choice to talk about on national television.
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Jun 22, 2021 21:31
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Mega Comrade posted:I can only speak for Reading and Basingstoke but both are full of Chinese/Cantonese chippies. I grew up in Crowthorne (20 mins from Reading) and the town's main chippy used to be a combo Chinese takeaway/chippy
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Jun 22, 2021 21:31
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goddamnedtwisto posted:e: Just remembered that one of the contestants on The Chase this afternoon was going to use his winnings to go to Pitcairn, which was a pretty odd choice, or at least a pretty odd choice to talk about on national television. I have always wondered if they are told what to say for those. You never see many go 'for my life saving treatment', or 'my current debts'.
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Jun 22, 2021 21:56
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OwlFancier posted:Do they not do chips at the chinese takeaway down south? Last time I checked I could get awfully cooked chips from my local Chinese
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Jun 22, 2021 22:34
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happyhippy posted:I have always wondered if they are told what to say for those. I'm sure they get asked that (and the other "banter" questions) as part of the pre-screening so you don't have someone saying "Well Bradley I want to use my winnings to buy one of those egg-laying dragon dildos".
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Jun 22, 2021 22:44
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Had to turn the heating back on today (am in London). This summer is bollocks, I want my money backMiftan posted:Submit it when the doctor asks for your stool sample. I rate this post a 6 on the Bristol Posting Chart
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Jun 22, 2021 23:02
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We used to have an official Empire Day, didn’t we? I always thought it was odd they never made it into Commonwealth Day. Oop, I looked it up and we did. But for some reason we don’t actually do anything for it? Seems like it would be an obvious thing for the Tories.
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Jun 22, 2021 23:02
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Comrade Fakename posted:We used to have an official Empire Day, didn’t we? I always thought it was odd they never made it into Commonwealth Day. Commonwealth implies equality with people from other countries with dark skin rather than ruling over them as an Empire, so obviously the Tories aren’t a fan.
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Jun 22, 2021 23:06
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Misty Fog posted:Last time I checked I could get awfully cooked chips from my local Chinese In my experience, most chinese takeaways used to serve chips that were dryer than those of a normal chippie, and had a vaguely cardboard-ish texture. To my partially anosmic self, these were absolutely wonderful.
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Jun 22, 2021 23:08
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I'm sure they get asked that (and the other "banter" questions) as part of the pre-screening so you don't have someone saying "Well Bradley I want to use my winnings to buy one of those egg-laying dragon dildos". A... what? Can I get one in Wilko?
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Jun 22, 2021 23:10
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Back where I lived in Cambridge there was a chippy and a Chinese right next to each other and I'm pretty sure the same family owned both. Same energy. Combo chippy/doner places even better tho.
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Jun 22, 2021 23:12
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Trickjaw posted:A... what? Can I get one in Wilko? Google "bad dragon" and introduce yourself to a world of tentacles and ovipositors (extremely NSFW, obv)
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Jun 22, 2021 23:13
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I thought we'd dumped Pitcairn off on NZ now? It's supposedly a nice holiday destination for beaches and diving and boating and dark sky viewing and radio hobbies and other things that start to sound like code for noncing just because of the context, but it's such a pain to get to that it does raise questions.
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Jun 22, 2021 23:13
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Oof, 27 covid deaths today, which is ten more than this time last week. That's nearly a 40% increase. This seems bad?
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Jun 22, 2021 23:37
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I do actually remember getting super excited when my mum and dad got Chinese takeaway because 'Chinese chips' as we called them were so much better than chippy chips, I guess because they may have been wok fried or something, idk, but they did have a very distinct taste that was bloody lovely
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Jun 22, 2021 23:47
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