Lunch!

[jdl22]

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If you come to the UK you have to have Fish and chips ate out of the paper with loads of salt and vinegar.

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I have enjoyed this there before. When I as in high school we had a foreign exchange student living with us from Stoke-On-Trent. I visited him there for a little over a week. One thing I enjoy about he fish and chips there is the vinegar oil and grease running down your arm after it has already soaked through the paper. I'm sure that's healthy.

Here stateside we do tend to call them chips if they are eaten with fish. I have never heard anybody say fish and fries. As for the crisps I think we call them chips for the same reason that we call poker chips poker chips. They resemble wood and other kinds of chips. Crisps also makes sense given that they're crispy.

edit: I wanted to add that the best breakfast food I've ever had was bacon and oatcakes. Sadly the oatcakes seems to be fairly specific to Stoke and we can't even get good bacon here.

[Rushmore]

This reminds me of the scene from Angela's Ashes, when the kid hasn't eaten a crumb for days and actually LICKS the newspaper in which the fish and chips were packaged.

I don't think one needs to be starving to actually fully understand one's desire to do this.

[jasonHoldEm]

Doh, too late to edit...

Funny story, first time I took my mom to primanti bros...

My Mom (god bless her): So you put the fries IN the sandwich?
Guy behind counter (who has heard this a hundred times): Yes.
Mom: Well...can I get them on the side?
Guy: No.

You probably have to be from Pittsburgh to understand the humor.

[kdog]

Hung posts a question about what he should have for lunch and the thread goes to three pages. Only in the Zoo. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

And could one of you Brits please explain what the hell a pasty is? I'll eat pretty much anything but I've never heard of these.

[TimM]

I don't know what pastys are, but I know what pasties are:

[MicroBob]

no wonder they're so popular!!

mmmmmm...i'm getting hungry.

[dogsballs]

heh, daveymck, I used to live on greggs cheese and onion pasties - two of them followed up with a snowball. Perfect a diet fir when yir oan the bru.

[dogsballs]

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Sadly the oatcakes seems to be fairly specific to Stoke

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Go into any tourist shop selling scottish stuff - the oatcakes are right next to the shortbread.

[dink]

What is wrong with a good ol aussie meat pie?

better than any pastie, and I have eaten pasties in Penzance and Tantagnel (I think that is how you spell it) in cornwell. As for Balti pies, don't know em

I am Biased but the Aussie meat pie can't be beaten for lunch.

Dink.

[Cptkernow]

The cornish Pasty or Croast as it is called in cornish, is similar to a meat pie.

The standard pasty is shaped like a half moon with a pastry crimp. The cripm forms a handle, which allows you to hold the pasty with dirty hands, which is usefull if you have/are been down a mine all day. Mining was the traditional industry of Cornwall for centuries.

The ingredients of a pasty are steak, potato, swede, oninon, butter and plenty of salt and pepper. Pastys traditonaly had two fillings seperated by a pastry wall half way through the pasty. The first half had the meat and the next half held a sweet filling. Therefore turning your pasty into a two course meal.