So what exactly is "Pie and Chips"?
Feb 23rd, 2006, 06:24 AM
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Actually in my earlier post I should have said Chicken and Mushrom pie, chips and GRAVY is a favourite of mine.
Apart from chips and gravy, chips also go well with melted cheese, fried egg, curry, salad cream, tartare sauce, but not all together. Don't care much for chips and ketchup, though.
Geico's definately got a Cockney accent, at least on adverts shown in the MidWest.
Apart from chips and gravy, chips also go well with melted cheese, fried egg, curry, salad cream, tartare sauce, but not all together. Don't care much for chips and ketchup, though.
Geico's definately got a Cockney accent, at least on adverts shown in the MidWest.
Feb 23rd, 2006, 07:15 AM
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Anyone else (northern or otherwise) remember chip shops selling "scallops" - not the fishy kind but battered slices of potato? Greasy, filling and cheap! Not seen these for years - do they still exist?
Feb 23rd, 2006, 07:52 AM
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Oh yes, we had scallops in Birmingham. I'll have to check next time I go to my local London chippy. And do you remember getting bags of batter bits? What were they called? And has anyone ever eaten a pickled egg more than once?
Feb 23rd, 2006, 09:13 PM
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My husband & I were traveling in Wales & went into a small restaurant one evening to get fish & chips. As the young man was fixing my husband's plate, he dumped a big gob of mushy peas on the "chips" as my husband was yelling, "No!" The kid looked heart-broken until I said, "I'll take it!" (I'm not picky about food.) I really was amazed that I liked it so well. Have not had it since, though.
Feb 24th, 2006, 12:30 AM
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Culinary note. The English early on tried eating anything that seemed palatable. Flour and lard were combined to make eatable containers of 'whatever'. Welsh 'pasty'. Pie is a name derived from the bird, magpie. Someone noted that their nests contained purloined bright bits. Soon the residents of 'old blighty' were making and eating 'pies'. This is a practical way to carry a lunch to eat elsewhere. Consider that fish and chips is a 'takeaway' item. What was most practical as a container? Old newspapers!
Feb 24th, 2006, 02:38 PM
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A meat pie floating in a bowl of pea soup, a "pie floater", is unique to the state of South Australia, and they can have it. SA is the most "English" of our states. A "floater" of course is police slang for a body found in the water. That to me says it all.
Potato scallops are alive and well in Australia too, usually sold from a takeway food shop by an elderly Greek couple, along with fish and chips and other greasy stuff like 'Chiko rolls' (a bastardisation of the Chinese spring roll) and usually excellent hamburgers. Serious, manly, artery-stopping hamburgers on big toasted buns with salad (fried egg & bacon optional), not those wussy American cheese-and-pickle things in soft buns. Best accompanied by chips. Real chips, of course, not those scrawny "fries".
I must be going on like this because I'm on a low-fat diet. Sorry.
Potato scallops are alive and well in Australia too, usually sold from a takeway food shop by an elderly Greek couple, along with fish and chips and other greasy stuff like 'Chiko rolls' (a bastardisation of the Chinese spring roll) and usually excellent hamburgers. Serious, manly, artery-stopping hamburgers on big toasted buns with salad (fried egg & bacon optional), not those wussy American cheese-and-pickle things in soft buns. Best accompanied by chips. Real chips, of course, not those scrawny "fries".
I must be going on like this because I'm on a low-fat diet. Sorry.
Feb 27th, 2006, 01:08 AM
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what is Geico anyway?
And is there a weblink to the ad so the Brits and Aussies on this board can give the definitive answer?
(there ARE some vague similarities between Cockney and Aussie accents, I blame the convicts).
And is there a weblink to the ad so the Brits and Aussies on this board can give the definitive answer?
(there ARE some vague similarities between Cockney and Aussie accents, I blame the convicts).
Feb 27th, 2006, 06:33 AM
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Geico is, indeed, an insurance firm that uses a Gecko as its spokesperson because, according to the original commercial, people always confuse the two.
He is actually a very artfully done little mascot and there is one commercial where he is the "employee of the month" (an American tradition), so he gets his own parking space really close to the building. He rolls in driving a very small red car, seated like a person.
And I don't quite get the British accent because geckos are not common to that area, but I guess it makes sense for PR. . . here we think the British are endlessly more intelligent.
He is actually a very artfully done little mascot and there is one commercial where he is the "employee of the month" (an American tradition), so he gets his own parking space really close to the building. He rolls in driving a very small red car, seated like a person.
And I don't quite get the British accent because geckos are not common to that area, but I guess it makes sense for PR. . . here we think the British are endlessly more intelligent.
Feb 27th, 2006, 06:37 AM
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Okay, you lot, Geico is an American Insurance company. Selling mostly car insurance to people who can't afford a respectable company like Allstate or Nationwide. The web address is www.geico.com.
I went to University of Liverpool on an exchange from Boston U. I really miss good chips.
I'm coming to London in October. Can't wait!
I went to University of Liverpool on an exchange from Boston U. I really miss good chips.
I'm coming to London in October. Can't wait!
