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Egg and Chips
julieq
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This got mentioned in discussion time, but as far as I can see not here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8223453.stm
Really takes me back, as a child I lived in rural Cheshire, not far from Liverpool, and my best friends were similarly working class to the people in the article. They thought nothing of laying on tea if you were still there at 5pm, and egg and chips was a staple. Proper chip pan chips too, fresh potatoes fried in hot oil with sharp crisp edges and soft fluffy inside, served piping hot with a perfectly fried egg and a couple of slices of bread and butter for the butties. There is NOTHING quite so perfect as a good chip butty, hot molten butter and chips somewhere between sweet and savoury, makes me dribble just thinking about it. And then walking home in the evening chill, the smell of coal fires in your nostrils and a warm glow in your belly.
We had egg and chips a lot at home too, even though middle class. I think it was because they were delicious and cheap. I think the thing about aspirational working classes is overdone in this sort of article.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8223453.stm
Really takes me back, as a child I lived in rural Cheshire, not far from Liverpool, and my best friends were similarly working class to the people in the article. They thought nothing of laying on tea if you were still there at 5pm, and egg and chips was a staple. Proper chip pan chips too, fresh potatoes fried in hot oil with sharp crisp edges and soft fluffy inside, served piping hot with a perfectly fried egg and a couple of slices of bread and butter for the butties. There is NOTHING quite so perfect as a good chip butty, hot molten butter and chips somewhere between sweet and savoury, makes me dribble just thinking about it. And then walking home in the evening chill, the smell of coal fires in your nostrils and a warm glow in your belly.
We had egg and chips a lot at home too, even though middle class. I think it was because they were delicious and cheap. I think the thing about aspirational working classes is overdone in this sort of article.
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Lol...guess what my kids just had for tea? And I'd count myself as fairly middle class. Mind you, I'm Scots and even posh people up here would have "high tea" ie, not afternoon tea.Val.0
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I've never had my own chip-pan so whenever I visited my Mum, that's what I'd ask for, for my tea. She was an excellent cook so was generally disappointed about it but I was happy.
Here's a shocking admission: I've never eaten a chip butty in my life. Maybe it's time....0 -
We ate egg and chips as a regular thing meat was expensive and scarce in our house, bread was cheap as were potatoes and eggs so mum could feed us and fill us without breaking the bank.0
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BitterAndTwisted wrote: »Here's a shocking admission: I've never eaten a chip butty in my life. Maybe it's time....
Oh. My. God. :eek:
Seriously. I'm salavating thinking about them. :rotfl:
You haven't lived until you've had a chip buttie.
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I might have to buy some frozen chips and make myself some. What's the standard practice: ketchup, brown sauce or nude?0
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Egg and chips = top tea!
But gotta be proper home made chips. Is it a Northern thing? A Yorkshire girl myself so maybe that is why it's the sort of meal that "takes me home"!
Particularly good when you've been on holiday and eaten all sorts of exotic things, to come home and cook egg and chips! Yum!0 -
BitterAndTwisted wrote: »I might have to buy some frozen chips and make myself some. What's the standard practice: ketchup, brown sauce or nude?
Make your own. Bif of olive oil, salt, pepper, paprika. Yum.
And white bread. I like the tiger bread. Nice thick slices. :drool:
Ketchup definitely. :T You don't have to wear anything when you eat them. Whatever you feel comfortable with.
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We eat our evening meal at 5.30pm as that is the time that my husband gets home from work. I grew up having it at that time, and so did my husband, although my family was working class and his was middle class.
Around here eating meals later (eg lunch at 2pm or dinner at 8pm) is referred to as "like the English" :rotfl:
Lunch is "Cinio" (Welsh for Dinner), "Te" (tea) is served at around 4pm and "Swper" (supper) is at around 5.30.
Can't say that egg and chips have ever featured strongly though, although I'm sure my husband would be delighted if they did!0 -
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