Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

Davesnave

I suffered huge discrimination when I moved to deepest Dorset from London as a 8 year old. My accent was all wrong!

At least I was able to enter the playground to be duffed-up before school. The gypsy children usually didn't get in there until the staff (all two of them!) arrived.

I wasn't alone. The vicar's son was stopped by a farmer when observed crossing his land with a 12 bore. He was "going to shoot the Guppys," a particularly unpleasant family of boys who lived on the hill and made his life a misery. :eek:

I had no problems in rural Somerset, where I was resident for some months, and by the time I reached Devon, the accent was pretty much sorted! :rotfl:

purch

Davesnave wrote: »

I suffered huge discrimination when I moved to deepest Dorset from London as a 8 year old. My accent was all wrong!

Mine was the reverse. Starting at a school in Sarf London at the age of 13 with a broad Exmoor accent was not easy :eek:

LydiaJ

JonnyBravo wrote: »

Ah bless.
Perhaps you just didn't understand the other ones.
Never mind dear.



-runs for cover-

:rotfl:

silvercar wrote: »

OH away last night and DS requested fish and chips from a shop, "because he'd never had that in his life!" OH has an aversion to cheap fast food, so it's never going to happen when he's home.

I've not eaten shop F&C since they wrapped in newspaper, so I agreed.

Firstly I couldn't believe the size of the portion of chips, we each ate about a quarter of a portion each. Secondly the fish was so, so greasy - even though I didn't eat the batter it tasted greasy. Thirdly my stomach didn't appreciate the food and I was gently sipping mint tea all evening.

Not an experiment to be repeated, DS agreed it didn't live up to expectations.

It was meant to be the best place in the area. Cod & chips @ £5.30 each.

lostinrates wrote: »

We love f&c, but they are a rarity, and finding a good one is hard. They are more than £5.30 here though, or anywhere i have had them in recent years. My favourite place near my parents puts a little lemon in the batter, its lovely. Finding sonewhere that produc a decent not grease retentive batter is hard, i also do jot like the skin left on the fish.

We like F&C too. I can feed all three of us for less than £10 at our local chippy. Whatever we get in the fish/chicken/sausage line, I wouldn't dream of getting more than one "small" portion of chips between the three of us, though.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

OH away last night and DS requested fish and chips from a shop, "because he'd never had that in his life!" OH has an aversion to cheap fast food, so it's never going to happen when he's home.

I've not eaten shop F&C since they wrapped in newspaper, so I agreed.

Firstly I couldn't believe the size of the portion of chips, we each ate about a quarter of a portion each. Secondly the fish was so, so greasy - even though I didn't eat the batter it tasted greasy. Thirdly my stomach didn't appreciate the food and I was gently sipping mint tea all evening.

Not an experiment to be repeated, DS agreed it didn't live up to expectations.

It was meant to be the best place in the area. Cod & chips @ £5.30 each.

F&C have deteriorated over the years - I attribute it to the time when the Chinese started owning chip shops, (their chips were entirely different to ours) then 'everybody' and instead of having proud old chip fryers we got "anybody can open a chip shop and fry chips"

It is very rare to find good chips - although I did find some in the chippy in Loswithiel by accident one night.

Rare... very rare.

It's an art. So many use either frozen chips, or the wrong type of oil these days.

Chips should be chipped fresh, behind the counter ... and then fried in dripping/lard as that gets hotter than oil.

PasturesNew

Generally, I keep tins of Harry Ramsdens mushy peas in the cupboard and instant curry sauce. Buy the chips, but buying peas or curry sauce at £0.75-£1 for a pot's just a waste.

PasturesNew

When I changed school at 13 I spoke properly. Almost terribly nicely .... well, that gets you a beating. s'mazin' ow yu lern to speak a bit moar common init. Saves a beating.

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

F&C have deteriorated over the years .

Now there I'd disagree. I had brilliant F&C in the Brompton Road during the late 60s which knocked the socks off anything I'd had in Devon previously, but that was a rare oasis. I also remember the experimental chip machine in South Ken.....total disaster!:rotfl:

By the 70s I lived practically next door to a chippy in Bath, but their stuff was so disgusting, I used to travel a mile to a Chinese F&C. As you say, theirs weren't great, but at least they were edible. I had a motor bike, but going further wasn't worth it.

Move on to the 80s and we'd found a couple of passable chippies in the city. Gradually, over the next 20 years, more emerged, so we no longer had to drive miles. They were more samey though, with less to separate them, but all were better than the F&C from 30 years before.

At present, we've a brilliant chippy in Crediton, and having sampled F&C regularly from years of house-hunting, I know they're a match for any. They do breaded fish and fish dusted with lemon flour, as well as the regular battered stuff, and they fry to order, all for £4.60 per person.:) The giant haddock is a £1 more, but although I'm greedy, I hardly ever feel that hungry!

.....Only trouble is, they're a 26 mile round trip, but if we combine with a late supermarket dash, it's not so bad.

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

s'mazin' ow yu lern to speak a bit moar common init. Saves a beating.

Saves money too if you'm round yer and you want zum varmer to dig out yer ditch, cut yer trees back, or zummat. No townie rates, eh?

Generali

Pretty good F&C in Aus as a rule. As with most Aussie food, the general standard is quite high but you don't get the occasional absolute gems like you get in the UK.

The pies are bloody awful here though and an inexplicable national treasure.

lemonjelly

michaels wrote: »

Gotta agree with lir on this one - I object to being told what I am allowed to think or believe.

But isn't the whole purpose of religion to tell you what to think, what is right & what is wrong?

A lot of religious people actively seek to convert people.

Is there not a contradiction in not wanting to be told what to think/do/say/believe, yet defending an organisation(?) which has these as its principle aims?