Chip shop chips not suitable for veggies?

StaffieTerrier

Naf wrote: »

Chips aren't battered: dripping does make a different colour, flavour and texture to other oils.
What really makes a difference, though, is the variety of potatoe. Shops generally can't guarantee the same spuds all year round, it can be very much luck of the draw. Some are substantially better than others.

In the West Midlands you can buy battered chips. My Mom's local chippy sells battered and non-battered chips.

tight_scotsman

The best chippies fry in italian lard imported. used to deliver the stuff many moons ago and all the best chips came from the ones who paid a little extra for italian lard.

soolin

Lots of places do chips in batter now, as a coeliac I can no longer eat chips at the Weatherspoons pubs as they are batter coated to make them really crispy.

My sister is a veggie and I am a coeliac, so we have got used to not being able to eat in most chippies due to cross contamination with frying everything in the same oil.

There is a great place called Bennys though at Boundary Mill in Lancashire that do completely gluten free fish and chips as well as veggie chips-well worth the 5 hour run for a meal! (nearly)

Also found some great gluten free chippies at Whitby but unfortunately not veggie- only GF

soolin

Also a lot of shop bought oven chips have batter on them and are not gluten free- so if you do have food preferences or can't eat certain things due to health reasons it is always worth checking. The days when a chip was just a fried potatoe are long gone.

browneyedbazzi

Naf wrote: »

Chips aren't battered: dripping does make a different colour, flavour and texture to other oils.
What really makes a difference, though, is the variety of potatoe. Shops generally can't guarantee the same spuds all year round, it can be very much luck of the draw. Some are substantially better than others.

Orange chips in the Black Country are most definitely battered. I've watched them batter the chips and you tell by looking at them that there is a batter on them. They put a seasoning in the batter that makes them orange when they are fried. If you haven't tried orange chips then you should because they are gorgeous!

http://www.stourbridgenews.co.uk/news/9661552.Orange_chips_still_flavour_of_the_month_in_the_Black_Country/

Jeff_Bridges_hair

Always got to be careful abotu what chips are done in, my local when i was young used to do just about everything in the same fryer, the packet of scraps we used to get were lovely!!

mind you when buying a ham pizza from a halal place make sure the menu says Turkey ham as they wont use real ham, most places wont tell you they use turkey ham at all.

soolin

Aunt Bessie frozen chips:

http://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Aunt-Bessies-Homestyle-Chips/22938011

Ingredients

Potato 90%, Vegetable Oil, Batter (contains: Wheat Flour, Modified Potato Starch, Modified Tapioca Starch, Rice Flour, Salt, Skimmed Milk Powder, Dextrose, Colours: Curcumin, Capsanthin).

mr_sharma

ILW wrote: »

God meant us to eat animals.
Otherwise he would not have made them taste of meat.

I imagine the opposite goes through certain animals' heads.

A money-saving human.....YUMMY!

mikeandrach_2

its simple, why be a vegetarian? i just dont get it. eat meat like normal people then there is no problemo

junkmayle

I thought only vegans had problems with anything animal related. As a vegetarian, you would be eating a potato cooked in animal fat, not actually eating the animal itself. Do you drink milk? Eat cheese? Jellies and Gum sweets? All those could easily contain animal related products but not the animal themselves.