Chip shop chips not suitable for veggies?

mattyprice4004

notanewuser wrote: »

I dislike the taste and the texture, so I don't eat it. Not sure why that would be any stranger than anybody else not liking the taste or texture of something. Haven't eaten meat for 24 years now. I would be peed off though if a restaurent/chip shop cooked vegetarian food in animal fat though.

So would you be annoyed if you bought some chips and they were cooked in animal fat?

Better cook it yourself then, as chippies tend to cook meat in the same oil as everything else. Why should the punter pay more just so veggies can have their own oil, increasing costs?

sgun

This thread is really funny, it does seem that meat eaters seem far more concerned about the "strange" eating habits of vegetarians. I don't eat meat. I don't eat fish. I don't like the taste of fish and never did and I stopped eating meat MANY years ago because I wouldn't want to eat something that has been mistreated and you can't tell where your food has come from unless you grow and kill it yourself or your very best friends or neighbours do. Quite a few people over the last 18 years have told me I was being ridiculous but I think recent events have proved me right.

I don't need to eat meat, I have no problem with people eating horse/dog/cat if they want to. I do have a problem with a lot of modern intensive farming methods. That actually goes for the arable too. The reason that chips are now cooked in animal fat again is an economic one. The surplus of animal fat is far cheaper than vegetable oils. Back in the 80's and early 90's it was really hard to get chips cooked in veg oil (and probably before but I don't know) as it IS more expensive. Animals are considered disposable and probably form more of peoples' diets than they actually should for health reasons.

With the most recent bad weather, and the threat of the government allowing huge amounts of houses to be built on green belt land perhaps we need to be more worried about where our future agricultural sustainabilty will come from, rather thanworrying about what our individual eating preferences are. In that way we might learn more about what we NEED rather than what we WANT.

pmduk

I suspect that it is cooking in vegetable oil that is relatively modern.

Marisco

I must say I've never given any thought as to what my chips are cooked in. So long as they taste nice I couldn't give a hoot either

missesther

pulliptears wrote: »

Agreed. There is a chippy inside the Black Country Working Museum that cooks chips in dripping and serves them in newspaper. Good lord they are to die for!

I'm not a vegetarian, but if I was then I would ask in my local chippy because certainly in these parts chips are cooked in a dripping mix. I'd assume they weren't suitable.

That chippy was AMAZING! Heartily recommend! :T

TimothyToad

I think the fact that chicken, fish and sausages are cooked in the same oil makes chippies not very veggie friendly.

Computersaysno

Ramsays kitchen nightmare this week had an Italian restaurant that 'put pork bones in its tomato ragu sauce.....that they used for vegetarian sauces...and the owner said...We've done it that way for 40 years'....lol.

Steve059

missesther wrote: »

That chippy was AMAZING! Heartily recommend! :T

Given that they're cooked in dripping, do you want to rephrase that?

Storck

All chippys should have to have a sign up saying if they use veg oil,or not. That way it would make my life easier as I can not stand my fish and chips cooked in veg or sunflower oil. They just do not taste right. I presume if I feel that way there will be others that feel the opposite.

sgun

This has also made me remember a word that I used to hear (and love!) back in the good old fatty days of the 80's and early 90's "lardarse". Brilliant. Does any area of the country still use this as a slightly insulting term of endearment? Can we resurrect it if not?