Things you often Wonder

[Mic09]

11 minutes ago, KentVillan said:

Genuinely though I would always just assume 2 fish & chips = 2 fish + 2 portions chips and that’s how I would order it. Nobody has ever challenged me on this.

2 fish and chips is 2+2.

2 fish and one chips is 2+1

[blandy]

5 minutes ago, Chindie said:

Genuinely since then on the rare occasions I'm in a restaurant I'll check to see if they've got a hake dish first and foremost. And they never do.

Another excellent one is John Dory. When I lived in Cornwall the fishermen would keep some for themselves and their wives to cook at home. I've only rarely seen it in UK restaurants/chippies, but it's really good.

[BOF]

10 minutes ago, blandy said:

Another excellent one is John Dory. When I lived in Cornwall the fishermen would keep some for themselves and their wives to cook at home. I've only rarely seen it in UK restaurants/chippies, but it's really good.

Yeah that's a high end one alright. You'll more likely get it in the restaurants of the specialist fishing villages here. But you'll pay for it.

[Chindie]

John Dory is a restaurant fish over here. Not a common sight but you'll see it occasionally. Never in a chippy though. I think Purnells had a John Dory dish a while back.

[Stevo985]

44 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

Exactly so. For me and the missus I always get 'two fish, one chips', as the chips portions are way too big for us. 

I usually insist on my own portion of chips and then throw half of it away as it was, indeed, too big for me

[villa4europe]

Last time I was home I had a fish, chip bap with gravy on it and a tray of mixed kebab meat

Making up for lost time, I ate maybe 75% of it

[blandy]

30 minutes ago, Chindie said:

John Dory is a restaurant fish over here. Not a common sight but you'll see it occasionally. Never in a chippy though

I've had it from a chippy - got food poisoning, too. Never been back there since.

[mottaloo]

1 minute ago, blandy said:

I've had it from a chippy - got food poisoning, too. Never been back there since.

Perhaps it was the gravy you had with it that gave you food poisoning 

[Wainy316]

1 hour ago, BOF said:

Not sure about over there, but here if you just get a fish, they sling in a load of chips with it anyway, and/or one of the customers mightn't be that big an eater.

Pah, something for free in the UK?  No chance.

[villa4europe]

I used to but not if you asked

If you just said fish please I'd give you half a scoop but if you asked for just a handful or something smaller than a small portion I said no

[blandy]

2 minutes ago, mottaloo said:

Perhaps it was the gravy you had with it that gave you food poisoning 

I didn't have the gravy on that occasion. Maybe that was the cause of my downfall?

[Xela]

I genuinely don't know how people eat a full portion of fish n chips. 

I like my food but can just about manage mini fish n chips. A full portion is far too big for a normal human. 

[Seat68]

11 minutes ago, Xela said:

I genuinely don't know how people eat a full portion of fish n chips. 

I like my food but can just about manage mini fish n chips. A full portion is far too big for a normal human. 

Do you play with the toys that come with your food? 

[Xela]

4 minutes ago, Seat68 said:

Do you play with the toys that come with your food? 

[sidcow]

I usually end up chucking half the chips away because of the black bits and general nastiness these days. 

And how is it possible for a chippy to be unable to obtain more than 1 single fully formed chip from each potato? 

I'm convinced they just take the curved bits away from the outside of a potato and sell on the square inner bit to McCain's or something. 

[KentVillan]

59 minutes ago, Xela said:

I genuinely don't know how people eat a full portion of fish n chips. 

I like my food but can just about manage mini fish n chips. A full portion is far too big for a normal human. 

I once ate a whole portion of fish and chips the night before a 10k race which started at 9am. It definitely hadn't digested at all, was a horrible experience... boiling hot weather as well.

[chrisp65]

What is Britain’s most anonymous town?

I guess it could be Swindon, but bloody hell, Ipswich would give it a run for its money. Just back from Ipswich and already I’ve forgotten most of it. Just no obvious…anything. Not a great building, a cafe quarter, surrounding landscape, canals. Just, meh.

Unless someone can put me right and tell me what I’ve missed?

[sidcow]

13 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

What is Britain’s most anonymous town?

I guess it could be Swindon, but bloody hell, Ipswich would give it a run for its money. Just back from Ipswich and already I’ve forgotten most of it. Just no obvious…anything. Not a great building, a cafe quarter, surrounding landscape, canals. Just, meh.

Unless someone can put me right and tell me what I’ve missed?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Building,_Ipswich

The Willis Building (originally the Willis Faber & Dumas regional headquarters) in Ipswich, England, is one of the earliest buildings designed by Norman Foster and Wendy Cheesman after establishing Foster Associates. Constructed between 1970 and 1975 for the insurance firm now known as Willis Towers Watson, it is now seen as a landmark in the development of the 'high tech' architectural style. The building houses some 1,300 office staff in open-plan offices spread over three floors.

 

Only one of Norman Fosters most famous buildings......... Although yes, it is just a black box. 

[foreveryoung]

1 hour ago, sidcow said:

I usually end up chucking half the chips away because of the black bits and general nastiness these days. 

And how is it possible for a chippy to be unable to obtain more than 1 single fully formed chip from each potato? 

I'm convinced they just take the curved bits away from the outside of a potato and sell on the square inner bit to McCain's or something. 

Chip shops are an example of everything being about money. Not one chippy I know of buys the expensive potatoes anymore, which make great chippies. Our local one did when it first opened, some of the best chips I've ever had, you would eat everyone. Now they have reverted to the cheap potatoes, you can certainly tell, as the chips are now horrible.

[chrisp65]

3 minutes ago, sidcow said:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Building,_Ipswich

The Willis Building (originally the Willis Faber & Dumas regional headquarters) in Ipswich, England, is one of the earliest buildings designed by Norman Foster and Wendy Cheesman after establishing Foster Associates. Constructed between 1970 and 1975 for the insurance firm now known as Willis Towers Watson, it is now seen as a landmark in the development of the 'high tech' architectural style. The building houses some 1,300 office staff in open-plan offices spread over three floors.

 

Only one of Norman Fosters most famous buildings......... Although yes, it is just a black box. 

I’ve spent a good while studying it, literally stood there today in the sunshine.

Far be it from me to dis Norman Foster, but it’s ok. Maybe back in the day it had a bit of the shock of the new, but no it actually wasn’t anything ‘new’ in concept. I’d gone and sought it out, if I hadn’t known it was a famous building, I’d have driven passed without noticing it.