It all made the ritual of fish ’n’ chips a very reasonably priced joy - one I plan to continue on this side of the pond…at the following local eateries:Ģ001 W. There are mushy peas, which were more or less mushy, and more or less salted and peppered. There’s a dish called a Chip Buttie, which is chips served in a roll - a french fry sandwich. Sometimes the chips were fatter, sometimes thinner and crispier. If there was anything over there that set the fish ’n’ chips joints apart one from another, it was the other dishes. But the salmon tasted like salmon what else would salmon taste like? Hake is notable more for the pinkness of its flesh than its notable taste. Haddock is a bit sweeter, and a bit firmer. They just weren’t all that different.Ĭod is usually described as slightly sweet with large flakes that easily fall apart. And, if you asked me to guess which was which in a blind tasting, I wouldn’t have a clue. Over the next 10 days, we went through numerous orders of fish ’n’ chips. How did cod differ from haddock, plaice, pollock and hake? All of them are mildly flavored white fish that, once encased in a batter and drenched with malt vinegar, might well be hard to tell apart.Īnd, as I discovered, it didn’t really matter. The option to choose from any of a dozen finny friends was more than a bit dazzling. Salt, where the choice was, as I recall, cod - the basic go-to fish for fish ’n’ chips. Like most of us, I grew up eating my fish ’n’ chips at H. Especially with a heavy dousing of malt vinegar.Īnd so, she took me to a SoHo café called Golden Union Food, a restaurant with no pretension at all and a menu of a dozen sundry fish with lots of chips.

It’s perhaps one of Nature’s most perfect meals. (The apple doesn’t fall far, etc.) And when she asked me what I wanted when I got off the plane, my answer was simple: I want fish ’n’ chips, for there’s no better way to begin a British excursion than with a proper order of fish ’n’ chips. A big part of my visit consisted of going with her to her favorite restaurants - of which there are many. Trust me…I know.īefore our current pandemic nightmare began, I was in London visiting my daughter who’s going to school there. But make them half of the British classic fish ’n’ chips and you’ve got a proper meal. Pair them with a burger and they’re a much better dish - though burgers rarely travel well.

Because, as satisfying as french fries are, by themselves they seem to lack a sense of purpose. The top desire of those of us binge-watching “Ozark” is…french fries. Turns out, the chow at the very top isn’t fried chicken, pizza, sushi or tasty barbecue - though all did well, along with pad Thai noodles, chicken tikka masala and Buffalo wings. Recently, Uber Eats - one of the delivery services keeping us fed during this ongoing global disruption of our lives - recently revealed the dishes that are the most requested by their customers.

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