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lancashire lad
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Posted -  11/04/2011  :  14:05
If you want to skip cooking on Easter Sunday, Bannys fish & Chip resturant is offering Buy one fish &chips get one free on Easter Sunday from 12 noon till 9pm.
Bannys is attatched to Boundary mill at Colne. 


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moh
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Posted - 15/04/2011 : 13:41


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Sunray10 wrote:
Is there really a place called 'Land of Nod' in east Yorkshire ? So much for Notty Ash in Liverpool ! and Peover in Cheshire !!
We once met some people on holiday from Knotty Ash and went to their house for tea.



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belle
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Posted - 15/04/2011 : 14:27
one of my favoutirte place names is in Bucks I think, we used to pass by it when we live down that way: "Yardley Gobion" which in my mind translated as "You are barely spitting"


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Bruff
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Posted - 15/04/2011 : 14:31
If done well, fish and chips are without any shadow of a doubt my favourite thing to eat.  I reckon the key is to get the temperature right so that the batter seals in a flash and the fish steams.  And please, don't overcook the fish.  The British to tend to overcook fish, however they cook it.

 
Sadly, for the first time in my life I haven't got a decent fish and chip shop within walking distance of the house, which is ironic as it's the first time I've lived by the coast.  The 'fish and chip' shops in Hoylake are Chinese takeaways, and the product isn't good.  Not that the Chinese can't cook fish and chips - the best round us is down at Parkgate, near Neston, run by Chinese and the fish and chips are superb, some of the best I've had.  There's one in West Kirby which is OKish, but they insist on cooking the haddock, but not the cod, with the skin on.  This is odd to me as you have crispy batter and then steamed skin.  Ugh.

 
If folk are on their travels, I can recommend two in the London area.  If you go to Hampton Court, then make a small detour to Thames Ditton over the river (it's a lovely walk) and pop into Christy's.  They cook using dripping, and all portions are cooked to order.  If in London, Masters on Waterloo Road, and a spit from the station, is one of the best chippies in London.  Packed out with cabbies.  As a general rule in London, look to where the cabbies congregate for your good, solid basic fare.  But note, these two are London and priced accordingly - at least £7 quid for fish and chips to takeaway. 

 
Interestingly, my experience (in England) is that in the 'south' fish and chips are generally OK sometimes good; in the 'north', they are generally OK sometimes dreadful.  There are outstanding places countrywide.  And of course, you can't get decent mushy peas south of Birmingham.......  When I worked in London, a colleague said to me the real north/south divide occurs where mushy peas suddenly become an acceptable part of the diet.

 
Richard Broughton 


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Sunray10
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Posted - 15/04/2011 : 15:51
Pease pudding comes to mind, if that's how its spelt. Probably a purely northern dish !



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Stanley
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Posted - 16/04/2011 : 06:27
We used to deliver regularly at a dairy ay Holme on Spalding Moor and there was a fingerpost pointing to Land of Nod just before you turned into the dairy. We had another drop at Ruyton of the Eleven Towns in Shropshire, often abbreviated to Ruyton XI.


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moh
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Posted - 16/04/2011 : 11:04
Yorkshire chippies cook the haddock with the skin on - that is why I always have cod. They taste so good cooked in dripping. One of the best is Brown's in Filey.


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Stanley
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Posted - 17/04/2011 : 06:13
Best fish and chips I ever had was in a bar in Mallaig. Only 100 yards from the fish dock in the harbour, probably something to to do with the fish being fresh!


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catgate
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Posted - 17/04/2011 : 11:13


quote:
moh wrote:
Yorkshire chippies cook the haddock with the skin on -

That is an intereting observation. There I was thinking that that practice was confined to the Sarf. I think we should do a survey and create a National Register Of Cheating Chippies.  I do not think I have ever come acroos one, (But then I am a lad that does not wander far from home.)


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Stanley
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Posted - 18/04/2011 : 06:50
But the skin is the most nutritious part of the fish!


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