Chips - how do you eat yours?

Adrian_Scope
Adrian_Scope Posts: 11,554 Online Community Programme Lead
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As I'm sure you're all aware, it's National Chip Week and I thought it might be an idea to swap notes on how you all like your chips.

So, what's your ultimate chip of choice? Do you like a chip shop chip, curly fries maybe some posh sweet potato wedges (yuck!)?

And how do you eat them? Is it the trusty salt and vinegar for you, do you like a slathering of ketchup or do you just fancy them plain and greasy?

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  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 56,618 Championing
    Chippy chips with salt n vinegar ketchup or curry sauce also proper home made chips 
  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 11,209 Championing
    I like sweet potato fries if I'm being healthy with mayo or ketchup on the side with salt and pepper on and I like thick cooked chips with ketchups on the side with salt and pepper on.
  • sandraj57
    sandraj57 Community member Posts: 20 Listener
    French fries done in air fryer with plenty of salt . Mayo .red sauce .barbeque sauce omg I'm a weirdo lol 
  • Strawberry1
    Strawberry1 Community member, Scope Member Posts: 4,271 Championing
    Do my chips in air fryer now . Much better than the oven lol 😆. 
  • sandraj57
    sandraj57 Community member Posts: 20 Listener
    So healthy too lol just had mine they were lush just wish I had made more 😂
  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Community member Posts: 16,339 Championing
    I usually make my own crinkle cut chips, but do get a yearning for fish & chips from the chip shop every so often! I eat either with salt & vinegar. I like homemade potato wedges made with balsamic vinegar & spices, but am not a fan of sweet potatoes in any shape or form either!
  • sandraj57
    sandraj57 Community member Posts: 20 Listener
    There too expensive . How dare u detest french fries r u real lol 😂
  • AndyGT
    AndyGT Community member Posts: 783 Empowering
    Proper chips. Some crunch outside and light and fluffy in the middle.  Served with a nice piece of cod out of paper sitting on the sea wall.  More than likely these days it would be on a bench next to the sea wall or in my chair next to the bench.  Either way it would be with Salt and Vinegar and NO crinkly fries and NO wedges...... Oh yes, ideally served with some bread and butter or a roll and butter. 
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,906 Championing
    Chippy shop chips. 
  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 6,910 Online Community Coordinator
    I do love chip shop chips, but they have to be slightly crispy, I hate the soggy chips!

    Salt and vinegar for chip shop chips.  Or if I'm having french fries, I like them "dutch style" so ketchup and mayo. :)
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community member Posts: 14,985 Championing
    I am a bit boring, just salt and vinegar...I do love chip shop chips though

    chiarieds said:
    not a fan of sweet potatoes in any shape or form either!
    Likewise!! :smile:
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community member Posts: 14,985 Championing
    Perhaps a controversial question but has anyone ever noticed a difference between chips from the north and the south of England?

    Being from down South, but with family originating in Yorkshire, we have always noticed a significant difference between chips "down South" and "up North". Northern chips are far superior. We recently discovered that it wasn't in our minds, up North they usually fry their chips in beef dripping, which they don't tend to do down South!!
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 56,618 Championing
    In the Midlands @66Mustang we do battered orange chips everyone seems to like, they are nice but I go for the plain chips as healthier. I do like sweet potatoe fries 
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community member Posts: 14,985 Championing
    That's interesting @Sandy_123 never heard of battered orange chips :open_mouth:
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 56,618 Championing
    Seriously ....they are in every chippy in Midlands  some only do the battered chips  I go to ones that do both
  • Biblioklept
    Biblioklept Community member Posts: 5,232 Championing
    Albus_Scope said:
    I do love chip shop chips, but they have to be slightly crispy, I hate the soggy chips!

    Salt and vinegar for chip shop chips.  Or if I'm having french fries, I like them "dutch style" so ketchup and mayo. :)
    Soggy chips are the worst!! I love crispy ones from the chip shop. Ketchup and mayo sounds odd :D 
  • Biblioklept
    Biblioklept Community member Posts: 5,232 Championing
    chiarieds said:
    but am not a fan of sweet potatoes in any shape or form either!
    Noooo sweet potato is so nice!! I only first tried it a few years ago and liked it so much more than I thought I would!
  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 6,910 Online Community Coordinator
    Biblioklept said:
    Soggy chips are the worst!! I love crispy ones from the chip shop. Ketchup and mayo sounds odd :D 
    Seriously, don't knock it 'til you try it.  It works really well with crispy chips. :)
  • Jimm_Scope
    Jimm_Scope Posts: 4,297 Online Community Specialist
    I'm more of a fan of thinner chips, I like a crisp outside.

    My favourite sauce is fritesaus, "fries sauce" in Dutch, it's a kind of mayonnaise and just goes so well. 

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