With chips?

[Ginga@Work]

So then whats the best thing to have with chips?

Im a pie man myself.... mmmmm pie n chips....... :D

[Jobabob]

/me looks at cancer-causing tintin post

[FeAr]

mmm pie :D

no seriously, pie is the best with chips..

[Dam0cles]

For a quick tea/meal, pie and chips is deffinaly the best but if im eating out, then it has to be steak and chips.

[Optimus]

has to be curry...

[TimmyNoShoes]

Erm, is it just me that objects to the term chinky?
Im not chinese but i still find it rather offensive, and am getting quite sick of its every day use.

[Steadders]

chips with chips is always good, but i dont think you can get much better than good ol' burger and chips.

[Hitori]

burger and chips yes. altho curry would win if it was 'curry and rice but not...' '... with chips'

[oxy]

steak!

[OverlordRob]

chips go with just about anything, uni life has taught me this

however the ultimate combo is good ol cod and chips from the chip shop

[Ginga@Work]

Originally posted by TimmyNoShoes
Erm, is it just me that objects to the term chinky?
Im not chinese but i still find it rather offensive, and am getting quite sick of its every day use. the term chinky refers to the type of food. "shall we go for a chinky".....

its not a racist slur... when i go for a curry i dont say "shall we go for a paki"..... I think you are trying to cause a stir where it is not needed. so stfu m0ng :)

[KingDaveRa]

I did read it and thought 'chinky? Thats not very nice'.

Bad choice of words I guess, rather than anything malicious.

[Arachnamus]

Didn't have sausage as one of the options, but then again you don't get proper chippies down south.

[Zenith]

I agree with Arachnamus that sausage is missing from the options.

As for chinky, I've always taken it to mean chinese takeaway. I've never even considered it offensive. Much like Ginga, I say "let's go for an indian" when I want to go for indian food. TimmyNoShoes strikes me as one of the bleeding heart liberals who are driving the country towards extremism with their excessive political correctness. Would Timmy take offence at a fryup being called an "English breakfast"? I wouldn't have thought so, but that is the sort of petty-minded attitude that we're talking about here.

The show "Goodness Gracious Me!" did a really funny sketch where some indian people went out "for an english". When you see a parady like that, you realise just how ridiculous some people look when they bleat on about being offended by innocuous phrases.

[Optimus]

Originally posted by Zenith
The show "Goodness Gracious Me!" did a really funny sketch where some indian people went out "for an english". I remember that... wasn't it on Comic Relief or something?

it was bloody hilarious :)

[Ruth]

I dont like chips. I dont like potatoes.

I just eat things by themselves. So when people have pie and chips, i just have pie. And when people have fish and chips, i just have fish.

:)

[TimmyNoShoes]

Originally posted by Zenith
TimmyNoShoes strikes me as one of the bleeding heart liberals who are driving the country towards extremism with their excessive political correctness.

Clearly you dont know me, so dont judge me that way. I am anything other than a "bleeding heart liberal" in some cases i have been called racist myself for my stance on the foreigners in our country, but that does not mean that i wish to adopt all racial slurrs.
The reason i took offense to the term, is that the majority of people who use the term "chinky" also use the term "paki" in an offensive way.
I know im generalising quite a bit here.
Also i am quite proud of being british, and do not take offense to the english breakfast, thankyou very much Mr.Sarcastic git.

[LordPhil]

Burger and chips especially from our local pub the Brookhouse. The Scream burger absolutley owns especially when you get discounts with your yellow card.

[TE-Hellfire]

Oh Timmy, you're such a racist. You may aswell get yourself a swastika and put it as your avatar.

MEIN FUHRER!

[Freelance]

i love fish, passionately

[TimmyNoShoes]

you love fish? or "make love" to fish?

[Dan]

Chicken :>


Or, one thats not on the list!


Egg and chips!

(and bacon :p)

[werewolf]

sausage in batter (although nerdy has a disturbing way of eating them), but as that's not down i'll go with cod.

[an.angel]

Originally posted by Zenith

As for chinky, I've always taken it to mean chinese takeaway. I've never even considered it offensive.

Talk once you spent a good majority of your childhood years being called that at the vain attempt of humour due to immature jokes/insults.

[TelexStar]

Originally posted by Ginga@Work
the term chinky refers to the type of food. "shall we go for a chinky".....

its not a racist slur... when i go for a curry i dont say "shall we go for a paki"..... I think you are trying to cause a stir where it is not needed. so stfu m0ng :)

Perhaps you grew up with some ignorant people. 'Chinky' has always been a derogatory term (the chinese people i know take offence at it). In as much as it was used as slang to descibe chinese people.

If you were in my presence when you said "shall we go for a chinky" i'd take you up on it. It's not a nice thing to say.

On another note. I thought you were banned? Shame.


[edit] something that just came to mind. If you watch 'Gangs of New York' The 'Natives' said it often as a reference to the chinese. Again it was said as a derogatory term.

[TelexStar]

After a bit of searching I found a couple of sites of interest that would help explain the term and the confusion surrounding it.

It appears that in this country, in the last century and a half or so the term chinky was used in rhyming slang to describe 'going for a chinese takeaway'. Which is probably where some of the people here draw the meaning from.

I also found this however - http://kpearson.faculty.tcnj.edu/Dictionary/chink.htm

Of particular note: "A derogatory term for a Chinese person, also Chinkey, Chinkie, Chinky. The term is thought to have come from a mispronunciation of the Chinese word Chung-Kuo, meaning China."

Whatever it's meaning to you in the place where you grew up or live. The term certainly has it's roots in being derogatory.

[Zenith]

Originally posted by TimmyNoShoes
Also i am quite proud of being british, and do not take offense to the english breakfast, thankyou very much Mr.Sarcastic git. Fair enough then. I stand corrected. :)
Originally posted by an.angel
Talk once you spent a good majority of your childhood years being called that at the vain attempt of humour due to immature jokes/insults.I've never met you and would never dream of calling a person "chinky". I'm sorry you've had to suffer such taunting. It is much like the "sheepshagger", "taffy" and "boyo" that people consider funny because I'm Welsh. When I was a kid, I was hurt a lot more by being called "lardass" than by being called "sheepshagger".
Originally posted by TelexStar
Whatever it's meaning to you in the place where you grew up or live. The term certainly has it's roots in being derogatory.The problem is that most people aren't prepared to research the background of every word that they use.

Let's face facts. People will continue to cause offence either by accident or deliberately. As long as there was no malicious intent, I can't see what else can really be done about small-mindedness and bigotry.

Bringing this firmly back on topic, I still don't see sausage as an option there. :)

[Arachnamus]

Originally posted by Zenith

Bringing this firmly back on topic, I still don't see sausage as an option there. :)


Hear hear!

[Bowser]

Chips, curry sauce and a chicken and mushroom PUKKA pie

/me drools

[Silk75]

Oh and just to back up the sausage option here, Sausages in batter are not called for.

They are a twisted use of sausage, and should only be confined to the south of England.

Northerners use proper sausages

[Elbonio]

on a side note, is it true that you southerners dont have gravy with your chips??

[Steadders]

eww gravy and chips?? no way!

baked beans, maybe, buy gravy?? ewww

[tiSSue]

gravy n chips from KFC! YUMMMMYYYYYY

i like Curry sauce n chips, dont really like chips by itself tho!

[Elbonio]

i was shocked to find that i just got funny stares when i went to a southern chippy and asked for chips and gravy...


i cannot understand why you lot find it so odd?

[TelexStar]

We don't as a rule have gravy with chips but we also don't have sausages made of dogs either.

[Silk75]

Southerners dont do chippies very well

Best fish is in Scotland

Best chips in Yorkshire

Best pies in Wigan

Best sausages in Manchester

All up north

[Elbonio]

spot on with all of those, been to each of those places and tried each of those items

[Steadders]

yea, im hampshire we have rubbish like strawberry picking.

[Mingtea]

South west seem to have pretty good chippies.

Fish, Chips and Mushy peas OH GOD YES

[TelexStar]

Originally posted by Silk75
Southerners dont do chippies very well

Best fish is in Scotland

Best chips in Yorkshire

Best pies in Wigan

Best sausages in Manchester

All up north

But we have the best trendy wine bars! *urghhh*

[Mamacita]

Nout beats a good honest Welsh, Chineese chippy... :p

[BullDog]

sirloin steak with chips - big feck off chunky ones :D

[Elbonio]

i wouldnt say that

We have some great bars round here


especially in manchester and *shudder* liverpool

[Pingman]

Battered sausage jsut destroys the sausage, as for the thought of battered mars bar i start to hurl at the thought.
It quiete clearly has to be either cod and chips or sausage and chips + mushy pees of course.
Ive not heard of having gravy on chips before or even realyl thought of it, but now i do think of it, it soudsn quiete nice.

ahhhh Bisto... (other brands are available)

Pingman

[Elbonio]

Originally posted by ping-man

Ive not heard of having gravy on chips before or even realyl thought of it, but now i do think of it, it soudsn quiete nice.



I cant get my head round this


its only recently come to my attention that its not crossed peoples minds down south - its just such a regular thing up here..


i had to persuade a southern friend of mine from uni to try it - she was like "gravy? with chips? what the hell?" and im like "no try it you'll like it" and shes like dipping one end in the gravy and nibbling a microscopic amount and im like "you big southern pansy" and she's like "yeah"


true story

[TE-Hellfire]

A little like Dr. Pepper I suppose, once you try it, you love it.

However, upon me trying Dr. Pepper I found it to have a taste akin to the three month old residue of encrusted semen found within the urine soaked undergarments of a dead tramp with leprosy.


So I didn't love it and nor would I love gravy and chips; a thoroughly retarded recipe which could have only been conceived by the ex-coal miners of Oop Narth who could not afford mayonnaise.

[Elbonio]

clearly you need your tongue to be given a good power-sanding becuase your taste buds arent what they should be

Dr Pepper is great

[Noodleman]

Chiprs require a burger, and a steak with curry sauce lightly spread over some of the chips :)

Ah sweet sweet chippyness

[Arachnamus]

I can't say I'm partial to gravy with my chips, but being from manchester it's hardly a rare thing among what used to be my peers. Hey ho.