Chip shops

[Neo]

There are 7 chip shops in my town that I would use, there maybe a few more about but 7 comes to mind.
The nearest proper fish and chip shop to me (owner knows my name) is about half a mile away from my house, it’s handy.
Battered haddock, cod or plaice, chips cut thick not the thinly sliced buggers you get on the south coast.

This is the fish and chip shop my mother would take me to for lunch when I was a nipper, it was family owned by Italians if I remember. The chip shop was literally 50 yards from the bus stop.


This fish and chip shop is further into the town near the Cathedral, it was an English local family that owned and worked there, again my mother would take me there for meals, I remember I asked for a mug of Bovril with my meals just the same as I had at a cafe called “ The Cafe Roma”

[jirqoadai]

over here, you can buy a bag of ruffles, a can of VanCamps pork n beans, and have a good time watching The Three Stooges on the flat screen.

[Neo]

over here, you can buy a bag of ruffles, a can of VanCamps pork n beans, and have a good time watching The Three Stooges on the flat screen.

You are living the American dream!

(that was sarcasm)

[Thom Paine]

You are living the American dream!
(that was sarcasm)

Thanks ! I needed that !!

[Call_me_Ishmael]

battered fish syndrome

[jirqoadai]

theres so much pressure on those lower headers im surprised they havnt planed down the doors by an inch or two. its prolly extremely drafty around those sheets of glass too. betcha they shatter every three weeks.

[Neo]

theres so much pressure on those lower headers im surprised they havnt planed down the doors by an inch or two. its prolly extremely drafty around those sheets of glass too. betcha they shatter every three weeks.

These are 16th century establishments, fear not little one!

[UKSmartypants]

theres so much pressure on those lower headers im surprised they havnt planed down the doors by an inch or two. its prolly extremely drafty around those sheets of glass too. betcha they shatter every three weeks.

Oh no, no chance of that.

Its 16th century, and by the 16th century the art of timber buiulding construction wa well mastered.

The basis of the building is the coner posts, which usually sit on big flat Padstones, usually granite. Then a frame is built foir the walls, and is triangulated by diagonal corner pieces. the gaps are then filled with stones and then plastered over. the structure is rock solid. The next deck over hangs and thus is cantilevered on the top plates. This is then made rigid by putting rebates in the top corners of the floor joists and insetting the floorboards (Tongued and grooved floor boarding wasnt invented until the late 19th century.)

These buildings once settled dont go anywhere. Another technique used is the wall plates that hold the next floor or the roof joists are tied together using green planed English Oak, morticed and tenoned together. As the timber seasons, it shrinks and pulls the structure and joints tightly together. It was also in the latter part of the 16th century that use of purlins to stop the roof timbers from racking, ie falling sideways like this / / / was devised.

The American method of timber Box frame construction derives exactly from this method of building, and both go back to the lessons learned building War Galleys in the 13th century.

Unfortunately, english timber building construction is another of my favorite subjects....

[wbslws]

I wish there were a good fish and chips place around here.

[UKSmartypants]

I wish there were a good fish and chips place around here.

First lets define 'good fish and chips'

North Sea Cod or Haddock, deep fried in beef lard at 365F , with beer batter

Lincolnshire Red or King Edward Whites potatoes sliced into 1cm x 1cm chips, also fried in beef lard abut at 380F Thats why you need two fat friers in a chip shop.


Suprisingly enough, theres an English Chip Shop here in Spain near where we live. The guy runnign it is second generation Chippie from Lincolnshire and does it right and authentic. You can (normally) sit in or take away, and its (normally) so packed you have to book a table.

You also get 'English Butchers' . Ther also one of those, he puports to be fro mSpalding and advertises Lincolnshire Sausages, and although he has the taste correct, he makes them far too large, proper lincolnshire sausages should be about five inches long and an inch thick, his are more like an inch and a quarter thick and eight inches long. Sausages that large are difficult to cook properly.