The Whale has Wings

[Perky50]

A few years back I was running a bar in Southern Manitoba. In the fall the attached motel would fill up with American waterfowl hunters as we are located under the main migratory flyways.
When feeding them the mandatory Burgers, fries and 'Gibson's Finest' they were quite shocked to see vinegar set out the condiments as they had never heard of that, which I found to be rather surprising.
So just for shits and giggles I ordered them up a plate of Poutine ... that really threw them off!

[Byzer Bob]

Three pages on Fish n Chips
I'm bloody disgusted!!!







That....





No one has mentioned curry sauce yet

[Julius Vogel]

This thread just attracts snack food speculation. I'm going to petition for a title change, to the Whale Has Wings, Chips, Gravy, Poutine and Scratchings.

Sort of like an Enid Blyton novel - two thirds stories, one third discussion of meals. It's a popular formula after all!

[Ash's Boomstick]

Originally Posted by Julius Vogel

This thread just attracts snack food speculation. I'm going to petition for a title change, to the Whale Has Wings, Chips, Gravy, Poutine and Scratchings.

Sort of like an Enid Blyton novel - two thirds stories, one third discussion of meals. It's a popular formula after all!

Don't forget the lashings of Ginger Beer.

[Gannt the chartist]

Presumably the watery brown scottish sauce also works with deep fried pizza and mars bar in batter?

[kellineil]

Originally Posted by Gannt the chartist

Presumably the watery brown scottish sauce also works with deep fried pizza and mars bar in batter?

It works with everything

[MattII]

I have unleashed a monster, and I think it's going to take a stellar dragon to put it back in the box again.

[usertron2020]

Originally Posted by Gannt the chartist

Presumably the watery brown scottish sauce also works with deep fried pizza and mars bar in batter?

This is the true reason for the thousand year war between France and England. Every time the two sides would sit down to talk peace, and the English were hosting, the French generals and diplomats would take one look at what was being served, and scream: "IT'S WAR!"

[iainbhx]

Originally Posted by Byzer Bob

Three pages on Fish n Chips

No one has mentioned curry sauce yet

One of the local chippies, albiet not one I would go to, now offers a choice of curry sauces...

[Simon]

Pretty much. Standard operating procedure now seems to be Astro posts an update, you'll get a few pages of discussion, debate, and speculation on future events, and then a short while later when people start waiting for the next update it all takes a wild digression into silliness.

[Alien and Sedition Bat]

Originally Posted by usertron2020

ARRRGH! Don't use that wanker American Exceptionalist BS around here! Bad enough I have to see it pouring out of Fixed News and the Tea Party 24/7 in my country, but HERE!? God, this is why history is so important. We went through this crap in WWI, where anti-German hysteria led to changing sauerkraut to "liberty cabbage", and the hamburger to the "liberty sandwich". When I hear the phrase "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" I cringe. When I hear Americans say there wouldn't even BE a France if it weren't for the United States I am disgusted beyond words.

I am NOT one of those Americans who has forgotten the school rhyme we were taught as children, regarding Franco-American history:
"At Yorktown,
the British could not retreat,
bottled up by Washington,
and THE FRENCH FLEET!"

Bottled up by Washington and the French fleet...and by French troops serving alongside Washington's Continentals who stormed one of the two redoubts that resulted in Cornwallis' surrender. The other redoubt was stormed by Continentals who were, by the way, trained and drilled into a victorious force by a German officer who happened to be gay (another group hated by today's Tea Party movement). And don't get me started on the role of French Huguenot colonists like Paul Revere and Swamp Fox Marion in the American revolution.

See painting of French troops advancing to the attack at Yorktown http://www.britishbattles.com/battle-yorktown.htm

[Wolf Tengu]

Originally Posted by Ash's Boomstick

Don't forget the lashings of Ginger Beer.

I still thought you were talking about sauce for a moment.

*shudders*

Anyway, most of the local ones here are either awful or alright.

One chip-shop of note on Solihull is King's. It's opposite Wetherspoons, and I think it may or may not have been the first one built in Solihull. All I can say is stay as far away from the kebabs as you can, run away if need be.

Still, at least there are plenty of other choices if i'm willing to travel. Being as close as we are to both Birmingham and Knowle, there are plenty of excellent Indian restaurants within reach.

[MattII]

Originally Posted by Byzer Bob

No one has mentioned curry sauce yet

Round my way Chow Mein and Fried Rice are more common 'exotic dishes' than curry.

[Wolf Tengu]

Originally Posted by MattII

Round my way Chow Mein and Fried Rice are more common 'exotic dishes' than curry.

Yeah but curry sauce isn't like those things (Or even curry TBH), it's just a sauce. Closest comparison I could give is some sort of thick gravy.

[Gannt the chartist]

you should be nice to User, he is from New England where they have 4 spices, salt, pepper, tabasco and ketchup.

[wietze]

Originally Posted by Byzer Bob

No one has mentioned curry sauce yet

I mentioned curry ketchup LOL

[RandomChance]

Interesting thing about fish and chips is that it was one of the few things that avoided rationing during the war in OTL.

Chip shop curry sauce is terrible. Chips should go with either tomato ketchup, salt and vinegar, or gravy.

[iainbhx]

Originally Posted by Wolf Tengu

One chip-shop of note on Solihull is King's. It's opposite Wetherspoons, and I think it may or may not have been the first one built in Solihull. All I can say is stay as far away from the kebabs as you can, run away if need be.

I shall remember King's next time I've popped down the road to Solihull (I'm in Acocks Green).

[Simon]

Having lived in Solihull for a while before moving to Birmingham I can remember Kings but haven't been there in years. The kebabs were best avoided but from what I can recally the chips were pretty good, well the cones of them I got were.

[wietze]

yay 8000 posts & 400 pages, congrats