Brits, it's come to my attention that you have "chip shops"....?

Question

Another question brought this up. Could you explain this concept? An entire shop centered around fries (or chips as you call them)? We have sub shops which always serve them, but not whole stores for them.

You serve ******* there?

I should clarify something-- we DO have at least two "fry shops" so to speak-- "Boardwalk Fries" and "Thrasher's" however-- Thrasher's has always been a bit of a novel specially shop found only on some local boardwalks and Boardwalk Fries is just a Thrasher's rip-off.

Answer 1

Sell other selection of greasy, friend food, apart from chips. Yum.

Answer 2

A true English 'Chippy' or chip shop sells:-

Chips
Fish
Peas
Pies
Puddings
Gravy

and little else

Some also do *******, chicken, fishcakes, beans, Barm cakes (Bread rolls, curry sauce, burgers and so on but with the influx of foreign food many are now foreign owned and sell pizza, kebabs, Indian and Chinese stuff and lots of other imports.

Chip shops were introduced during the First World War when potatoes and fish were plentiful and imported food hard to come by. The government wanted quick, tasty, nutritious and cheap meals available so that more people could work for the war effort rather than waste time preparing and cooking meals.

Answer 3

Yeah, it's not just chips. ******* btw are some kind of meat food (can't elaborate more, since I'm a vegetarian and have never had them, but it's not what you might be thinking, and not cigarettes either as another person suggested.) I can see why it might seem strange but it's really not. They sell loads of different things, fish, sausages etc, mostly with chips, and the chips are different from the ones you get in other places too, not thin and crispy, normally big chunky things, and they taste a lot better. It's not easy to explain, but if you're ever over in England, especially if you're at the beach somewhere, try it, you might like it!

Answer 4

Ahhh, memories, memories. As a kid nothing was a bigger thrill than a trip to the Fish'n Chip shop for "Cod 'n sixpennor'th" That meant a plank of battered, deepfried Cod fish and six penny-worth of fries (chips). I seem to remember there being three sizes of fish..... the sixpenny size (another way of saying six pennor'th), the ninepenny size, and the giant size for a shilling (12 pence) another way of saying "penny") Let me tell ya, the sixpenny size bit of fish and six pennor'th of chips got you about as much as the greediest kid could handle. It was a faceful. I wouldn't dare to even guess what they charge now, fifty years later LOL. Even the Pounds, Shillings and Pence currency of that time, has passed into history now.

The Fish 'n Chip Shops of my youth were not "stores" by a long way. They were pretty small little places. You went in the door, there was a loooong counter one side where you s tood and gave your order and waited for it, and the other side of the counter, the workers. frantically frying those fish slabs, and mountains of chip potatoes in the huge vats of bubbling oil.. And on the counter a stack of yesterday's newspapers. Absolutely a necessity. Nothing could possibly taste as good if it didn't come wrapped in newspaper (with an inside liner of greaseproof paper) The newspaper was a great heat preserver so you could be sure and reach home - if that is where you were going - with your supper still piping hot. Also on the countertop were dispensers of salt and vinegar, so you could shake and spritz your fish 'n chips to your liking.

I have no idea what those fish 'n chips would even be like these days. But I guarantee that when I eventually found my way to live in the States, to this very day I have never tasted storebought french fries, or battered fish that could come even close to those old style fish 'n chips of yesteryear. Of course, the Food Police came into existence, and now we know all there is to know about how downright killer-awful fried food is for us. So, determined to live to be 100, I rarely eat food from outside any more, and almost no fried anything. I can even remember my parents giving me my all-time deeeelicious snack of "Bread an' drippin" - a thick slab of fresh bread generously spread with the fatty drippings from the Sunday Roast, and any other cooked meat drippings that were added to it during the week.

The stuff we used to eat back then, it used to make me wonder how I could still be alive and breathing. But then I remember that in England that long ago, still devastated by the Big War, we were all way behind the States when it came to mountains of cookies and fried doughnuts, and ice cream, and television that kept people glued to the "gogglebox" for hours instead of being out in the open air running and playing and being physically active. But I think even in the States people worked off what they ate waaaay more than they do these days. Don't you remember....? back then everybody walked five miles to school, barefoot in the snow, uphill in both directions LOLOL

Answer 5

There are plenty of chip shops in and around Derby. Many do not solely sell chips, the majority they also sell battered cod, sausages (with or without batter), pukka pies, mushy peas and curry sauce.

Authentic chip shops will give you the choice of having the chips "wrapped" up in paper or "open" in an open plastic tray. They are customarily eaten with a small wooden fork.

Answer 6

That's how we call fish&chip shops they only serve fish and chips there is no such thing as a chip shop.

Answer 7

sausages, *******, rissolees, burgers, gravy, curry, peas ,beans, sausage,burgers,onions,and even mars in batter, onion rings and all over crap are sold in chip shops not just chips

Answer 8

I think when he said "*******" he meant cigarettes. That's what they call them in England.