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[Aruntraveller]

Some of my partners family live in Loughton - I too have been in that chippy!

[Brownie]

Sririam, "Good old Fowler", indeed!    I echo your sentiments.

[ippy]

Dear ippy and Brownie,

Loughton!! Best fish and chips I have ever tasted, the chippie is a cross the road from a wee green area with a tree in the middle, which stands beside a wee very English pub, I frequented that pub more times than I care to remember as it stood beside the bus stop I used on my way home to Waltham Abbey.

A question you two wonderful posters might be able to answer, why has the Abbey got zodiac signs on its ceiling??

As for the cockney accent! Listening to two cockneys arguing is a joy, a lot of passion in a cockney argument along with a lot of expletives

And the wonderful city of London, hard to describe but I love that city, Edmonton, Seven Sisters, Walthamstow, Mile end road, Canary Wharf, don't know what it is but I have always felt at ease in the city of London.

Gonnagle.

Gonners I have family that live in Grimsby Cleethorps, while I'm sure you enjoyed your Fish and Chips; Fish and Chips in Grimsby and around is the nearest I can imagine to having died gone to heaven and having your first plate of Fish an Chips there and I lived in and around those areas of London you're speaking of and sampled the local cuisine.

I was born in Wood Green, not to be confused With Woodford Green two different places.

Merry Newtons day and a happy new year Gonners.

ippy

[Aruntraveller]

You are not wrong about Grimsby, Ippy!

Visit at least twice a year always stop off for Fish & Chips.

Also the best Lincolnshire sausages I have tasted are sold at Petit & Sons Butchers (a good old fashioned Butcher) just down the street from the Yarborough Hotel.

[ippy]

You are not wrong about Grimsby, Ippy!

Visit at least twice a year always stop off for Fish & Chips.

Also the best Lincolnshire sausages I have tasted are sold at Petit & Sons Butchers (a good old fashioned Butcher) just down the street from the Yarborough Hotel.

One of my nephews is first engineer on a trawler, 'boy', when he comes back from a fishing trip and he's such a good cook too.

ippy 

[Nearly Sane]

Best fish and chips I've had were in Anstruther. My favourite chippie though was L'Alba D'Oro in Edinburgh when you could get a bottle of Dom Perignon with your supper.

[Aruntraveller]

Ah now best fish and chips - that's a dodgy concept.

My best were eaten in a place called Kaikoura on the south Island of New Zealand - but was it the place with huge waves crashing in from the South Pacific ocean, or the lowering clouds that threatened much rain, or the fact that the clouds were back lit by magnificent streaks of lightening, or was it simply the sea air.

And let's face it sea air will improve the most mundane Fish and Chips you can buy!

[Gonnagle]

Dear ippy,

Ah! The seaside effect, the humble Fish supper is a culinary delight and on the subject of Fish suppers I am a expert ( only through experience, like my faith it is a very personal thing ).

If you ever take a trip to the very beautiful isle of Skye and visit the harbour, there is a chippie on the harbour front which you would swear makes the best cod and chips you have ever tasted ( they are good ) but I have reflected on this subject and came to the concussion I was experiencing the seaside effect, the Loughton chippie beats it on two fronts, the batter was nice and crispy with hardly any chewyness and the actual cod was lovely and moist.

Not to mention the actual chips, floury and retained an actual crunch.

See!! I was just about to post but old Trent has just explained it a little better than me.

Gonnagle.

Gonnagle.

[Anchorman]

Dear Jim,

The Kelvingrove, I love walking round that museum, but then the Kelvingrove is one of the reasons I have a huge chip on my shoulder when it comes to Glasgow versus Edinbugger, the Kelvingrove has to appeal to charity to keep its self afloat where as the museums of Edinburgh have cash thrown at them, a national ( Scottish ) disgrace.

On a lighter note, next time you visit the Kelvingrove take a dander up to the University and visit its little chapel, very old worldy, and if you are really lucky you may hear the choir singing, and for that brief moment you will be nearer to the Father.

Gonnagle.

I know the chapel well, Gonners - 'cos I attended Glasgow Uni back in the days of steam radio!

[ippy]

Dear ippy,

Ah! The seaside effect, the humble Fish supper is a culinary delight and on the subject of Fish suppers I am a expert ( only through experience, like my faith it is a very personal thing ).

If you ever take a trip to the very beautiful isle of Skye and visit the harbour, there is a chippie on the harbour front which you would swear makes the best cod and chips you have ever tasted ( they are good ) but I have reflected on this subject and came to the concussion I was experiencing the seaside effect, the Loughton chippie beats it on two fronts, the batter was nice and crispy with hardly any chewyness and the actual cod was lovely and moist.
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Not to mention the actual chips, floury and retained an actual crunch.

See!! I was just about to post but old Trent has just explained it a little better than me.

Gonnagle.

Gonnagle.

I don't for a minute doubt your word about Skye, but there's this little golden coloured disc on the sky that draws me toward it and Skye is in the opposite direction, although I'm sure it's a lovely place with very plesent people living there.

I would think Grimsby fish and chips could be equaled, while I very much doubt they could be bettered; battered, well yes.

ippy

[Nearly Sane]

Just to note breaded rather than battered every time

[ippy]

ippy,

I have read many essays in my younger days that describe England much the way you have described it. Even Neville Cardus used to write very well, though it was usually about cricket. Always with great detail describing the country side and more importantly...with great love and pride. 

My school Principal, a jolly good chap called H O Fowler,  was an Anglo-Indian who visited England often and was always very nostalgic about it.  He took english classes and when he read out the essays describing England, he would almost choke with emotion.   I loved his classes. LOL! Good old Fowler!

I have loved what I have seen of England.  Hope you guys manage to keep it that way.  Something

Cheers.

Sriram

Thank you Sriram, we will manage to keep it this way, mostly those that try to rock our boat are very quietly not let in until they behave themselves in, it's all done without words or a club over the head.

My town is only 20 min from Constable country the river crossing in his picture of the hay wane, still looks much the same as in his picture, Willy Lott's cottage hasn't altered either.

Sorry I can't share the cricket with you, it's far and away much too slow for me; (George Bernard Shaw: cricket, invented by the English, it gives them a greater sense of eternity).

ippy

[ippy]

Just to note breaded rather than battered every time

To taste.

Ippy

[Gonnagle]

Dear Sane,

Just to note breaded rather than battered every time

Really!! We are trying to have a serious discussion and you mention breaded!! You are such a heathen

Gonnagle.

[Enki]

We go to Bridlington Spa at least once a month dancing. On the way back some of us regularly have an excellent fish and chip meal at Whiteheads in Hornsea. We always book ahead because it's so popular, and I can vouchsafe that the fish and chips are excellent. They have, in fact, been nominated for the 2017 national Fish&Chip Awards

http://whiteheadsfishandchips.com/news.php

[Nearly Sane]

Dear Sane,

Really!! We are trying to have a serious discussion and you mention breaded!! You are such a heathen

Gonnagle.

special fish

[Harrowby Hall]

Just to note breaded rather than battered every time

At Hectors, in St Helier, Jersey, you can get deep-fried battered salmon. They eat that in Heaven.

[floo]

At Hectors, in St Helier, Jersey, you can get deep-fried battered salmon. They eat that in Heaven.

Anything Jersey can do Guernsey can do better!

[Harrowby Hall]

Anything Jersey can do Guernsey can do better!

Huh! Donkeys.