tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742756814967464811.post7304770987490823873..comments2024-03-26T20:55:47.726+11:00Comments on Green Gourmet Giraffe: Fish and chips – reflections of a vegetarianJohanna GGGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08594201473931487490noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742756814967464811.post-9649724363247102012011-07-04T07:52:10.027+10:002011-07-04T07:52:10.027+10:00Anyone have a recipe?Anyone have a recipe?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742756814967464811.post-52759047799646588482010-07-23T23:49:32.845+10:002010-07-23T23:49:32.845+10:00Thanks Katie - Helen is right about timing with uk...Thanks Katie - Helen is right about timing with uk chippies. Maybe if I had found a good local chippie when I lived in the UK I would feel differently about them - sounds like you have found some good onesJohanna GGGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08594201473931487490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742756814967464811.post-77970052649099587782010-07-23T18:16:24.073+10:002010-07-23T18:16:24.073+10:00Wow dim sum in fish and chip shops - that sounds g...Wow dim sum in fish and chip shops - that sounds great. Nothing like that here in UK. However don't dicount our fish and chip shops altogether - yes you can get some awful ones with greasy soggy chips but the good ones are VERY good.<br /><br />I too always refer to having fish & chips even though I'm veggie and only ever eat the chips. You can't say one without the other :)Katiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05008246307753272616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742756814967464811.post-72983478042901530722010-07-22T22:30:09.048+10:002010-07-22T22:30:09.048+10:00Thanks Helen - one nice thing about not eating fis...Thanks Helen - one nice thing about not eating fish is not having to worry about eating unethically in that area - I am not sure that flake is the best choice but it was all we ever had - your friday traditions sound very civilised :-)<br /><br />Thanks Ricki - I guess we got dim sim from dim sum but I think our dim sims are just one of the sorts of dumplings you might find in a dim sum selection. That is odd that your mum said chips but sounds quite right to me - I think that your fish sticks are like our fish fingers (just checked wikipedia) - we had them quite a bit and I did like them - maybe I liked the idea that fish had fingers :-)Johanna GGGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08594201473931487490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742756814967464811.post-91901908567894783982010-07-22T13:24:11.553+10:002010-07-22T13:24:11.553+10:00"Fish and chippocrite"--love it! And suc..."Fish and chippocrite"--love it! And such interesting info about fish and chips. I bet dim sims is like dim sum over here (?). Looks like you've done quite a bit of research on the subject--hope you find that perfect veg fish & chips! I've never had proper fish & chips, but strangely enough, my Mum used to call them "chips" as well, even though everyone else called them "french fries" (and Mum wasn't British!). I ate fish sticks as a kid, which I loathed. Now I'm curious to try some of these alternatives.Rickihttp://dietdessertndogs.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742756814967464811.post-1941226328757213142010-07-21T15:27:50.473+10:002010-07-21T15:27:50.473+10:00I too had deep fried halloumi the other day and ve...I too had deep fried halloumi the other day and very nice it was too. <br /><br />I find that you need to know when to hit your fish and chip shop so you get freshly cooked chips piping hot from the deep fryer. I also appear to be one a one woman mission not to order cod from my local; they usually have the more sustainable haddock in the freezer but not always. They then have to listen to me talk about sustainability for 5 mins whilst my haddock cooks. <br /><br />I have a tradition of chip friday and have a portions of fish and chip shop chips for my lunch most weeks.Helen (Fuss Free Flavours)http://fussfreeflavours.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742756814967464811.post-57700751693589927882010-07-20T23:16:18.535+10:002010-07-20T23:16:18.535+10:00Hi Marie - welcome - battered haloumi sounds wonde...Hi Marie - welcome - battered haloumi sounds wonderful - I would love to try it - the only way to enjoy fish and chips is to avoid any thoughts of calories and good health :-)<br /><br />Thanks Tanna - I can be particular about chips but I love most of them - deep frying and potatoes are just made for each other!<br /><br />Thanks Lysy - glad I am not the only vegetarian to refuse to give up terms that have nothing to do with what I eat nowadays - love the chips for the removal men - how kind of your dad!<br /><br />Thanks Ruth - your memories are great - and I am impressed with how you had the meat/fish free meal down pat! How bizarre to move halfway across the world and have fish and chips so close by - I remember encountering chip shop curry sauce in the UK and finding it a weird idea - so was deep fried mars bars but who could resist that one - I guess we all seek our childhood memories in a meal every now and again<br /><br />Thanks Shauna - I understand about Scottish husbands not understanding fish and chips - I think if E had them in his heart like I do we might search a bit harder - thought probably better for my health that we don't<br /><br />Thanks Lisa - sounds like hard work - I always felt sorry for the people working in the fish and chip shop in summer when we got fish and chips because it was too hot to cook - though the leftovers would be great<br /><br />Thanks Lorraine - I understand only too well, every time I look at these photos I suddenly really want a potato cake<br /><br />Thanks Kristy - good to have that clarified - I guess that dim sims might come from some Australian notion of what Chinese food is but am sure there is much finer food in China - it is sort of like growing up with curry powder and then discovering all the spices used in India<br /><br />Thanks Christine - I remember having conversations about whether we really got our money's worth with a large order of chips or would be better off asking for a few smaller portions - important stuff!<br /><br />Thanks Hannah - I would prefer vinegar to sauce too - and I think that sand is so much a part of fish and chips - much nicer than dust in your chippies!<br /><br />Thanks Cakelaw - haven't had chokitos for ages but it was my favourite when I was little and have had a few lately for some strange reason but don't like the new packaging. Your comment on bones reminded me that I think we loved flake because it didn't have bones<br /><br />Thanks Smita - food rituals are an important way to connect with others and our past - as I think the comments here show<br /><br />Thanks Toby - the dim sims weren't as good as the monash uni ones - wish there were still there and I could send you to clayton to try them - but I liked the idea of the veg pack at Shark which had the dim sims, the spring rolls, the soy nuggets and the tempeh<br /><br />Thanks Joanne - I wish I could send a paper wrapped parcel of fish and chips to you that would be steaming hot when you opened it so you could taste how good they are - good luck with finding fish and chips in manhattan - if ruth can find them in Portland then surely they must be in Manhattan too!Johanna GGGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08594201473931487490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742756814967464811.post-49733884667724277912010-07-20T22:17:47.833+10:002010-07-20T22:17:47.833+10:00Have you ever had a craving for something you'...Have you ever had a craving for something you've never had before? Case in point. I've never had fish and chips. Now. After reading this post. I am going to scour Manhattan for some good fish and chips. Because a serious craving has HIT.Joannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17133232352924060797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742756814967464811.post-71342809205200986492010-07-20T21:41:38.836+10:002010-07-20T21:41:38.836+10:00I had the $5 for 4 Vegan Dim Sim at Shark.
It is...I had the $5 for 4 Vegan Dim Sim at Shark. <br />It is not very Dim Sim-ish. <br />More like springroll filling in dumpling wrapper. <br />I will need to go back for tempeh and other veg*n stuff.Tobyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04893892967960515246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742756814967464811.post-63427216046046153792010-07-20T08:49:37.287+10:002010-07-20T08:49:37.287+10:00What a wonderful post, Johanna! Totally enjoyed yo...What a wonderful post, Johanna! Totally enjoyed your memories and the collection of current fish-and-chips options in Melbourne. Foot rituals bring so much joy - your post somehow made those experiences accessible and understand-able.Smitanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742756814967464811.post-29211642228200113702010-07-20T08:32:03.360+10:002010-07-20T08:32:03.360+10:00I love fish and chips now, but as a kid, fish was ...I love fish and chips now, but as a kid, fish was a second best option - we used to hate the bnones and be scared of it. These fish and chips all look fab. I laughed at the Chokitos - I was thinking about those only yesterday and looked them up on Chocoblog, as I thought they had been made extinct.Cakelawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17205068748520541380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742756814967464811.post-17532463587806178002010-07-19T12:44:16.488+10:002010-07-19T12:44:16.488+10:00I know dust and sand aren't quite the same, bu...I know dust and sand aren't quite the same, but I feel there's something very stereotypically "Aussie" about the mad rush to cover your fish'n'chips from the sand when you're eating on the beach and a gust of wind came along! I never had fish'n'chips much growing up, unless we were at the coast, but I remember getting potato scallops from the shop near the bus interchange in high school. So your post brought up some lovely memories, even though I woudln't really want any of it nowadays!<br /><br />P.S. I'm definitely a vinegar on chips rather than sauce girl. So sue me. :DHannahhttp://wayfaringchocolate.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742756814967464811.post-72090674919483373632010-07-19T12:06:06.122+10:002010-07-19T12:06:06.122+10:00This gave me such a sense of nostalgia! When I at...This gave me such a sense of nostalgia! When I ate animal, I was never a big fan of fish, but give me a piece of flake and some calamari, and I was in heaven! I was just thinking the other day how I'm craving something in batter and served in newspaper! I'm not the biggest fan of Tempeh either, but I think its a great substitute for this kind of thing.<br /><br />Love the little comment about the minimum serve of chips. As a family of 5 when we were younger, we'd always order $6 worth of chips. It sounds so funny and speicific now that I think about it ;)Christinehttp://www.morecheeseprettyplease.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742756814967464811.post-71504302977859951472010-07-19T11:17:38.852+10:002010-07-19T11:17:38.852+10:00Actually dim sims aren't really chinese. An Au...Actually dim sims aren't really chinese. An Australian chinese man started them here. I only know because Toby hated seeing it in Chinese restaurants when he first arrived.Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16391678902908585000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742756814967464811.post-2025733857393008322010-07-19T10:29:53.491+10:002010-07-19T10:29:53.491+10:00Johanna, I'm now craving fish and chips at 10:...Johanna, I'm now craving fish and chips at 10:29am in the morning! Ahh yes nothing like fish and chips from a takeaway store. I think we only had the newspaper wrapped chips once!Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigellahttp://www.notquitenigella.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742756814967464811.post-56352271517633576542010-07-19T09:53:28.221+10:002010-07-19T09:53:28.221+10:00oooh I love this post! I actually worked in a Fish...oooh I love this post! I actually worked in a Fish n Chip shop from age 13 to 17! "Traditionally the fish and chip shop could be identified by the faded chiko roll advertisement, a kitsch clock and bottles of sauce and vinegar" >> Too true!!!Lisa (bakebikeblog)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14802600386274518441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742756814967464811.post-30214353538459239792010-07-19T06:16:51.339+10:002010-07-19T06:16:51.339+10:00Oh I can almost taste the potato cakes. Such a per...Oh I can almost taste the potato cakes. Such a perfect description of the whole ritual! I've tried to explain to my Scottish husband how a trip to the chippie really should be; will have to show him this :)Shaunahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17972771695771196585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742756814967464811.post-70927289630334011672010-07-19T03:46:22.682+10:002010-07-19T03:46:22.682+10:00Lovely post - really took me back to long days on ...Lovely post - really took me back to long days on the beach followed by a huge serve of hot, oily, salty, fatty food. I never liked meat, so always had just chips, potato cakes (occasionally pineapple, banana or pumpkin fritters, if they were available), corn jacks and the all important pickled onion. But I haven't eaten it in years, because my partner doesn't like it and yeah, to see THAT much deep fried starch as an adult is a bit off-putting. But the smell still makes me feel nine years old, wearing wet bathers under my clothes, dousing my bounty in endless packets of squeezy sauce and grabbing that first, way-too-hot-but irresistible first chip, exactly as you described.<br /><br />We just moved to the States, which I figured would be the final nail in the coffin of my ever eating this stuff again, but there's actually a food cart near my work run by a Scottish guy selling British fish and chips (which also means sausage supper and curry sauce). I tried some and really realised how unique it is from other fried foods -- the distinctive doughy batter really is like nothing else. <br /><br />I also had the pleasure of introducing my workmates to deep fried Mars bars. They deep fry a lot of other things here -- Oreos, fruit pies, they'll even RE-deep fry a donut to make it a fritter -- but again, it's the fish 'n chip batter that makes it special.<br /><br />I think it's kind of the Commonwealth's version of soul/comfort food. People here get excited whne they find "proper" southern fried chicken, corn bread, deep fried okra, collard greens and "slaw". I imagine it's the same childhood attachment.Ruthhttp://www.stumpdinpdx.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742756814967464811.post-7033170777912313142010-07-19T02:00:28.826+10:002010-07-19T02:00:28.826+10:00Fish and chips meant moving day for us when we wer...Fish and chips meant moving day for us when we were little. My dad would buy a portion for each of the removal man, and some for us, too. Ah, childhood memories :) We still call them fish and chips too, though neither of us buys fish when we indulge nowadays!Lysyhttp://www.munchkinmail.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742756814967464811.post-25539378213901358702010-07-19T00:03:33.016+10:002010-07-19T00:03:33.016+10:00What fun sounding places all! Chips seem to say d...What fun sounding places all! Chips seem to say different things to different locations. Still I haven't found a chip anywhere I didn't like but then I'm really a push over for potatoes.<br />Love that word ... chippocrite!MyKitchenInHalfCupshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07321041059604871286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6742756814967464811.post-34971872607182232562010-07-18T22:23:48.885+10:002010-07-18T22:23:48.885+10:00Hi I follow your blog with interest, I am vegetari...Hi I follow your blog with interest, I am vegetarian and Scottish (Edinburgh) so I loved your blogs about your holiday in Edinburgh. I too used to love a fish supper but usually make do with just chips now. Recently in a cafe I ordered veggie fish and chips which turned out to be deep fried battered slices of halloumi. It was gorgeous! I didn't spoil the moment by thinking about the calories or fat intake I just enjoyed it.Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16989426136084661119noreply@blogger.com