Today is National Fish and Chip Day and the Question is.

Cod, chips and mushy peas. Gallons of Yorkshire tea, white bread with butter plus lots of salt and vinegar.

Garden peas are for Sunday roasts.
 
Shows my southern upbringing but I cant stand mushies, garden peas all day long or alternatively neither just fish and chips sat on a bench by the sea.
Here in Devon we get pestered by the sea gulls, nothing quite as funny chucking the scrag ends under somebodies bench and watch them get covered in sea gulls.
 
Fish patties👍

I've not had them in years. I used to get them with chips and scraps with my pocket money.

I almost want one😂. That said living down south its a bit of a chippy lottery.
 
Just had a few days up in Eyemouth. Haddock fresh from the fishing boats in the harbour :p, I'm a convert. Haddock over cod for me (y).

Although we were served garden peas in most places. Only one gave us the option of mushy.
 
Mushy Peas and Haddock 👍

Amazing the numbers of Haddock being caught off Penzance now. For a cold water fish and global warming their numbers are increasing every year 🤷🏼‍♂️
 
Regular peas for me, not a fan of mushy peas, never seen them as an option outside of restauraunts though.

From a chippy I'd always go cod, chips, scraps, covered in salt and vinegar with a large curry sauce.
 
We had fish and chips yesterday - portions were so big and it lasted us all day, and we like our food.

We don't have peas of any sort with fish and chips from the chippy.

Birds Eye garden peas are one of my favourite veg though, look more healthy than mushy peas and a bit sweeter.

Teesside area is well endowed with chippies, probably the best area in the country.
 
Is it true that cod is the 'Hoover's of the the sea and eats any old rubbish at bottom of sea, whereas haddock eats further up the depth of the sea and eats better quality food....must admit i always go for haddock because of this fact or is it a myth?
 
UTB70 said:
Is it true that cod is the 'Hoover's of the the sea and eats any old rubbish at bottom of sea, whereas haddock eats further up the depth of the sea and eats better quality food....must admit i always go for haddock because of this fact or is it a myth?
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I was told that years ago and also that in places like Grimsby nobody orders cod. Don't know if that's true though.
 
I've never come across a chippy in London selling garden peas. They either sell mushy peas or no peas at all. All the best chippys down here are run by Greeks.
Haddock isn't better than cod. It's the other way round if anything. Some regions just have weird quirks like they eat haddock instead of cod or they leave the skin on.
 
Wouldn't give garden peas house room tasteless apart from what ever they use to sweeten them at Birds Eye. Would rather have a tin of processed peas than garden peas. Anyway back to the point. Mushy peas for me although I am more likely to get curry sauce. Its difficult to get good curry sauce in chip shops though.
 
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