TOT; Salt & Vinegar controversy.

[alan]

+2 I use lemon juice and black pepper

The chips have also got to be real chips - not those matchstick things that always taste of cardboard, irrespective of what you put on them.

[alan]

Catering Mayonnaise is more like an emulsion of water and lard. In my works canteen the cook thinks that all salad items need to be pre-coated in this stuff - sod healthy eating choices.

[Nightjar]

Blame the Belgians for those. They taught American soldiers how to make frites during WW1. American knowledge of geography being what it is, they called them French fries. SFAIK, only Britain and Greece make proper sized chips.

Colin Bignell

[jgh]

Chips are supposed to be about half an inch thick, crisp on the outside and fluffy/soft/slightly soggy on the inside. Soggy chips comes from (re)heating the oil as you cook them, you need to put the potato straight into hot oil.

JGH

[Jethro_uk]

I vaguely recall you can have "steak fries" which are closer, after a fashion.

[polygonum]

But is the amount you'd get in a chippy "too much"? There are quite a few people who need to consume more salt than is usually quoted as the maximum "allowed" - for example, sufferers of Addison's. And there are serious question marks over the assertions that we all need to reduce our salt intakes.

[polygonum]

They have a clinic for that in the USA... :-)

[The Medway Handyman]

+1

Hake?

[harryagain]

And the Turks. They eat them cold???!!!

[Gazz]

Neither, a good covering if Mitani chicken salt,

[The Medway Handyman]

Filthy foreign habit. It's agin nature, no good will come of it.....

[Ian Jackson]

Surprisingly, no one has mentioned good old tomato sauce/ketchup.

[Adam Funk]

They have a holiday for it in Mexico.

[larkim]

Vinegar, then salt. Then chipshop gravy, with more vinegar on that.

Add additional salt as required whilst consuming lower layers.

But gravy is essential.

[Bob Eager]

I thought there was a song..

Mayo! Maaayyo! Daylight come and he wanna go hoome....

Oh no. I'll get me coat.