Happy 'National Fish and Chips Day' everyone.

Hookah

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/italian-chippers-celebrate-national-fish-and-chips-day-506333.html

Italian chippers celebrate 'National Fish and Chips Day'



Traditional Italian chippers around the country will be offering cut-price takeaways to hungry punters today to mark 'National Fish and Chips Day'.

It's the second annual celebration of the humble one-and-one, and last year's event saw 180,000 people visit their local Irish Italian chipper.

Consumers munched an incredible 65,000lb of fish and €360,000 pounds of potatoes.

“We were completely overwhelmed by the response to National Fish & Chips Day last year," said Peter Borza, chairman of the Irish Traditional Italian Chippers Association (ITICA), the 200-member body established last year to represent the Irish Italian chipper community.

"The communities we have been part of for 125 years really engaged with the first annual celebration of the tradition.

“We would like to take this opportunity to thank our local communities for their support and encourage everyone to pick up a ‘one and one’ this National Fish and Chips Day!”

The Irish Italian chipper culture was started by members of the Irish Italian community who arrived in Ireland in the 1880s from the villages in Val Di Comino in southern Italy.

Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/italian-chippers-celebrate-national-fish-and-chips-day-506333.html#ixzz1NLuru97L

Cod Bless you one and all.

Latchy

I'll have a 'wan and wan ' please ,don't spare the vinegar ...

Absurdum

look outta for da logo

Guill

Mmmmmmmmmmm.....


Fishy fingers..........

Biggins

What about a protest day for all those fish getting daily battered!

candy-gal1

Ah cant wait for a great half price dinner later!

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

A question nobody has ever been able to give me an answer to... Why are so many chippers run by Italians? I know it says they moved here from a certain area, but why chips? They're hardly an Italian dish.

Also I've never heard the phrase 'one and one' before, is it a Dublin phrase?

Cupcake_Crisis

Yay! Cheap grub!

PinkFly

This will do wonders for our obesity problems in Ireland

kfallon

Chip, smoked Cod and 2 battered please!

Loads n' loads of 'sore finger', mmmmmmm...........

bobbysands81

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

A question nobody has ever been able to give me an answer to... Why are so many chippers run by Italians? I know it says they moved here from a certain area, but why chips? They're hardly an Italian dish.

Also I've never heard the phrase 'one and one' before, is it a Dublin phrase?

Can't answer your first question but yup, a 'one 'n one' is a Dublin saying.

bobbysands81

PinkFly wrote: »

This will do wonders for our obesity problems in Ireland

Not if it's enjoyed in moderation as part of a healthy balanced diet!;)

Absurdum

when izza your dolmio day

Guill

This thread is highly racist, i am disgusted, mod please close now. I have met plenty of paddys, chinks and Gooks that own Chippers too.

Absurdum

mamma mia!

ebixa82

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

A question nobody has ever been able to give me an answer to... Why are so many chippers run by Italians? I know it says they moved here from a certain area, but why chips? They're hardly an Italian dish.

Also I've never heard the phrase 'one and one' before, is it a Dublin phrase?

Italians came over during WW2, firstly to England. They got into the fish and chip trade there and then brought it over to Ireland.

Most of the Italian families who run the chippers here all come from the same small town in Italy...Borzas, Caffollas etc.

That's why there are no chippers in Italy, they developed the industry only after they left.

Latchy

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

I've never heard the phrase 'one and one' before, is it a Dublin phrase?

Yes it's a Dublin phrase which from a rael Dub sounds like a 'Wan and Wan ' .

Absurdum

"giz a single *burp*" also works

AnonoBoy

Latchy wrote: »

Yes it's a Dublin phrase which from a rael Dub sounds like a 'Wan and Wan ' .

As in "I'll have Wan of them and wan of them" *pointing at the menu*.

From the time when a lot of the lads in the chippers didn't have the best English, no?

Latchy

AnonoBoy wrote: »

As in "I'll have Wan of them and wan of them" *pointing at the menu*.

It's an order for a cod and chips

From the time when a lot of the lads in the chippers didn't have the best English, no?

The Italians in chippy knew straight away when you wanted ...no bother

Guill

There is nothing like getting fish and chips in a rolled up newspaper - heaven.

Wossack

360,000 euro pounds? is that alot of potatoes?

Latchy

Guill wrote: »

There is nothing like getting fish and chips in a rolled up newspaper - heaven.

Swamped in vinegar to

'' Potatoes '' (Keith Lemon )

mikemac

I've never heard one n' one outside Dublin, these crazy Dubs

But they've a better one.
They don't order a bag of chips, they just ask for a single.
In Dublin a single is a bag of chips

AnonoBoy

Latchy wrote: »

It's an order for a cod and chips

Yeah I know that. But it originally came from lads pointing at the menu and saying "Wan of them and wan of them" because the Italian lads in the chippers didn't always understand the Dublin lads if they asked for anything more complicated.

I'm talking about back in the 50's here not in recent times. That's why it's called a 1 and 1.

Grid.

Good excuse to stuff me face!!! Giz a batter burger, chips and heavy on the vinegar!!:pac::pac:

Guill

Latchy wrote: »

Swamped in vinegar to

'' Potatoes '' (Keith Lemon )

Yeh, when you open the paper your nose nearly gets burnt off your face....sswweeeeetttt!

Dravokivich

Gridlock wrote: »

Good excuse to stuff me face!!! Giz a batter burger, chips and heavy on the vinegar!!:pac::pac:

eh... you did notice t'is Fish and Chips right?

:pac:

Esoteric_

The chipper down the road from me is doing EVERYTHING at half price, delighted. Gonna get a snack box for three euro and the bf is getting a quarter pounder and chips for 3 euro

SEPT 23 1989

Im starving reading this:(

Minstrel27

Nothing like a cheap 'meal' for people who would normally have no intention of buying this food.

The marketing behind this is genius.

Latchy

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Im starving reading this:(

'' Off ta chippy wid ye so ''

feelingstressed wrote: »

I've never heard one n' one outside Dublin, these crazy Dubs

But they've a better one.
They don't order a bag of chips, they just ask for a single.
In Dublin a single is a bag of chips

Still is ? Good to know some sayings haven't changed

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Yeah I know that. But it originally came from lads pointing at the menu and saying "Wan of them and wan of them" because the Italian lads in the chippers didn't always understand the Dublin lads if they asked for anything more complicated.

I'm talking about back in the 50's here not in recent times. That's why it's called a 1 and 1.

Lol's , Ah that's right and the Italians learned Dubinlin'eek' very quickly to

Guill wrote: »

Yeh, when you open the paper your nose nearly gets burnt off your face....sswweeeeetttt!

Oh.. memories it's all to upmarket now with proper bags and wrapping paper ,well in England they do which is home to the newspaper /fish n chips industry although you'll find a few of the older chippies still use newspaper tabloids

Chris P. Bacon

There is only one chipper in Waterford doing it "The Marian",and while his chips are nice the fish isnt,and its way over priced for the small portion you get,so i can only imagine the tiny bits of fish people will be getting today for half price.

Italian chippers are the nicest in the country for everything besides fish,if you want proper fish n chips you have to go to an Irish owned chipper that cooks them in lard and not oil,the only two in Waterford are " Johnny Walkers" and "Dooleys".

Chris P. Bacon

Minstrel27 wrote: »

Nothing like a cheap 'meal' for people who would normally have no intention of buying this food.

The marketing behind this is genius.

Couldn't agree more,its like good Friday in chippers the places do be packed by people who only go when they think they have to, or there is an offer on.

Latchy

Minstrel27 wrote: »

Nothing like a cheap 'meal' for people who would normally have no intention of buying this food.

Everybody loves a bargain , It's nutritious and a nice change from a Subway sandwich .

prinz

Minstrel27 wrote: »

Nothing like a cheap 'meal' for people who would normally have no intention of buying this food. The marketing behind this is genius.

True. Haven't been to a chipper in a long, long time, and I've been thinking about nothing else all day since I heard it on the radio this morning. Can almost smell it......

My name is URL

Absurdum wrote: »

when izza your dolmio day

What's-a matter you? Gotta no respect.

Ah, shaddap-a you face!

prinz

My name is URL wrote: »

What's-a matter you? Gotta no respect. Ah, shaddap-a you face!

I know it was you Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!

Gunsfortoys

Absurdum wrote: »

mamma mia!

Half price lasagne would be much better.

stargazer 68

After the queues last year think I will give it a miss. And there are about 8/10 chippers around me and the queues were out the door and around the corner - madness for a few scaldy chips!

neil_hosey

embassy grill in ballsbridge: 6.25 for a smoked cod chips and a drink... not amazingly priced but was nice!

prinz

neil_hosey wrote: »

embassy grill in ballsbridge: 6.25 for a smoked cod chips and a drink... not amazingly priced but was nice!

Was that after the half price cut? It would usually be €12.50? Jokers.

neil_hosey

prinz wrote: »

Was that after the half price cut? It would usually be €12.50? Jokers.

yeah. thats including the reduction. bit of a joke alright!

the groutch

it is D4 tho

I got mine (less drink) in Libero's Deansgrange for €4.25

neil_hosey

the groutch wrote: »

it is D4 tho

I got mine (less drink) in Libero's Deansgrange for €4.25

yeah true but i dont think they are that pricey normally.. ill check later though.

vicwatson

What? - 12.50 for a one and one - gtfo !

Big Nasty

Smoked Cod & Chips for €3.50 plus I won a can of Club Orange on a scratch card!

Nyom, nyom, nyom!

OutlawPete

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

A question nobody has ever been able to give me an answer to... Why are so many chippers run by Italians?

Documentary on the subject was shown in the IFI in 2008. Members of the first Italian family to open a Chippers attended, was excellent.

You can watch a small clip free here, but it costs €6 to download it.


Here's a directory of all Chip Shops doing today's offer.

My name is URL

Anyone know if Beshoff's are doing this deal? I don't think they did last year.. stingy fcukers!

prinz

My name is URL wrote: »

Anyone know if Beshoff's are doing this deal? I don't think they did last year.. stingy fcukers!

I doubt Beshoff's are members of ITICA myself. *They aren't Italians*

My name is URL

prinz wrote: »

I doubt Beshoff's are members of ITICA myself. *They aren't Italians*

Aye.. I should have read the OP =p I didn't know it was only applicable to Italian chippers