ITICA National Fish & Chips Day 2014

JP Liz V1

http://www.itica.ie/chipper_directory


1/2 price Fish & Chips today

Sir Arthur Daley

That will suit my see food diet.

Ihatecuddles

None in Bundoran. Gutted!!

There's enough macaris on that list!

Fish n chips MUST be served in paper with salt, vinegar and a pickled onion.

A Greedy Algorithm

What kind of fish is it?

mauzo!

mauzo! wrote: »

None in Bundoran. Gutted!!

Lol you in fundoran for your honeymoon?

Sir Arthur Daley

A Greedy Algorithm wrote: »

What kind of fish is it?

Mullet.

Ihatecuddles

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Lol you in fundoran for your honeymoon?

In between wedding and honeymoon! Croatia next week.

Sinister Pigeon

A Greedy Algorithm wrote: »

What kind of fish is it?

Fish is great for your feathers.

mauzo!

mauzo! wrote: »

In between wedding and honeymoon! Croatia next week.

Well it might be closed now but mamma Rosa's chipper were doing half price food tonight too. Its beside the railway.

Congrats btw xxx

The Backwards Man

Sinister Pigeon wrote: »

Fish is great for your feathers.

Chipper food is muck.

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller

Last year I went into one of those places that were supposed to be doing the half price fish and chips and I asked for 'Fish & Chips twice'.

Guy behind the counter says 'I heard you the first time'.

Lyaiera

Remember when the cheeky buggers changed the date this was happening on from a Friday because they already sell loads of fish and chips on that day.

JP Liz V1

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

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1/2 price Fish & Chips today

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KungPao

The only chipper near me is a stinking Beshoff's with their world renowned terrible chicken burgers.

May have to take a trip to locate a proper Italian place.

Although I prefer the Italian chippers, wish they'd serve the fish with lemon and tartar

bigpink

What's the deal bout Italian chippers

LoonyLovegood

I know what's for dinner tomorrow, then!

Sir Arthur Daley

bigpink wrote: »

What's the deal bout Italian chippers

They sell italian fish.

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller

Mate told me this years ago, not sure if it's true or not, most likely not, but sure you can use it yourselves if it ever happens to you.

Story goes that when they were down in Sligo for a match (that part I can vouch for) and where in some chipper, where both of them got fish and chips. But the portion sizes were scabby and so one of the lads says: "This fish isn't cooked" and bloke in the chipper says: "Yes it is" and he replies: "It couldn't be, it's eaten half me chips".

Duckworth_Luas

bigpink wrote: »

What's the deal bout Italian chippers

They're attracted to the grease

Lightbulb Sun

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Chipper food is muck.

I hope you're codding.

The Backwards Man

Lightbulb Sun wrote: »

I hope you're codding.

Lard no, i'm deadly serious.

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller

What TV show do fish like to watch?

Name That Tuna.

Sir Arthur Daley

I heard there was a massive fight in alot of the takeaways last year.

Alot of fish got battered.

Lapin

CTYIgirl wrote: »

I know what's for dinner tomorrow, then!

None of them are in Galway. :eek:

And there I was looking forward to a €5 dinner in McDonagh's.

lertsnim

Lapin wrote: »

And there I was looking forward to a €5 dinner in McDonagh's.

I love the haggis in there. A must visit every time I find myself in Galway

Lapin

lertsnim wrote: »

I love the haggis in there. A must visit every time I find myself in Galway

Never knew they had it there.

That's tomorrow sorted then

Tail Docker

lertsnim wrote: »

I love the haggis in there. A must visit every time I find myself in Galway

Yup, it's a real treat, getting dearer now because the Haggis is becoming endangered in the wild - very hard to find fresh wild Haggis - most of what you get now is farmed Haggis and it doesn't taste the same. Haggis farms are also very cruel - they can't really function in confinement, especially the males.

Duckworth_Luas

Tail Docker wrote: »

Yup, it's a real treat, getting dearer now because the Haggis is becoming endangered in the wild - very hard to find fresh wild Haggis - most of what you get now is farmed Haggis and it doesn't taste the same. Haggis farms are also very cruel - they can't really function in confinement, especially the males.

Wild haggis hasn't been available for 30 years. What people call wild haggis is really just free range. I've spent hours and hours on various haggis-cam websites and never spotted a single wild beastie.

Tail Docker

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Wild haggis hasn't been available for 30 years. What people call wild haggis is really just free range. I've spent hours and hours on various haggis-cam websites and never spotted a single wild beastie.

You can get organic wild Haggis in McPartlans in Dunfrieshire, but it is pricey - it takes a serious marksman to bring down a Haggis in full flight. They are also well-hard.

Maphisto

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

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1/2 price Fish & Chips today

I think the drive to me nearest one would negate any saving :mad:. Unless I bought a joblot

smileyj1987

The only nice food to come from Italy .

Larianne

None in Galway.
Well screw you! :mad:

biko

The whole concept of Fish and Chip shops being Italian is just weird.

The Backwards Man

smileyj1987 wrote: »

The only nice food to come from Italy .

Ah yes, Grimsbi, the famous Italian fishing port

candy-gal1

Borza chipper today, and the past 3 half price fish and chips days, then ate it in the sun in Christchurch grounds/park area, twas a good day!

Frosty McSnowballs

Is it bad that iv been in 12 of those chippers that are listed

Not all today like, I'm not a monster.

Yellowblackbird

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

I heard there was a massive fight in alot of the takeaways last year.

Alot of fish got battered.

There were a few lads up for a salt and battery.

My name is URL

biko wrote: »

The whole concept of Fish and Chip shops being Italian is just weird.

It's all thanks to Giuseppe!

Be grateful because back in the 1880s, Giuseppe Cervi, the man who introduced us to the Italian takeaway, had very different ideas when it came to tantalising Irish taste buds.

The young Italian arrived in Cobh, or Queenstown as it was known back then, after mistakenly disembarking on the final stopover of an American-bound boat. After watching his American Dream set sail, Giuseppe turned and set out on foot to find his fortune in Ireland instead.

After walking the long and rocky road to Dublin, he worked in the city as a labourer intent on earning enough money to buy a coal-fired cooker and handcart to go into business selling roasted chestnuts.
While fish and chestnuts would have been unlikely to catch on, we were spared having to find out thanks to a small but highly significant mistake young Giuseppe made while selling his fare outside the pubs of Dublin.

Legend has it that one day instead of a chestnut he mistakenly roasted a potato and quickly realised the Irish knew a good spud when they tasted one.

Larianne

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Is it bad that iv been in 12 of those chippers that are listed

Not all today like, I'm not a monster.

That be funny if you did!

ScumLord

It looks like it's national fish and chips day in Dublin. There's nothing remotely near me doing the offer but I'm still using this as an excuse to go to the chipper tonight.

kowloon

Dinner was cancelled, Fish & Chips were bought, no regrets.

Frosty McSnowballs

Larianne wrote: »

That be funny if you did!

Ah I couldn't do that to ya! Imagine me having a half price chipper crawl and you having none......:(

SimonLynch

Tail Docker wrote: »

You can get organic wild Haggis in McPartlans in Dunfrieshire, but it is pricey - it takes a serious marksman to bring down a Haggis in full flight. They are also well-hard.

The trick is to get them to turn, years of living on hillsides has resulted in the legs on one side being shorter than the other, get them to turn and they stumble or fall over.

Tail Docker

SimonLynch wrote: »

The trick is to get them to turn, years of living on hillsides has resulted in the legs on one side being shorter than the other, get them to turn and they stumble or fall over.

I think you'll find that's just being silly. Their legs are both the same.

Fish n Chips here tonight. Hopefully soon, I'm starving. Herself has gone procuring.

SimonLynch

Tail Docker wrote: »

I think you'll find that's just being silly. Their legs are both the same.

Fish n Chips here tonight. Hopefully soon, I'm starving. Herself has gone procuring.

Well Uncyclopedia backs me up

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Haggis

Tail Docker

SimonLynch wrote: »

Well Uncyclopedia backs me up

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Haggis

I stand corrected. And a little bit lopsided..

I remember well going hunting Haggis with my old lad in the Scottish Highlands - he had a beautiful Purdey side by side and used very fine shot - so's not to damage their perfect, round skins. I found it very cruel - they screamed like babies when they were wounded. Very hard to tell the males from the females too, and it used to be illegal to shoot the females.

There's a place here is doing half price on everything today, gonna be a lot of fun soon.

SimonLynch

Tail Docker wrote: »

I stand corrected. And a little bit lopsided..

I remember well going hunting Haggis with my old lad in the Scottish Highlands - he had a beautiful Purdey side by side and used very fine shot - so's not to damage their perfect, round skins. I found it very cruel - they screamed like babies when they were wounded. Very hard to tell the males from the females too, and it used to be illegal to shoot the females.

Nobody says it better than the man himself -

Address to a Haggis

Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o the puddin'-race!
Aboon them a' ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye worthy o' a grace
As lang's my arm.
The groaning trencher there ye fill,
Your hurdies like a distant hill,
Your pin wad help to mend a mill
In time o need,
While thro your pores the dews distil
Like amber bead.
His knife see rustic Labour dight,
An cut you up wi ready slight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright,
Like onie ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
Warm-reekin, rich!
Then, horn for horn, they stretch an strive:
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive,
Till a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve
Are bent like drums;
The auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
'Bethankit' hums.
Is there that owre his French ragout,
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or fricassee wad mak her spew
Wi perfect scunner,
Looks down wi sneering, scornfu view
On sic a dinner?
Poor devil! see him owre his trash,
As feckless as a wither'd rash,
His spindle shank a guid whip-lash,
His nieve a nit;
Thro bloody flood or field to dash,
O how unfit!
But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread,
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He'll make it whissle;
An legs an arms, an heads will sned,
Like taps o thrissle.
Ye Pow'rs, wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware
That jaups in luggies:
But, if ye wish her gratefu prayer,
Gie her a Haggis