Regional chipper specialities

George White

What local takeaways' specials do we have in our regions?

Great thread - https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-hyper-regional-chippy-traditions-c8d

Ireland in general has the wurly burger (a battered burger in a bun), and the spice burger.

Wexford chippers specialise in rissoles.

Northern Ireland has the cowboy supper (sausages, bins and chippins) and the pastie (not a Cornish pastie - but a battered meatball of pinkish meat of unknown origin - like special stuff, absolutely lovely).

Scotland has the deep fried Mars bar.

What are our local chippers' unique delights?

6541

Coleslaw and stuffing on snack boxes in Kerry

George White

Oh thanks, I'm planning a rail/bus trip around the country to try out all these traditions BTW.

zenith

Scollops - sliced potato in batter; East Cork at least

Strumms

potato scallops in north Dublin too…. Haven’t had one in years. They were cheap….. nice light snack.

BattleCorp

I got a batterburger in Moate that had cheese between the batter and the burger. It was feckin savage.

anewme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120942446#Comment_120942446

We have these in south Dublin too. Our local chipper used to do huge ones.

Duke of Schomberg

Scollops - I've never seen them in England outside Yorkshire, it's nice to know that they're also available in Dublin and East Cork - if not elsewhere . . .

Accompanyments, now that's a thing! What do you have with your "fisheries" carry-out?: curry (sauce)?; gravy? - a Lancashire thing; "sauce"? - a sort-of watered down brown sauce common in Edinburgh; Henderson's Relish? a Yorkshire Relish-style condiment which is a religion around south Yorkshire . . .

Rows Grower

Cheese and onion pies in Cork, A ball of mashed potato with cheese and onion mixed through it, covered in batter.

db

Super chips in The Chicken Hut in Limerick with their own special gravy

DAngelo Bailey

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120942400#Comment_120942400

Sweet Jesus christ what an abomination.

DAngelo Bailey

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120942940#Comment_120942940

Now we're talking.

igCorcaigh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120943593#Comment_120943593

I never realised that was a Cork thing!

Rows Grower

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120949410#Comment_120949410

I've never seen them anywhere else, I think Jackie Lennox were the first to do them but they're gone to the dogs in there now with portion sizes. Murphy's chipper do the best ones and supply SuperValu in Togher and a stall in The English Market with trays of 4 to cook at home, unreal!

igCorcaigh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120949446#Comment_120949446

Nice, which stall in the English market is this? TIA.

whomitconcerns

used to love me a bit of stuffing on chips down in tralee. (not a euphemism) below from an online menu :)

Fionn1952

Always been devastated at the lack of chips, stuffing and gravy available since I left Fermanagh.

Living in Meath now, they're very proud of their boardsmill sausages (I'd stick with the classic myself).

Rows Grower

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120949475#Comment_120949475

I don't know the name but if you go in from the Princes Street entrance it's the one on the right hand side first corner.

ArtyM

In Athlone you can get curry chips, cheese, and coleslaw.

Tastes great when you are hammered.

The next morning it is an horrific, solidified, congealed, disgusting, block of shame sitting on your pillow.

igCorcaigh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120950125#Comment_120950125

We've all been there 😅

L1011

Scampi doesn't seem to be common anymore, except it's still everywhere in Donegal. I think allergy notice concerns have made it too much hassle in places it doesn't sell heavily.

Blitzkrieger

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120942940#Comment_120942940

Just putting a slice of cheese on top of a batterburger tastes 99% the same and is a hell of a lot easier to make.

George White

had Scouse salt and pepper chips, like a greaser spice

ShagNastii

I spent summers in the north of England. Chips & Gravy need to be more commonplace in Ireland.

It is is the thinking mans Curry chip.

Tazz T

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123486004#Comment_123486004

Don't know if it's still a thing, but the CPG (chips peas and gravy) used to be very common in Derry.

fonecrusher1

Bungo and chips or bungo spicer. Usually not on menu but some chippers will make it on request. Spectacular.

Larbre34

When I was a kid, those same Wexford chippers that served you up a nice rissole, would provide boiled pig's feet and mushy peas to order.

magicbastarder

an english colleague of mine is obsessed with the idea of trying a spice bag.

ILikeBoats

What is a rissole?

Water John

Generally, it seems curry would be generally preferred in Ireland to gravy with chips and cheese. Gravy and cheese would be Poutine, a Canadian dish.

ShagNastii

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123486049#Comment_123486049

They are kind of a spicy potato cake. They are lovely.

The rissole is Wexford's amazing hidden chipper treasure