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Why are chips so popular?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭jjbrien


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    Twice fried chips, preferably done in goose or duck fat. The food of kings.

    Do them in peanut oil yum. Plus OP you forget Taco Chips and of course curry chips :D

    Op if you want heathy chips get an air fryer still delicious too


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    NikoTopps wrote: »
    There is a Greek fast food called Σουβλάκια,it just chips,yoghurt sauce,some veggies on a type of bread&it is delicious . I say that as someone who not a big fan of chips,,but Σουβλάκια i would happy to eat all day :pac:


    How the fcuk do you even say that sober, let alone at 2am starving? ''Take me to Epsilon ou Long B-type letter Upside-Down Y akia please''


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,782 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Glasgow salad. (noun).

    Chips.


    © Viz magazine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,987 ✭✭✭0ph0rce0


    I bet your t-shirts are a size xxx small even though that's not your size.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,803 ✭✭✭satguy


    Some people eat Quinoa ,,, the rest of us like chips,,, they go great with a batter sausage, load of salt and vinegar.

    You take out the small white chip bag, this just leaves the big brown bag, then you give it a good shake, a really good shake.

    = Heaven


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    /American accent.

    I love Potato Chips.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    I have to admit I wouldn't be a huge fan of chips. Never make them at home, never get them in the canteen at work. The only time I ever really get them would be at a chipper. The Fish Wife in Cork do lovely chips. As do Lennox's.

    So yes I do like chips...but only nice ones. :pac:

    On the rare occasion that we get an Indian takeaway my boyfriend orders chips (and rice) with his curry. Always found it a bit bizarre. Does anyone else do this..?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭jjbrien


    Lia_lia wrote: »
    I have to admit I wouldn't be a huge fan of chips. Never make them at home, never get them in the canteen at work. The only time I ever really get them would be at a chipper. The Fish Wife in Cork do lovely chips. As do Lennox's.

    So yes I do like chips...but only nice ones. :pac:

    On the rare occasion that we get an Indian takeaway my boyfriend orders chips (and rice) with his curry. Always found it a bit bizarre. Does anyone else do this..?

    I do that at the Chinese nothing like a good 3 in 1 Chips Rice Chicken Balls and curry yummy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,147 ✭✭✭Ronan|Raven


    Then **** off to mass OP


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,155 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    I love Potato Chips.


    They are crisps, aren't they?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Love chips. And mashed spuds. And roast spuds. 3 of the nicest foods.

    tasty and all as non-wholegrain pasta can be, it doesn't have that satiating quality spuds have


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,803 ✭✭✭satguy


    satguy wrote: »
    Some people eat Quinoa ,,, the rest of us like chips,,, they go great with a batter sausage, load of salt and vinegar.

    You take out the small white chip bag, this just leaves the big brown bag, then you give it a good shake, a really good shake.

    = Heaven

    Of course they've gotta be proper Irish chips, form an Italian Chipper.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,767 ✭✭✭Ben Gadot


    The Founder had it right, that's all I can say. No one wants greasy chips. Dry and crispy is how I like em.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,465 ✭✭✭Anesthetize


    I only eat chips about once a week. Here's some good reasons to like chips:

    Curry cheese chips after a night on the town
    Traditional English fish and chips
    Lasagne and chips
    Chips and mayonnaise


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,146 ✭✭✭mr_edge_to_you


    Pasta/Noodles/Couscous/Breads = modern wheats with loads of gluten

    Ah yes.....Gluten. everyone hates gluten now.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,639 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    I actually prefer chips to rice with a takeaway although I'll usually do a plate of homemade peppered wedges to go with the food if I know the chips from a certain place are awful.

    Always annoys my friends when I eat a side of fries with an Indian takeaway. Because, you know, the entirely authentic Indian subcontinent cuisine experience is completely devalued by a different carbohydrate side to go with your glancing-acquaintance-at-best-with-India fast food order from a South Dublin takeaway after a few bottles of beer.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    I actually prefer chips to rice with a takeaway although I'll usually do a plate of homemade peppered wedges to go with the food if I know the chips from a certain place are awful.

    Always annoys my friends when I eat a side of fries with an Indian takeaway. Because, you know, the entirely authentic Indian subcontinent cuisine experience is completely devalued by a different carbohydrate side to go with your glancing-acquaintance-at-best-with-India fast food order from a South Dublin takeaway after a few bottles of beer.

    Difference being the rice flavour and consistency is not compromised when the meat, veg & gravy is added to your Indian dish. As such, it complements whatever constitutes the main ingredient. Chips on the other hand become little more than a limp soggy mush & any identifiable taste of chip is utterly lost in the process.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,496 ✭✭✭Will I Am Not


    Yamanoto wrote: »
    Difference being the rice flavour and consistency is not compromised when the meat, veg & gravy is added to your Indian dish. As such, it complements whatever constitutes the main ingredient. Chips on the other hand become little more than a limp soggy mush & any identifiable taste of chip is utterly lost in the process.

    Rice flavour? Ha ha.
    Rice doesn't have a flavour silly.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,639 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Yamanoto wrote: »
    Difference being the rice flavour and consistency is not compromised when the meat, veg & gravy is added to your Indian dish. As such, it complements whatever constitutes the main ingredient. Chips on the other hand become little more than a limp soggy mush & any identifiable taste of chip is utterly lost in the process.

    Textural consistency is obviously always a huge factor to me when considering the merits of takeaway food.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    Garlic chip after a few gallons of stout and you're A1.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    Chips are so boring, plain and unhealthy yet they are so popular. Every takeaway does chips, most takeaways are chippers, Chinese and Pizza restaurant places do chips. Everybody seems to love chips! But they are literally the crappiest form of 'white'/'fast' carbohydrate that is out there. I can never eat more than a few before they become bad tasting, dull, mushy and dry, but people love love love them for some reason. :confused:

    Here is an incomplete list of what is better than chips:
    Rice - Wholegrain, egg fried, boiled...
    Pasta - Wholegrain, spaghetti, tagliatelle...
    Noodles - Chinese, Japanese, spicy...
    Couscous - Lemon, peppers, herbs...
    Potatoes - Baby, mashed, sweet... (yes I know chips are made from potatoes :))
    Quinoa - Spices, olives, herbs...
    Bread - Soda, wholegrain, sourdough...

    Other things like vegetables and beans and that too...literally every other food that's not gone off is better tasting.

    I'd rather go to mass than eat a bag of chips, and I really hate mass. :)

    **** off


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,654 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy


    Big thick chips with McDonnells curry sauce mmm nothing better.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    Textural consistency is obviously always a huge factor to me when considering the merits of takeaway food.

    Why would it not be?

    Hardly the preserve of haute-cuisine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 543 ✭✭✭NikoTopps


    Omackeral wrote: »
    How the fcuk do you even say that sober, let alone at 2am starving? ''Take me to Epsilon ou Long B-type letter Upside-Down Y akia please''

    You walk up&say «Θέλω ένα Σουβλάκι από όλα» Or..just point at the wrap looking yoke which say 2€ beside it and grunt :pac::pac:

    Epsilon = Ε\ε btw
    Sigma = Σ\σ\ς


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    I hardly ever get chips out of a chipper anymore. All you seem to get is something pale yellow in colour thats not been properly cooked.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I would have thought chips are one of those rare foods that practically no person disliked.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    We always ask for our chips to be kept in the basket a bit longer, to make them brown & crispy. I hate white soggy undercooked chips.....

    Don't forget the ketchup :-)


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,904 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Super-Rush wrote: »
    I hardly ever get chips out of a chipper anymore. All you seem to get is something pale yellow in colour thats not been properly cooked.

    You're going to the wrong chipper.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Not sure I'd trust someone who said they didn't like chips.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭Jack the Stripper


    Nicest chips imo would be the Quinlans fish and chips shops in Kerry. Usually go to Killarney for a few days in the summer and always hit the spot.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,333 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    Super-Rush wrote: »
    I hardly ever get chips out of a chipper anymore. All you seem to get is something pale yellow in colour thats not been properly cooked.

    You can't always date supermodels, it doesn't mean you don't like women.


    Chip Philosophy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,133 ✭✭✭Patty O Furniture


    My corrupted poll options have been corrupted by the mods. :(

    Hard to believe 92% of the votes have been wrong as well.

    justin-blalock-quote-when-the-chips-are-down-he-can-pull-something.jpg

    :D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Suas11 wrote: »
    You're going to the wrong chipper.

    Maybe, but I've tried a fair few and the pickings are slim.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,823 ✭✭✭✭First Up


    Super-Rush wrote:
    Maybe, but I've tried a fair few and the pickings are slim.


    Unlike the customers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,862 ✭✭✭✭inforfun


    Super-Rush wrote: »
    I hardly ever get chips out of a chipper anymore. All you seem to get is something pale yellow in colour thats not been properly cooked.

    Gave up on them here as i thought it was the Irish way of doing them: half done and pissed on with vinegar.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,560 ✭✭✭Squeeonline


    It's like playing spot the vegan, but spot the new-age hippy.

    You don't have to; they'll tell you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    NikoTopps wrote: »
    There is a Greek fast food called Σουβλάκια,it just chips,yoghurt sauce,some veggies on a type of bread&it is delicious . I say that as someone who not a big fan of chips,,but Σουβλάκια i would happy to eat all day :pac:
    Oh God yes, that is wonderful. The chips make it extra special.
    I love couscous and all that healthy stuff too with the exception of quinoa- is it wood shavings or what?


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