Cork chippers and their massive waste of paper. Does it annoy anybody else?

JackieChang · 31-07-2018 03:34PM #1

What is it with Cork chippers and using 50 massive sheets of paper to wrap chips in. A small portion of chips at that. Another time I got 6 tiny chicken nuggets wrapped in a ridiculous amount of paper. Never seen anything like it and it seems to be a Cork thing.

It's impossible to eat on the go. I was trying to eat chips while walking home yesterday and it looked like I was eating them off a greasy broadsheet newspaper flapping everywhere in the wind. It nearly flew away like a kite.

Anyway, are there any decent chippers around the city that do chips in a brown paper bag?

Ludo · 31-07-2018 04:15PM

Why is it a Cork thing? Is it not a traditional chipper thing done everywhere? Certainly lots of chippers I have been to in Limerick and Dublin also do it.

whisky_galore · 31-07-2018 04:48PM

1st world problems.

HeidiHeidi · 31-07-2018 04:49PM

You could just ask that they only wrap your chips in one sheet of paper

Truckermal · 31-07-2018 04:52PM

Stick your chips down your underpants! Problem sorted and they will stay warm too!

Cherry_Cola · 31-07-2018 05:29PM

What an exciting life you must lead.

JackieChang · 31-07-2018 06:33PM

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

You could just ask that they only wrap your chips in one sheet of paper

That's still difficult to eat on the go. Do any good chippers do a bag of chips?

JackieChang · 31-07-2018 06:36PM

Cherry_Cola wrote: »

What an exciting life you must lead.

What does that mean? I'm having a rant. Is your life too exciting to have an auld rant every now and then?

Cherry_Cola · 31-07-2018 06:45PM

JackieChang wrote: »

What does that mean? I'm having a rant. Is your life too exciting to have an auld rant every now and then?

Life is incredibly short, why worry about something as small as the amount of paper used in a chipper?

vince · 31-07-2018 09:49PM

Im glad cork chips are in paper. Seems outside cork and espec in dublin its all italian chippers and their tiny brown bags with a scoop of chips with the salt n vineger stuck on the top. Cork chippers rule.

richiepurgas · 31-07-2018 09:50PM

JackieChang wrote: »

What is it with Cork chippers and using 50 massive sheets of paper to wrap chips in. A small portion of chips at that. Another time I got 6 tiny chicken nuggets wrapped in a ridiculous amount of paper. Never seen anything like it and it seems to be a Cork thing.

It's impossible to eat on the go. I was trying to eat chips while walking home yesterday and it looked like I was eating them off a greasy broadsheet newspaper flapping everywhere in the wind. It nearly flew away like a kite.

Anyway, are there any decent chippers around the city that do chips in a brown paper bag?

Think you should give Neil Prenderville a ring in the morning.

Atlantic Dawn · 31-07-2018 09:55PM

Paper is 100% renewable, can't see the problem.

HeidiHeidi · 31-07-2018 10:53PM

JackieChang wrote: »

What does that mean? I'm having a rant. Is your life too exciting to have an auld rant every now and then?

Well said!

beachhead · 31-07-2018 11:10PM

Time to move to Cork.There must be at least 3/4 potatoes hidden in all that paper.Beats chippers around here especially Macaris who make a big show of putting a scoop of an extra 10 chips into a tiny(15 chips already in there) grease proof bag which then goes into a brown paper bag.By the way soiled/dirty wrapping paper goes straight to landfill.So paper bag chippers are eco friendly.

chite · 01-08-2018 03:04PM

Next time bring your own reusable container and ask to put the food into it, problem solved. They have no issue doing this, unless what you order is too big for it.
As said by beachhead the soiled paper can go into a compostable bin which is then sent to an industrial composter. Home compost for plain paper should be suitable, unless it's one of the plastic "biodegradable" kind.

More takeaways (and supermarkets) should provide this type of bin, as well as recycling and general refuse. You see them in a few cafes, even though they wouldn't produce as much rubbish other than takeaway compostable coffee cups.

GavRedKing · 01-08-2018 03:34PM

JackieChang wrote: »

Anyway, are there any decent chippers around the city that do chips in a brown paper bag?

Rockin Joes do and they're f**king awful if they're left in the bag longer than 30 secs.

The chips effectively "sweat" in the bag making them soggy, I've been there once and wont return because of it, that and the price on seriously poor burgers.

Shakes are decent but again, pricey for a sh*te takeaway.

JackieChang · 01-08-2018 10:29PM

vince wrote: »

tiny brown bags with a scoop of chips with the salt n vineger stuck on the top. Cork chippers rule.

Any decent chipper will shake the bag around as they delicately season the chips with the finest of Homestead salt.

I actually went to yer most famous chipper. The one everybody raves about in the south of the city. Where you see confused tourists standing outside with burnt shavings of chips in 5 sheets of soggy broadsheet paper, liters of grease all over their lips and hands. I can't understand their foreign lammidge but judging by their faces they're probably saying "these are supposed to be the best ****ing chips in Cork?!??"

First of all they're the worst chips I've ever had, same opinion as all the "blow in" non-Cork people I know. I guess we don't have the nostalgic memories of being sent down to this chipper by mammy with a 50p coin.

Secondly the salt thing you mentioned. They do the exact same thing in this famous Cork chipper. Lay out the chips on the 40 sheets of paper. Pour 2 tablespoons of salt on 1 chip. Wrap it up like a nappy in 4 trees worth of paper. (yes the amount of paper used is increasing in each of my sentences)

"But dey put a schoop a chips in wit de burger baiiii!!!"

All I want is a well cooked chip in a brown paper bag.

@GavRedKing I'll give Rockin Joe's a go and report back.

Ludo · 01-08-2018 10:43PM

Fresh and Fast in Passage give their chips in a "bag". The chips aren't the best but they do give a lot of them.

Dbu · 02-08-2018 12:05PM

JackieChang wrote: »

Any decent chipper will shake the bag around as they delicately season the chips with the finest of Homestead salt.

I actually went to yer most famous chipper. The one everybody raves about in the south of the city. Where you see confused tourists standing outside with burnt shavings of chips in 5 sheets of soggy broadsheet paper, liters of grease all over their lips and hands. I can't understand their foreign lammidge but judging by their faces they're probably saying "these are supposed to be the best ****ing chips in Cork?!??"

First of all they're the worst chips I've ever had, same opinion as all the "blow in" non-Cork people I know. I guess we don't have the nostalgic memories of being sent down to this chipper by mammy with a 50p coin.

Secondly the salt thing you mentioned. They do the exact same thing in this famous Cork chipper. Lay out the chips on the 40 sheets of paper. Pour 2 tablespoons of salt on 1 chip. Wrap it up like a nappy in 4 trees worth of paper. (yes the amount of paper used is increasing in each of my sentences)

"But dey put a schoop a chips in wit de burger baiiii!!!"

All I want is a well cooked chip in a brown paper bag.

@GavRedKing I'll give Rockin Joe's a go and report back.

I fear this may be taking over your life
Professional help is available or just buy oven chips and have them any way you wish at home:D

j8wk2feszrnpao · 02-08-2018 11:09PM

JackieChang wrote: »

What is it with Cork chippers and using 50 massive sheets of paper to wrap chips in. A small portion of chips at that. Another time I got 6 tiny chicken nuggets wrapped in a ridiculous amount of paper. Never seen anything like it and it seems to be a Cork thing.

It's impossible to eat on the go. I was trying to eat chips while walking home yesterday and it looked like I was eating them off a greasy broadsheet newspaper flapping everywhere in the wind. It nearly flew away like a kite.

Anyway, are there any decent chippers around the city that do chips in a brown paper bag?

I don't mind them using the wrapping, but I know what you mean by the overuse of it; at times it can be overkill. Just ask for less paper, that's what I've done for a while (the staff tend to be happy to use less).

03-08-2018 03:25PM

JackieChang wrote: »

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It's impossible to eat on the go. I was trying to eat chips while walking home yesterday and it looked like I was eating them off a greasy broadsheet newspaper flapping everywhere in the wind. It nearly flew away like a kite.............

JackieChang wrote: »

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I actually went to yer most famous chipper. The one everybody raves about in the south of the city. ............

The famous chipper you mention, if you tell them you are eating in they'll wrap them open for you in a handy cradle type organisation of paper, great for walking and munching

I live in Kildare, Dublin & Kildare chippers ( Irish Traditional Italian Chippers Association members mainly) are utter sh1t compared to Lennox's of Bandon Road.

KevinCavan · 03-08-2018 03:28PM

Somebody trying to be an Eco-Warrior hero? Just avoid using plastic like the plague, recycle as much as you can and drink your takeaway coffees in a reusable cup and you’ll be grand.

demanufactured · 03-08-2018 05:28PM

Put the chips in your ears.
Warm ears and waxy chips....win win.

EdgeCase · 05-08-2018 07:19PM

At least it's paper. There were (and are) FAR worse fast food packaging materials like plastic and polystyrene still in use.

dudara · 05-08-2018 07:22PM

God, I’d love a proper bag of Cork chips wrapped in paper now. Not the Dublin chips that come sweating in a brown paper bag. The newspaper wrap is much better!

12 years living in dublin and I still haven’t fully adjusted to their chips.

Balanadan · 05-08-2018 07:29PM

Nobody's mentioned getting chips in a cardboard box? They'd be sweating in the box compared to being wrapped in paper. It's a completely different experience eating out a sweaty box.

demanufactured · 06-08-2018 09:51AM

Balanadan wrote: »

Nobody's mentioned getting chips in a cardboard box? They'd be sweating in the box compared to being wrapped in paper. It's a completely different experience eating out a sweaty box.

That no way to talk about your Mrs!!

bogman · 09-08-2018 12:32AM

Better paper and lots of it than plastic wrapping any day, only problem ive with paper is the louts dumping it on the street after eating their take away...

zilog_jones · 09-08-2018 02:41PM

JackieChang wrote: »

What is it with Cork chippers and using 50 massive sheets of paper to wrap chips in. A small portion of chips at that.

Small portion? You're going to the wrong chippers

The one everybody raves about in the south of the city.

There are better chippers on the south side, ones that will give you a portion of chips the size of a human head too.

A good few of them still use polystyrene for burgers or curry/gravy chips - I think this is a bigger problem than the paper TBH. I prefer the paper to bags any day.

Cork chippers and their massive waste of paper. Does it annoy anybody else?

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