Why are all our chippers Italian?

Trekker09 · 18-12-2009 03:35PM

Beshoffs used to do great fish n chips. Are they still in business?

minidazzler · 18-12-2009 03:37PM

My Local Chipper is called Barney's. There is another one called Denny's, a Barty's and other names like that.

Tell me how they sound any bit Italian?

pebbles21 · 18-12-2009 03:44PM

Yes Macaris do a nice pair of Batter Burgers !

dr.bollocko · 18-12-2009 04:07PM

pebbles21 wrote: »

Yes Macaris do a nice pair of Batter Burgers !

Whatever that odd shaped lump of hideousness is it looks like it's melting on the bar.

Porkpie · 18-12-2009 04:10PM

Because they come from Italy?

Cookie_Monster · 18-12-2009 04:12PM

D-Generate wrote: »

Chippers in Cork don't have fancy Italian names and serve the finest chips in Ireland.

Wrong

Arklow has the finest chipper in Ireland.

Dustin even has a song about it

Xavi6 · 18-12-2009 04:35PM

Chips, sausage and a can - Macari's €1.50 lunch time special.

Got me through school that did.

General Zod · 18-12-2009 05:04PM

Burdock's on Lord Edward St do the best in Dublin.

VinnyTGM · 18-12-2009 05:07PM

There's a chipper in my town called 'The Fountain', doe's nice food. Nothing Italian about it.
I happen to know the Italian lad that run's it.... oh wait. Never mind.

Dave! · 18-12-2009 05:10PM

This thread has proved most informative

I must check out that region in Italy. Probably full of fat c*nts walking around eating wurly burgers.

I'd say the hospitals are busy as fook !

trench foot · 18-12-2009 05:16PM

The onion rings you gey in italian chippers are legendary! mmmmm

hey whatda matta you huh?

patneve · 18-12-2009 06:09PM

Dave! wrote: »

This thread has proved most informative I must check out that region in Italy. Probably full of fat c*nts walking around eating wurly burgers.

I'd say the hospitals are busy as fook !

Maybe you're talking about Dublin where it's full of fat c*nts walking around and eating wurly burgers. You're wrong, I have been to the Val di Comino in Italy...farmers and working class people who watch their diet unlike irish people.:cool: You do get a few tanned italian-looking kids talking in Dub accents though (during the summer holidays):D

biko · 18-12-2009 06:43PM

Dave! wrote: »

How come so many of the chippers in Ireland Tallaght are owned by and named after Italians?

Matassa's, Mizzoni's, Macari's....

No Italian chippers in Galway afaik - McDonaghs, Connellys, ...

Jack Daniels I · 18-12-2009 06:54PM

best chipper in galway is mcdonaghs,probably the best in ireland! second would be charcoal grill which is run by Turks i believe.one or two italian ones which pale in comparison to above mentioned

Dave! · 18-12-2009 06:56PM

Magnus wrote: »

No Italian chippers in Galway afaik - McDonaghs, Connellys, ...

Whatever, the point is there's loads of Italian chippers and no Chinese or Spanish chippers.... and now we know why !

dr.bollocko · 18-12-2009 06:58PM

There's an italian chippers in Oranmore. Nice place too.

rossie1977 · 18-12-2009 06:59PM

weeder wrote: »

everyone knows england and wales have the best chips.

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Lone Stone · 18-12-2009 07:00PM

Because irish one's are rank ! like the one across from me is crap taste like they buy there stuff out of tesco and cook it up.

kincsem · 18-12-2009 07:06PM

Thank God for Italian chippers, and Aprile's in Stillorgan in particular. I would have starved years ago without them. There was a Macari's in Blackrock years ago. My father taught the kids in national school.

And they are Eye-tallon Italians from Italy, real Italians.

Quint · 18-12-2009 07:18PM

Chocoholic84 wrote: »

Supermac's has, and will always be, the finest chipper EVER!*

*particularly when a little intoxicated...

It's the worst quality fast food franchise in the country! Even a bad chipper is better than supermacs!

General Zod wrote: »

Burdock's on Lord Edward St do the best in Dublin.

Borza in Walkinstown is the best chips in dublin!

Jack Daniels I wrote: »

best chipper in galway is mcdonaghs,probably the best in ireland! second would be charcoal grill which is run by Turks i believe.one or two italian ones which pale in comparison to above mentioned

Heard McDonaghs is great for fish and chips, next time I'm in galway i'm definitely going there!

biko · 18-12-2009 08:52PM

dr.bollocko wrote: »

There's an italian chippers in Oranmore. Nice place too.

Cool, I'll have to try it. Don't really see why Italians would be so good at chippers, they're pasta people

There's a great chipper in Dundalk, best cheese burgers and curried? chips ever Yum! Think it's run by Irish though.
Charcoal grill has an appreciation society. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&viewas=0&gid=2325172898

Jammyc · 18-12-2009 09:00PM

reminds me of this:

Overheard In Dublin wrote:

Ireland of the Welcomes!

In Roddy Boland's in Rathmines one night I overheard a group of Italian guys (tourists) trying to chat up two Irish girls and not getting very far.

One of the Italian's started waxing lyrical about one of the girls and her "beautiful pale skin" and said: "In my country, you would be a Princess"

To which the Irish girl replied "And in my country, you'd work in a chipper, now f**k off".

Overheard on Thursday, 21st April 2005 - Roddy Bolands by Kaz

smeedyova · 16-01-2010 09:02PM

i saw a documentary about that some time ago. it's because Italian immigrants set up chippers in the UK and did well about 50 years ago. at the time there was a lot of emigration in Italy so word spread and some people came to Ireland to set up business here. In fact, most of the Irish chipper families come from the same region -- there's one whole village in Italy where most of the people have family members in the chipper business here. there is a dvd about it and it's quite interesting. i think it's called 'chippers' and it's by a second generation Irish/Italin whose parents have a chippers here, i think.

rubadub · 16-01-2010 09:15PM

‘one and one’, which is still a common way of asking for fish and chips.

I have never heard anybody ask for a one and one in any chipper, and I have been in a hell of a lot of them! I have never seen a chipper with only one type of fish so it makes sense that nobody would ever ask for it.

I want to know why takeaways tend to copy each other, in proper chippers you they put chips in a small white paper bag which is way too small, then put this in a brown paper bag and dump a load more chips in ontop. In a chinese takeaway you get frozen chips but in a proper size white paper bag then in the brown bag. In takeaway vans you get rotten chips in those white plastic trays. There are a few exceptions but most are like this.

Big Nasty · 16-01-2010 09:36PM

My name is URL wrote: »

Whassa matta you?

Ah, shutupa ya face!

starbelgrade · 16-01-2010 09:40PM

rubadub wrote: »

I have never heard anybody ask for a one and one in any chipper, and I have been in a hell of a lot of them! I have never seen a chipper with only one type of fish so it makes sense that nobody would ever ask for it.
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A one & one is a Cod n' Chips - I haven't heard that expression in a long time, but it used to be quite common in the working class areas in Dublin. It could still be used, but I haven't been in a chipper, let alone a Dublin chipper in over 5 years.

Big Nasty · 16-01-2010 10:01PM

Best chippers in Ireland are Italian owned!

/thread

Coriolanus · 16-01-2010 10:08PM

In Blessington, people go to Dempseys for their chips, and to the Macari for their burgers.
Demp do the best chips I've ever had, but don't do anything beyond chips, sausages and a burger with onion/sauce. None of this salad nonsense or batter burgers or kebabs!

Big Nasty · 16-01-2010 10:11PM

Nevore wrote: »

In Blessington, people go to Dempseys for their chips, and to the Macari for their burgers.
Demp do the best chips I've ever had, but don't do anything beyond chips, sausages and a burger with onion/sauce. None of this salad nonsense or batter burgers or kebabs!

Burgers with salad = FAIL

Cheese, Onions Ketchup ONLY!!!!!!!!!

starbelgrade · 16-01-2010 10:13PM

Why are all Chinese takeaways Chinese? Surely anyone could knock out that muck?

Why are all our chippers Italian?

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