Chippers and Deli's

stellios · 07-09-2011 12:36PM #1

With all the Italian take away chippers in Ireland, can some please explain to me why there are no chippers in Italy, or europe for that matter??

Also why is Ireland the only place where you can get a hot chichen roll at a deli??

chin_grin · 07-09-2011 12:37PM

'cos of the spuds.............and chickens.

Fowler87 · 07-09-2011 12:39PM

stellios wrote: »

With all the Italian take away chippers in Ireland, can some please explain to me why there are no chippers in Italy, or europe for that matter??

Also why is Ireland the only place where you can get a hot chichen roll at a deli??

What dya expect to get, cavier

The King of Moo · 07-09-2011 12:40PM

Because on most of the continent, and particularly Italy, people have a much better diet than here and Britain, and wouldn't dream of eating battered fish and chips.

As far as I remember, Italians here and particularly in Scotland after World War II, saw our appetite for fish and chips and saw that as a good way to make money.

kfallon · 07-09-2011 12:41PM

stellios wrote: »

Also why is Ireland the only place where you can get a hot chichen roll at a deli??

And I bet you are having one of them hot chicken rolls for lunch right now....or a snack box from Macari's :P

Just be grateful we have them

knird evol · 07-09-2011 12:41PM

Italians eat good food. But they can manage to fix up the sort of crap that we want to eat.

stellios · 07-09-2011 12:42PM

Fowler87 wrote: »

What dya expect to get, cavier

That doesnt make sense, why would i want cavier, im talking about a chicken fillet roll

mikemac · 07-09-2011 12:43PM

Ha, moved to Dublin and I found a bag of chips was a "single" and fish n' chips was a one and one, pronounced wan n' wan

Doesn't happen anywhere else in Ireland

jonnyfingers · 07-09-2011 12:43PM

In Italy they actually have good food so no need for chippers really.

Azureus · 07-09-2011 12:43PM

kfallon wrote: »

And I bet you are having one of them hot chicken rolls for lunch right now....or a snack box from Macari's :P

Just be grateful we have them

Been dying for one of these all week...had just put it outta my head and BAM!

Urge to resist temptation waning...

stellios · 07-09-2011 12:45PM

kfallon wrote: »

And I bet you are having one of them hot chicken rolls for lunch right now....or a snack box from Macari's :P

Just be grateful we have them

Im having neither, but i would like both:D I wonder this because it seems to be all Italians who run these chippers, so when i went to italy I thought I would get a nice chipper. I dont think this is a rediculas assumption??

Icyseanfitz · 07-09-2011 12:45PM

and yet they still have mc donalds

stovelid · 07-09-2011 12:47PM

Damn.

Get here too late and all the inter-rail generalizations have been snapped up.

I see your 'good food' and raise you a 'passion for life', 'expressive and joyful sense of humanity' and 'effete, shit chino-wearing, arse-pinching moped-abuser'.

kfallon · 07-09-2011 12:48PM

Azureus wrote: »

Been dying for one of these all week...had just put it outta my head and BAM!

Urge to resist temptation waning...

Please accept my deepest apologies good sir!

And don't forget the curry sauce with the snack box.....

....oh and the battered sausage

The King of Moo · 07-09-2011 12:49PM

jonnyfingers wrote: »

In Italy they actually have good food so no need for chippers really.

Exactly.

Particularly if you go outside the big cities, the only kind of takeaway food you'll find is pizza.

I was explaining to a woman from a smallish city what Chinese food generally consisted of, after I was talking about having Chinese takeaway here.
She knew Chinese people had to eat something, but had no idea what, and had a delightful, slightly confused look on her face as I told her about kung po and chow mein

.

You'll find Chinese takeaways in the big cities but not many other types, and they're generally only used by young people and then very occasionally.

Some Italian people can be a bit too conservative about food, arguing that there's a limited range of toppings that should go on pizza, and rarely if ever trying other nationalities' cooking, but I don't blame them in the slightest.

thebigbiffo · 07-09-2011 12:49PM

italian food isn't that good for you over all. loads of high carb stuff, loads of cheese, loads of white breads. i'd hazard a guess that 'traditional' irish food is no worse than the italians - it's just that immigrants here saw a market for fast food and got a rep for owning chippers.

Azureus · 07-09-2011 12:50PM

kfallon wrote: »

Please accept my deepest apologies good sir!

And don't forget the curry sauce with the snack box.....

....oh and the battered sausage

Its good lady, excuse you! No woman can order a battered sausage without getting curious looks from the man behind the counter so Ill stick to onion rings...nom nom...

DAMMIT!

jonnyfingers · 07-09-2011 12:52PM

But also in Italy their cheap "street food" is actually good too. Fried pasta, calzones, deep fried sage leaves even.

I'd love to know how the Italians got into the fast food business here.

The King of Moo · 07-09-2011 12:52PM

stovelid wrote: »

Damn.

Get here too late and all the inter-rail generalizations have been snapped up.

I see your 'good food' and raise you a 'passion for life', 'expressive and joyful sense of humanity' and 'effete, shit chino-wearing, arse-pinching moped-abuser'.

Fresh ingredients including lots of veg, pasta and olive oil, and huge varieties of dishes is infinitely better than spuds + some meat + another veg.

We have come on in leaps and bounds with our approach to food in this country, but all of the good food we eat is mostly other national dishes.

We barely have any national cuisine of our own.
Bacon and cabbage, stew and not much else.

Icyseanfitz · 07-09-2011 12:52PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

Exactly.

Particularly if you go outside the big cities, the only kind of takeaway food you'll find is pizza.

I was explaining to a woman from a smallish city what Chinese food generally consisted of, after I was talking about having Chinese takeaway here.
She knew Chinese people had to eat something, but had no idea what, and had a delightful, slightly confused look on her face as I told her about kung po and chow mein .

You'll find Chinese takeaways in the big cities but not many other types, and they're generally only used by young people and then very occasionally.

Some Italian people can be a bit too conservative about food, arguing that there's a limited range of toppings that should go on pizza, and rarely if ever trying other nationalities' cooking, but I don't blame them in the slightest.

again id stake money on mcdonalds being around some corner or other

mikemac · 07-09-2011 12:53PM

Pastries for breakfast in the hotel buffet last time I was there

I wouldn't say that's much better for you then an Ulster fry

They have good food but no better or worse then anywhere else

thebigbiffo · 07-09-2011 12:54PM

jonnyfingers wrote: »

I'd love to know how the Italians got into the fast food business here.

http://itica.ie/history/

policarp · 07-09-2011 12:54PM

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

and yet they still have mc donalds

You're not offered a condom with a McDonalds. . .

Icyseanfitz · 07-09-2011 12:55PM

policarp wrote: »

You're not offered a condom with a McDonalds. . .

yeah you just get the contents in your burger

jonnyfingers · 07-09-2011 12:56PM

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

again id stake money on mcdonalds being around some corner or other

No Starbucks though!

The King of Moo · 07-09-2011 12:56PM

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

again id stake money on mcdonalds being around some corner or other

Oh yeah, I took that for granted! But generally, there's far fewer than here, and only in the very big cities.

I think that there's only one in Florence, and it's mostly used by tourists.

kfallon · 07-09-2011 12:57PM

Azureus wrote: »

Its good lady, excuse you! No woman can order a battered sausage without getting curious looks from the man behind the counter so Ill stick to onion rings...nom nom...

DAMMIT!

Apologies again Ma'am!!

Battered sausages are ok, they'll think you are hetero!

Onion rings they'll think you are lezzie :P

Them's the rules!

stellios · 07-09-2011 12:57PM

Sure McDonalds is everywhere!

I reckon Italian food is much better in Ireland than it is in Italy, thats my opinion.
Whats good about our restaurants is you can get any type of food, Italian, Irish, Chinease in one place. In Italy limited to Italian

stovelid · 07-09-2011 12:57PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

Fresh ingredients including lots of veg, pasta and olive oil, and huge varieties of dishes is infinitely better than spuds + some meat + another veg.

You won't be working the land on that pasta stuff.

It's OK if you're standing around pinching tourists' arses and pickpocketing in a piazza though.

The King of Moo · 07-09-2011 12:58PM

thebigbiffo wrote: »

italian food isn't that good for you over all. loads of high carb stuff, loads of cheese, loads of white breads. i'd hazard a guess that 'traditional' irish food is no worse than the italians - it's just that immigrants here saw a market for fast food and got a rep for owning chippers.

That's true but it's balanced out by the fact that they usually have a tiny breakfast, sometimes just an espresso, eat at a leisurely pace (dinner will often take two hours sometimes), often go for a long walk after a meal and pretty much never eat processed food, just fresh ingredients.

The King of Moo · 07-09-2011 01:00PM

mikemac wrote: »

Pastries for breakfast in the hotel buffet last time I was there

I wouldn't say that's much better for you then an Ulster fry

They have good food but no better or worse then anywhere else

They'll usually only eat one though, and in the summer they might just have an espresso.

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