Cereal.Originally Posted by Dquincy
Cereal.
Eat the chips, put the cereal in the bin.
You never see salmon with chips, do you? Though I don't really know why.
Too far apart, class-wise.
Maybe you could ponce up some chips enough to warrant being served alongside it in a fancy restaurant.
I do this. You need to chuck a stock pot and some gravy powder into the steak but it's a blinding meal for after the gym. They should serve it in hospitals.
We don't always see eye to eye on stuff but I'm 100% with you
I don't generally have stuff like chili or bolognese with chips day 1, but when batch cooking stuff, I'll very often have whatever the fuck it is with chips on a later date. Having it properly like a grown up first time makes the chip day more special.
I had oven fries with a sandwich the other day cus I didn't have any crisps, couldn't be arsed to go to the shop, and having a sandwich without something crunchy and fatty and potatoey always feels wrong. It was like the kind of lunch option you get in a mediocre cafe, was quality.
I don't even mind chips with a fry up, even though I wouldn't actively choose them.
Shepherd's Pie on an oven bottom lads, meal of the gods.
Good shout, but wouldn't put cereal in the 'main meal' category.
On a side note, most cereals are just pure sugar aren't they. I get that they're nice to eat but you really shouldn't be eating (the majority of) them. Weird how as a society it's become such a staple. Magic of marketing.
+1 for this. If I can get chips and hash browns on a breakfast plate, that's a winner.
When I still lived in England chili on potato waffles was often a go to when I came home pissed.
Funny you say this as a month or two ago I stumbled onto baked salmon, oven fries and peas one night as I didn’t realise I didn’t have potatoes. Worked really well. Basically posh fish and chips.
How does salmon still get the posh rep when it's generally one of the most affordable fish going?
It's not beige.
One of my old uncles used to love trotting out the old story about Lamb Shank being the bit the local butcher would throw to the dog or gift to the local destitute family before the restaurants realised they could make a killing by slow cooking it and using poncy spices like pepper.
He'd entertain us with this story everything something more inventive than chicken pie or sausage and chips was even hinted at for dinner.
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Speaking of chips, how does everyone go from potato -> chips, using an airfryer? I never really enjoy them so presume I'm missing something.
I'm a twit
Look at the chips you enjoy (McDonald's? I don't know). Basically you're skimping out way too much on oil and salt. Everyone does the same thing when home-cooking chips. Lots of fat and salt those fuckers into heart attack territory.
Although I suspect an air fryer isn't the way to go. They're fine for a lot of things but chips I'm doubting.
I much prefer good white fish to salmon. Or even mediocre white fish, honestly. Salmon is decent but overrated IMO.
My Da used to eat those sickening tins of salmon and it put me off ever being able to go near it.
Cmon. Does anyone enjoy McDonalds chips? They’re not even chips, they’re wet potato packets with air inside.
Pub chips, let’s say.
I also don’t have any salt on anything, so that’s probably an issue.
I'm a twit
Any chip worth the name will have been for a dip in some boiling oil, doing it dry will just give you oven chips effect at best.
The only good thing about McDonald's are the chips. Absolute salty filth.
Problem is getting decent examples of the McDonald's chip. Need a super high turnover one to avoid the soggy disappointment.
Breakfast is their strongest suit though. The Sausage McMuffin is king.
I thought the idea of air fryers was that they could emulate the effect of a deep fat fryer [with regard to chips] in a healthier way - is that not the case? Are they just, as I have heard, really hot little ovens?
They are just small, hot, fan ovens. They heat up quicker because they are small. They probably do get things crisper than a big home fan oven because they move air better.
Somewhere in the middle and basically what RL said.
They are pretty shit for chips though. French fries are probably the best it gets in one.
Five Guys are the king of salty chips. As a bloke who cut table salt out of his life years ago, it hits like a truck.
Shame it's so pricey though.
All of the strange things you've said on here, this is up there. Why no salt?
High cholesterol.
I'm a twit
“Stroke dust” is what it was called growing up.
Jesus wept, no wonder you're so thin, all your food must taste like carpet sweepings.
Salt doesn't contain or raise your cholesterol though...
Not great for blood pressure though, which to my completely untrained mind sounds more strokey. Like the higher pressure will make it burst up there.
As with everything there's a balance. Salt on chips, fine, taking the top off the salt shaker and making a small heap of salt on your plate, as practised by my grandad, heart attack 77, perhaps less so. Although given he died in the 80s that was probably still a good run.
High blood pressure (increased by high salt diet) and high cholesterol are both risk factors for atherosclerotic heart disease (plaques in your arteries).
On the subject of salt, have I become desensitised or has someone got to the halloumi makers? Seems a lot less offensively salty these days, which is a shame.
Yeah getting tolerant of salt is definitely a thing.
I don't notice it generally, but halloumi just seems to be one of those things that has become a lot less salty. Conspiracy brain tells me they're shrinkflating it in some way, adding more water or something, which causes it to leach out.
Too many are scared of salt.
We need it.
Going salt-free is stupid.
Said the fat hermit.
Keep up Bam, Mahow is a gym rat who could bench press you now.
But not squat him. Calfless little wank.
My calves are MASSIVE.
My squatting also appears to be sorted now but I'm taking it slow.
Had an early Christmas Dinner with neighbours today as they're off to Bolivia (where they're originally from) next weekend.
Had beef and goose which I had been requesting for years. The goose was probably a little overcooked (seeing as you can have it pink) but it was really tasty and still really moist.
Went out drinking with wor sis and wor brother in law.
I bore witness to:
- Three old wifeys falling flat on their arse. One of which were scrambling for their high heels.
- One fight in the pizza shop over nowt.
I've never been prouder of the North East.
That's why I prefer daytime drinking in bars and drinking at home in the evenings these days.
I don't mind it as long as it doesn't take a dark turn. The last time I saw an old fella crack his crown was like 6pm. I had two bags of shopping on me and the fella was completely fucked. If I see blood, it's bad. If someone's on their arse whinging about bollocks, it's entertainment.
Spent the weekend in Birmingham with the some mates. Got ourselves a nice airbnb in the Jewellery Quarter and had a decent mooch about town. Thought we'd get some culture in but the art gallery only had the ground floor open.I did get roped into an overly-friendly coffee shop which felt worryingly cultish.
The city's got surprisingly alright vibes. The accommodation was fantastic, even if it had all the wanky accessories these places seem to have. Books on PSYCHOLOGY and WELLBEING and BUSINESS that are merely for show, etc. A former metalworks deserves better, really. Mostly a good time from a food and drink perspective, although it took forever for someone to get our orders in the Indian Tap room.
Would possibly visit again if I had more of a tourist plan. If someone could bring back the Birmingham SuperPrix, I'd be there every year.
Where are you going next, Hartlepool?
We needed some place central because we're scattered all over the place. Plus we're not getting a 3-storey townhouse for 10 people in Hartlepool, are we?
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