A comment underneath a food review has sparked a debate about fish and chips that we really didn’t need to be having.
Restaurant columnist Grace Dent posted a recent review of Angel Lane Chippie in Penrith, Cumbria, and got an incredibly baffling reply.
After she praised the restaurant’s ‘extra globs of thick batter’, a man claimed: “The batter is there to protect the fish during frying, you peel it off, throw it away, then eat the fish! If you bake a fish (or indeed a vegetable) in a salt crust, do you eat that too?”
Grace wrote on Twitter: “This week’s Guardian restaurant column is about a northern chip shop. This comment has kept me awake. I. I just. What.”
Yeah, what the actual fuck – who in their right mind is peeling the deicious batter off a fish and chucking it?
As the North of England collectively opens its mouth in shock and disgust, people took to the replies to let their opinion known.
Grant said: “What’s the point in getting scraps if you aren’t going to eat the batter”, while James added: “It’s so bonkers and wrong it makes me wonder if he’s actually right and we’ve all, everyone, been doing it wrong .”
Writer Eddie Robson made a valid comparison about something as equally daft: “The pastry is there to protect the pie while baking, you pick it off, throw it away and eat the filling!”
Another Twitter user summed it up nicely: “I’m guessing the comment was from a Southerner”.
Happy Friday everyone, enjoy your chippy teas and make sure you definitely eat the batter like a proper Northerner.
