Balsall Common or Meriden Chippy??

I am also attempting to lose a few pounds (maybe that should read stone) but am allowing myself a small morsel or two occasionally. I have managed to go for 4 days without booze this week but then awoke with a killer headache on Thursday. I am assured by my well meaning friends that this is the "detox effect", but I managed to cure it with a can of strongbow
Am now into my once a week treat of crisps <crunch crunch>
Can only dream of a chippy now, as i have used all my treats up

[CraigyB]

I don't suppose it helps much when strangers give you chocolates, you'll have to keep your good deeds to a minimum eh Kim?

Well...yes..but you see those sort of calories don't count as they were an unsolicited gift!
The fact that I am now trawling thru long grass at every opportunity seeking lost property is another matter entirely.
I am a firm believer in "never look a gift horse in the mouth", and if the gift horse happens to be chocolates, stuff them in YOUR mouth as quick as poss!!
Anyway, to return to the original subject, I had a not too bad fish n chips at the George in the Tree not so long ago... sorry to have to admit to visiting there though

[CraigyB]

Your logic is impressive yet flawed methinks. If there was a sudden and unexpected wave of kind souls thrusting free food into your mits, your motto of "just eat it" would soon have you looking like a beached whale.

Hmmm, George in the Tree. I used to like it there about 15 years ago, but I just can't make my mind up about the place these days. It was good fun there during the World Cup though. And their Christmas Eve bash last year was superb.

Has any one had fish and chips at the Brickies

stop making rude comments about beeched whales craigy and no ive not had fish or chips at the birckies being as i dont go there (or anywhere round here as you well know )

Lol, Dudess Holly, does the White Horse serve them

Yes they do!

Have you tried it?

I have not yet ventured over the threshold....being of somewhat senior years (42!!) I'm not sure it caters for the likes of me!!
Maybe I will persuade a couple of female friends (of the slightly younger persuasion to go with me). I could go with my husband i spose but I don't like to go out with him where someone might know me

[CraigyB]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm thats what my ex wife said about me

Still, life is good, i dont think she goes to Bingo now, it used to cost me a fortune but the compensation was good............ the tv remote

Funny thing is now, i dont watch it much and life is so uncomplicated

ok..i am now going to attemp a chippy related question or 2.
Why are potato fritters called scallops round here?
And why can't you get batter bits any more?
And has anyone actually ever eaten a pickled egg??

DudesKimbo, Pickled egg crushed up in a bag of cheese an onion crisps very tasty.

As for the scallops you must have come from up north were they stuff fish betwen 2 layers of spud and batter it and call it a fish cake

Maybe DudeyB knows the answer to the scallop question, could it be a poor mans oyster of the midlands

May be a night out, of old days, were the male would take out the bird for half a bitter and a scallop on the way home, to set the mood

No I come from Nottingham where a fritter is the same as a scallop! A fish cake is MASHED potato and fish!
And your pickled egg thing sounds GROSS!!!!
(Mind you, this is from someone who used to roll up a processed cheese slice into a ball until it looked like playdoh, then squish it onto a cracker)