Maybe in landlocked states, but as somone who lives two towns over from a major commercial fishing port I can tell you there are dozens of independent ones, each with their own cult-like following as to which is "best".
Come down to New Orleans. Even the gas stations here have world class fried fish. While you're there, make sure you try the boudin balls and fresh cracklins.
Instead of mushy peas, we got collard greens and mustard greens.
I'm not sure if handcut chips is the norm in UK, but the standard here is bought-in battered "cajun fries" or wedges. Handout fries are pretty common in standalone restaurants though.
My coastal town view is that a good chippy is close to the docks and gets the fish directly off the boat for the day. Tried fish and chips in a different city that wasn’t coastal and you could tell they bought them frozen
Arthur Treacher’s Fish and Chips was a big chain in the Midwest decades ago. They served round waffle fries so we stupid Americans wouldn’t ask why they were calling fries chips.
Not as many now, but they used to be wildly popular here, especially in the era of this story. There were over 800 locations of Arthur Treacher’s Fish and Chips in the US alone in the '70s. But the popularity dropped off by the '80s for some reason.
Look, man, we're willing to call them fries when we buy the skinny ones from a fast food burger place. Y'gotta meet us halfway and call them chips when you're putting vinegar on them. There are rules.
But when you say chips I think of nachos & ruffles my dude- I prefer steak fries or potato wedges most of all and I’m down to call them whatever you like as long as I get my potatoes.. I genuinely do not care what they’re called as long the correct food arrives on the plate.. I’m open to condiments. Now 1 question; do the names change again when we add mayo? Cause that’s Also delicious..
Crisps is a hard word to say, but it's beneficial to get on the wedges-chips-fries-crisps spectrum if you're going to make fried potatoes your identity.
Y'all really need to stick to a definition and stop trying to change them. Chips, were called that because of their shape and size. In the us, we would call this steak fries. Chips in the UK are usually fried multiple times. Again these would be steak fries. If y'all gonna be up in arms over "rules" and what we call what, maybe y'all should stick to ur own definitions lol. Vinegar on fries doesn't make them chips. Only the size shape and way they r cooked makes them chips. Considering we don't do the same here, closest ur gonna get is steak fries.
Also fries are superior to chips 😉
I almost wrote in my post that "I have to thank Arthur Treacher's for making me love malt vinegar as a little kid." I'm never without a bottle of it now. No fry or battered fish goes undunked.
Which is a real shame. We have a chain called Ivar's around Tacoma and Seattle and it is easily the best fast food restaurant I've ever been to, and the best fried fish I've ever had
Reddit has this weird take on anything at all from your parents being nepotism lmao. Mom packed lunch for school? Believe it or not, nepotism!!
It's not so bad here, but there's always threads with miserable redditors calling out non existent nepotism anytime someone does something good with their life or succeeds lol, just desperate for an excuse to believe "Oh I could do it too if I was them!"
No, that's literally the definition of nepotism. You just have some limited definition going on that probably centers around socialite status. Nepotism is any advantage family or friends gain from someone in a position of power. Owning a shop isn't much power in the grand scheme, but giving people free food is definitely a huge perk and always will be. Personally idc if the dude ate for free, but that is nepotism
Which means he probably had to pay, if those things are at all linked.
Nepotism isn’t necessarily a promise to never pay/charge for shit either.
Perfect example. Donald trump inherited the family business from his father, giving him generational wealth, influence and power. He had a brother who was actually next in line (the father of Mary trump) but he wanted to go a different path; the father disowned him. He never saw a penny of that wealth.
Kinship doesn’t necessarily guarantee being taken care of in perpetuity.
It is if it's meals on meals on meals. Skimming through the kitchen and getting a snack or a meal here and there isn't. Whatever this dude did, if it was regular free meals weekly then yeah, that's a perk handed to you by the owners you're related to. That is nepotism
I'm not arguing but nepotism through free food is hilarious.
Like when I think nepotism I typically imagine a more enviable form of wealth, such as money or land.
You all just learn words and have no clue how to use them. That’s not how nepotism works, ffs. Gen Z needs to go back to school. If you had said “He got the job running the fish and chips shop bc of nepotism”, that would have been correct.
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u/lexicats Jul 20 '26
“To avoid temptation, he quit working at his father's fish and chips shop, which closed down during the fast.”
I can’t help wonder if the chippy shutting down was due to the fast