Go to any Fish & Chip Shop (Chippie) in both Australia & New Zealand is that you get (3 Three) different types of cooked fish which are' (1 ONE) Grilled Fish is a fillet &/or piece of fish which being fried &/or cooked on a Very Hot Plate Grill & (2 TWO) Battered Fish which is a fillet &/or piece of fish which is covered in either Thick &/or Thin Batter especially Beer Batter & then deep fried & finally (3 THREE) Crumbed Fish is a fillet &/or piece of fish which is covered in Breadcrumbs & then deep fried, of course.
Mushy peas are manna from heaven. In the UK, proper fish n' chip shops used to give away or sell 'scraps' or 'bits' which are the bits of batter collected from the fryer. Delicious. Being a Northerner, my favourite combo is fish, chips, mushy peas and chip-shop curry.
Never had vinegar on mushy peas. Used to eat the surplus cold fish from the lunch time in my works canteen for afternoon tea/coffee break on a Friday. I also like cold chips and baked beans straight out of the tin.
Just to emphasise, fish n’ chips (a “fish supper” in some parts) was usually sold wrapped in paper ( old unsold newspapers for the outer wrap) & eaten either on the way home (with fingers!) or as soon as home, sometimes with a fork; if eaten outside & mush peas purchased, they would be eaten by scooping up with a chip. F & C we’re the original working class takeaway food; only in the last 30-40 years has eating as a sit down knife & fork restaurant meal become usual. Best ones probably are from the Magpie in Whitby.
It has certainly become popular here, but you never see it with mushy peas so we were happy to be able to try it. We dipped our chips in the peas and found that it was very good'!
Mushy peas are made with marrowfat peas. The peas are left to dry in the field, instead of being harvested when tender. A well known brand of marrowfat dried peas is Batchelors. The peas are soaked overnight in boiling water, along with the soaking tablets included in the box. The tablets contain sodium bicarbonate. After rinsing the peas, they're cooked in fresh water on the stove until they become mushy and the water has evaporated.
Brilliant video! Fish and chips is such a classic British meal! Most often the appeal is to eat it on the Coast out of the paper! (Special memories of romantically chatting and eating Fish and Chips together strolling on the pier and sitting together on a bench. ) But in the Midlands of England where I am from, we are far from the sea. But we have our own secret weapon of orange chips! Massive crispy fish with slightly battered chips!
Ahh, sounds like great memories. I think Ross and I need to take a trip to the coast and see what fish and chips we can find. Though really haven't seen anything like a chippy here. I haven't heard of orange chips before.
@@FinnLovesFood Orange chips are a speciality to the West Midlands and not widely known in the rest of the Country. They are slightly battered so that they are still fluffy inside but with a nice bit of crunch on the outside. And as we say locally they are Bostin' mate! 👌👍
Its great to see a place like this in the US that people are loving and even better that they called it ( A touch of Britain ) and not a Touch of England as sadly all to often I see in the US Britain as a whole being refereed to as England, like one reactor that was eating Haggis and said it was from England as in Britain. Malt vinegar and salt on the chips and peas is tasty but personally i do not put vinegar on the fish as it can make the batter coating soggy, instead i spread the tartar sauce on the fish.
Scraps/batter bits are still free in most British chippies. They're super yummy mixed into mushy peas and a dollop of ketchup between 2 slices of white bread.
The crispier the better , when they are less greasy it's more than likely that they are using sunflower oil to deep fry with . Cod & Haddock are the 2 main fish served at chippy's here in the UK . Also we can order a Special Fish which is fried in breadcrumbs not batter which is very tasty indeed .
@@FinnLovesFood basically a large cod in the uk is normally the whole fillet and a small cod is half the fillet.....but it does depend on the chip shop......as a lot of them are cutting the size down......grrrr
In the UK when getting fish and chips you can get either chip shop gravy or chip shop curry to go over them. I always get the gravy which is thick and full of flavour. I commonly drink Rio or Vimto with them.
Ben Shaws Dandelion and Burdock. I used to go to their factory 40 years ago with my father to buy their used demi johns for his home brewing when they were in Beck Road Huddersfield.
Haddock fried in beef dripping is how it's done on the North Yorkshire coast. I'm biased, but these are the best fish n tates. Other fish are available in coastal chippy's such as Rock, Skate, Cod and Woof, all fresh out of the sea. Chippy's in my home town of Scarborough all use fresh fish, so the thing that distinguishes the best is the batter. A good chippy guards it's batter recipe as that is what will make or break it's business. Southern England appears to use vegetable oils to fry in, healthier maybe, but no flavour for me, I just can't eat them at all.
There is certainly flavour in veg oil cooked chips to me, they taste disgustingly bitter, I have to pour a pint of vinegar over them, they need to be swimming in the stuff or the taste makes me feel sick. Don't worry about the vinegar making them mushy cos chips fried in that disgusting muck are already soggy because it burns if you heat it to the proper temperature to get crispy non soggy chips. As for being more healthy, that's debatable.
Cod is the best fish to have. I have never seen anyone eat it with their hands, the chips yes but not the fish! Brown sauce or, tomato sauce is usually added, not always though, any soda will do. Pickled onions are also good to have, especially the silver skinned onions in white vinegar.
@@FinnLovesFood you would usually eat it with your hands, out of paper. If you took it home or had it in a restaurant, why wouldn't you use cutlery? Curry sauce (chinese) is a great accompaniment to fish and chips, southerners would turn their noses up at it, unless you called it Katsu. 😂
You made me awfully hungry watching you eat. I think the best way to enjoy fish chips and peas is to get some of each on your fork and munch away - and eat it while it's hot!
We picked them up on one of our very first visits to Touch of Britain. We tried them in one of our videos and loved them. I also attempted to make Chorley cakes! They didn't look quite right, but tasted good.
in the UK we had a pie and pea supper for the boy scouts and venture scouts... once a year... that was either chicken pie, beef and onion pie with mushy peas... and you had a choice to have gravy with it... usually about 200 parents and kids all eating pie and peas... was a good night...
Fish n chips is both restaurant , and takeaway food and to be fair it's more knife and fork in the restaurant and fingers when outside on the seafront. Wonderful to see sarsons malt vinegar , and I for one cannot have too much of it on my fish chips and mushy peas , and i hope you enjoyed dandelion and burdock, i had one just the other day 🥰
If you're eating fish and chips when you're on your way home from the pub you eat with your hands, but I wouldn't recommend eating mushy peas with them, the best fish is Cod or Silver Hake, some people like Plaice, and put the salt on before the vinegar
Good to see you trying fish 'n chips with the mushies . . . although, when I saw the size of the fish - I thought to myself, maybe they split the fish and the chips between them from 1 order of it? If it was an order each - then I think my legs may have given way at the small size of the portions! A fish where I am here (battered cod) - don't know what kind yours was . . . would literally almost fit an oval sized dinner plate - and the chip portion would have covered it . . . and at our prices here now which have went up again - that would have cost about £8-9 all in . . . the fish itself would have cost about £5.50 . . . Sadly I'm not much of a condiment person myself to be fair . . . These days I usually just get the fish itself with an extra small bag of batter thrown in, as it's large enough to do me for the day with a few slices of bread used. If I do mushy peas, then I don't bother with vinegar even, as I just use the taste of peas along with the fish and the bread. If I'm going to put vinegar on, then I don't bother with the peas, just bread. My other way is just to make some gravy and pour it over the fish. The same bread fills you, and also mops everything up at the end, too! The price of chips here, alone or when added to something has gone a bit wild now - so I just buy a bag of pots and make my own chips or fritters instead in the chip pan. 3 meals out of 1 bag of pots for only a £1 or less, so you can't lose really . . . and have saved about £5 just by doing that by home cooking them . . . and again, I just ,make some gravy to put on them, and have a few slices of bread with them . . . Anyways, keep on enjoying your various meals and dishes you two . . . as there are still a lot of great UK dishes for you to try out yet . . .
Growing up Manchester way in the 50s/60s, the fish then were about the same size as those in the video - succulent and tender, not the plate sized inflated monsters you see today. I remember the shock of a mouthful of bones when first biting into a fish when I worked down south, horrible!
I paused on the menu and the prices are shocking. Pie is £1.60 here, $17.95 there. I can get small fish and chips for £3.50 and the fish is bigger than the piece in the video.
@@wullaballoo2642 it seems food here is more expensive than the UK. The items in their store are also pricey, but they have a lot of things that you can't find in any other store in the area.
@@FinnLovesFood It's probably expensive to import, it has to travel a long way and there's probably also an import tax. It is a shame that fresh fruit and veg is so expensive where you are, I'd try to grow as much myself as I could but I've only ever grown chilli plants and a garlic bulb that sprouted once.
Looks decent, the fish looked a little on the small side to what we get in the chippy or restaurants in the UK, which is typically cod or haddock. Touch of Britain seems the a nice little place though.
Fish n chips looked pretty good. I now live near the port of La Rochelle France, next to our marina is a fish n chips take out, pretty good too. So much so that that their trading times are "open 7pm, closed when we have no more fish" never seen them open after 10 pm.
I may be biased as I live in costal town that all serve haddock as standard but I find haddock has more flavour than cod so definitely my preference. Also a lot of the fish/chip shops also do 'skate' and often will let you bring a piece of fish of your choice that they will fry for you. While it all looked tasty, the fish was small and chips looked oven cooked rather than fried. Though appreciate you have limited options in the USA. Here there are chippys everywhere! So kinda spoiled for choice. Thanks again for the content. I do enjoy your vids!
Many restaurants serve fish and chips, but we are definitely lacking chippys! We live about an hour and a half drive from the coast so I feel like we're far away, but when you look at the rest of the U.S. most states are land locked and very far from the ocean. I'm not familiar with skate and that is nice that they will fry up fish you bring in!
Carbonated drinks with fish 'n chips are mainly for people aged under 40. I prefer a nice cup of tea with fish 'n chips. I don't feel bloated afterwards.
Eating the battered fish with your hands - break the fish in half or into three pieces with your fingers. Try dipping the battered cod in the mushy peas. Try a dollop of tomato ketchup to dip your chips or battered cod into.
@FinnLovesFood You could also try chips with gravy or chips with baked beans. Chips with mild tasting grated cheese, with or without baked beans, is called 'student food'. It developed as a meal option in the early 1990s. Touch of Britain will probably stock small cans of Heinz baked beans. Heinz are the most expensive in the UK, due to our cost of living crisis, but not the best tasting.
One of the secrets although secret is not really what I mean more a case of what you must do and that's fry the fish and chips in separate pans and only use beef dripping it's the best for frying in, frying in oil just does not cut it. Retired UK fish and chip shop owner for many years now retired
@@FinnLovesFood it’s just a warm sauce (gravy if you will) that’s spiced with curry flavours and sometimes a bit fruity. But yes, it’s probably similar to the sauce you add chicken to.
you can make your own dandelion and burdock drink by buying the roots from amazon and boiling the roots then putting the liquid into the bottles when it cools down and leave it for a while before tasting it .
@@FinnLovesFood i have tried it , it tastes a lot better to the original and there is a couple in the uk who gets the roots naturally and brews them so give it a try what have you got to lose and it would be a good video if you want the video i will drop it here if you wish
Fish, chips and mushy peas is a classic where I live in England .You would never eat fish and chips with your hands In a restaurant ever .You would tend to do it if you was out and about .You can get a plastic fork or wooden one but they are usually pretty useless lol. Portions.look fairly small but absolutely have the vinegar and salt on especially the peas . Tartar sauce is a great condiment for the fish but salad cream although not traditional is a lovely change too . Heinz being a good brand .Great to see this vl9g !
@@steveashton4042 Yes, and I'm arresting you for making a faux pas of the highest order. What kind of weirdos would foreigners think we are for eating bloody mushroom peas!!! pffft!!!
I think the portions of Fish and Chips are larger in the UK than in your video - so sometimes you have to ask for half portions of chips. So good to see you trying our stuff - you just need to get your asses over here now to get the real stuff :-)
We've seen videos from the UK and the portions definitely look much larger. It's funny because people always talk about the huge portions in the U.S., but it's not the case for fish and chips!
That looked good enough to eat! Fish and chips should not be at all greasy if fried at a high enough temperature. If it isn't, it starts to absorb oil before a proper seal is formed around the fish. Great to see you both looking fit and well...............................the ancient Englishman.
Besides fish 'n chips (not greasy and served with mushy peas), what else is on the British foods menu? Baked beans on buttered toast? Americans who visit the UK come for our fish 'n chips (traditional - eaten using fingers or a chip fork, off of ink-free news paper. Or sit down - on a plate with a knife and fork - in a pub, cafe, restaurant or a takeaway with indoor seating) but Americans who live here know they've settled when their taste buds return from a holiday (vacation) and crave baked beans on toast with a nice cup of tea.
They do have beans on toast, pasties, meat pies, scones and crumpets. We liked trying beans on toast when we made it, especially with cheese on top. Really like it with the Heinz beans as baked beans here tend to be too sweet.
Ross did have some tartar sauce and I'd say that's what is typically served with fish and chips here in the U.S. We still need to give brown sauce a try.
Curry sauce with fish and chips over here in the UK. Have a look at Kerry, the Travel addict guy TAG (TH-cam) from Michigan trying fish chips and mushy peas at The 'crispy cod' in fuengirola southern Spain, and take a look at the size of the portions. best wishes from the UK .
When I was in Belgium/Netherlands in the 80s there were chip vans in many towns. They offered either curry sauce on chips, or mayonnaise sauce on chips - I wasn’t keen on the mayo version but some friends were.
Is the fish cod or haddock, anything else is unusual... Mushy peas are an acquired taste, I prefer onion rings as a side, and lashing of salt & vinegar or tomato (red) sauce.
Absolute class! Fish, chips & mushy peas.. with Dandelion & Burdock!! Whoever the English person is who put together the fish & chip tea, must have been from Northern England - just had to be!! Ben Shaws "Dandelion & Burdock" accompanying fish & chips is the law north of Stoke on Trent(or fizzy Vimto if from the Lancashire side of the border; Ben Shaws being a Yorkshire firm 🙄... you can't have everything in life) and you don't really get mushy peas, or 'owt moist such as curry sauce or gravy, served with fish & chips in the south of England either ("South" being south of Birmingham, or perhaps more specifically South East of England & Home Counties. Actually, if you served mushy peas in the Home Counties, not only would they look down on you, but they would also think it was Guacamole at first viewing and not mushy peas - see this for more detail - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%E2%80%93South_divide_in_England) . Definitely a Northern England tea - the mushy peas and Ben Shaws D&B is a dead giveaway! Fish & Chips were actually invented in Oldham, Lancashire by John Lee's in the early 1860's. Lancashire is a County in Northern England BTW and not to be confused with our poorer neighbour to the east, Yorkshire, bless 'em! EDIT - Maybe a northern thing (possibly more Yorkshire than Lancashire 🤔), but many times you see mushy peas with a touch of mint sauce added to them; not everywhere, more likely to be in a pub rather than a regular fish & chip shop, but mint sauce (not dollops of the stuff 🙄) does add a nice touch to it. I think Colman's is the leading brand but Mint Sauce is a common store cupboard item over here. Love your channel - you both come across really well. You got yourself a new subscriber! Keep it up! 👍👍
Interesting article about the North and South. Next time we're there, we should ask where the mother is from. I've only had mint sauce with lamb...but it would be fun to try with mushy peas. Thanks for subscribing!
The fish and mushy peas look good. The marrowfat peas aren't as naturally sweet as garden peas. The chips look a bit underdone for me - I like them really crisp
@@FinnLovesFood that's not very British. There's usually a choice of mushy peas, gravy or curry (sometimes beans). And the curry sauce often has two types - 'chip shop' or Chinese. Oh, and the fish is generally cod or haddock. I prefer haddock myself.
A couple of other common options (which have different names around the country) are: Fishcake - a roundish thin slice of fish with two equally round slices of potato (sort of like a burger) all battered and deep fried as a single item. Scallops - a single round slice of potato battered and fried. These are the names in my hometown of Halifax they're have different names or the names mean different things elsewhere. For example, I've heard what I call scallops called scones elsewhere in Yorkshire.
Glad you enjoyed your fish, chips and mushy peas. You must try deep fried Mars Bar which is very popular in Scotland apparently. I live in England and have never tried it because quite honestly it sounds YUK!! A chocolate bar covered in the type of batter that was on your fish then deep fried!! I'd love to see your reactions to eating one of those!! You'd probably have to do it yourself. Can't imagine it being on a menu anywhere outside of Scotland. Talking of Scotland the drink, Irn Bru, the Irn is pronounced as Ern, as in earn money not Iron. You Americans are terrible at foreign languages. Ha Ha. Sending lots of love to you both.
Nooooooo ! A heart attack waiting to happen. I tried it once in Glasgow on holiday. Honestly it was just too much stodge, sugar and calories. Yes, I ate it all but felt guilty for the rest of the day. LOL ! It is bought mainly by tourists who have heard the hype. 🇬🇧
Tina's fish looked better cooked than Ross's , although on the small size , mushy peas looked good, but chips looked as if they could be more crispy ...remember also our national dish now is chicken tikka masala invented in Dundee ...and fish and chips now is second on a Friday night , but both comfort food...you still can never beat a good Sunday roast though 💕😋
The chips were good, but yes, I think if they were more crispy would be even better. I should try making chicken tikka masala from scratch some time. I usually get the simmer sauce in a jar.
@@FinnLovesFood ..if you don't want to make the sauce from scratch, try and get a Aagrah Sauce, but if failing that, but not as good Sharwoods do a nice Tikka sauce 👍😋
Jalfrezi was found to be the most popular curry in the latest survey a few years ago. I think those jars of sauce have absolutely no flavour at all even if you add spices, better to get the jars of paste. You fry onion, add paste, add meat then add a tin of tomatoes, so much more flavour.
Only when you’ve bought the fish and chips to eat outside (even then you find most chippies will have wood or plastic ‘forks’, if you want one - certainly if you’re having mushy peas too! 😀), otherwise most folk over here use a knife and fork.
Otherwise u get greasy hands. With knofe u can have all things together on the fork like bit of chips fish and mushy peas. Ive never had vinegar on mushy peas . Curry sauce is good with fish and chips. Some people have chicken from fish shop too and kebab meat both chicken and lamb kebab
We don't typically eat fish and chips with our hands. The last video where we had fish and chips in a restaurant using utensils, we got comments saying we should eat it with our hands!
@@FinnLovesFood Fish and chips are only eaten with your hands if you get them from a chippy ie takeaway not in a restaurant! Would you eat steak and chips with your hands?
They weren't the best chips we've had, but they were decent! It seems often chips they serve with fish and chips here tend to be the thicker "steak cut" style compared to other chips/fries we have here.
Hi there! I'm glad to see you enjoying your fish and chips! It does look like they make it in the genuine British way, excellent! Also, sarsons malt vinegar and proper chips rather than fries was great! However, and I preface this with, sorry to put a downer on things, but I was also quite horrified to see both the size of the portions(especially of the fish) and the price of the meal! The fish size in Britain is often about 3 times as big as the one you both had on your plates and the average price in the north of England at least for the same order(with the larger portions of fish and chips) is £6.50. Which I think at the current rate of exchange would be around $9(again, for a fish 3x the size). So I'll finish by saying that I can't help but feel the owners/managers of this store are utterly ripping people off for their meals! I really am quite horrified and a little disgusted and disappointed with they're business practices to charge good people like yourselves such exorbitant prices($13.95c) for so little given. Even if the ingredients were of good quality! Please, if I'm missing something here and there is good reason for this, then please inform and correct me. 🙏 😱😱☹☹😔😔
I hate to say it, but the size of the fish is rather typical for what we get for fish and chips. If you watch our other fish and chips video you'll see it's similar! We have seen fish and chips videos from the UK and our jaws just about dropped at the size of the fish! 😀 We've also noticed that our food prices are quite a bit higher on a lot of items,
@@FinnLovesFood Indeed! I was really shocked to see the prices that were being charged for such a small portion of fish(especially)and chips at the store/restaurant you went to! I always believed previously to seeing this, that much of the food in America was in fact quite a bit cheaper than Britain! It seems I've been ill informed about such things and will have to do my own research in future instead of taking information given by others(not yourselves of course) as the truth. I hope you haven't taken my comments badly and I apologise if I've caused you and yours any distress. 🙏
@@FlangoKhan3968 we've learned so much since we've started this channel and from videos we've watched. We haven't been to the UK yet so we can't compare prices firsthand, but basing it on what people have told us and prices seen in videos. We also can't speak for the whole country. We're in California where many things are more expensive, but not sure about food. Plus we have seen a lot of inflation lately. And nothing wrong with your comment! 😊
@@FlangoKhan3968 Convenience junk processed food is cheap but the price of fresh ingredients to cook real food is shocking. There was a video where chefs and amateur cooks make meals and the ingredients was like $20 for a slice of proscuttio which would come in a pack of 5 for £1 here.
@@FinnLovesFood It's a shame you can't taste fish n chips here by the sea side, out of the paper they are wrapped in sat on the beach. That's a true British tradition especially when on holiday
I am from the UK and love salt and vinegar on mushy peas! I also agree that you cannot beat the taste of fish and chips bought and eaten by the sea. I don't know without going through the comments if someone already mentioned this, but in the North of England, mushy peas will be made with marrow fat peas. Quite often in the south they use crushed garden peas and they are much sweeter. I am from the North so you can guess which I like better!
@@nicolaclement6993 oh I thought all mushy peas were made with marrow fat peas. I've never been a huge fan of peas (we typically have garden peas here) so I was surprised that I liked mushy peas and it's because they aren't as sweet.
Only eat with your hands if you've bought fish and chips from a takeaway and are sitting outside. Eating with your hands in an English restaurant is a big no no.
Ya, we were led astray by comments in our previous fish and chips video. That's why we mentioned it...it felt a little strange even though we have a lot of hand-held foods here!
Not being funny but that looks nothing like the fish we have in the UK, more like the Birds Eye frozen fish you find in supermarkets, great to see proper chips though.
Where’s the rest of your fish?! Tiny portions there. Mushy peas aren’t normal peas. They’re marrowfat peas that are bigger and a totally different sort. Weirdly, you never see them for sale anywhere here except as pre-made mushy peas.
"Served pouched" and "From the grille". OK then, so via a koala and the front of a vehicle. This I would like to see. Are you sure the owners are English?
You should get a discount from A Touch of Britain with the amount of advertising you give them. It looks like a nice place but I wasn't impressed by the Union flag at 0:25 on the wall menu that was nothing like the true flag.
Touch of Britain looks great! Good to see they have Sarsons vinegar and Dandelion and Burdock, classics in the UK.
Agreed, great additions!
Dandelion and burdock my favourite, love curry sauce with my chips, local chippy does a nice spicy Indian curry sauce.
Go to any Fish & Chip Shop (Chippie) in both Australia & New Zealand is that you get (3 Three) different types of cooked fish which are' (1 ONE) Grilled Fish is a fillet &/or piece of fish which being fried &/or cooked on a Very Hot Plate Grill & (2 TWO) Battered Fish which is a fillet &/or piece of fish which is covered in either Thick &/or Thin Batter especially Beer Batter & then deep fried & finally (3 THREE) Crumbed Fish is a fillet &/or piece of fish which is covered in Breadcrumbs & then deep fried, of course.
Mushy peas are manna from heaven. In the UK, proper fish n' chip shops used to give away or sell 'scraps' or 'bits' which are the bits of batter collected from the fryer. Delicious.
Being a Northerner, my favourite combo is fish, chips, mushy peas and chip-shop curry.
We haven't seen chip shop curry here. The mushy peas were a rare enough find!
Never had vinegar on mushy peas. Used to eat the surplus cold fish from the lunch time in my works canteen for afternoon tea/coffee break on a Friday. I also like cold chips and baked beans straight out of the tin.
We would have never thought to put vinegar on peas if it hadn't been recommended!
Just to emphasise, fish n’ chips (a “fish supper” in some parts) was usually sold wrapped in paper ( old unsold newspapers for the outer wrap) & eaten either on the way home (with fingers!) or as soon as home, sometimes with a fork; if eaten outside & mush peas purchased, they would be eaten by scooping up with a chip. F & C we’re the original working class takeaway food; only in the last 30-40 years has eating as a sit down knife & fork restaurant meal become usual. Best ones probably are from the Magpie in Whitby.
It has certainly become popular here, but you never see it with mushy peas so we were happy to be able to try it. We dipped our chips in the peas and found that it was very good'!
chips and mushy peas is one of my favourite combos. preferably when walking home, eating with the little wooden fork, after a night out in the pub.
Mushy peas are made with marrowfat peas. The peas are left to dry in the field, instead of being harvested when tender. A well known brand of marrowfat dried peas is Batchelors. The peas are soaked overnight in boiling water, along with the soaking tablets included in the box. The tablets contain sodium bicarbonate. After rinsing the peas, they're cooked in fresh water on the stove until they become mushy and the water has evaporated.
We picked up some canned/tinned Batchelors mushy peas, but I believe the shop also had the dried peas.
Brilliant video! Fish and chips is such a classic British meal! Most often the appeal is to eat it on the Coast out of the paper! (Special memories of romantically chatting and eating Fish and Chips together strolling on the pier and sitting together on a bench. ) But in the Midlands of England where I am from, we are far from the sea. But we have our own secret weapon of orange chips! Massive crispy fish with slightly battered chips!
Ahh, sounds like great memories. I think Ross and I need to take a trip to the coast and see what fish and chips we can find. Though really haven't seen anything like a chippy here. I haven't heard of orange chips before.
in the middle of lockdown, I had chips, mushy peas and a fritter , sitting on the bench looking out to see at the moored cruise ships.
@@FinnLovesFood Orange chips are a speciality to the West Midlands and not widely known in the rest of the Country. They are slightly battered so that they are still fluffy inside but with a nice bit of crunch on the outside. And as we say locally they are Bostin' mate! 👌👍
@@DavidPaulMorgan That conjures up a great image!
@@DavidPaulMorgan sounds like a good way to spend time in lockdown!
Actually in the UK it is actually recommended y ou try the food before adding sauces etc. !
Its great to see a place like this in the US that people are loving and even better that they called it ( A touch of Britain ) and not a Touch of England as sadly all to often I see in the US Britain as a whole being refereed to as England, like one reactor that was eating Haggis and said it was from England as in Britain. Malt vinegar and salt on the chips and peas is tasty but personally i do not put vinegar on the fish as it can make the batter coating soggy, instead i spread the tartar sauce on the fish.
I'm glad they've been able to stay in business. It has been tough for small business during covid.
Scraps/batter bits are still free in most British chippies. They're super yummy mixed into mushy peas and a dollop of ketchup between 2 slices of white bread.
Hey guys, that fish looked lovely. Cod is popular so is haddock or pollock.. X
We see cod and pollock a lot, but haddock not as much.
You can have mushy peas with mint sauce added
The crispier the better , when they are less greasy it's more than likely that they are using sunflower oil to deep fry with . Cod & Haddock are the 2 main fish served at chippy's here in the UK . Also we can order a Special Fish which is fried in breadcrumbs not batter which is very tasty indeed .
Well cooked fish and chips is ambrosia, food of the gods.
That crispy batter is exactly as it should be, greasy batter suggests oil not hot enough and/or poorly drained
looks good.......but the Fish is about a quarter of the size where i get mine from in the local chippy........
We're amazed at the size of the fish in fish and chips we've seen from the UK!
@@FinnLovesFood basically a large cod in the uk is normally the whole fillet and a small cod is half the fillet.....but it does depend on the chip shop......as a lot of them are cutting the size down......grrrr
Dandelion and burdock is a top tier choice to accompany a chippy tea 👍
I had to pick up an extra can while I was there!
In the UK when getting fish and chips you can get either chip shop gravy or chip shop curry to go over them. I always get the gravy which is thick and full of flavour. I commonly drink Rio or Vimto with them.
What is Rio? I don't think we have seen that here.
@@FinnLovesFood Mixed fruit tropical style fizzy drink
Ben Shaws Dandelion and Burdock. I used to go to their factory 40 years ago with my father to buy their used demi johns for his home brewing when they were in Beck Road Huddersfield.
Haddock fried in beef dripping is how it's done on the North Yorkshire coast. I'm biased, but these are the best fish n tates. Other fish are available in coastal chippy's such as Rock, Skate, Cod and Woof, all fresh out of the sea. Chippy's in my home town of Scarborough all use fresh fish, so the thing that distinguishes the best is the batter. A good chippy guards it's batter recipe as that is what will make or break it's business.
Southern England appears to use vegetable oils to fry in, healthier maybe, but no flavour for me, I just can't eat them at all.
Yeah I'm from County Durham and my two favourite destinations for fish and chips are scarbra and whitby both beautiful places
Has to be fried in dripping,nice crunchy batter
There is certainly flavour in veg oil cooked chips to me, they taste disgustingly bitter, I have to pour a pint of vinegar over them, they need to be swimming in the stuff or the taste makes me feel sick. Don't worry about the vinegar making them mushy cos chips fried in that disgusting muck are already soggy because it burns if you heat it to the proper temperature to get crispy non soggy chips. As for being more healthy, that's debatable.
Cod is the best fish to have.
I have never seen anyone eat it with their hands, the chips yes but not the fish! Brown sauce or, tomato sauce is usually added, not always though, any soda will do. Pickled onions are also good to have, especially the silver skinned onions in white vinegar.
I feel like we were led astray by viewers telling us to eat the fish with our hands in our previous fish and chips video!
@@FinnLovesFood you would usually eat it with your hands, out of paper. If you took it home or had it in a restaurant, why wouldn't you use cutlery?
Curry sauce (chinese) is a great accompaniment to fish and chips, southerners would turn their noses up at it, unless you called it Katsu. 😂
You made me awfully hungry watching you eat. I think the best way to enjoy fish chips and peas is to get some of each on your fork and munch away - and eat it while it's hot!
We tried the chips and peas together, but didn't think to try adding the fish.
Ooh Try those Eccles Cakes. They are lovely. I make my own at work.
We picked them up on one of our very first visits to Touch of Britain. We tried them in one of our videos and loved them. I also attempted to make Chorley cakes! They didn't look quite right, but tasted good.
@@FinnLovesFood I will have to take a look at that video. I must have missed that one
in the UK we had a pie and pea supper for the boy scouts and venture scouts... once a year... that was either chicken pie, beef and onion pie with mushy peas... and you had a choice to have gravy with it... usually about 200 parents and kids all eating pie and peas... was a good night...
Fish n chips is both restaurant , and takeaway food and to be fair it's more knife and fork in the restaurant and fingers when outside on the seafront. Wonderful to see sarsons malt vinegar , and I for one cannot have too much of it on my fish chips and mushy peas , and i hope you enjoyed dandelion and burdock, i had one just the other day 🥰
Definitely enjoyed the dandelion and burdock. Haven’t tasted anything quite like it here. 🙂
Sasparilla is the closest taste to dandelion and burdock.
If you're eating fish and chips when you're on your way home from the pub you eat with your hands, but I wouldn't recommend eating mushy peas with them, the best fish is Cod or Silver Hake, some people like Plaice, and put the salt on before the vinegar
Good to see you trying fish 'n chips with the mushies . . . although, when I saw the size of the fish - I thought to myself, maybe they split the fish and the chips between them from 1 order of it? If it was an order each - then I think my legs may have given way at the small size of the portions! A fish where I am here (battered cod) - don't know what kind yours was . . . would literally almost fit an oval sized dinner plate - and the chip portion would have covered it . . . and at our prices here now which have went up again - that would have cost about £8-9 all in . . . the fish itself would have cost about £5.50 . . .
Sadly I'm not much of a condiment person myself to be fair . . . These days I usually just get the fish itself with an extra small bag of batter thrown in, as it's large enough to do me for the day with a few slices of bread used. If I do mushy peas, then I don't bother with vinegar even, as I just use the taste of peas along with the fish and the bread. If I'm going to put vinegar on, then I don't bother with the peas, just bread. My other way is just to make some gravy and pour it over the fish. The same bread fills you, and also mops everything up at the end, too!
The price of chips here, alone or when added to something has gone a bit wild now - so I just buy a bag of pots and make my own chips or fritters instead in the chip pan. 3 meals out of 1 bag of pots for only a £1 or less, so you can't lose really . . . and have saved about £5 just by doing that by home cooking them . . . and again, I just ,make some gravy to put on them, and have a few slices of bread with them . . .
Anyways, keep on enjoying your various meals and dishes you two . . . as there are still a lot of great UK dishes for you to try out yet . . .
The fish was cod and the fish in our fish and chips is MUCH smaller than what we've seen in videos from the UK! We've never seen fish that large here.
Growing up Manchester way in the 50s/60s, the fish then were about the same size as those in the video - succulent and tender, not the plate sized inflated monsters you see today. I remember the shock of a mouthful of bones when first biting into a fish when I worked down south, horrible!
I paused on the menu and the prices are shocking. Pie is £1.60 here, $17.95 there. I can get small fish and chips for £3.50 and the fish is bigger than the piece in the video.
@@wullaballoo2642 it seems food here is more expensive than the UK. The items in their store are also pricey, but they have a lot of things that you can't find in any other store in the area.
@@FinnLovesFood It's probably expensive to import, it has to travel a long way and there's probably also an import tax. It is a shame that fresh fruit and veg is so expensive where you are, I'd try to grow as much myself as I could but I've only ever grown chilli plants and a garlic bulb that sprouted once.
People here seem to mostly have cod or haddock, have to say l have never seen a triangular piece of fish before. Glad you enjoyed it have a nice day.
Thank you.
Looks decent, the fish looked a little on the small side to what we get in the chippy or restaurants in the UK, which is typically cod or haddock. Touch of Britain seems the a nice little place though.
Ours was cod...just a smaller piece of cod. 🙂
Fish n chips looked pretty good. I now live near the port of La Rochelle France, next to our marina is a fish n chips take out, pretty good too. So much so that that their trading times are "open 7pm, closed when we have no more fish" never seen them open after 10 pm.
How wonderful to live so close to the sea.
That was emotional, thank you.
Regards from England.
Thanks for watching!
I may be biased as I live in costal town that all serve haddock as standard but I find haddock has more flavour than cod so definitely my preference. Also a lot of the fish/chip shops also do 'skate' and often will let you bring a piece of fish of your choice that they will fry for you.
While it all looked tasty, the fish was small and chips looked oven cooked rather than fried. Though appreciate you have limited options in the USA. Here there are chippys everywhere! So kinda spoiled for choice. Thanks again for the content. I do enjoy your vids!
Many restaurants serve fish and chips, but we are definitely lacking chippys! We live about an hour and a half drive from the coast so I feel like we're far away, but when you look at the rest of the U.S. most states are land locked and very far from the ocean. I'm not familiar with skate and that is nice that they will fry up fish you bring in!
Carbonated drinks with fish 'n chips are mainly for people aged under 40. I prefer a nice cup of tea with fish 'n chips. I don't feel bloated afterwards.
That's a proper fish and chips,I don't have vinegar on the peas just a little salt. It's your preference.
We would have never thought to put vinegar on the peas if the waitress hadn't suggested it!
Hi great vid! Hello from north wales 🏴🏴🏴
Thank you! Hello from California!
Mushy peas with mint sauce is the best
Eating the battered fish with your hands - break the fish in half or into three pieces with your fingers. Try dipping the battered cod in the mushy peas. Try a dollop of tomato ketchup to dip your chips or battered cod into.
Ketchup is my usual condiment for chips and sometimes with fish sticks (fish fingers). Otherwise tartar sauce, but enjoying the malt vinegar too.
@FinnLovesFood You could also try chips with gravy or chips with baked beans. Chips with mild tasting grated cheese, with or without baked beans, is called 'student food'. It developed as a meal option in the early 1990s. Touch of Britain will probably stock small cans of Heinz baked beans. Heinz are the most expensive in the UK, due to our cost of living crisis, but not the best tasting.
One of the secrets although secret is not really what I mean more a case of what you must do and that's fry the fish and chips in separate pans and only use beef dripping it's the best for frying in, frying in oil just does not cut it.
Retired UK fish and chip shop owner for many years now retired
That sounds like it would be very good!
Do they do curry sauce in there? Definitely need to dip chips in curry sauce.
I don't think they had curry sauce on the menu. We've definitely had curry sauce for chicken, but never tried it with chips.
@@FinnLovesFood check out the food review club channel on here and look for his fish and chips reviews, will give you an idea of what curry sauce is.
@@jamespickersgill8416 fun channel! So it is a bit different from a curry chicken sauce?
@@FinnLovesFood it’s just a warm sauce (gravy if you will) that’s spiced with curry flavours and sometimes a bit fruity. But yes, it’s probably similar to the sauce you add chicken to.
you can make your own dandelion and burdock drink by buying the roots from amazon and boiling the roots then putting the liquid into the bottles when it cools down and leave it for a while before tasting it .
That would be interesting to try.
@@FinnLovesFood i have tried it , it tastes a lot better to the original and there is a couple in the uk who gets the roots naturally and brews them
so give it a try what have you got to lose and it would be a good video
if you want the video i will drop it here if you wish
@@XENONEOMORPH1979 sure! I wouldn’t mind checking it out
It's funny they have a store of Britain in the U.S. I wouldn't have thought
They carry items we can't find anywhere else!
Fish, chips and mushy peas is a classic where I live in England .You would never eat fish and chips with your hands In a restaurant ever .You would tend to do it if you was out and about .You can get a plastic fork or wooden one but they are usually pretty useless lol. Portions.look fairly small but absolutely have the vinegar and salt on especially the peas .
Tartar sauce is a great condiment for the fish but salad cream although not traditional is a lovely change too . Heinz being a good brand .Great to see this vl9g !
mushroom peas?" Not a classic where i'm from matey
@@annother3350 ah out come the predictive text Police🤡
@@steveashton4042 Yes, and I'm arresting you for making a faux pas of the highest order. What kind of weirdos would foreigners think we are for eating bloody mushroom peas!!! pffft!!!
@@annother3350 bore off troll
We typically have tartar sauce with fish and chips here, but have been trying it with malt vinegar more lately. Really enjoy it on the mushy peas!
I think the portions of Fish and Chips are larger in the UK than in your video - so sometimes you have to ask for half portions of chips. So good to see you trying our stuff - you just need to get your asses over here now to get the real stuff :-)
We've seen videos from the UK and the portions definitely look much larger. It's funny because people always talk about the huge portions in the U.S., but it's not the case for fish and chips!
Need pie, chips and gravy with mushy peas 👍🏻
You need to try adding mint sauce to mushy peas next. Yum yum get in my tum!
Is this in the uk ? If not then everything you ate will not be anything like what you get in the uk
Them chips are not real potato they are frozen chips but the fish and peas looked good 😋 Brian from the uk 🇬🇧
That looked good enough to eat! Fish and chips should not be at all greasy if fried at a high enough temperature. If it isn't, it starts to absorb oil before a
proper seal is formed around the fish. Great to see you both looking fit and well...............................the ancient Englishman.
We've had plenty of greasy fish in fish and chips so we really appreciated that this one wasn't. Thank you!
You would only eat with your hands if you were walking around, in a restaurant you would use a knife and fork.
Besides fish 'n chips (not greasy and served with mushy peas), what else is on the British foods menu? Baked beans on buttered toast? Americans who visit the UK come for our fish 'n chips (traditional - eaten using fingers or a chip fork, off of ink-free news paper. Or sit down - on a plate with a knife and fork - in a pub, cafe, restaurant or a takeaway with indoor seating) but Americans who live here know they've settled when their taste buds return from a holiday (vacation) and crave baked beans on toast with a nice cup of tea.
They do have beans on toast, pasties, meat pies, scones and crumpets. We liked trying beans on toast when we made it, especially with cheese on top. Really like it with the Heinz beans as baked beans here tend to be too sweet.
Fish and chips and mushy peas,salt and vinegar a meal fit for a king 🇬🇧👍
Off to get my fish and chips in about 30 minutes. Having mine with curry sauce though.
Enjoy!
@@FinnLovesFood I did 😁
Looks delicious! Next time try it with ketchup, brown sauce or tartar sauce :)
Ross did have some tartar sauce and I'd say that's what is typically served with fish and chips here in the U.S. We still need to give brown sauce a try.
Curry sauce with fish and chips over here in the UK. Have a look at Kerry, the Travel addict guy TAG (TH-cam) from Michigan trying fish chips and mushy peas at The 'crispy cod' in fuengirola southern Spain, and take a look at the size of the portions. best wishes from the UK .
We have seen videos of fish and chips from the UK and we were amazed at the size of the fish!
Must depend on your region but curry sauce is certainly not the case in the home counties. You'd have Tommy K or Tartare.
When I have fish and chips I like to dip my chips into the tartare sauce it's really delicious
Ross likes to do that too!
When I was in Belgium/Netherlands in the 80s there were chip vans in many towns. They offered either curry sauce on chips, or mayonnaise sauce on chips - I wasn’t keen on the mayo version but some friends were.
@@woodentie8815 I've heard of people dipping chips in mayonnaise. Sounds a little strange, but then again, I do like them in ranch dressing!
The traditional drink to have with fish and chips is tea. It does a great job in cutting the grease!
I’d disagree and say beer and wine is
@@Lunarangst Beer or wine with chips and fish sounds horrible to me, I'll stick with a cuppa!
@@woodentie8815 I'm English and hate tea!!
@@woodentie8815 sounds horrible to me too . So does tea. But beer or wine is what’s considered traditional.
@@jillhobson6128 same
Is the fish cod or haddock, anything else is unusual... Mushy peas are an acquired taste, I prefer onion rings as a side, and lashing of salt & vinegar or tomato (red) sauce.
These were cod. That seems to be the typical fish used in fish and chips here, at least in our area.
I put vinegar and white pepper on mush peas - plenty of pepper.
Absolute class! Fish, chips & mushy peas.. with Dandelion & Burdock!! Whoever the English person is who put together the fish & chip tea, must have been from Northern England - just had to be!! Ben Shaws "Dandelion & Burdock" accompanying fish & chips is the law north of Stoke on Trent(or fizzy Vimto if from the Lancashire side of the border; Ben Shaws being a Yorkshire firm 🙄... you can't have everything in life) and you don't really get mushy peas, or 'owt moist such as curry sauce or gravy, served with fish & chips in the south of England either ("South" being south of Birmingham, or perhaps more specifically South East of England & Home Counties. Actually, if you served mushy peas in the Home Counties, not only would they look down on you, but they would also think it was Guacamole at first viewing and not mushy peas - see this for more detail - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%E2%80%93South_divide_in_England) .
Definitely a Northern England tea - the mushy peas and Ben Shaws D&B is a dead giveaway! Fish & Chips were actually invented in Oldham, Lancashire by John Lee's in the early 1860's. Lancashire is a County in Northern England BTW and not to be confused with our poorer neighbour to the east, Yorkshire, bless 'em!
EDIT - Maybe a northern thing (possibly more Yorkshire than Lancashire 🤔), but many times you see mushy peas with a touch of mint sauce added to them; not everywhere, more likely to be in a pub rather than a regular fish & chip shop, but mint sauce (not dollops of the stuff 🙄) does add a nice touch to it. I think Colman's is the leading brand but Mint Sauce is a common store cupboard item over here.
Love your channel - you both come across really well. You got yourself a new subscriber! Keep it up! 👍👍
Interesting article about the North and South. Next time we're there, we should ask where the mother is from. I've only had mint sauce with lamb...but it would be fun to try with mushy peas. Thanks for subscribing!
Fish and chips was started by a Jewish shopkeeper in London in the 1800s.
Oh my god, his face looks as if the world is gonna end. Cheer up man
He's serious about his fish and chips. 😁
Chippy Friday here too guys. (crave). Hope you're both good. J
Enjoy, John! Have a great weekend.
The fish and mushy peas look good. The marrowfat peas aren't as naturally sweet as garden peas. The chips look a bit underdone for me - I like them really crisp
I thought the peas seemed less sweet. Definitely like them better.
Mushy peas should be cooked with bicarbonite of soda - its annamazing flavour enhancer for them
Did they have the option of curry sauce with the fish and chips?
I didn't see it.
@@FinnLovesFood that's not very British. There's usually a choice of mushy peas, gravy or curry (sometimes beans). And the curry sauce often has two types - 'chip shop' or Chinese. Oh, and the fish is generally cod or haddock. I prefer haddock myself.
A couple of other common options (which have different names around the country) are:
Fishcake - a roundish thin slice of fish with two equally round slices of potato (sort of like a burger) all battered and deep fried as a single item.
Scallops - a single round slice of potato battered and fried.
These are the names in my hometown of Halifax they're have different names or the names mean different things elsewhere.
For example, I've heard what I call scallops called scones elsewhere in Yorkshire.
@@markrichardson3421 what is the difference between the chip shop and the Chinese curry sauces?
@@markrichardson3421 we're not familiar with any of these. We do have a dish called scalloped potatoes, but it's different from what you describe.
Cod in England .Haddock in Scotland .
You should try eating the mushy peas on a chip. Also make sure you put on plenty of vinegar and a little salt ( as it's not good for you)
We did end up trying the mushy peas on chips. Very good!
Glad you enjoyed your fish, chips and mushy peas. You must try deep fried Mars Bar which is very popular in Scotland apparently. I live in England and have never tried it because quite honestly it sounds YUK!! A chocolate bar covered in the type of batter that was on your fish then deep fried!! I'd love to see your reactions to eating one of those!! You'd probably have to do it yourself. Can't imagine it being on a menu anywhere outside of Scotland. Talking of Scotland the drink, Irn Bru, the Irn is pronounced as Ern, as in earn money
not Iron. You Americans are terrible at foreign languages. Ha Ha. Sending lots of love to you both.
The deep fried Mars Bar sounds like food from the state fair where they deep fry just about anything, like Twinkies and Oreos. I've never tried them!
Nooooooo ! A heart attack waiting to happen. I tried it once in Glasgow on holiday. Honestly it was just too much stodge, sugar and calories. Yes, I ate it all but felt guilty for the rest of the day. LOL ! It is bought mainly by tourists who have heard the hype. 🇬🇧
Finally we see the famous touch of Britain
It's our "go-to" place for British food!
Tina's fish looked better cooked than Ross's , although on the small size , mushy peas looked good, but chips looked as if they could be more crispy ...remember also our national dish now is chicken tikka masala invented in Dundee ...and fish and chips now is second on a Friday night , but both comfort food...you still can never beat a good Sunday roast though 💕😋
The chips were good, but yes, I think if they were more crispy would be even better. I should try making chicken tikka masala from scratch some time. I usually get the simmer sauce in a jar.
@@FinnLovesFood ..if you don't want to make the sauce from scratch, try and get a Aagrah Sauce, but if failing that, but not as good Sharwoods do a nice Tikka sauce 👍😋
Jalfrezi was found to be the most popular curry in the latest survey a few years ago. I think those jars of sauce have absolutely no flavour at all even if you add spices, better to get the jars of paste. You fry onion, add paste, add meat then add a tin of tomatoes, so much more flavour.
@@wullaballoo2642 Aagrah sauces are good, but yes make from scratch, tastes way better
I love mushy peas have them 3 or 4 times a week...
We're glad we discovered them.
Mushy peas are traditionally served with mint sauce
I had never heard of having mint sauce with mushy peas until I moved to Nottingham. It’s not a tradition in other parts of the UK.
@@littleannie390 yeah the east Midlands and the North in most places have mint sauce with mushys, failing that plenty of vinegar
That fish serving seems so small aha, here in the UK they pretty much give us a whole fish as standard
The US may be known for large portions, but not when it comes to fish and chips! The UK has us beat by a long shot! 😀
Have never seen anyone eating the fish with their fingers¬
Only when you’ve bought the fish and chips to eat outside (even then you find most chippies will have wood or plastic ‘forks’, if you want one - certainly if you’re having mushy peas too! 😀), otherwise most folk over here use a knife and fork.
We don't usually either!
@@woodentie8815 we typically use utensils - I think some viewers led us astray!
If it's not too big and the batter is structurally sound then I'll wrap the whole fish in paper and eat it like a sandwich
Cod & chips, tho no mushy peas. A London view..
you put malt v on chips and fish first then add salt next )).
Otherwise you just wash the salt off, malt then salt (it helps the salt stick to the food 👍).
Finn mushy peas are marrowfat peas mashed up , Nothing wrong with them. That is what I am having tonight for dinner. Plus tartare sauce.
We like them better than our regular peas.
Little piece of fish compared to chip ship fish. You need a pickle on the side.
In a restaurant I'd eat with a knife and fork, seems more polite than eating with your hands.
Otherwise u get greasy hands. With knofe u can have all things together on the fork like bit of chips fish and mushy peas. Ive never had vinegar on mushy peas . Curry sauce is good with fish and chips. Some people have chicken from fish shop too and kebab meat both chicken and lamb kebab
You’re paying for it = eat like Mr. Creosote if you want!😁
@@woodentie8815 Get fed by a waiter with tongs, from a silver platter?
We don't typically eat fish and chips with our hands. The last video where we had fish and chips in a restaurant using utensils, we got comments saying we should eat it with our hands!
@@FinnLovesFood Fish and chips are only eaten with your hands if you get them from a chippy ie takeaway not in a restaurant!
Would you eat steak and chips with your hands?
Try mushy peas with mint sauce ,beautiful
Chips could have been cooked a little longer, next time first try with just a little salt a lot of people dont like vinegar
I don’t think that the chips are quite like British chip shop chips. They look rather big. But as long as they taste good.
They weren't the best chips we've had, but they were decent! It seems often chips they serve with fish and chips here tend to be the thicker "steak cut" style compared to other chips/fries we have here.
Fish chips mushy peas food of the gods
I always mix vinegar into my mushy peas
Hi there! I'm glad to see you enjoying your fish and chips! It does look like they make it in the genuine British way, excellent! Also, sarsons malt vinegar and proper chips rather than fries was great! However, and I preface this with, sorry to put a downer on things, but I was also quite horrified to see both the size of the portions(especially of the fish) and the price of the meal! The fish size in Britain is often about 3 times as big as the one you both had on your plates and the average price in the north of England at least for the same order(with the larger portions of fish and chips) is £6.50. Which I think at the current rate of exchange would be around $9(again, for a fish 3x the size). So I'll finish by saying that I can't help but feel the owners/managers of this store are utterly ripping people off for their meals! I really am quite horrified and a little disgusted and disappointed with they're business practices to charge good people like yourselves such exorbitant prices($13.95c) for so little given. Even if the ingredients were of good quality! Please, if I'm missing something here and there is good reason for this, then please inform and correct me. 🙏 😱😱☹☹😔😔
I hate to say it, but the size of the fish is rather typical for what we get for fish and chips. If you watch our other fish and chips video you'll see it's similar! We have seen fish and chips videos from the UK and our jaws just about dropped at the size of the fish! 😀 We've also noticed that our food prices are quite a bit higher on a lot of items,
@@FinnLovesFood Indeed! I was really shocked to see the prices that were being charged for such a small portion of fish(especially)and chips at the store/restaurant you went to! I always believed previously to seeing this, that much of the food in America was in fact quite a bit cheaper than Britain! It seems I've been ill informed about such things and will have to do my own research in future instead of taking information given by others(not yourselves of course) as the truth. I hope you haven't taken my comments badly and I apologise if I've caused you and yours any distress. 🙏
@@FlangoKhan3968 we've learned so much since we've started this channel and from videos we've watched. We haven't been to the UK yet so we can't compare prices firsthand, but basing it on what people have told us and prices seen in videos. We also can't speak for the whole country. We're in California where many things are more expensive, but not sure about food. Plus we have seen a lot of inflation lately. And nothing wrong with your comment! 😊
@@FlangoKhan3968 Convenience junk processed food is cheap but the price of fresh ingredients to cook real food is shocking. There was a video where chefs and amateur cooks make meals and the ingredients was like $20 for a slice of proscuttio which would come in a pack of 5 for £1 here.
@@wullaballoo2642 Jesus Fu#king christ!!! 😱😬🥴
Never known anyone in England have salt and vinegar on their mushy peas. Lol As for sauce I've always had Tommy K ( tomato ketchup)
We would have never thought to put salt and vinegar on the peas, but it was quite good!
@@FinnLovesFood It's a shame you can't taste fish n chips here by the sea side, out of the paper they are wrapped in sat on the beach. That's a true British tradition especially when on holiday
@@argonaut6386 some day hopefully we will be able to try it!
I am from the UK and love salt and vinegar on mushy peas! I also agree that you cannot beat the taste of fish and chips bought and eaten by the sea. I don't know without going through the comments if someone already mentioned this, but in the North of England, mushy peas will be made with marrow fat peas. Quite often in the south they use crushed garden peas and they are much sweeter. I am from the North so you can guess which I like better!
@@nicolaclement6993 oh I thought all mushy peas were made with marrow fat peas. I've never been a huge fan of peas (we typically have garden peas here) so I was surprised that I liked mushy peas and it's because they aren't as sweet.
I prefer tomato ketchup with fish n' chips rather than tartare sauce.
Only eat with your hands if you've bought fish and chips from a takeaway and are sitting outside. Eating with your hands in an English restaurant is a big no no.
Ya, we were led astray by comments in our previous fish and chips video. That's why we mentioned it...it felt a little strange even though we have a lot of hand-held foods here!
That's a really small fish,. In the UK, that would be called a rip off. it's meant to be 3 times the size of that.
Here it's just called typical! 😀
@@FinnLovesFood I live in London, i use that word at least 20 times a day, usually followed by a tut tut.
Add a bit of mint to mushy peas x
We got a jar a mint sauce sent to us and we plan to try it in mushy peas. How much mint sauce do you usually add?
Other food of the Gods
Not being funny but that looks nothing like the fish we have in the UK, more like the Birds Eye frozen fish you find in supermarkets, great to see proper chips though.
It was much better than what we can get frozen here. Though I know there is a big difference in size!
Where’s the rest of your fish?! Tiny portions there.
Mushy peas aren’t normal peas. They’re marrowfat peas that are bigger and a totally different sort. Weirdly, you never see them for sale anywhere here except as pre-made mushy peas.
Only ketchup on my fish & chips.
Ketchup is my typical dip for chips.
You are supposed to mix & match with mushy peas on the fish & on the chips
We did dip our chips in the mushy peas. Next time we'll have to try it with the fish too.
onion vinegar his good on fish and chips
I haven't seen onion vinegar, but it sounds good.
"Served pouched" and "From the grille". OK then, so via a koala and the front of a vehicle. This I would like to see. Are you sure the owners are English?
LOL! I never noticed the typo. We didn't have the fish pouched. Or poached for that matter!
I came here to make the same comment about the 'glaring' spelling error - LOL! Whatever happened to editing before printing ? 😃
You should get a discount from A Touch of Britain with the amount of advertising you give them. It looks like a nice place but I wasn't impressed by the Union flag at 0:25 on the wall menu that was nothing like the true flag.
We really should! 😃
Wait till you try a pea fritter
We haven't heard of pea fritters!
You aren't supposed to use your hands, we have cutlery here
Tast better walking around outside with the fish and chips and eating them with your fingers😀
By the sea? I imagine that would be the best! 🙂