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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Delectables" 2010.01.30 (02) [EN]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<div>On 31/01/2010, at 5:18 AM,  <span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span> <span><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span>wrote:</div><div class="im">
<br><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse: separate; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div>
 I
don't know exactly what caused the difference, but increasingly from
the 60s onward English chip shops were increasingly run by people who
weren't of British Isle origin, and obviously had their own ideas as to
what did and didn't make a good fried spud.</div></span></blockquote><br></div></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">As
a veteran patron of Scots chips shops very few were run by folks of
British origin, fact is the vast majority were run by Italians.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Names
such as De Rollo, Cici, Lannies, DeMarco, Paolozzi, were emblazoned on
the fronts of most. Many were detained when Italy joined Germany in
WW2Â one unfortunate man's shop was attacked by local thugs. Within a
short time however all reverted to normal. Our local place however was
run by a Scot, he cooked wearing a brown coat and aways had a fag
dangling from his lips. His culinary results were vastly inferior to
those from the</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Italians.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A deviation from this norm
were The Chip Vans. Converted old covered in vans with small frying
units therein. These were heated by a coal fire</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">below the
range and a long chimney projected from the roof. As they ran along
trails of sparks heralded their progress. All of those I encountered
were run by indigenous Scots.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">One Italian proprietor in
Edinburgh met a terrible end, his exotic frier caught fire and the
silly man threw a bucket of water over it.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Boiling fat "exploded" blowing him through the plate glass window.</div><br>
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Best Regards<br>Tom Mc Rae<br>Brisbane Australia<br>An honest man's the noblest work of God (Robert Burns)<br></div></span></span><br><br><br>
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