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===============================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Sandy Fleming</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:sandy@fleimin.demon.co.uk">sandy@fleimin.demon.co.uk</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Delectables" 2010.02.01 (03) [EN]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="im">> From: Tom Mc Rae <<a href="mailto:thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com">thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com</a>><br>
> Subject: LL-L "Delectables" 2010.01.31 (02) [EN]<br>
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> I still chuckle at the chip shop i none of those English Home County<br>
> towns.Sign stated "Mary, Fish Fryer of distinction". She had to have<br>
> been English.<br>
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</div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">As a frequent visitor to Whitby (the north-east Yorkshire one), this</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
doesn't seem so odd to me. With fresh fish coming in daily and dozens of</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
fish and chip shops and restaurants along the river, there's a lot of</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
competition between fryers. You see awards like "Best Young Fish Fryer</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
of the Year" and certainly if you go to the right places you get</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
battered fish that's far better than the usual, served with chips whose</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
cutting and frying have been carefully thought through.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Some fryers make the batter with beer, which as it vaporises leaves the</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
batter well-aerated, so it's light and crunchy.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Can't wait for April now... Â :)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888"><br>
Sandy Fleming<br>
<a href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank">http://scotstext.org/</a><br>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(200, 137, 0);">Tom Mc Rae</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com">thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Delectables" 2010.02.01 (03) [EN]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div>On 02/02/2010, at 2:20 AM, <span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span>Â <span><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span>wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite">Just to clarify a little further, "chips" are French fries; a "chippie" is a place that sells them!<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;"><br>
</span></blockquote>To me Paul, having grown up in Edinburgh this was not quite correct there where such places were known as "Chup Shoaps".</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Chippie in my experience was more Northern English. BUT Scots love appending the suffix "ie" to many things they hold in</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">affection. Hence by the 1950's "chippie" had crept into our dialect but usually was applied to the fiery mobile chip vans.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
An Ice Cream van became referred to as The Icey about the same time. A friend got so obsessed with the "ie" diminutive that</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">she even referred to the ghastly school lunches as "The Dinneries".</div>
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Though I remember as kid reading the Scottish comic books "The Broons"
and "Oor Wullie", which emanated from Dundee I believe, that they used
the term "chipper" for the place (or "chupper" in the simulated accent
of the comics).</div></span></blockquote></div>What else can you expect from a City from which McGonagall emerged.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Imagine his eulogy..(Yup my creation)</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">"All hail to Thee Oh Dundee chipper,</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Your food tastes finer the any kipper.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
And I can truly say,</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">That I would rather eat your products than porridge any day.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">How really good it is to see,</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">This chipper run by a man from Italy,</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">As well as by his family.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Where for just a single shilling,</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">You can partake of a fish supper if you are willing.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Well wrapped up in greasy newspaper,</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From which emanates a most appetising vapour.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">And I can truly say,</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
This establishment is a blessing to us beside The Silv'ry Tay."</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><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>
The
dry crunchy things in packets that Americans call "potato chips" are
called "crisps" in England, and I guess in Scotland too. Â In Australia
"chip" can apply to either - presumably you have to guess from context!</div></span></blockquote></div>Permit me to confuse you even further. Crisps here are also frequently referred to as "chippies". Back to Sqaure 1.</div>
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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 style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><br>
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