Talk:Chip shop

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How can you not mention the fact that in renowned glaswegian chippies they offer such delicacies as battered pizza, battered mars bars and battered ice cream?--CatWatcher 03:24, 26 April 2007 (EDT) see http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1227_041227_deep_fried_mars_bars.html

Now doesn't that look delicious?
Yes it does. Can you add the picture to the article? Dorpfeld 03:34, 26 April 2007 (EDT)
Good point. We could have sections on the various differences in regional and national cuisine served in these establishments. Dorpfeld 03:27, 26 April 2007 (EDT)
Will add it later if someone else hasn't done so by then.

--CatWatcher 03:37, 26 April 2007 (EDT)

Re: merger. I don't think this should be merged. The chip shop (or 'chippie') is a very distinctive cultural, as well as culinary, institution specific to Britain and Ireland.

How can anyone talk of merging this article. It;s probably the best one on Conservapedia. I think we should go for featured status. --Felix 06:53, 27 April 2007 (EDT)

"Fish Bits" are called "scraps" in Birmingham and Humberside. Also mayonnaise is offered in Birmingham chippies although I am unaware as to whether this has anything to do with Dutch or indeed Belgian immigrants. Not sure if any of this info is apposite. --Olly 07:29, 27 April 2007 (EDT)

We also refer to fish bits as scraps here in Yorkshire. Trashbat 07:44, 27 April 2007 (EDT)

Merge article?

Absolutely not; the articles deal with two entirely different things.

Potato chips is the American term for what are properly called (in Great Britain, home of the English language) potato crisps.

Chip shops are purveyors of the much more substantial and wholesome British older relative of French Fries (which is a distant relative, at best). The importance of chips in British culture, and their incompatibility with French Fries (chips are always prepared from the finest locally-grown potatoes, and must be sliced on the spot, as opposed to being reconstituted, extruded and shaped in a factory like French Fries) makes it absolutely inappropiate to merge the articles. --Jeremiah4-22 09:05, 27 April 2007 (EDT)

I think the proposal to merge must have been made by someone unfamiliar with the use of the word chip in British English. As others have said before. Chip shops do not sell cold crisp thin slices of deep-fried potato (which are known in the UK as potato crisps), but rather piping hot finger-sized chunks of deep-fried potato.FriendOfDorothy 09:46, 27 April 2007 (EDT)

I am really convinced that these folks here at Conservapedia are really benefitting from finding out about the delicacies of British Haute Cuisine. --Felix 09:54, 27 April 2007 (EDT)

The chip shop is also culturally essential in addition to being of gastronomic import. Chip shop tradition is far greater than the sum of its peas, chips and fine, fine pickled eggs. And surely sharing of cultures and knowledge is the very essence of an encyclopedia. Trashbat 09:59, 27 April 2007 (EDT)

I agree absolutely with Trashbat. Chip shops have a strong cultural significance which alone justifies a separate article; but in any case, to cnflate the (completely different) UK and US chips would be absurd. Volpone 18:32, 29 April 2007 (EDT)

Chip Shops merged with another subject? Go and wash your mouth out with carbolic, Poor Ed!LateralQuercus 19:12, 29 April 2007 (EDT)

Definitely don't merge, they're not even close to the same thing. Jrssr5 09:54, 1 May 2007 (EDT)

What on earth has happened to this article? I am beginning to suspect an anti-British agenda. Chip-shops are a an integral part of British culture. MontyZuma 18:58, 1 May 2007 (EDT)

Thank you MontyZuma, I have already tried to convince some of the administrators here about the importance of this topic and about the erosion of the British way of life. I'd rather the few British contributers not be driven away, particularly as some of us are good Christian Conservatives who wish to preserve our way of life too. Trashbat 19:04, 1 May 2007 (EDT)