Thursday 21 May 2009

Clean cut chips

Just had my first fish supper for around two years... shockingly greasy but fairly enjoyable. A guilty pleasure I very rarely partake in. Will probably regret it in the morning. When I do naughty things like that I often wake up the next morning with a strange taste in my mouth and a feeling of absolute guilt. Not to mention the bad feelings in my gut of the calorie additions. A calorific hangover.
Ka was over in Hamilton trying on her wedding dress with her Dad and wheel chair confined Mother. After making my way through the hectic Hamilton traffic I picked them up and took Grace and Dougie home. Upon arrival we opted to join the in-laws for a quick chippy. They've never been the same since they stopped coming wrapped in newspaper (the chippys - not the in-laws). The chips with half a greasy ink news story printed over them somehow seemed to taste better, I suppose it must have depended on how tasty the news story itself was. If you were ridiculously lucky sometimes they'd even come with a page three girl. The chips are all too clean cut nowadays. Another casualty of the health conscious crazy world we now live in. Not that I'd go more often if the suppers still came in yesterdays latest classified section. In times of deadlines Davey Clyde, in the office, often shouts things inferring his latest work's preferred use. He'll be sitting in his seat mumbling away to himself as he plans his last classified page and suddenly bellow "Right, let's get rid of this chip wrapper!" Probably not the most complimentary remark to make about our treasured weekly newspaper titles and sadly no longer even accurate.

2 comments:

Brett said...

It's been ages since i had a chippy tea, when i was a kid we had 2 chipshops in view from my bedroom window and as a teen dated a girl whos dad owned a chippy, free chips every night!
As to the question on my blog, i don't use Pentax cameras but think that like Nikon they have kept the same lens mount. if this is so you will be able to use your lenses, but may lose some functions. Check pentax's web site for more details, most of my photos have been taken using the lowest priced Nikon kit lenses and at this level all the manufactures lenses should perform in the same range. It may well be cost effective keeping with Pentax if you have loads of lenses but if its just a basic kit then go and try some of the others, both Nikon and Canon are excellent depending on what you are after.

Anonymous said...

Since moving to Glasgow I have discovered cheesy chips, what a marvellous thing that is (I only have it about once a year though for the same reasons as you!).
Jackie