Is fish-n-chips a finger food?

[vernplum]

One more - this time plaice:

 

[Yorky]

One more - this time plaice:

You may or may not have had experience of Harry Ramsden's in Singapore vernplum. It's gone now but it was somewhere between the main centre and Changi. I'm going back to the late '90s.

Anyway, they served me a rectangular battered fish (which was very nice) but it was accompanied by bread and butter cut into triangles? I explained to the waitress (who turned out to be the manager) that that was incongruous - if the fish was rectangular/square then the bread should be cut similarly - how else could a fish and chip sandwich be made?

We visited a number of times subsequently and the bread was always cut square (or not cut at all) after that. I obviously had made an impression (I had told her that I was born some 10 km from the original Harry Ramsden's fish and chip shop which was built in Guiseley).

 

[vernplum]

You may or may not have had experience of Harry Ramsden's in Singapore vernplum. It's gone now but it was somewhere between the main centre and Changi. I'm going back to the late '90s.

Anyway, they served me a rectangular battered fish (which was very nice) but it was accompanied by bread and butter cut into triangles? I explained to the waitress (who turned out to be the manager) that that was incongruous - if the fish was rectangular/square then the bread should be cut similarly - how else could a fish and chip sandwich be made?

We visited a number of times subsequently and the bread was always cut square (or not cut at all) after that. I obviously had made an impression (I had told her that I was born some 10 km from the original Harry Ramsden's fish and chip shop which was built in Guiseley).

I moved to SG in 2003 so would have missed it. I’d like to try it but my league is more the down-n-dirty local chippies.

Regarding the toast cutting, they had obviously been shown the correct way to cut toast as per fig. 1 below:

 

[Herbie]

The best way to eat fish and chips is on a cool windy day by the sea in the UK, cuddled up with that warm, paper wrapped feast in a promenade shelter. Of course it has to be eaten with your fingers!

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I love to do this. Ramsgate used to be good. There was a brewery, a chip shop and an icecream parlour along the front.

 

[Morning Glory]

I love to do this. Ramsgate used to be good. There was a brewery, a chip shop and an icecream parlour along the front.

Ramsgate is my favourite coastal town. I didn't know you knew it so well - or did I? Maybe you spoke about it before and I forgot?

Edit: My apologies Herbie - I now recall you responding to former posts I made about Ramsgate. I think you said you from around there?

 

[Herbie]

Morning Glory Yes, I'm from near Dover. Not been down that way for 6 years. No longer have family down that way and it's a bit of a trek from the Midlands.