Lasagne with chips (fries) anyone?

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TastyReuben said:
in both Ireland and the UK, chips (fries) almost always accompany lasagna, at least in my experience, which I think is a very good and proper thing!
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Don't know where you were eating over here, but it's really not that usual here at all. In fact, most Italian restaurants don't serve chips (fries) at all.
 
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Here’s a place where we ate in Navan, Irleand:

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That’s what I ordered, too!

And look at this:

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I can attest, it’s a wonderful combination.
 
We've got a huge Italian population over here, and no self-respecting restaurateur would ever serve chips with lasagna or bread with pasta. Sometimes, you might get bread on the table to start with, as well as some compound butter or olive oil mixed with herbs or parmesan.
Like the look of the first load of rolls, though; they'd be perfect for making Pav Bhaji.
 
I was pretty shocked when I had people ordering chips with their lasagna!
Or assumed lasagna should come with chips
Every single one of those was British ..

Back to bread, It's pretty much a mediterrean thing to have bread with every meal.
Morning Glory: Pasta is considered a starter in Italy. The main course comes after and comes with bread (at least as far as I know)
 
Morning Glory said:
I must have led a sheltered life or eaten in different places to most Brits then!
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It may be a more recent thing (as in last 30 years :laugh: ), because I don’t recall ever seeing that on menus when we lived there in the ‘90’s, but by 2015 or so…if a pub had lasagna on the menu, it almost always came with chips.
 
TastyReuben said:
It may be a more recent thing (as in last 30 years :laugh: ), because I don’t recall ever seeing that on menus when we lived there in the ‘90’s, but by 2015 or so…if a pub had lasagna on the menu, it almost always came with chips.
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Dunno.... I was in the UK all through 2022 and , although there was chips on the menu everywhere (Brits eat chips, that's it!) I never saw Lasagna with chips. Maybe I went to the wrong pub, but I can assure you, I went to plenty!
The problem with pubs these days is not the beer. CAMRA solved that, and effectively dismantled the crappy beer monopoly of the Big Five breweries. Now the problem is that you've got 7 or 8 huge companies who manage the food; and most of it is utter rubbish, centrally produced, same old, same old, and prepared by a person who just about knows how to manage a microwave and an air fryer. Yes, I tried some and yes, appalling.
Instead of employing a "chef" (and I use the word cautiously, because a lot are just good cooks), who might at least offer a daily "special", the food is pre-packaged, pre-cooked and warmed up. And of course, we Brits just love chips, so chips with everything because that avoids having to make a choice .
Personally, I find it very disheartening that these mega-companies continue to serve up junk food, alleging "that's what the public want". That's just a poor excuse for not having to be creative.
 
badjak said:
Pasta is considered a starter in Italy
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mmm, nope, I am sorry, Pasta in Italy is a main course (primo piatto) just like risotto or soup (e.g. Minestrone).

After that we have the secondo piatto which is usually meat or fish with a contorno (potato or any other veggie).

The bread is omnipresent on our tables: before starting the mail, during the meal and also at the end of it 😆
 
Morning Glory said:
I would live to hear MypinchofItaly's take on this topic.

I think I haven't often eaten much pub food or at least not pubs which serve lasagne, so maybe that is why I never came across lasagne with chips.
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Goosebumps 😂
 
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MypinchofItaly said:
mmm, nope, I am sorry, Pasta in Italy is a main course (primo piatto) just like risotto or soup (e.g. Minestrone).

After that we have the secondo piatto which is usually meat or fish with a contorno (potato or any other veggie).

The bread is omnipresent on our tables: before starting the mail, during the meal and also at the end of it 😆
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I stand corrected...
I meant well, just should not have said starter :)
 
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