Prepare for the British invasion

jesus, scotch eggs another healthy one.. That was one of my landlady favorite things to make along withrostbeef and yorkshire pudding on Sunday and scones and cucumber sandwiches for tea of course..
Actually I enjoyed the scones and cucumberer sandwiches circa Birmingham 1967

CanuckBob wrote:I'm just hoping one of them comes and opens an authentic fish & chips place.......jaja.

Let me weigh in with an Irish opinion.
Every time I return from Ireland I can't even look at "fish and chips" here for 6 months. Any one familiar with Burdock's or Beshoff's and scores of other pubs and chippers, will know what I'm talking about.  Until they figure out how to import North Atlantic cod or haddock...forget it.  The tilapia and dorado (mahi mahi), they use here, just don't cut it. The fishing limits on cod has reduced the availability for some periods of the year in Ireland so the chances of getting any here are  nil.
Ismet at Gossip's knows how to fry it, (oil temp., batter), but all he can use is tilapia, the rest of the so called providers of fish and chips don't even have the preparation down pat, let alone the right kind of fish.
There is some kind of fish here called  bacalao that only translates to cod in a dictionary.  

I was born in England and my first recollections (about age 3) are of German Bombers over our house on the way to bomb either Coventry (War vehicle manufacturing) or the British War Communications centre in Woodhouse Eaves just 2 miles from my house. Yes we found bomb fragments locally. I love English F&C. They are hard to find in NA. I also like deep fried black pudding.

I have cooked Tons (literately) of Haddock Fish and Chips for both a Moose Lodge and a Canadian Legion in Canada and never had a complaint. At the Moose Lodge we served about 150 people on a Friday evening and at the Legion we served at least 400 on Fridays.

The problem here is that the restaurants try to fry fish from frozen or nearly so. Fish must not be frozen (or be fully defrosted) to cook good Fish and Chips but a restaurant cannot know how many F&C dinners will be served each day so they have no alternative but to start from frozen. SO! bad F&C.

If a restaurant decided to run a Friday F&C night and used fresh fish they would have a great following. The volume is too low here to just have F&C on the everyday menu. Make it a special night.

I would be more than willing to train a restaurant to do it properly.

BTW Hickton; "All Be It" is spelled Albeit (one word) in English. From one Englishman to another. Google it!

Well at least they gave some of the negatives at the end of the article.  Although after coming back from Jamaica we both commented to each other about good to be back to normal driving Laugh out loud. Its all relative.

Real scones and Porter I miss here.

Z

You lived in Coventry? I also taught school in Nuneaton near Coventry..

Dave P....you got it right on fish and chips, but there is one thing I disagree with....the black pudding from Clonakilty, County Cork is the best in the world (Irish prejudice).
BTW are you old enough to remember when Lady Godiva was riding around those parts of the world of your childhood? LOL

Its got to be cod. . Have seen frozen greenland cod for sale in h.e.b. .also beer battered frozen cod in superlake.  for emergency purposes only . local black pudding available here but not the same as uk.
A good irish brekky and a guiness is a great hangover cure.

My GOd I had forgotten about Lady Godiva!

hickton wrote:Its got to be cod. . Have seen frozen greenland cod for sale in h.e.b. .also beer battered frozen cod in superlake.  for emergency purposes only . local black pudding available here but not the same as uk.
A good irish brekky and a guiness is a great hangover cure.

Yep, cod it is, haddock is the first line of backup and some pubs on the south coast of Ireland use plaice as a sub when they can't get cod.
Most good paddys don't know or need a hangover cure as it requires getting sober first.

BTW....for my Brit friends on this board.....I shudder at the title of this thread....When they did that (the invasion) of our Island, it took us 700 years to get rid of them.....but now they come back as tourists and spend their money, so now we like them, even the Queen.

But when The Beatles did it, it changed R&R forever......

BTW...halibut makes for excellent battered fish too..

brigitte wrote:You lived in Coventry? I also taught school in Nuneaton near Coventry..

Woodhouse Eaves is about 7 miles from Leicester and about 40-50 miles ATCF from Coventry. The route from Germany went right over our house.

ATCF= As The Crow Flies

CanuckBob wrote:But when The Beatles did it, it changed R&R forever......

BTW...halibut makes for excellent battered fish too..

Is the only good fish frozen around here? What about any of that fresh caught fish out of the biggest lake in MX?

Have another Playa..........

The manatee's have eaten them all.

CanuckBob wrote:Have another Playa..........

NO DRINKING TODAY. Everything is "dry" on election day.

Chapala Carp and Chips?

My wife and I are Brits we'll be invading your village this Friday...

sorry but 2 brits does not qualify as an invasions..now hundrerds and hundreds that is another thing..
Hope you have a great time.

brigitte wrote:sorry but 2 brits does not qualify as an invasions..now hundrerds and hundreds that is another thing..
Hope you have a great time.

Spoken like a true member of the French Resistance.

Playaboy wrote:

CanuckBob wrote:But when The Beatles did it, it changed R&R forever......

BTW...halibut makes for excellent battered fish too..

Is the only good fish frozen around here?  What about any of that fresh caught fish out of the biggest lake in MX?  

At one time a very well thought of whitefish was fished out of the lake and exported. Todays fresh fish sold in Ajijic by vendors door to door consists of Carp and Talapia and some small fish like smelt.

The former restaurant at the Ajijic Pier used to sell charales from the lake.  Little sardine size fish, coated in batter whole then deep fried.  Crunchy treats.  Also saw them in Jocotopec on weekends from vendors at the malecon, but I gave up my car and it's been 2 years since I've been there.

Any charales around nowadays in Ajijic or Chapala?

All over the place in Chapala on the malecón. Who knows, a little tarter sauce and malt vinegar. . .Charales n' Chips!