Chips and Gravy

[VannaB]

Can you get 'Chips and Gravy' down south in a chip shop, or is it only chip shops in the north that serve up this fab dish?
What's the furthest south you've been able to order them?

[bollie]

Ive moved away now, but the chippie on stevenage high street do them (still do as far as i know)
not a lot nicer to round off a nite on the beer!

[sponsmith]

I've lived in London all my life and have never come across chips and gravy in a chippie down here.
However, fish and chip shops have almost disappeared in their traditional form around town. Almost all foreign owned now, you're just as likely to to have spring rolls and chow mein on the menu as you are fish and chips.
Chippies still tend to be good on the coastal areas, i had blinding cod and chips in Hastings last year, but generally in the South we have nothing like the the chip shops up North.

[steviep165]

once you get south of the Tyne it isnt even worth trying really.
ive never been a big fan of southern gravy!!

[Narolines]

I'm surprised that you can get them in Stevenage; I've always thought of it as a northern thing. I was in my local chippy in Solihull, near my native Birmingham, a year or so back when a northern lad - Cleveland, to judge by his accent - came in & ordered something-&-chips (pie, I think) and asked for gravy. He seemed amazed that we don't do that round here. The only places I've ever come across it are well north of Derby (to choose a purely arbitrary latitude!)

[chimney]

I live in Kent and as far as i'm aware you can only get chips and gravy in chinese takeaways

[Lonnie]

I'm in Essex, not far from Basildon, and you can get Gravy with anything in my local Chippie.

[Eric Git]

Lands End at the chippy in the complex, a little further up you can get them in any of the chip shops in Cornwall or Devon.

[Pippa68]

Haven't seen any down here in Sussex. I used to live in Manchester, and it was the first place I tried chips & gravy..I miss it like hell as I have never been able to recreate the gravy they used.

My favourite was the Chinese chippy down the road..they did wonderful thick, dark gravy which went very well with a steak & kidney puddin.

The closest thing we have here is curry sauce :o(

[whiskeysheri]

I had chips 'n' gravy two weekends ago in Brighton, that's pretty far south!

Lovely too at 4am! :o)

[Pippa68]

Oh blimey, WS..that's only a few miles from me! mind you, I haven't done that much research. Can you remember the chippy name? xx

[JackDanielsU]

I love chips n gravy

My local chippie here in Stroud, Glos, had to go into the back and make up some gravty for me last time I asked

Got some strange looks from the other customers.


Chips n Curry Sauce is just as good....spec on a cold night

[CiderMonkey]

You can get chips and gravy in Southend in Essex

[whiskeysheri]

LOL Pippa!

I can't even remember the name of the B&B we stayed at, I was so out of it. I do know it was on the front though (as if that helps!), Sorry, hun ;o) x

[4getmenot]

I�m sure they don�t do them in Norfolk, but I was amazed when I went to Derby that they do huge battered sausages.

[B00]

I'm so surpised no one has quoted Peter Kay here yet..........

said in response when told no gravy or curry sauce in a chippy down souffff

"Has tha nowt moist then?"

[Ethel]

No chips and gravy in dudleybirmingham/wolverhampton.

[flip-flop]

Blimey, this actually exists does it?

I thought it was just made up by the Macc lads!!!

[samuel23]

We live in East Kent near the coast and the only place that does gravy here is the local chinese. Most of the chippies round are owned by foreigners and they offer chilli sauce, curry sauce, or ketchup. When I asked about gravy they offered me a meat pie, telling me that there was gravy inside it ~ only there bl00dy wasn't, it was drier than a hydrophobics face flannel.

[The Big Gill]

I've had chips and curry sauce in Greenwich.

[Pippa68]

Okey dokey WS ~ I shall go for a wander when I have a spare few hours..LOL :o)