Chips + Egg?
What kind of a supper is that? It doesn't sound very filling. Is this a normal meal in the UK?
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Its very filling :) Chips & Egg (or as its more usually referred to egg & chips) is a very traditional meal in the UK.
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Haha! Yes Egg & chips is a common meal in England - remember our food portion sizes are not as large as in America!
shareIt's actually a very tasty meal, you know. I used to have it a lot when I was younger. I don't think it's as common as it once was.
shareRemember Chips = Fries (home fries / french fries?) over here.
Plate of fresh chipped and deep fried potato with a couple of eggs on top. Yolks have got to be runny so when you dip your chip in the yolk, the yolk runs over the others underneath. Have a slice or two of white bread to make a butty. Never ever cut the bread in half. Never ever ever in a triangle. As a purist, put the chips on the bread and fold over. lots of salt.
Cheap and cheerful comfort food.
Plate of fresh chipped and deep fried potato with a couple of eggs on top. Yolks have got to be runny so when you dip your chip in the yolk, the yolk runs over the others underneath. Have a slice or two of white bread to make a butty...lots of salt.
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Need peas to go with it too, makes it even better.
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It is very nice. I had it a few weeks ago.
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I dont know whether its a liverpudlian thing but most of us brits call it Egg and Chips. I've never heard anyone call it Chips and egg before. In fact its the one thing that bugs me in the movie even though its only a little thing. Anyway, it is very delicious and nice and easy, albeit not so good on the waistline!
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It is. It also helps to note that the meal here is referred to as "tea." "Tea" is the third of four meals eaten in most European countries. Later on Shirley yells out the window at her daughter, "That's right Millandra; I'm goin' to Greece for the sex! Sex for breakfast; sex for dinner; sex for tea; and sex for supper!"
(To which a grocery delivery man passing by says "Sounds like a marvelous diet, luv!")
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Egg and chips - comfort food.
shareActually, it's more about class and where you're from in the UK. A lot of working class people call lunch dinner, and dinner tea, posher people or people in certain parts of the uk call dinner supper etc. Not sure I know anyone who has 4 meals in a day! Unless you're VERY posh and live in the 19th century, when you'd have Nuncheon and afternoon tea :)
sharePosh : tea = four o'clock with real tea, cucumber sandwiches and scones with cream and jam
dinner at around eight thirty / nine.
Working class : dinner at six which they call tea, then some little snacks at around ten in front of the TV.
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It's a very common dish here, especially on a Tuesday, and if we have it any other day we always put our fingers in it until our mums sod off to Greece.
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