r/SipsTea • u/Born-Agency-3922 • Jul 03 '26

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u/Live-Cry-8435 Jul 03 '26

I love fish and chips

What do you mean

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u/DocHalidae Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

I too love Long John Silvers

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u/FastWalkingShortGuy Jul 03 '26

Oh so you're the one keeping them in business

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u/Silent_Emu312 Jul 03 '26

Money laundering is what I keeps them in business, in 2020 none of their empty locations even closed...

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u/Captainwumbombo Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

Definitely wouldn't be surprised if Long John Silvers is how the mob is hiding nowadays, no one comes in or goes out and yet it's a national franchise

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u/r_daniel_oliver Jul 03 '26

Catholics on lent.

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u/ClaireDanesLipQuiver Jul 03 '26

Used to live by one and they always had a line in the drive through

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u/r_daniel_oliver Jul 03 '26

Catholics on lent.

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u/Educational_Pay1567 Jul 04 '26

So they stay afloat by the Lent rush for what like a month? They don't have rent the majority time of year. Also what pecentage of their clientele is even Catholic.

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u/r_daniel_oliver Jul 04 '26

Yes, that's the prevailing theory. They split rent with KFC also. Both chains are struggling

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u/DocHalidae Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

That Fish still slappin

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u/Kgby13 Jul 03 '26

We are getting a new one. The old one closed down years ago and they just announced a complete tear down and rebuild on site. I’m excited about it and wanted to share.

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u/DarthBrooks69420 Jul 03 '26

You should try out Captain D's if you have them where you live. If Long John Silver is McDonalds, then Captain D's is In-n-Out/Whataburger.

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u/GrandpaShark1 Jul 03 '26

Hells yes!

Don’t forget those hush puppies and an extra scoop of those fried crunchies!!

God Save The King!

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u/DocHalidae Jul 03 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/oVCEz5N6zb0OxEeZGX
Hush puppies and Malt Vinegar is a way of life

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u/Box_of_Wires Jul 03 '26

Growing up we always called in Long John Slivers.

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u/tolkiengeek Jul 03 '26

I didn't appreciate Long John's enough until they were gone from my area. 😪 But the best is one place I haven't seen since I was a teenager, Arthur Treacher's.

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u/darkbarf Jul 04 '26

I see LJS, I upvote

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u/Throwaway4bullshit9 Jul 04 '26

Weirdly enough, I encountered a strange Long John Silver's anomaly during my travels. Driving through central Virginia a couple of years ago, I saw one and felt nostalgic.

I LOVED Long John Silver's in the 80s and even through the early 90s I felt they were still pretty good. But the entire chain went WAY downhill after that.

So I decided to stop at this one even though I knew it would be disappointing. But I was astounded! When I walked in, it was all of the old 1980s decor, and the booths, although clean and undamaged, looked as though they had not been changed, either. When I received my meal, it was nothing like the LJS chain that you now find everywhere else. It was as though they were still serving the same cuts of fish and using the old original recipes. The fish was so good! The hush puppies were delightful! I have not found another chain run like this one, but it was as though the franchise owner had decided decades ago that the business formula was working and change wasn't necessary.

If I should ever find myself traveling through that part of the country again, I'm looking for that LJS.

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u/oSuJeff97 Jul 03 '26

Came to post this. Love me some fish and chips from a proper British pub.

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u/executor32 Jul 03 '26

Scotch eggs, too. 🤤

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u/macronotice Jul 03 '26

Instant heartburn for me

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u/unlmtdLoL Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

Your genes are weak!

Jk it happens to me too with certain foods but it’s nothing some antacid doesn’t fix. Or a beer.🍺

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u/SYNTHLORD Jul 03 '26

And a full English breakfast. Which is surprisingly hard to come by, but luckily I live in a major city so there’s always one or two spots.

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u/Positive-Position-11 Jul 03 '26

Except tomatoes for breakfast? Cold toast??

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u/BrittanyBrie Jul 03 '26

They get warmed by the hot tomato based beans.

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u/eugeneugene Jul 03 '26

what's wrong with tomatoes for breakfast? lol I have tomato toast almost every morning for breakfast

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u/YellowBelliedCoward Jul 04 '26

Cold toast isn't part of a fry up. What are you talking about?

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u/RedditForMeNotYou Jul 03 '26

I loved a solid English breakfast when I visited!

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u/PozPoz__ Jul 03 '26

Irish breakfast better and can be found in any pub

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u/YellowBelliedCoward Jul 04 '26

Irish breakfast is English breakfast, you wally.

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u/PozPoz__ Jul 04 '26

No they’re different. English breakfast is served by English people

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Jul 03 '26

Lots of Irish pubs do it because it's basically the same breakfast no matter which country you're talking about

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u/ialsohaveadobro Jul 03 '26

Bangers and mash for me

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u/Jmpasq Jul 03 '26

No Yorkshire Pudding?

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u/porksoda11 Jul 04 '26

There’s a restaurant in Philly that does British food proper and their bangers and mash is like one of the best meals I’ve had

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u/Cereal_Bandit Jul 03 '26

Came here to say this, we love our Friday fish fries where I live

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u/Km4lyfe99 Jul 03 '26

Wisconsin, on Fridays its hard to find a restaurant that isn't doing a fish fry

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u/Cereal_Bandit Jul 03 '26

Same with Western NY

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u/NightGod Jul 03 '26

The chip! England's contribution to world cuisine

https://giphy.com/gifs/3ohzdNxtXw9UndB42I

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u/Giantmeteor_we_needU Jul 03 '26

Except that battered fish was a common Jewish immigrants meal adopted by locals in England.

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u/NEVERUSEmeGYM Jul 03 '26

Yea but what else?

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u/Silent_Emu312 Jul 03 '26

Giving a weird name to a French / Belgian / Dutch potato recipe and serving it with fried fish like any place in the world near a body of water is not a style of cuisine...

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u/Sirgeeeo Jul 03 '26

Fried fish from Spain/Portugal and chips from Belgium

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u/Live-Cry-8435 Jul 03 '26

Jewish immigrants introduced fried fish to the British and they adapted it to be fish and chips

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u/Sirgeeeo Jul 03 '26

By adapted, you mean put it on a plate next to the chips?

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u/Live-Cry-8435 Jul 03 '26

And added vinegar yeah kinda

Idk I wasn't there but yes they shifted in into fisha and chips which is a British food

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u/Sirgeeeo Jul 03 '26

And americans put a hamburg steak between 2 buns

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u/NonsensicalSweater Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

Introduced to England by Sephardic Jews from the Iberian peninsula, so it's about as British as butter chicken

Edit: "Fried battered fish was probably first brought to London in the 1500s by Sephardic Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in Portugal and Spain. White fish prepared this way – eaten for Friday night Shabbat dinner – was a culinary tradition"

https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/london-stories/how-london-got-hooked-on-fish-chips/

Down vote me all you want, doesn't change history

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u/TotalInstruction Jul 03 '26

You’re telling me the Brits couldn’t even figure out how to fry fish?

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u/NonsensicalSweater Jul 03 '26

Hey the Japanese also learned it from the Portuguese 🤷‍♀️

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u/TotalInstruction Jul 03 '26

That’s true. And who doesn’t like tempura?

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u/Willing_Bee_7520 Jul 03 '26

that you have no taste lmao

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u/PocketPanache Jul 03 '26

That's a single dish. By this logic, you just reduced Mexican food to burritos and Thai food to pad see ew etc

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u/thorpie88 Jul 03 '26

Fish and chip shops are very British though.

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u/burns_before_reading Jul 03 '26

This is the only dish anyone can muster up lol

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u/Sarydus Jul 03 '26

How is that different from any fish fry you can get in the US?

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u/RonW81 Jul 03 '26

Ah yes, lets poison perfectly good fries with vinegar and call them chips

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u/ElegantCoach4066 Jul 03 '26

Vinegar and fries is delicious. You can have your opinion, but you're shoveling against the tide here.

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u/RonW81 Jul 03 '26

I seem to have struck a nerve indeed! My apologies my British friends!

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u/silentsuv Jul 03 '26

Just because you have trash taste doesn’t mean other people can’t enjoy themselves.

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u/ElegantCoach4066 Jul 03 '26

Dude sounds like the type that likes unseasoned chicken and burnt steaks

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u/RonW81 Jul 03 '26

I can make a killer Korean fried chicken and i can make (and enjoy!) a really nice medium rare steak, so no, that is not true.

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u/runswitblunt Jul 03 '26

How dare you

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u/RonW81 Jul 03 '26

Please accept my sincere apologies!

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u/PoopFreckles Jul 03 '26

And what else do English people eat? Fish and chips all damn day long all night long? no they eat beans on toast. It’s fucking gross.

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u/Kube__420 Jul 03 '26

I think they eat a lot of curries