what do they put on chips in Aberdeen?

[hibsbollah]

Just wanted to know :greengrin

[Calvin]

Just plain old salt and vinegar. Delighted to have moved back home for that reason above all.

However, one of the guys who works in Marco's on Belmont Street has a brother who runs the St Andrews in Portobello so his chippy sauce is as good as one will find outside of Edinburgh.

The Ashvale is still a consistently brilliant chippy though!

[nonshinyfinish]

If you go west from Edinburgh, where does it stop being salt and sauce?

I'd like to think there's a frontier town where it's sauce on one side of the high street and vinegar on the other, the two halves separated by gun towers and attack dogs like East and West Berlin.

[hibsbollah]

If you go west from Edinburgh, where does it stop being salt and sauce?

I'd like to think there's a frontier town where it's sauce on one side of the high street and vinegar on the other, the two halves separated by gun towers and attack dogs like East and West Berlin.

The 'Broon Sauce Border' is quite tightly wrapped round Edinburgh AFAIK. On the east, once you get to Aberlady, Gullane and North Berwick its salt n vinegar. Fife is salt n vinegar as well.

Philistines.

[Frazerbob]

Not one decent chippy in Aberdeen....or "chipper" as they call them up here. Some have made a half arsed attempt at chippy sauce but none have mastered it. It's one of the things I miss the most about Edinburgh......how sad is that!

[Hiber-nation]

Just plain old salt and vinegar. Delighted to have moved back home for that reason above all.

However, one of the guys who works in Marco's on Belmont Street has a brother who runs the St Andrews in Portobello so his chippy sauce is as good as one will find outside of Edinburgh.

The Ashvale is still a consistently brilliant chippy though!

St Andrews has gone downhill a bit recently, I've stopped going there.

[blackpoolhibs]

The 'Broon Sauce Border' is quite tightly wrapped round Edinburgh AFAIK. On the east, once you get to Aberlady, Gullane and North Berwick its salt n vinegar. Fife is salt n vinegar as well.

Philistines.

Not true, on the way home if driving we get salt and sauce in Biggar and even as far down as Lockerbie. :thumbsup:

[hibsbollah]

Not true, on the way home if driving we get salt and sauce in Biggar and even as far down as Lockerbie. :thumbsup:

Really? Maybe the 'broon ring' is tighter on the east side and flabbier on the south then (this is going a bit 'carry on film').
My daughter starts uni in Aberdeen shortly. She has curry sauce on her chips (grew up in England), which just tastes like sick imo.

We need a 'chips' map.

[nonshinyfinish]

Really? Maybe the 'broon ring' is tighter on the east side and flabbier on the south then (this is going a bit 'carry on film').
My daughter starts uni in Aberdeen shortly. She has curry sauce on her chips (grew up in England), which just tastes like sick imo.

We need a 'chips' map.

Indeed. I've a friend from Livingston (I know, I know) who swears by chippy sauce.

That said, everything west of Lothian Road until you get to Glasgow is pretty much 'here be dragons' as far as I'm concerned.

[Northernhibee]

Ashvale has gone a bit downhill - The Bay in Stonehaven recently won the best chippy in the UK award and although you can wait a wee bit it's by far the best fish supper I've ever had. Always freshly cooked and always absolutely brilliant.

[s.a.m]

This maybe isn't the time or the place, but I'd rather have fish and chips from anywhere other than a chippy. The condiment is the least important issue here, so geography is irrelevant.

I'm from the West coast, though have spent many years here, so I alternate between vinegar / sauce if I HAVE to do the chippy thing. No idea where the frontier is, though.

[Calvin]

Really? Maybe the 'broon ring' is tighter on the east side and flabbier on the south then (this is going a bit 'carry on film').
My daughter starts uni in Aberdeen shortly. She has curry sauce on her chips (grew up in England), which just tastes like sick imo.

We need a 'chips' map.
I took a liking to chips, cheese and curry sauce in Aberdeen. So wrong it's right.

[Gatecrasher]

all the chippie's i have been to in and around Livi provide sauce. We're so multicultural :smug:

[blackpoolhibs]

Really? Maybe the 'broon ring' is tighter on the east side and flabbier on the south then (this is going a bit 'carry on film').
My daughter starts uni in Aberdeen shortly. She has curry sauce on her chips (grew up in England), which just tastes like sick imo.

We need a 'chips' map.


Chips and curry sauce is magic, i get it when i go down to St Albans to visit the kids. Its something i'd never have had, but once i tasted it i always have it at least once when down. :yum yum:

[GlesgaeHibby]

Chippy Sauce comes as far East as Port Seton.

[hibby19]

I used to frequent Aberdeen quite a lot so drunken scran was always a red pudding or chips, cheese and Mayonaise. Next best thing to 'chippy sauce'.

In contrast to the chippy sauce only really being in and around Edinburgh, Red pudding is a nightmare to get in a chippy in Edinburgh but most other cities and towns have it quite regularly

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

They seem to keep their chips on their shoulders up their now that The New Firm is a thing of the past!

[hibsbollah]

Chippy Sauce comes as far East as Port Seton.

:agree: and then 5 mins drive further east its vinegar. A strange twilight zone probably exists inbetween. Maybe Longniddry represents the border :dunno:

[frazeHFC]

Not a fan of brown sauce, i'm just a boring salt person tbh. :greengrin

However near me (in Dundee) there is an amazing 24 hour bakery. Last night I got a 'helicopter', a huge roll filled with a burger, lorne sausage, bacon, chips and barbecue sauce. :drool:

[Mr White]

Not a fan of brown sauce, i'm just a boring salt person tbh. :greengrin

However near me (in Dundee) there is an amazing 24 hour bakery. Last night I got a 'helicopter', a huge roll filled with a burger, lorne sausage, bacon, chips and barbecue sauce. :drool:
That sounds like it could have been named the choleste-roll
:greengrin

[frazeHFC]

That sounds like it could have been named the choleste-roll
:greengrin


Clever. :greengrin Guessing they get their name because if I keep eating them i'm soon gonna end up the size of a helicopter. :tee hee:

[Mr White]

Clever. :greengrin Guessing they get their name because if I keep eating them i'm soon gonna end up the size of a helicopter. :tee hee:

Or need winched oot your wa**chariot.

[HibeeEmma]

:agree: and then 5 mins drive further east its vinegar. A strange twilight zone probably exists inbetween. Maybe Longniddry represents the border :dunno:

no chippy in Longniddry :( but there is definetly salt and sauce in North Berwick and surely Dunbar too

[s.a.m]

no chippy in Longniddry :( but there is definetly salt and sauce in North Berwick and surely Dunbar too

Did there not used to be? My father-in-law had theories :wink::wink::wink: about it.

[nonshinyfinish]

Not a fan of brown sauce, i'm just a boring salt person tbh. :greengrin

However near me (in Dundee) there is an amazing 24 hour bakery. Last night I got a 'helicopter', a huge roll filled with a burger, lorne sausage, bacon, chips and barbecue sauce. :drool:

Just salt? I enjoy salt and vinegar, although I'd always take chippy sauce if it's available. But just salt?! Petrie!

[hibsbollah]

:( but there is definetly salt and sauce in North Berwick and surely Dunbar too

In north berwick its Under the counter only. And it's HP sauce with a bit of vinegar added, nothing like real chippy sauce. Its a vinegar town, as is Dunbar.

[HibeeEmma]

Did there not used to be? My father-in-law had theories :wink::wink::wink: about it.

Not in the 25 years iv been here


In north berwick its Under the counter only. And it's HP sauce with a bit of vinegar added, nothing like real chippy sauce. Its a vinegar town, as is Dunbar.

I knew their sauce wasn't real. Port Seton have the best chips + sauce around the area perhaps you are right

[Calvin]

Not in the 25 years iv been here



I knew their sauce wasn't real. Port Seton have the best chips + sauce around the area perhaps you are right

As a fellow Longniddry kinsman we used to have to go to Aberlady for our nearest chippy fix, or head out to North Berwick and fit a supper between our games of putting between the east and west courses.

The one in Gullane opened a few years ago and provided ample sustenance on the drive back from my hotel job.

However, Bene's in Port Seton has still not been bettered in East Lothian. It ticks all the boxes.

[hibby rae]

In north berwick its Under the counter only. And it's HP sauce with a bit of vinegar added, nothing like real chippy sauce. Its a vinegar town, as is Dunbar.




I knew their sauce wasn't real. Port Seton have the best chips + sauce around the area perhaps you are right

Well at least they're giving it a go in North Berwick! I have many fond childhood memories of going there for the day as a wee boy and getting a chippy tea. On the Northern front I had a chippy in Burnt Island during the summer and had chippy sauce on it. Does the chippy in Anstruther do chippy sauce? I believe it's owned by the same folk that own the Tail end.

[nonshinyfinish]

The 'Broon Sauce Border' is quite tightly wrapped round Edinburgh AFAIK. On the east, once you get to Aberlady, Gullane and North Berwick its salt n vinegar. Fife is salt n vinegar as well.

Philistines.

Spoke to a Fifer last night who assured me that chippies in Glenrothes have chippy sauce.

This could run and run.

[hibsbollah]

Spoke to a Fifer last night who assured me that chippies in Glenrothes have chippy sauce.

This could run and run.

Weird. Glenrothes Yes, Cupar and Anstruther No.

We might need a subcategory for 'they provide broon but only after giving you a dirty look and going through the back before returning with some HP/vinegar gloop mix that really doesnt cut it'.

[Sylar]

It was salt 'n sauce in West Lothian, all the way out to Whitburn but my wife who grew up in Shotts was definitely salt 'n vinegar.

The frontier might be as simple as the West Lothian/North Lanarkshire border heading west :greengrin

[nonshinyfinish]

Weird. Glenrothes Yes, Cupar and Anstruther No.

We might need a subcategory for 'they provide broon but only after giving you a dirty look and going through the back before returning with some HP/vinegar gloop mix that really doesnt cut it'.

Diligent as ever, I asked him about that last night: he said he's never had that treatment in any Glenrothes chippy.

[Scouse Hibee]

Salt n' Vinegar where ever I am on my chips England or Scotland.

Chips and Curry sauce, Chips and Gravy, are also on my list but my old favourite has to be a.......... Sausage Dinner : 3 Sausages, Chips, Peas and Gravy..............superb.

[HH81]

Chips with gravy is class.