Comments on: ‘Do you want salt and crazy grammar on the chips?’

By: AISHA

AISHA — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:28:27 +0000

does it really matter bout da spellin all i can say is aslong as food is cooked 2 perfection dats all dat matters it’s hard 2 find a decent english chippy out der it’s dyin trade!!!

By: TootsNYC

TootsNYC — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:05:00 +0000

Those quotes may be there bcs our spelling-challenged menu modifier may have too strong a memory of phrases like “assault and battery.”

By: Paddy

Paddy — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:24:00 +0000

I know them best as baps. Weeyyy. Top! Boys!

By: Gez

Gez — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:22:00 +0000

Andrew,

Your ignorance about barms tells me little about your location, only that you are not based in the Lancashire area of England.

A barm or barm cake is a bread roll cooked on the oven bottom. (Bottom, bo'm, barm.)

You probably know it as a cob, bun, roll, stottie or muffin depending on your location.

It's just a hunk of bread really.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:57:00 +0000

The guy who wrote that has since been arrested … for battering his wife!

My apologies.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:04:00 +0000

What in God’s name is a “chip barm” ..?

By: Gez

Gez — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:44:00 +0000

MRP, Miss Harbour has quite the reputation. The reason behind her nickname ‘Windy’ can be discovered (and is likely to be received with shock and awe) by reading the comments scrawled on numerous toilet walls in the pubs of South Manchester.

I’m only mucking about; yes a chippy is a chip shop. That is to say chips meaning fat fries and a shop meaning store and not a place to get your car fixed.

Right, I’m going to put my trainers (sneakers) on and jog along the pavement (sidewalk) to the chippy (fries store).

By: mighty red pen

mighty red pen — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:30:00 +0000

So I’m not going out on a limb, I don’t think, to guess that a “chippy” is a place where fish & chips are obtained? I had to giggle because, being from the US, the only association I have for that word is for a lady with promiscuous ways . . .