Ray and Chips

[boxman]

Can you still get ray? My Granny used to make me the best ray and chips every Friday, smashin!

[Womblemum]

Can you still get ray? My Granny used to make me the best ray and chips every Friday, smashin!

Yeh ya can but the price of fish 'n chips is almost "gourmet" price now!!!.

[jeangenie]

yes boxy you can get ray in the fish shops but the chippers don't always have it.it's around 8 euro for one if they have it

[Bang Bang]

Can you still get ray? My Granny used to make me the best ray and chips every Friday, smashin!

Yes, It's still my favourite, Fresh Long Ray, Smoked Ray, Ray Fillets,.

Womblemum is right, though.

Even in a 'Chipper' the cost of say, a Ray and Chips is almost equivilent to the cost of a (reasonably modest) sit-down meal.`

[jeangenie]

anyone ever eaten the cheeks of a ray. yum yum

[toby]

caffollas sundrive rd. used to do the best ray in dublin mind you i am going back many years.

[Bang Bang]

Oh how I crave for fish ‘n chips:
Our fine cuisine of world renown.
I dined on such a subtle dish
When QEII received her crown.

Oh how I need some fish ‘n chips;
I’ll queue in pouring rain or snow!
What better way to warm my hands,
As soggy chips make fingers glow.

We Dubs are famed for culinary finesse,
Like steak ‘n kidney pud no less;
Wondrous tripe; cottage pie;
Bangers and egg in lard to fry!

But fish ‘n chips - the crowning glory -
A dish to trounce the great kebab!
You think I care for chicken masala?
It’s ray and chips that grow my flab.

Oh how I yearn for fish ‘n chips,
All poshly wrapped in the Irish Star,
Then caked and drowned in salt ‘n vinegar -
And stinking out my brand new car!

[Mykidsmom]

i think id trade me first born in fact all me borns for a nice ray and chips....mind you my last experience of them wasnt great....i asked at the fish and chip shop in kilkee what kinda fish they had...and they looked gobsmacked...Fishhhhhhhhhhhhh they sniffed...we have fish...............thats it..no kinds...just fish................turned out to be ray..cooked like a brick hehehe...

cafollas in malborough street....jez....send me over some please..

[boxman]

From Wiki:

In Ireland the first fish and chips were sold by an Italian immigrant, Giuseppe Cervi, who had stepped off an America-bound ship at Cobh and walked to Dublin. He started by selling fish and chips outside pubs from a handcart. He then found a permanent spot in Great Brunswick Street . His wife Palma would ask customers "Uno di questa, uno di quella?" This phrase (meaning "one of this, one of the other") entered the vernacular in Dublin as "one and one", which is still a common way of referring to fish and chips in the city.

I never knew where that came from.

[Bang Bang]

From Wiki:

This phrase (meaning "one of this, one of the other") entered the vernacular in Dublin as "one and one", which is still a common way of referring to fish and chips in the city.

I never knew where that came from.

Once more I have proof that I learn something new every day.

[kevinhoran]

Once more I have proof that I learn something new every day.

it's hard to bate a wan and wan , i ordered a 1 an 1 in burdocks last january , the white haired fella asked if i wanted a fork , there was one fella eating his chips in the shop , so i thought to myself i'll do the same. i was opening my 1 an 1 , when one of the chaps behind the counter ranted at me " only take away " another chap gave me the nod and told his colleague
" he's ok , he's local " , most punters apparently, took their chips out to the street .......

[paddybourke]

I remember a single was 6d in the Chipper beside The Grand,Casoni's owned it ,then Flynns bought it,Mr.Flynn was blind,a nice family,last time I was home I paid about 6euro for a 1 & 1,.My 1st. pint was 1shilling and 6 pence,if it goes up to 2shillings we are all giving it up !!!!! You know the rest of that story !!!

[Mykidsmom]

i just go to the grand every friday night with me da when i was little.....hed nip in and buy the fish and chips....stick them in the inside pocket of his coat...and we'd eat them watching the movie....i remember once some usher at the door saying to him ..you arent allowed bring fish and chips in...and me da saying...what fish and chips..do you see me carrying fish and chips...the small you get is cos i was already in the fish and chip place! so i guess they w

those were the days...carefree and the fish and chips tasted better than anything i can ever remember eating since..

[kevinhoran]

I remember a single was 6d in the Chipper beside The Grand,Casoni's owned it ,then Flynns bought it,Mr.Flynn was blind,a nice family,last time I was home I paid about 6euro for a 1 & 1,.My 1st. pint was 1shilling and 6 pence,if it goes up to 2shillings we are all giving it up !!!!! You know the rest of that story !!!

paddy , i remember the chips were a tanner ! my first pint was a pint of "celebration" in the sub. , it cost 1s. 3d. , there were people saying then , that if it went up to 1and6 , they'd be all giving it up . i heard later that the celebration beer was named after the 1916 easter weekend in dublin ....

[jeangenie]

all this talk about fish and chips has me demented. i went to the doc last week as i had a little trouble with my breathing. he took blood for tests and as i suspected it would be my cholestrol has gone up for the third time so i have to get my weight down and this thread is not helping lol