How well does your country do Fish and Chips?

My dad got this from Wales the other day.

It looks pretty fucking good

I noticed this about fries in sault ste marie

Newfie here, fresh cod is by far the best fish for fish and chips.

Too bad for the most part this entire province is taste-deaf, considering the only traditional food people still eat is "throw whatever doesn't need to be left in a refrigerator and salt beef in a pot" or just salt fish and hard tack, however real high quality cod with scrunchions (little bits of pork fat fried in the skillet with the cod) along with good fries is amazing.

>mushy peas

I wish this was on the menu at more fish and chips restaurants in Australia. I love it.

Only seems to be a side in the more upscale fish and chips joints.

UK, no.

What's the other meal? Looks like beans

Can't speak for all of America, but here in the Midwest we do well battered cod fillet with thick fries (chips for you fags)

It's bretty good but like all food it's heavily dependant on who cooks it

Cod is terrible. I would only eat it if i wás starving. The idea of newfie or cape breton food is pretty revolting to me...but i guess if someone grew up on it, i can see how they might be used to it. I do agree with one thing...the taste deafness that is in the maritimes in general. I swear people in NS are a step away from thinking potatoes are too spicy

Here in Chile it's a very common dish, especially in restaurants near the sea. It's not really considered fast food though, just a regular meal. Most people have baked potatoes, mashed potatoes, potato salad or rice instead of the fries, which is considered rather childish. It is also usually served with a tomato and onion salad.
Most common fish choices are reineta (Google says "pippin" but there aren't any fish results for that), hake and conger.

Newfoundland is also the most overweight province.

Some of the higher end restaurants here in St. John's do some crazy stuff with what is actually good from traditional food. Newfoundland cooking has a large variety long lasting vegetables, like potatoes, turnip, and onions, as well as a ton of cabbage because it's fucking cabbage, and besides that, a shitload of berries. Berries are huge here, especially blueberries and partridgeberries, and a wildberry that grows in the bogs here that we call "bakeapples" since I have no idea what other names it has. Outside of fresh seafood, the only other meats we could really keep where things that lasted, so salted beef and fish are huge, and there is a lot of sausage as well, along with hardbread since it lasts so long. It's really just a big mess of comfort food ingredients mashed together, and probably the best traditional food in North America, outside of maybe in Quebec.

>fries
>fish and fries

>literally eats fried fish tongues
>good

We do it the best chaps

>How well does your country do Fish and Chips?

Fucking amazing.

I live in Maine and every restaurant has 2 or 3 types of fried fish and chips.

Southern fried catfish is pretty fucking good too.

Basically the entire east coast of the United States does fish and chips or some variation of it very well.

West coast can and probably will suck a dick.

Soo resident here, can confirm. The fish (whitefish especially, and even better when caught fresh) is great, but their fries generally a shit.

has anyone tried fish and chips with dogfish? I hear its becoming a popular replacement for the unsustainable cod.

Where I fish there are no catch or size limits, and they are generally considered to be a nuisance catch.

>fries
>childish

Yes i was brought up on it.
Its called Rock over here, Rock and Chips

Yooper here and there is nothing better than fried, fresh-caught perch or whitefish.

This actually bit me in the proverbial ass when I went on vacation to Tampa.
>local...VFW? Lodge? Something like that was holding a fish fry
>what the hell, might as well give it a shot
>see "whitefish" on the menu, settle for that
>literally tastes like frozen fish sticks
>turns out it was the commercial definition of "whitefish" (ship-processed cod) instead of lake whitefish
I choked it down, but damn I felt stupid. Still better than that amusement park shit though.

I've never had fish and chips
am I really missing out on all that much?

There are decent fish and chips to be had in Wisconsin/Minnesota. Every Friday all the taverns are packed. You need to shop around but there is at least one decent place in any large town

Australian here. Most fish and chips you get here is fucking flake (shark) and elephant fish. You need to go to a proper fishmonger which sometimes has fish restaurants nearby just to get a decent bit of snapper. The only place that does chips right is gastropubs, everywhere else is that same tasting either too crispy and breaks into littled shards of crystalizes greased potato or the other sort which is soggy and cooked in oil which hasn't been changed for months and mixed with different fried foods.

Where do you fillet from? I've only unhooked them and they felt like just skin and cartilage.

Dogfish are retards and steal bait meant for tastier fish. I literally caught the same fish 3 times in a row. fun on the line but still a trash fish. If you can eat these bastards im sincerely interested in how.

If done correctly it's fantastic. I've had it in a few places around the world but the best for my money was in Whitby, in a place literally a stones throw from the sea and a queue out the door.

Yeah, for most places, whitefish means Cod or Pollock. I almost never see true lake whitefish except when I am in the UP

>Whitby
good lad

used to go there as a kid
the place being the inspiration for bram stoker's dracula is pretty neat as well

Deep fried food is for fat fucks. Fuck of britbong. Quit ruining fish.

Whitby is shit, folk festival is shit

i'll just go to scarborough then
if you're gonna be a cunt about it

It's a bit shit but the fish and chips there are immense.

I'm sorry user I overreacted because I immediately associated whitby with the folk festival

We do have some damn good cod here in Norway, so fish & chips is usually quite good here.

God damn that is one british as fuck picture, real cool man.

I've heard Maine is also for seafood.

Is it reasonably priced for decent quality because seafood is everywhere?

Good fish and chips is among the best meals imo.

Pretty fucking good - Englander here.

However, every town has its fantastic and its shitty chippies.
The ones that exude quality are the ones that can exclaim "Established in 19__"
Golden rule for quality.

>Established in 1999

Yeah I guess I walked into that one, you fucking pedant!
Ok, so anything prior to 1970

Chicago here. It basically not done at all because its expensive and relatively poorly implemented here. We are so far from the coast, it would have to be some frozen and shipped in crap, its simply not a good option. Other choices are better choices. Fish and chips is a treat, not a staple.

>We are so far from the coast

Are there no fish at all in the Great Lakes?

>thinking you need to be near ocean for fish n' chips
>never heard of lint
Nigga, I'm in the region of Indiana and even I know every restaurant serves fried walleye during lint in the midwest.

*lent

USA, near the coast.

Some Brits retired here and opened up a pub and they do it very nicely.

i've never ate fish and chips, ever.

>Is it reasonably priced for decent quality because seafood is everywhere?

Reasonably priced... IF you're not in some hunky dory tourist type restaurant or Portland. The quality of the seafood is god-tier, regardless. Think Seattle minus the genderqueer fishmonger and eco-socialist bartender.

'spretty gud

mmmm 'aked 'sian

The Great Lakes do have fish, but its not cheap fish fry type fish. Its some freshwater salmon, trout, perch and whitefish. None of it is what you would call "affordable". And the lakes are frozen for a good part of the year and mostly off limits.
How much do you pay for walleye? Its mostly a line-caught sport fish, not something that is netted in huge quantities. The only stores Ive seen who have walleye want $20+ per pound.
The Midwest in not a place for seafood. Its available but its not fresh and costs a lot.

Are you new to the midwest? Most places around here have all-you-can-eat fish fries for 10bucks or less. This is one that I went to a few times when I was living in the dorms at Purdue.

>genderqueer fishmonger and eco-socialist

Sounds like Maine is apparantely the white trash state of the north. Thanks, but I'll pass. I've been to Mississippi.

Here we call it cod and cuts

I would love to move to the states to a remote little town near the water and open an Aussie style pub.

>Not getting the train to Whitby that passes through picturesque as fuck hills and dales.
>Not getting drunk in the corner of locals-only, old-man pubs.
>Not eating chips in the rain

Folk festival is a bit shit though.

No, that's New Hampshire, the only thing they have going for them is cheap booze and Portsmouth

>Aussie style pub
Reckon they'd let you get away with Pokie machines, overpriced beer and mediocre food?

>He's never had perfect fresh caught West Coast Sockeye Salmon and chips with tartar sauce

Loser

Touche but I was thinking more like Old English Style pub with iconic Aussie dishes and pub favourites, aussie beers on tap and AFL on the tv.

>iconic Aussie dishes
Yeah! Like...erm......

Thai food?

>tfw not on vacation in Myrtle Beach and eating all you can eat catfish

Summer can't come soon enough

Just things like Meat pies, Roast lamb, Chiko rolls and the like with a more upmarket but unpretentious twist.

Canada does a good job. Well, at least in B.C. it's good.

I tried my first Chiko roll yesterday.
It was shit.
Even those oversized spring rolls with the dough-like filling are tastier.

I haven't had one in about 25 years. I have fond memories of them though. My sister still gets one every time her and her husband get fish and chips.

WA. The fish are fine (Aus fish is fantastic) but the batter is nowhere near as good as UK fish & chips.

Depends on the place but you're right that a lot here do have shitty batters. It's just too dense.

Yeah and often too dry and flavorless.

>If you can eat these bastards im sincerely interested in how.

Cut into steaks. Marinate in red chili, garlic and rice vinegar. Throw them on the grill for a few minutes. Top with fresh cilantro.

I don't reckon we do the fish well, just that we have amazingly delicious fish.

We live good lives, with good produce, good meat and good fish, the problem is we half arse all of it.

he's right tho

Heinz beans on toast, I bet.

You guys do a decent job, I have to say that. It's a pretty nice and safe place to play, unlike the good 'ol US. Safe and nice don't really correspond to the land of mickey mouse.

kek

im Brazilian
we have it in someplaces
and the times i had it it was pretty good

don't know how it compares to the ones in other countries , but definitely a 8/10

>How well does your country do Fish and Chips?
Considering there's over 600,000 restaurants here, if you find the right place we probably have the worst and the best fish and chips in the entire world.

Get on it bro.

Make a malt vinegar aoili and go to down with it, you wont regret it.

I reckon with batters the issue can be that there's so much it overpowers the flavour of the fish and doesn't allow you to enjoy the texture of the fish. It's like eating a batter log with a hint of fish.

Germany
Old people food. It's called "Backfisch" here.
Apparently it used to be popular a long time ago.
I never had a good one.
Also comes with potato salad instead of the chips.

>Apparently it used to be popular a long time ago.

When Germany had white citizens?

Australian chips can be hit or miss.
I just don't think our climate is perfect for potatoes and when you buy decent unwashed potatoes they're covered in red Australian clay, not dirt.

Australia.

We do better chips but England does better fish.

When people didn't have the teeth for real meat.
Isn't that how it became Englands national dish?

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oh my god that looks good.

also, scot here, we're pretty well known for fish & chips, and we argue with the limeys about it all the time.

here in scotland there's a place called Anstruther where the fishing industry has its heart, and there's a dozen fish and chip places along the main street. one in particular is famous as "the best chippie in scotland", or at the very least one of them. queues out the door whenever the weather's good, and it has an attached ice cream shop as well. take your pick between mr. whippy or traditional ice cream, in cones, tubs or boxes.

Brits have the ugliest and most deformed teeth. Cavities and missing teeth is a whole different matter concerning hygiene and general dental care.

That cherry-picking infographic was obviously made by a butthurt Britcuck

Are the Scottish allowed to eat Mr Whippy? What with it being invented by Thatcher.

That looks like the shit you get at a service station

Soft serve ice cream was invented in America, actually. Nobody's 100% sure who by, but it's definitely an american thing. For once you guys got something right.

Heck, the Mr Whippy company appears to be of Australian origin.

>fish and chips
>any country

Britbong here.

Generally it is a greasy mess that tastes only of salt and vinegar.

Very rarely do we get it right.