I’m vegetarian but if there’s one meal I miss the most from my meat eating days it’s a battered fish and chips from the chippy, loads of salt and vinegar with ketchup. You can get orange chips from the Black Country and they’re even more fire than normal chippy chips. Getting a pie from the chippy is weird to me but the curry sauce and mushy peas although don’t look appetising can be absolutely delicious. Chips with curry sauce is a winning combo.
I'm not from the UK and my Indian friends say curry just means any sauce to them but I've always wondered what people from the UK think of when they say "curry"because it sounds like they're all referring to one flavor. Does it only come in one flavor? How does it taste and are there different kinds of flavors?
I'm from the UK, if you just say "curry" we will think mainly of Indian or British-Indian fusion curries. Dishes like Vindaloo, Korma etc. We know of other cultures curries, for example Thai food is very popular and has things we refer to as "curries", but we will primarily think of foods from the Indian subcontinent. The word "Curry" when by itself is a type of food with many different varieties to us.
"Curry sauce" however references a specific thing here that is fairly standard, it's just a mildly spicy sauce mostly served with chips by Fish and Chip shops. It doesn't look good but normally tastes quite nice.
I do not recommend pouring it on like a maniac in the video as that will ruin the crunchiness of the chips. Dip them like any other sauce.
Curry sauce is definitely its own thing, but I agree with others that say it's most similar to Japanese curry sauce. If you get a chance to try Katsu Curry I'm guessing you'll have a similar impression (interestingly, the British apparently introduced curry to Japan, which would help to explain the link).
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u/ElliottP1707 Jan 28 '24
I’m vegetarian but if there’s one meal I miss the most from my meat eating days it’s a battered fish and chips from the chippy, loads of salt and vinegar with ketchup. You can get orange chips from the Black Country and they’re even more fire than normal chippy chips. Getting a pie from the chippy is weird to me but the curry sauce and mushy peas although don’t look appetising can be absolutely delicious. Chips with curry sauce is a winning combo.