The Chip Spice Saga
Do you know what chip spice is? Nor did I, until one evening when I was in a very small farming village called Patrington in Yorkshire. The B&B we were staying in was a very nice and cosy converted barn. The rooms were fantastic, but once the sun sets you realise you are on the edge of the village. So much so, that the street lights stop a good few hundred meters further into the village. Looking out from the room window, all you can see is black landscape and not a light in sight. To say the very least it made me uneasy. To the local people I am a city boy used to street lights, mobile phone masts and other assorted modern technology.
My grandma lived in Patrington before going into a home, so I have spent a lot of time there. It is like taking a step back in time in a good way. Everything you miss from the city is made up by the friendly local atmosphere.
One evening we went to the local pub for a few drinks. When we left the pub, we went to the chip shop and ordered two bags of chips. The person serving me was stood with the chips in a bag, starred me straight in the face and said “Chip Spice?”.
I didn’t know what to say except “what?”
“Chip Spice” he repeated
“i’m sorry, I dont know what you’re talking about” I informed him
“you know, chip spice” he said as if that would suddenly jog my memory
“i’ve never heard of chip spice” I said as everyone in the shop looked at me
He went and got a plastic salt shaker and shook some chip spice onto his hand. He held his hand out and said “see, Chip Spice” adding “Do you not have chip spice where you’re from?”
Grabbing my chips I said “no, where we come from it’s called paprika or curry power, not chip spice”
We walked out of the chip shop and back to the B&B. It was like walking onto the set of a League of gentlemen. The only thing that was missing was “Are you local?”. For a few moments I was serious worried that my brain had given up the ghost and I had slipped into insanity, forever stuck in the twilight zone. In surreal situations, I sometimes wonder if they are actually happening or if I am going mad. How would you know if it did happen?
I really wanted to come back later with some frozen stotties and chuck them through his shop window. Fucking chip spice!
you love it.
Is this going to be one of those things that I have never heard of, but everyone else is well aware of? lol
I have never tried chip spice. The chip shop didn’t have it in a labelled container and it wasn’t any mixed spices. It was just a red powder.
Your shop looks like osCommerce. fyi your currencies are broken at the top of a page.
Right, it’s time for a vote. Everyone who reads this, leave a comment saying if you have heard of chip spice or not. Come on!
Chip Spice – http://www.thisisull.com/humour/hullnews1.html
“Known as Hull’s magic brown dust, American Chip Spice was a popular and tasty condiment in the chip shops.
But, after it was discovered to be more addictive than heroin, it was removed from Hull’s chippies.
Now the chips of Hull are doomed only to be adorned with old-fashioned salt and vinegar.”
But fuck chip spice, The government are banning scraps/batter???
Where is the tipping point when we say enough is enough and all go to the streets?
never heard of it
Thank you
i fuckin LOVE chip spice … the bet thing since sliced bread !
i searched the internet to try find out how to make it and came across this. i cant beleive any of you havent heard of it chip spice it is soooooo nice x
No one outside of Yorkshire has heard of it from what I can tell. It has been claimed more addictive than heroin. Guess the Yorkshire heroin addicts are now queuing outside the chippy to get their daily fix lol. Do you know what a stottie is? Its a local thing. Weird how each area in the uk has its own local foods that no one else outside seems to know about.
are you all idiots? i live in hull chip spice is everywhere it isnt what that lil reject at the top claimed.. southern shandy drinking TWAT!
Wow, you really know how to talk to people. Way to show how a Yorkshire Pudding really acts!
Grimsby/Cleethorpes have chip spice. Had never heard of it till I moved up there but it’s nice.
Good god, Grimsby is a heck of a place. Went there on business once. All they did with chip spice is take a spice and rename it. Heck of a small world there, their experience was obviously limited to a small local world. It was just like a clip from the League of Gentlemen with “you’re not from around here are you”! stonerfreakout!