I just want to report that I did take the chips and bit of fish cake that I took home in a box and put in the fridge overnight. I heated it in my HYSapientia Air Fryer Oven on Toast for 5 mins (180C) last night and they were as good as when I saw then on my plate on Thursday evening. A friend has reported that the ghost of the completed fish seems to be returning uninvited at about 19:30 in the video and I am sorry for that mistake. I checked things twice but clearly I wasn't checking precisely enough, so apologies. I cannot do anything other than apologise now.
Well, I AM a creature of the 70s I guess - the music was wonderful and I foodwise йfinally outgrew the basic typical British dinners adding prawns, friend rice and mushrooms to my diet hahaha. The best prawn cocktail I ever had though was in Dubai in the late 70s using Gulf Prawns which were the size of a builder's thumb. Of course prawn cocktail became a staple of every Beefeater Inn but by the time the 80s arrived, they sort of faded out - a bit like Matt Munro and Frank Ifield hahaha.
Great review thanks Nikki and a well deserved shout out to the best fish and chip shop stop on the way to the coast / or York depending which way you are travelling. Always a family favourite the quality and high standard of meals and service is second to none .
Thanks, Janet, for confirming my experience. So many people have enjoyed Thompsons for many years. I see my job to be finding more of the good-uns like Thompsons.
I don't like prawns but that starter looked really nice but I'm blown away by the size of that fish. It's enormous! Good review and I love the closeups of the yummy food
Thanks for watching! There is no sleight of hand or weird camera angles either - it really WAS a giant piece of fish and totally representative of their regular portion since I saw the same being served to other diners. But above all, it tasted so delicious and fresh - a joy to eat in every bite. Coming from an impoverished family, I do not recall eating prawns until I went to Uni aged 18. There were many other foods on that list all to my regret, like mushrooms and friend rice, which I would have enjoyed much earlier if my parents had a tad more money, experience of life and a greater inquisitiveness. Mind you, my father ate tripe and the smell was disgusting.
Ok i did google it, but this is the explination. The "PG" in PG Tips stands for "Pre-Gestee", the original name of the tea brand in the 1930s. The name implied that the tea could be consumed as a digestive aid before eating. However, after World War II, labeling regulations prohibited describing tea as a digestive aid. The company adopted the name "PG" and added "Tips" to refer to the fact that only the top two leaves and bud of the tea plant are used in the blend.
Your dinner looked excellent Nikki. Excellent commentary too. Haddock on its day is the best thing to batter and deep fry in my opinion. Keep up the food work. Cheers
Thanks for the tips! It is always reassuring from a proper chef like you Archie that haddock is the way to go. And by the way, guys, Archie features in a book where all profits go to homeless charities ua-cam.com/channels/TeyeXSHJvPIBheX7YcmC-A.htmlcommunity?lb=UgkxM3HPYqKkPoj0UGvNKPYmAJoDotyGxKwF
Now then..I love fish n chips. The poor mans meal. NOT. (Well that's what it used to be known as) I use every excuse in the book to have fish n chips, and i must admit, those you ordered looked absolutely beautiful - mushy peas an all... £16.00 for what's included in that meal, I think is excellent value. This is somewhere else I have put on my list of places to eat. Quality! Once again Nikki, you have smashed it! Excellent review, good camera work too. Thanks once again. Cheers mi dear ❤
I fear your list of places to go is getting longer, Denise and if you follow the list you will become as rotund as me! I think food is my last refuge of things I can still enjoy in my dotage.
Lovely looking prawn cocktail. and main meal. One of my favourite dishes. I think it was probably Cayenne pepper rather than paprika. Delia uses Cayenne pepper which is good enough for me. Not sure what PG stands for with the tea. KP peanuts is 'Kenyon Produce', I'm guessing PG is something similar.
I am sure you are right, Nigel. I mix paprika and cayenne pepper all the time. As regards the PG Tips explanation, the wonderful Michael Wade, another subscriber here, DID look it up and the explanation is quite interesting so I copy it here : "The "PG" in PG Tips stands for "Pre-Gestee", the original name of the tea brand in the 1930s. The name implied that the tea could be consumed as a digestive aid before eating. However, after World War II, labelling regulations prohibited describing tea as a digestive aid. The company adopted the name "PG" and added "Tips" to refer to the fact that only the top two leaves and bud of the tea plant are used in the blend." Thanks Michael.
Glad you enjoyed it Tony. It was a very cold night that night and I just wanted to just have a plate of great grub after the upsets at the beginning of the week. It was the first time I actually felt like eating anything.
@ my god it did look cold 🥶 u looked a bit ill 🤧 wen u 1st got in to Thomson’s ( I don’t mean that in a nasty way), also hope that all is ok after a bad start to the week?? I’m not being nosey just hope things are all ok now,, and u bounce back to ur usual cheerful happy self Nikki, 👍
Fantastic review! The size of that fish was amazing for a regular cut. Everything looks so delicious and I am jealous you have such great places to eat. I love fish and fries but there is not a place around here that sells them. When you said the cook with beef drippings what exactly does that mean? I shared the video to my friends and public on Facebook. Donna
Hi Donna. Beef Dripping is fat that runs off a joint of beef when it is being cooked, generally roasted. This is rendered fat and in poor homes in the UK if was very common for children to be fed with Bread & Dripping, where this fat was put to one side, often unrefrigerated in the first half of the 20th Century and spooned onto a piece of bread and evened out with a knife. I think in the USA, it is more commonly referred to as Beef Tallow. The Beef dripping that fidh and chip shops use is routinely deodorised to remove the beef flavour. As a cooking medium however, it is strongly believed to offer advantages over vegetable fats and oils due to its smoke point etc. I think the UK tends to eat a lot of fish due to trawler fleets traditionally fishing in the icy cold waters of the very northern part of the North Sea around Iceland. We tend to favour haddock and cod in the main. I imagine since the majority of the USA in more southerly than Europe - apparently New York is on the same latitude as Madrid the capital of Spain, these fish are not found in the Pacific or Atlantic waters in sufficient numbers except perhaps for Alaska. As a result, you tend to have a wider variety of more temperate or warm water fish that are better cooked in different ways.
Very good review, this is just my opinion but I don't understand how you don't have many more subscribers which I think you richly deserve, come on people give Nikki more support., At the moment she earns nothing from doing these reviews. I'll forgive you the comment about Londoners .... Linda!😏
You are very kind, Helen, or is it Linda? The vagaries of UA-cam necessitates that I must stay in the shallows until such a time that ideally one of the Food Review Greats mentions or recommends me on their channel. That would make a massive difference to my exposure but that recommendation is in their gift alone. I respect them too much to beg.
Jaysis Nikki the price, quality and amount of food is second to none. No way would you get that over here. No way. This is the rip off republic! You never said how much the fish cake cost? Great review girl. Philip in Ireland ☘️👍
Thank you Philip. I am amazed that you do not get this sort of decent grub at decent prices in the Republic since both of our countries share a history in deep sea fishing. I have been looking high and low for the receipt and so far a search in all my pockets has found nothing. I do seem to remember my bill was about £26.49 which would mean that the fish cake would have cost about £2.50 which is what other chippies seem to charge. I will have to find the receipt though since in the unlikely event I get monetised before I cash in my cloggs I might be able to claim the outlay back - that is why you see people like Danny, Gary and Greeno all asking for the receipt lol. IF I find it I shall correct this post. For some reason, I didn;t even ask them how much it cost, only that I had to have one so I could match it to my other reviews on chippies.
@@tonybernard9826 Greeno is a real gentleman just like Gary n Danny. I just wish those 3 would watch my channel as much as I watch theirs lol. Just so long as you can still find the time for a bit of Noshing here eh, Tony.
@ can’t beat a bit of noshing Nikki and who knows one day ur channel may be bigger than there’s lol and ther hoping to hav as many subs as u,, u never know Nikki 👍
I have to visit Haxby soon after one of the young fellas off camera recommended it when I was in The Gillygate bar, Bromwich Butchers so maybe I can fill my face with both their £7 roast Dinner in a Bap and later find myself in Miller's fidh n chip shop? I think going to Willow Farm for breakfast too might mean I would explode though, eh?
I just want to report that I did take the chips and bit of fish cake that I took home in a box and put in the fridge overnight. I heated it in my HYSapientia Air Fryer Oven on Toast for 5 mins (180C) last night and they were as good as when I saw then on my plate on Thursday evening. A friend has reported that the ghost of the completed fish seems to be returning uninvited at about 19:30 in the video and I am sorry for that mistake. I checked things twice but clearly I wasn't checking precisely enough, so apologies. I cannot do anything other than apologise now.
we enjoyed the ghost of the completed fish! thought it was a stylistic editing choice!
Prawn cocktail.....back to the seventies there! Fish and chips look yummy.👌👌👌👍
Well, I AM a creature of the 70s I guess - the music was wonderful and I foodwise йfinally outgrew the basic typical British dinners adding prawns, friend rice and mushrooms to my diet hahaha. The best prawn cocktail I ever had though was in Dubai in the late 70s using Gulf Prawns which were the size of a builder's thumb. Of course prawn cocktail became a staple of every Beefeater Inn but by the time the 80s arrived, they sort of faded out - a bit like Matt Munro and Frank Ifield hahaha.
Great review thanks Nikki and a well deserved shout out to the best fish and chip shop stop on the way to the coast / or York depending which way you are travelling. Always a family favourite the quality and high standard of meals and service is second to none .
Thanks, Janet, for confirming my experience. So many people have enjoyed Thompsons for many years. I see my job to be finding more of the good-uns like Thompsons.
I don't like prawns but that starter looked really nice but I'm blown away by the size of that fish. It's enormous! Good review and I love the closeups of the yummy food
Thanks for watching! There is no sleight of hand or weird camera angles either - it really WAS a giant piece of fish and totally representative of their regular portion since I saw the same being served to other diners. But above all, it tasted so delicious and fresh - a joy to eat in every bite.
Coming from an impoverished family, I do not recall eating prawns until I went to Uni aged 18. There were many other foods on that list all to my regret, like mushrooms and friend rice, which I would have enjoyed much earlier if my parents had a tad more money, experience of life and a greater inquisitiveness. Mind you, my father ate tripe and the smell was disgusting.
Ok i did google it, but this is the explination.
The "PG" in PG Tips stands for "Pre-Gestee", the original name of the tea brand in the 1930s. The name implied that the tea could be consumed as a digestive aid before eating. However, after World War II, labeling regulations prohibited describing tea as a digestive aid. The company adopted the name "PG" and added "Tips" to refer to the fact that only the top two leaves and bud of the tea plant are used in the blend.
That is very interesting indeed, Michael. Thank you for doing the heavy lifting on this fascinating story on how the name PG Tips came into being.
Your dinner looked excellent Nikki. Excellent commentary too. Haddock on its day is the best thing to batter and deep fry in my opinion. Keep up the food work. Cheers
Thanks for the tips! It is always reassuring from a proper chef like you Archie that haddock is the way to go. And by the way, guys, Archie features in a book where all profits go to homeless charities ua-cam.com/channels/TeyeXSHJvPIBheX7YcmC-A.htmlcommunity?lb=UgkxM3HPYqKkPoj0UGvNKPYmAJoDotyGxKwF
Nikki I was dribbling at that! 😂 made me wanna do a 7hr journey just for those fish n chips! My favourite food 😍
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You can do it! lol.
Found this channel and look forward to watching 😊
Welcome, Lynn and we hope you enjoy the channel and chuckle along with some of the all-thingfood I get up to.
Now then..I love fish n chips. The poor mans meal. NOT. (Well that's what it used to be known as)
I use every excuse in the book to have fish n chips, and i must admit, those you ordered looked absolutely beautiful - mushy peas an all...
£16.00 for what's included in that meal, I think is excellent value.
This is somewhere else I have put on my list of places to eat. Quality!
Once again Nikki, you have smashed it! Excellent review, good camera work too. Thanks once again.
Cheers mi dear ❤
I fear your list of places to go is getting longer, Denise and if you follow the list you will become as rotund as me! I think food is my last refuge of things I can still enjoy in my dotage.
Lovely looking prawn cocktail. and main meal. One of my favourite dishes.
I think it was probably Cayenne pepper rather than paprika.
Delia uses Cayenne pepper which is good enough for me.
Not sure what PG stands for with the tea.
KP peanuts is 'Kenyon Produce', I'm guessing PG is something similar.
I am sure you are right, Nigel. I mix paprika and cayenne pepper all the time.
As regards the PG Tips explanation, the wonderful Michael Wade, another subscriber here, DID look it up and the explanation is quite interesting so I copy it here :
"The "PG" in PG Tips stands for "Pre-Gestee", the original name of the tea brand in the 1930s. The name implied that the tea could be consumed as a digestive aid before eating. However, after World War II, labelling regulations prohibited describing tea as a digestive aid. The company adopted the name "PG" and added "Tips" to refer to the fact that only the top two leaves and bud of the tea plant are used in the blend." Thanks Michael.
Think they gave her the special because she was reviewing it
Brilliant Nikki looked bostin, looked freezing outside tho, top notch high end fish and chip shop looked amazing thanx for the review 👍
Glad you enjoyed it Tony. It was a very cold night that night and I just wanted to just have a plate of great grub after the upsets at the beginning of the week. It was the first time I actually felt like eating anything.
@ my god it did look cold 🥶 u looked a bit ill 🤧 wen u 1st got in to Thomson’s ( I don’t mean that in a nasty way), also hope that all is ok after a bad start to the week?? I’m not being nosey just hope things are all ok now,, and u bounce back to ur usual cheerful happy self Nikki, 👍
@@tonybernard9826 Yes feeling better thank you but one doesn't have the same amount of stamina at 70 that you had at even 65.
@@NikkisNosh I can imagine,, ur looking well for 70 Nikki I wouldn’t have thought u was 70 if u hadn’t of said.
Fantastic review! The size of that fish was amazing for a regular cut. Everything looks so delicious and I am jealous you have such great places to eat. I love fish and fries but there is not a place around here that sells them. When you said the cook with beef drippings what exactly does that mean?
I shared the video to my friends and public on Facebook. Donna
Hi Donna. Beef Dripping is fat that runs off a joint of beef when it is being cooked, generally roasted. This is rendered fat and in poor homes in the UK if was very common for children to be fed with Bread & Dripping, where this fat was put to one side, often unrefrigerated in the first half of the 20th Century and spooned onto a piece of bread and evened out with a knife.
I think in the USA, it is more commonly referred to as Beef Tallow. The Beef dripping that fidh and chip shops use is routinely deodorised to remove the beef flavour. As a cooking medium however, it is strongly believed to offer advantages over vegetable fats and oils due to its smoke point etc.
I think the UK tends to eat a lot of fish due to trawler fleets traditionally fishing in the icy cold waters of the very northern part of the North Sea around Iceland. We tend to favour haddock and cod in the main.
I imagine since the majority of the USA in more southerly than Europe - apparently New York is on the same latitude as Madrid the capital of Spain, these fish are not found in the Pacific or Atlantic waters in sufficient numbers except perhaps for Alaska. As a result, you tend to have a wider variety of more temperate or warm water fish that are better cooked in different ways.
@ Thank you! I have heard of beef tallow. I think I have heard that beef tallow is good to cook with due to the smoke point.
Very good review, this is just my opinion but I don't understand how you don't have many more subscribers which I think you richly deserve, come on people give Nikki more support., At the moment she earns nothing from doing these reviews.
I'll forgive you the comment about Londoners .... Linda!😏
You are very kind, Helen, or is it Linda? The vagaries of UA-cam necessitates that I must stay in the shallows until such a time that ideally one of the Food Review Greats mentions or recommends me on their channel. That would make a massive difference to my exposure but that recommendation is in their gift alone. I respect them too much to beg.
@@NikkisNosh Linda Not me, me dears. our little joke the other day after your pub/pizza new boyfriend review 😁
Jaysis Nikki the price, quality and amount of food is second to none. No way would you get that over here. No way. This is the rip off republic! You never said how much the fish cake cost? Great review girl. Philip in Ireland ☘️👍
Thank you Philip. I am amazed that you do not get this sort of decent grub at decent prices in the Republic since both of our countries share a history in deep sea fishing. I have been looking high and low for the receipt and so far a search in all my pockets has found nothing. I do seem to remember my bill was about £26.49 which would mean that the fish cake would have cost about £2.50 which is what other chippies seem to charge.
I will have to find the receipt though since in the unlikely event I get monetised before I cash in my cloggs I might be able to claim the outlay back - that is why you see people like Danny, Gary and Greeno all asking for the receipt lol. IF I find it I shall correct this post. For some reason, I didn;t even ask them how much it cost, only that I had to have one so I could match it to my other reviews on chippies.
@@NikkisNosh I watch Danny and Gary but never watched greeno I must give him a try see wat he’s like as many folks seem to praise him highly
@@tonybernard9826 Greeno is a real gentleman just like Gary n Danny. I just wish those 3 would watch my channel as much as I watch theirs lol. Just so long as you can still find the time for a bit of Noshing here eh, Tony.
@ can’t beat a bit of noshing Nikki and who knows one day ur channel may be bigger than there’s lol and ther hoping to hav as many subs as u,, u never know Nikki 👍
Millers Haxby maybe worth the journey.
They also have some interesting videos showing sustainability etc. on yt.
Hope you are well.
I have to visit Haxby soon after one of the young fellas off camera recommended it when I was in The Gillygate bar, Bromwich Butchers so maybe I can fill my face with both their £7 roast Dinner in a Bap and later find myself in Miller's fidh n chip shop? I think going to Willow Farm for breakfast too might mean I would explode though, eh?