Thursday, 1 January 2015

British Chippy


There is this company, recommended to me by an English man, called The English Pork Pie Company - and it turns out their shop is in Buffalo, NY, which was on the way home from Niagra Falls. They have a shed in an industrial unit, and they make and ship pies and cornish pasties, and a a fair few other things British to Canada and USA. They recently opened a shop front in their unit (called British Chippy - Proper Fish and Chips) and they sell a few of their hot pies, as well as fish and chips. We got fish and chips as well as a really nice chicken and mushroom pie for dinner, and ordered a whole heap of pies and sausage rolls to take home for later.
The fish and chips was specifically battered Cod with some chips, a huge serving of cod. It was reasonably expensive, and I'm not sure why, seeing as cod is available in the US for not very much, but it might be the cost of actually paying decent wages for labour (the wife of the husband and wife team works the cash register). I wouldn't recommend it as a cheap takeaway, however, it was a nice stop, and I do miss fish and chips.
Buffalo looks like it was really set up for manufacturing - right on Lake Erie (other end of lake from Detroit), very industrialised, with confusing but flowing road systems where you could end up somewhere wrong very fast. We suspect it is on the edge of what is termed the 'rust belt' in USA (Detroit's population fell by 25% since 2000. In the city, there has been a 60% drop from the 1950s. I think it is officially broke now, I assume mostly from the collapse of manufacturing industries).

1 comment:

  1. WoW what a find a chippy. Grandmas favourite although these days it has to have a different consistency.You know its not a cheap take away here either now.

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