The Scottish Cheeseburger (1 Viewer)

[seanface]

I was heading home from the pub on saturday night and I thought I'd chance one of the local chippers on my road. I had a few pints in me but I was grand. Stalled in anyways and I thought I'd play it safe and order a cheeseburger.

"In a bun?" asked yer man. "yeah?" came my reply. I should have heeded the warning signs. He reaches in a drawer and lobs this battered yoke into a bread roll. "salt and sauce?" enquired the shop owner. "Sauce?" I responded not really knowing what was going on. He proceeded to drown the yoke in brown sauce. He wouldn't accept my "monopoly money" but eventually gave up and laughed me out of the shop.

I unwrapped the creation outside and bit in. Two burgers wedged together with some kind of gooey cheesey liquid inside, dipped in batter and deep fat fried and then lobbed into a bread roll and smothered in brown sauce. Lads it was delicious. not so much the next day though..!bog

 

[Con]

Thats sounds totally disgusting, but i bet its delicious after some booze refreshement.

 

[nonemoreblack]

That sounds like and Edinburgh thing, yeah? [Edit: ah yeah, just saw your location thingy]

They're mad for salt and sauce there. The sauce being brown and watered down with malt vinegar.

Deep fried battered haggis is pretty good too when you been on the sauce, if you pardon the pun.

 

[seanface]

That sounds like and Edinburgh thing, yeah? [Edit: ah yeah, just saw your location thingy]

They're mad for salt and sauce there. The sauce being brown and watered down with malt vinegar.

Deep fried battered haggis is pretty good too when you been on the sauce, if you pardon the pun.

i've heard horror stories of a lad innocently asking for a slice of pizza only for said slice to be lobbed in the fryer and then doused in salt and sauce

 

[Jill Hives]

That sounds foul however, I am still curious about the battered pineapple.

 

[seanface]

That sounds foul however, I am still curious about the battered pineapple.

I saw pictures of a battered creme egg in a local paper around easter time. nearly vomited into my morning paper so i did

 

[Jill Hives]

I saw pictures of a battered creme egg in a local paper around easter time. nearly vomited into my morning paper so i did

Creme eggs are vomit inducing on their own. I tried a bite of the battered mars bar when I was there. Messy. Good for the bite then bin the rest.

 

[Franco]

Check out Picante's, the techno chipper, on the top of Broughton Street.

On a Saturday night one of the chippy staff spins hard house while serving you scran.

 

[seanface]

Check out Picante's, the techno chipper, on the top of Broughton Street.

On a Saturday night one of the chippy staff spins hard house while serving you scran.

duly noted. battered hard house all washed down with irn bru is on the agenda for next weekend so.|..|

 

[wageslave]

The Chinese on Thomas Street (Red Dragon or something? It's the one nearest Thomas House* anyway) does these fritter things which are pretty lovely. Fruit / veg coated in some sort of sticky goo and fried to heart clogging loveliness. I had the pineapple ones but they also do chestnuts, bananna and some other ones I don't remember.

*Oh yeah, props to Thomas House staff for being sound enough to allow people to bring in food from the Chinese to enjoy with their pints. Great move.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

fritter things which are pretty lovely. Fruit / veg coated in some sort of sticky goo

i had pineapple fritters recently, they were lovely. the stuff tasted like pancakes so i asked yer man if they were fried in pancake batter and he said yes

 

[dowel]

The Chinese on Thomas Street (Red Dragon or something? It's the one nearest Thomas House* anyway) does these fritter things which are pretty lovely. Fruit / veg coated in some sort of sticky goo and fried to heart clogging loveliness. I had the pineapple ones but they also do chestnuts, bananna and some other ones I don't remember.

*Oh yeah, props to Thomas House staff for being sound enough to allow people to bring in food from the Chinese to enjoy with their pints. Great move.

Chestnuts? yum~! next vicar st. jaunt I'm in there!

 

[Lillian]

Two burgers wedged together with some kind of gooey cheesey liquid inside, dipped in batter and deep fat fried and then lobbed into a bread roll and smothered in brown sauce. Lads it was delicious. not so much the next day though..!bog

Sounds a bit like a whurly burger, the chippers greatest invention.

 

[BonsaiSuperstar]

some of the most unhealthy months of my life involved staying every summer in scotland.
batter burger suppers, cans of irn bru.

 

[seanface]

some of the most unhealthy months of my life involved staying every summer in scotland.
batter burger suppers, cans of irn bru.

there's more takeaways per square mile then anywhere else I've ever been to. Worse than America so it is

 

[Franco]

I'd also recommend the chip and cheese bap from the Clamshell on the Royal Mile. Quality stodge.

 

[Lillian]

Maybe you just needed the diet version,

[ame="http://youtube.com/watch?v=bAxR-Ia6bxI"]YouTube - raoul diet iron bru[/ame]

 

[Lillian]

I'd also recommend the chip and cheese bap from the Clamshell on the Royal Mile. Quality stodge.

The Clamshell is my favourite chipper in Edinburgh, they sell booze and the best haggis in the city.

 

[Franco]

The Clamshell is my favourite chipper in Edinburgh, they sell booze and the best haggis in the city.

There's loads of great chippies in Edinburgh. L'aquila Bianca and L'Alba Doro in Stockbrigde were both regular haunts, as was Rapido on Broughton Street as it was near the gaff. Picante's is decent and handy for an after hours bottle of pish wine.

 

[seanface]

This thread is turning into a Rough Guide to eating fried foods for me