asian run chip shops and potato scallops... - Page 3

OLDFORDNUT · 23-02-2006, 03:05 PM

SHUT UP you bunch of pricks,your making me homesick,
god i miss Melbourne and real Potato Cakes,covered with real batter,used to be this great shop off North Rd ( i think it was the start of Clayton rd)cant remember but made the best potato cakes from Box Hill to Frankston.

Sourbastard · 23-02-2006, 03:06 PM

If I fry a potato in queensland, and noone sees it, and noone hears it, was it actually fried?

dvk · 23-02-2006, 03:07 PM

I say pluto pup because

1. Dagwood is harder to say.
2. Everyone else says dagwood dog.
3. Wtf is a dagwood dog.
4. Pluto pup sounds cooler.

Sourbastard · 23-02-2006, 03:11 PM

its a battered gazelle ИИИИИ, deep fried and sold to you on show day.

what its called is irrelevent. its a gazelle ИИИИИ.

dvk · 23-02-2006, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by sourbastard

If I fry a potato in queensland, and noone sees it, and noone hears it, was it actually fried?

I believe it comes down to technique and oil temperature in this case. And when was the last time the fryer was oilchanged. In any case though, you will see it. Or hear it. The inherrant problem is, you will have to fry it whilest in a blindfolded climate controlled spacesuit, then turn and run like the wind.

dvk · 23-02-2006, 03:13 PM

The accurate term is corn battered unhealthy sausage anyway. Or Corndog.

Simmo · 23-02-2006, 03:14 PM

haha i'm loving this thread now. i'm definitely up for Simmo's Cruise For Proper Potato Scallops. also i say Dagwood Dog also as this is all i have known. heard pluto pup once and thought nothing of it.

TheSneakiness · 23-02-2006, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by sourbastard

its a battered gazelle ИИИИИ, deep fried and sold to you on show day.

what its called is irrelevent. its a gazelle ИИИИИ.

LMAO.

blue fairy · 23-02-2006, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Simmo

haha i'm loving this thread now. i'm definitely up for Simmo's Cruise For Proper Potato Scallops. also i say Dagwood Dog also as this is all i have known. heard pluto pup once and thought nothing of it.

And it shall be done.
SCFPPS.

Sourbastard · 23-02-2006, 03:22 PM

do potato scallops come in a shell? i think they should.

dvk · 23-02-2006, 03:23 PM

the worst part is, i suddenly feel the need to eat oily potatoy rubbish.

Des · 23-02-2006, 03:24 PM

1: A cake is made from batter, ie. potato cake is made from batter, not coated in it.
2. A Pluto Pup is the off-spring of a certain well known cartoon character.

dvk · 23-02-2006, 03:27 PM

Indeed

Des · 23-02-2006, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by sourbastard

its a battered gazelle ИИИИИ, deep fried and sold to you on show day.

what its called is irrelevent. its a gazelle ИИИИИ.

Correct.
The term "dagwood", relates to the technical name of the wooden skewer that in inserted into the gazelle ИИИИИ for serving purposes. "Dog" relates to fact that said item looks like a small Daschound when cooked.
These where first known as "Dagwood served Battered Gazelle ИИИИИes", but where later shortened by an enterprising fellow to Dagwood Dogs after his niece noticed the resemblance to the family pet. The name "Pluto Pup" arose through a trademark dispute and to cash in on a popular cartoon at the time.

Blue Oval Mopar Man · 23-02-2006, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by sourbastard

If I fry a potato in queensland, and noone sees it, and noone hears it, was it actually fried?

carefull there Sour , you may actually be responsible for making us actually think before we type in this thread !!!!!!!!

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**Polyal** · 23-02-2006, 04:10 PM

Ok thats it guys....my parents owned a fish and chips shop for 8 years...I was just about brought up on this stuff, and I cooked so much I didn't eat any of it for 2 years after we sold the place.

Definitions:
A potato cake is a big potato that is cut thickly with a cold meat slicer, then lightly battered and fried

A Potoato Fritter is a potato that has been grated, mix with what ever you want and cooked on a grill/stove top

A Scollop is from the bloody sea, and has a orange/white dangley bit which is eatable. Scollops cost alot more than potato cakes.

i hope that clears things up!

Des · 23-02-2006, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Polyal

Ok thats it guys....my parents owned a fish and chips shop for 8 years...I was just about brought up on this stuff, and I cooked so much I didn't eat any of it for 2 years after we sold the place.

Definitions:
A potato cake is a big potato that is cut thickly with a cold meat slicer, then lightly battered and fried

A Potoato Fritter is a potato that has been grated, mix with what ever you want and cooked on a grill/stove top

A Scollop is form the bloody sea, and has a orange/white dangley bit which is eatable. Scollops cost alot more than potato cakes.

i hope that clears things up!

My doctor told me something else would clear it up....but I digress.

svo347 · 23-02-2006, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Simmo

sure is Des. and i like my scallops to be edible. not caked in 3 feet of batter, deep friend for an hour and a half then the inside magically hardened to within microns of the breaking point of my teeth.

Rather than whinge about it, why not tell them how you would like it... they would happily give you what you want ....

**Charliewool** · 23-02-2006, 04:23 PM

This has gotta be a contender for AFF best Thread! In ИИИИing tears here!

Simmo · 23-02-2006, 04:24 PM

i think this has been done to death now. just accept that we call em scallops and have done since the dawn of time or a few dozen years ago. we will never call them cakes and everytime i eat seafood in sydney i get sick so i feel we have the highground on seafood naming rights.

**Polyal** · 23-02-2006, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Des

My doctor told me something else would clear it up....but I digress.

Im sorry to hear that you cannot work out your head from your a.r.s.e

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I sympathise with the mess situation

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^^^All sarcasim...lol

42.57lb · 23-02-2006, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Des

My doctor told me something else would clear it up....but I digress.

The doctor also tol dyou to apply the ointment 3 times a day, not just "when it's ichin'" hehehehe

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new2ford · 23-02-2006, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by svo347

Rather than whinge about it, why not tell them how you would like it... they would happily give you what you want ....

That's right - pretty smart people those Asian cooks. Last story I heard of a European suggesting how they can do better was a food inspector in Hong Kong who objected to the Chinese practice of inflating ducks by putting your mouth on the open end (for want of a better description) and blowing, so they let him suggest a better way. So this food inspector puts the duck under his arm, gets the hose from the reverse end of a vacuum cleaner, puts it in the duck, turns it on and....the duck inflates in one microsecond, then explodes, spreading the duck and the inspector's uniform all over the inside of the restaurant.

BlueRaven · 23-02-2006, 04:59 PM

All of this can be discovered in one big QLD cruise!!!

We will travel to different parts of QLD to find the best potato cake/scallop and to see whether anyone in QLD is retarded enough to call them fritters!

Maybe we will find ourselves and the meaning of life...

Maybe i'll start www.friedpotato.com.au and review the best potato scallops/cakes all over Australia.

Maybe I'll go back to work..

Who knows!!

big_waity · 23-02-2006, 05:07 PM

Vote 1 Cruising for potatos! There are some pretty good cooked potatos here in the burra. Everyone should cruise up to Maryborough and buy some fried potato in it's many forms from Sandy's fish n chips. Fantastic fat coated potato. hmmm... I might get some tonight.

Simmo · 23-02-2006, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by BlueRaven

All of this can be discovered in one big QLD cruise!!!

We will travel to different parts of QLD to find the best potato cake/scallop and to see whether anyone in QLD is retarded enough to call them fritters!

Maybe we will find ourselves and the meaning of life...

Maybe i'll start www.friedpotato.com.au and review the best potato scallops/cakes all over Australia.

Maybe I'll go back to work..

Who knows!!

maybe those attempts at humour will amuse me one day.... :P

TheSneakiness · 23-02-2006, 05:17 PM

I also vote for Deep Fried Potato Cruise (TM).

Bucknaked · 23-02-2006, 05:23 PM

Well I hate seafood, so imagine my surprise when i ordered potato scollops and got a stinky fish thing. Obviously they thought this mean stinky battered fish. I should have said Potato cakes.

fiery · 23-02-2006, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by big_waity

Vote 1 Cruising for potatos! There are some pretty good cooked potatos here in the burra. Everyone should cruise up to Maryborough and buy some fried potato in it's many forms from Sandy's fish n chips. Fantastic fat coated potato. hmmm... I might get some tonight.

Actually have to agree with that ^^ statement..... stopped there for quick takeaway (thinking it was gonna be bad) was nicely surprised when both kids said the food was great.......... a nice change I can tell you

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Hitman · 23-02-2006, 05:29 PM

I'll see your potato cakes, and raise you 3 steamed dim sims!