Will Brigg get a PLAICE in the top rankings?
We have popular chippies on Wrawby Street, Coney Court, Glebe Road and Grammar School Road
The organisers of the competition at Seafish say: "The National Fish & Chip Awards have cast their net far and wide having trawled the nation for the last year, and are now set to make or break the hearts of friers from around the country as they announce the UK’s best fish and chip businesses on 20 January 2016 at the Lancaster London Hotel."
Growing from a single award in 1988 to now encompass over a dozen categories, the awards showcase a diverse range of accolades that cater for every aspect of running a successful fish and chip business, recognising everything from traditional takeaways to mobile operators to excellence in training and responsible sourcing. Read more about the contest here...
Thanks to Ken Harrison who took the above picture of quality Brigg fish and chips being enjoyed.
This was one of me still-life snaps...taken some years ago...I pinched the chip in the bottom left!
ReplyDeleteOdd history about battered fish....fish was traditionally cooked in a salt paste.....then, after cooking, broken open to expose fish...
ReplyDeleteThen someone discovered that fish could be fried in an egg and flour batter...this was essentially to protect the fish while frying as the batter was then discarded as waste...or given as 'humble pie' to the peasant folk.
Waste not, want not, then the ordinary folk realised battered fish, complete with batter, tasted good...and in consequence,hence the rise of chippies in the Victorian Age...the original takeaways for the working folk....
Often it's not the inventor that makes the money, it's the guy who improves the basic concept....
ie Japanese motorbikes, cameras, tv's..
Similarly the guy who invented the ladies' wire hair clip died a pauper..the guy who put the zig-zag in one of the clip's leg (which serves no useful purpose apart from image) made a fortune....
The moral of this ditty, is that you're more likely to be a success if you improve an existing invention....ie Biro and his ball point pen..Lego derived from wooden building blocks..
Percy Shaw is often credited for inventing cats eyes.....he didn't.
ReplyDeleteReflective prisms set in wooden blocks were devised by some unknown person...they were used in Whitehall ..London in WWl to help folks see the road during the blackouts....The problem was that they became dirty with horse droppings and thus became ineffective...so they were removed.
Percy Shaw improved the basic idea by mounting the cats'eyes in rubber blocks in which there was a small amount of collected rain water...and when the rubber mountings were depressed by wheels trundling over them, the eyes were washed and scraped by a rubber lip that cleaned the glass prisms....so keeping them clean and reflective...
How many lives has this invention saved worldwide? It must be hundreds of thousands. Maybe millions. I recall seeing a documentary on TV about Percy (late 1960s/early 1970s?) in which he came across as an ordinary chap who liked a pint at the pub.
ReplyDeleteIn no way manner, am I trying to distract the importance of PS's invention - he patented the idea of Self-Wiping Cats' Eyes.....the earlier notion of putting prisms in wooden blocks probably wasn't registered with the Patent Office.
ReplyDeleteI probably saw the same documentary about PS....he was a bit of an eccentric...lived in a mansion, but removed most of the contents, apart from tv's...
In a similar vein, Barnes Wallis developed the bouncing bomb...but the idea of skimming cannon balls off the ground was known from the C16th...in the right circumstances 'ricochet shot' could be very devastating to advancing troops...thereafter, the navy used skimming cannon balls across water....in the right conditions, they would more likely strike enemy ships near the vulnerable water line...
Before, the bouncing bomb, BW used the widespread engineering knowledge of strength of triangular construction - he incorporated this idea in the construction of the Vickers R100 airship at Howden, near Goole.
He later used this geodetic construction method in the Vickers Wellington bomber - the mainstay bomber during the early years of WW2.....
The construction was extremely strong and light....
But what's all this got to do with fish and chips?
To conclude ....cat's like fish....but an American guy invented a powdery compound to soak up spilt oil in his garage....the stuff didn't sell very well, but he found his cat (after eating fish!) would readily poo in the stuff....so he readvertised the compound as cat litter and gained lots of dollars....cat litter is also very useful for removing oil spills - it's original intention.......another advantage..the same stuff is added to compost to improve its water retentive qualities.....thus, depending on the needs of plants in hanging baskets etc, a couple of handfuls of cat litter improves the compost's water retentive qualities....one could even grow parsley to make a sauce to go with fish....!!...no codding!!!!
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