A Family Fish and Chips Night / myLot

New Zealand

November 29, 2018 10:12pm CST

My sister and her husband were in town this week and we planned to go out for a steak meal at a local restaurant, along with my sister-in-law. However, when we tried to make a reservation at a couple of our favourite places they were booked out with large workplace Christmas party groups. So, there was nothing for it, we decided to have an at home fish and chips take-away meal. We phoned through the order for five people, then my sister and I went to pick it up. The lady at my local take-away shop laughed, asking was I feeding other people tonight, as our usual order is much smaller. We had a fantastic family night, eating fish and chips, drinking wine and talking non-stop. The best part though, the meal cost each of us about a quarter of what we might have paid had we eaten and ordered wine at a restaurant.

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sofs

@sofssu (23660)

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30 Nov 18

Sometimes I love eating at home with friends more than eating out just for this reason.. Dinner gets extended, watching a movies or catching up on news is awesome.. Glad you had a good time.

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sofs

@sofssu (23660)

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30 Nov 18

@responsiveme two of a kind then..

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ARM

@responsiveme (22923)

• India

30 Nov 18

Me too

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Shubhu

@shubhu3 (36463)

• New Delhi, India

30 Nov 18

I am glad you had a wonderful and enjoyable dinner.

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Val

@valmnz (17095)

• New Zealand

30 Nov 18

It's always nice to have out of town family together.

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Shubhu

@shubhu3 (36463)

• New Delhi, India

30 Nov 18

@valmnz Yes. It feels amazing.

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UmiNoor

@UmiNoor (4521)

• Malaysia

30 Nov 18

Sometimes it’s much better to eat at home and cheaper too.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502491)

• Italy

30 Nov 18

Those in your photo is what we call a "Scaloppina alla MIlanese" breaded veal fried in butter, my favorite dish.

(It shows that I was born in Milan, so I am a Milanese).

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502491)

• Italy

30 Nov 18

@MALUSE Val never said that she took this photo, believe me this is NOT fish and chip it's a Veal Milanese and I just checked online the photo is of a "Schnitzel with Fries from Pixaby. Here is the link, I was SURE

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502491)

• Italy

30 Nov 18

@MALUSE Here in Switzerland they use pork to make the schnitzel, in Milan we only use veal, same as in Austria (Wienerschnitzel). We are still discussing if Milan copied from them or vice versa, during the Austro-Hungarian empire.

Anna

@LadyDuck (502491)

• Italy

30 Nov 18

@MALUSE Yes, I have a couple of books about this ridiculous problem. It's the same between Modena and Bologna about the tortellini "la disfida del tortellino" (the challenge of the tortellino), the rivalry started in 1325.

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Eva James

@wolfgirl569 (135791)

• Marion, Ohio

30 Nov 18

I am happier eating at home.

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Val

@valmnz (17095)

• New Zealand

30 Nov 18

Occasionally I feel the need to have no meal preparation, and no dishes to do, so that makes going out an option.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (382115)

• Rockingham, Australia

30 Nov 18

Every time we eat out we find ourselves thinking we should have bought the best bit of steak we could find and cooked it at home. Fish and chips would come a close second. It is just so expensive to eat out nowadays.

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Val

@valmnz (17095)

• New Zealand

30 Nov 18

We chose the steak option a couple of weeks ago!

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Val

@valmnz (17095)

• New Zealand

1 Dec 18

@JudyEv so true

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maximax8

@maximax8 (31042)

• United Kingdom

8 Dec 18

I love to eat chips with vinegar. I don't eat fish because I am a vegan person. In my local town they have a chip shop that sells a portion of chips for £1.00. It is close to the pier and there is a row of benches outside. By the pier it can get rather cold and windy therefore around the corner is much better. Now it is winter they have reduced their timetable to the weekend only and they don't open if the weather is rainy. At home I cook chips and are never as nice at that chip shop.

Marie

@Tampa_girl7 (54715)

• United States

2 Dec 18

That sounds really good

Loretta

@noni1959 (13048)

• United States

13 Dec 18

It's one of my favorites to have.

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DianneN

@DianneN (254926)

• United States

3 Dec 18

It doesn't matter where you eat or how much you spend, just as long as you can enjoy time with family.

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Val

@valmnz (17095)

• New Zealand

4 Dec 18

So true. It would have been nice to eat out that night though.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (323168)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

1 Dec 18

I'm glad you had a nice fish and chips meal at home.

Thelma

@thelme55 (79324)

• Germany

30 Nov 18

Yummy! I love fish and chips. Eating at home with friends is okay when you don't have to stay a lot in the kitchen. Ordering and saving money at the same time is wonderful.

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Val

@valmnz (17095)

• New Zealand

30 Nov 18

The reason we were initially going out was that I didn't have time to cook that night.