Saturday, December 30

Cheesy chip innovation time

When did cheesy chips become a popular takeaway snack in the UK?

I have no idea, but a few days ago I stumbled upon an interesting variant on the theme. Rather than the usual grated cheese, Hot Diggerdy Dog in Holdenhurst Rd in Bournemouth serves up a thick cheese sauce on top of chips. And there's a good range of additional sauces. I found that the chilli sauce provided a kick that counteracted the gloopiness of the sauce. £1.40 well spent.

Another fine purveyor of cheesy chips is Frenchy's in West Bay. His fast food hut is easily identified by the copy of a Toulouse-Lautrec painting on the roof. Although using grated cheese, at the last moment he pops the chips and cheese into a microwave for a few seconds to melt the cheese, somehow without ruining the chips. A genius touch.

2 comments:

Mudflapgypsy said...

Ya can't beat a cheesy chip. The very idea of a chessy sauce, with chilli sauce.... a lot of drooling going on here now.... Apparently in the USA chesse fries have been de rigeur for quite some time now. Are we following suit? Who cares? I love cheesy chips.

Mudflapgypsy said...

Chessy sauce, what was I thinking?