Worth every penny, mind you. Done in a little bit of truffle oil, with tiny crumbs of aged parmesan on them.

Recession? Eh?

Hardly expensive, were you in a Wutherspoons?

truffle and parmigiana on chips? Ketchup or mayo* are the only things to put on chips, surely?

*oh, and I suppose vinegar…

I believe 'chips 'n' cheese' is quite popular.

What variety of potato did they use?

I am happy to keep chips as a cheap and cheerful pleasure, but I am glad they were a good investment in your book. 🙂

Did you eat them off the shoulders of disaffected proles, oh expensive one? 😈

Isn't truffle oil just a big old con, just a bunch of random chemicals with a funny smell, with basically no link to real truffles except smelling vaguely like them. It's just something dirt cheap that people put in dishes to make them sound expensive, without having to actually use an expensive ingredient like truffles. Similarly aged parmesan – unless they tell you what it is, it could be cheap stuff that cost em 5p.

Truffles on the other hand, they are jolly nice. I went to a restaurant in Como that specialises in truffles and mushrooms, at the height of the mushroom season once, and had their special truffle menu – white truffle and chestnut or something soup, black truffle and mushroom pasta. That was a very memorable meal.

Joe

Maybe, Joe, maybe, but these were the very pinnacle of the chip as an epicurean delight. Quite stunning.

On the Terrace at that big Egyptian corner shop up on Knightsbridge if anyone's peckish.

Beef dripping is the way to go 🙂

I have to say I'm a little confused as to the point of this post. You paid £7 something for a bowl of chips and decide to tell a forum, is £7 such a prohibitive amount for you to spend on food that you feel you have to share it with a forum.

he probably didn't…….he's just attention seeking 😉

Lolzer. Fools, money etc.

🙂

Merlinman, Mccain do some ace frozen chips in beef dripping. Very good for frozen ones!

Chances are he seen them and thought straight away what will STW members think if I eat them and them tell them all, bought them convinced himself they were worth £7.75 for fried tetties and with a hard cheese on and synthetic oil and then posted on here.

Mccain do some ace frozen chips in beef dripping

So does my wife [obviously not frozen], far superior to vegetable oil cooked ones

mmmmm chips

"…these were the very pinnacle of the chip as an epicurean delight. Quite stunning."

😀

Reminiscent of the $5 shake scene from Pulp fiction ….. Must be some pretty dam good chips.

🙂 @ noteeth!

In fact, even more 🙂

Loose change spent on chips shocker. Wow.

Whats that saying about a fool & his money… 😆

£7.75?!?!

😉

Good gracious me, old bean, that's half my entire weekly food budget! If your chips made you inordinately happy though, then we'd be squared.

This sort of thread only gives the Taliban strength. 😉

almost 8 notes for cheesy chips?

next thing you know dessert will be deep fried Mars bar sorry, my mistake, Chocolat En Tempura…. 🙂

I suppose the ketchup was served in the navel of a naked Estonian girl, wasn't it?

I suppose the ketchup was served in the navel of a naked Estonian girl, wasn't it?

from my imagined experience of such things, their taut little stomachs and tiny navels won't hold nearly enough.

Whereas a good british biffer can probably swallow a family jar of Hellmans in there (once you've picked the flaky skin, dried scab from the piercing and assorted fluff out)

WTF ? ! Harrods are now selling chips ? 😯

Is this really what it has come to after 12 years of a socialist government – the polite classes are forced to consume 'chips' ?

How truly dreadful 🙁

tojV…. that is a sickening image you have just painted across my minds eye.

oh, i agree with poddy.

Is this really what it has come to after 12 years of a socialist government – the polite classes are forced to consume 'chips' ?

I suspect it's just the arrivistes who can't rid themselves of the habits of their forebears but hate them enough to try and posh 'em up. Y'know, NuLab type peoples.

The chippy across the road does the best chips. £1.30, generous portions with small bits of batter mingled in with them. It is the the chippacle of chipness.

You mess with the platonic ideal of chips and you get faux chips. Probably for £7.75 a pop.

£1.30 for chips, christ do you get shares in the shop with that.

£1.30 for chips, christ do you get shares in the shop with that.

Lol. No, but you get enough for 2 and a couple of little 'uns 🙂

I bet the spuds were Maris Piper.. cheap as chips, and the piggy was round the truffle b4 you… 😉

As long as you enjoyed them thats the main thing

Personally ,ive never spend less than £30 on any single bottle of wine.