{"id":15,"date":"2010-01-18T22:18:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T22:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pechism.org\/?p=15"},"modified":"2010-01-20T00:06:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T00:06:53","slug":"chicken-and-the-chippy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pechism.org\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Chicken and the Chippy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, England!\u00a0 When I informed my friends and colleagues that I was moving from Japan to Oxford, the first comment out of every Japanese person’s mouth was, “But the food is so terrible!”\u00a0 I do not disagree.<\/p>\n

\"\"Where the motherland DOES succeed, thankfully, is in the art of the chippy — your local, slightly frightening and dingy little shack that serves up kebab, burgers, pies, and — of course — fish and chips.\u00a0 Now, contrary to claims otherwise<\/a><\/strong>, a trip to a chippy is indeed not healthy at all<\/em>, and subsequently I avoid both them and kebab vans unless I’m proper drunk or very poor.<\/p>\n

Luckily for this blog post, while I wasn’t drunk the other night, I was Quite Poor and Exceptionally Lazy, so I decided to march over to the local greasepit and ordered up a chicken fillet burger.\u00a0 Expecting less-than-sensational quality and horrible stomach pain, I was surprised beyond all imagining to discover that I had received the best goddamned chicken burger in the world<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Rather than a weird reconstituted patty, the sandwich was made of two perfectly cooked (greasy but not too greasy, nice and crisp) giant chicken tenders that more or less melted in my mouth.\u00a0 I fell in love, and have had two since.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the chippy here in Sydenham (SE26) seems pretty lackluster about its other staples.\u00a0 I tried a kebab against my better judgment (I was tipsy that night, so I’m convinced I’m not to blame), and I am dismayed to report that it was not unlike consuming styrofoam.\u00a0 Sigh.<\/p>\n

After all, I don’t think it’s too<\/em> much to expect that, when I order fast food, it tastes like the stray cat or rodent from which it’s made.\u00a0 The UK obviously needs to take a few pointers from Taco Bell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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