I don't eat chips too often, I'm a rice and pasta man. But when I do, I eat the oven chips for convenience. The kind of things I eat them with are generally in the oven at the same temperature for the same time, so it makes life easy for me. Plus I don't have a deep fat frier. The trick is, cooking them for long enough and hot enough.
But when I go home to my parents' I enjoy having proper chips. They are definitely superior, and very different to frozen chips (or even chip shop chips, but they are great too).
We used to have big arguments over this: for me and my siblings oven chips were a treat that we only got at my grandparents' house. So, we preferred them back then and would ask for them every time we had chips. My dad is a man who appreciates his chips, and they MUST be cut fresh, rested, fried, rested, refried. The emotions he felt when we asked for oven chips were equivalent to a patriot watching his own children burn a flag and p*ss it out. Each time we asked for oven chips, he had no son!
Perhaps you should genetically modify potatoes to make them suitable for the proper, English chip and only the proper chip. Then chuck the DNA about to all other countries so they can't grow potatoes to make their mincing little matchstick-type chips and are forced to eat real chips. Preferably with a steak and ale pie.
But when I go home to my parents' I enjoy having proper chips. They are definitely superior, and very different to frozen chips (or even chip shop chips, but they are great too).
We used to have big arguments over this: for me and my siblings oven chips were a treat that we only got at my grandparents' house. So, we preferred them back then and would ask for them every time we had chips. My dad is a man who appreciates his chips, and they MUST be cut fresh, rested, fried, rested, refried. The emotions he felt when we asked for oven chips were equivalent to a patriot watching his own children burn a flag and p*ss it out. Each time we asked for oven chips, he had no son!
Perhaps you should genetically modify potatoes to make them suitable for the proper, English chip and only the proper chip. Then chuck the DNA about to all other countries so they can't grow potatoes to make their mincing little matchstick-type chips and are forced to eat real chips. Preferably with a steak and ale pie.