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Alan Donaldson Scottish woodcock, bread sauce and woodcock giblets on toast; When you tell a resident of Edinburgh that there are three one-star Michelin restaurants in the town's old port of Leith, you are usually met with the sort of astonished look reserved for someone who claims to adore the skirl of bagpipes last thing at night, or insists that he craves the Scottish chip-shop delicacy, the battered, deep-fried Mars Bar.
From Ships to Michelin Stars Paul Levy 2010
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That was followed by the considered wisdom of some chip-shop educational thinktank which wants to remove a week from teachers' holiday entitlements.
Who will awaken the talents of our poorest kids? | Kevin McKenna 2011
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The crisps were hand cut with a vegetable slicer, cooked in a chip-shop fryer, sprinkled with salt and sold for thruppence a packet under the slogan Potato Crisps by Walkers: Guaranteed Absolutely Pure.
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And if I may be permitted a heretical culinary thought: battered haggis from the chippie is often improved by the addition of chip-shop curry sauce ...
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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I maek do wif teh canned mushee pees wen I noe can has chip-shop pees which iz often in teh USA, but “bullet pees” – pleh!
Dis fud - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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REUTERS chip-shop feed RE 28. w.32.1 Reporter: Harry Ramsden
FallNet - Riot Grrls fronted by fit'n'working again bloke on loudhailer 1998
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From chip-shop to catwalk: how Alexander Beck conquered the world of male modelling
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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From chip-shop to catwalk: how Alexander Beck conquered the world of male modelling
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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For the luxury version, buy some hot & sour soup from your local Chinese chip-shop.
The Guardian World News James Ramsden 2011
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Essex chip-shop worker conquers the world of male modelling
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Small firghtened old woman,
after anaesthetic, has dim
memory of fainting in chip-shop...
- Peter Reading, C, 1984
July 23, 2008