This should work for an unpopular opinion: South Melb dim sims are waaay overrated. Over seasoned (both salt and pepper, which I usually add liberally to almost anything). Re the Asian versus wog thing for fish and chips, I’m half Asian and half wog, and periodically get fish and chips. The best fish and chips I’ve had in years was at Flinders Vic (Asian). Closer to home my mum loves fish and chips, so if I visit her my first pref is a Greek joint - they do pretty good fish and chips and respectable Greek salad (although containing salad leaves and Danish feta, not quite authentic). But they shut on weekends and holidays a lot. Next choice is Asian. They don’t do salad, but the fish and chips are decent, and the min chip size would stop a bus.
Yep. Can’t beat the old hamburger with the lot from the local takeaway. Half the price and twice as good
That may be one of the more informative posts ever on Blitz
According to a spud growing mate of mine, the macca’s standard spud is the floury Russet Burbank. IMO the best for gnocchi too.
I’m actually not a fan of chip shop burgers either. They all have a weird aftertaste to me, like they are rissoles or something.
Thanos was right.
Kennebecs are by far the best for chips, mash and roasting. But any floury potatoe will be ok
Watch to the end…
The Dept of in-Justice is very bent. Having worked for them and seeing stuff go on, I was staggered at how many people are very good at turning a blind eye and seeing nothing unusual and everything being fine. Known as “being on the take.” This country is a mess but probably equally as messy as some others.
Friends in NZ are telling me we are much better off than they are. I don’t live there so I don’t really know.
I’m sure I can remember at my local fish n chip shop, when I was barely old enough to see over the counter, seeing them make chips in front of us.
They‘d have a big pile of peeled spuds and run it through some large (and I assume very sharp) thing that looked like a big cheese grater, and boom. Chips. One go.
But then, I was very young and may be misremembering/have made it up.
No, that was pretty much how it happened, although being the only chippy in a mining town, we had an industrial sized one out the back and pre cut and pre cooked them for the 4 o’clock rush.
Having made chips in the ‘90s.
This is how it is/was done.
Get the spuds out of the bag and tip them into the peeler. It’s like a small, very fast washing machine. The whole insides of this things is painted with really heavy grit ‘sand paper’. It’s spins like a ■■■■, and there’s water coming in to wash away the slops of everything that gets rubbed off. I think it’s called a ‘rumbler’ it needs to be bolted down because this thing is mental.
Anyway, once they’re ‘peeled’ you open the chute and they come spilling out.
You then put them into the slicer.
This one should have a big chute attached, so they all drop into the donut hole. They spin around in this machine and go past the first blade that slices off a half inch thick disc of spud. Then that disk goes past the next slicer which is blades about half an inch apart. The chips then shoot out the side.
You’d keep these under water until you can cook them for about 2 minutes, and store in the fridge til you need to cook them for eating.
We used to ■■■■ around with these machines a bit at work, and the OH&S discussions were non existent. That rumbler would rip your hand off if it could get hold of it. And the slicer would easily take fingers off.
That was it!
Now I see it, I can remember the sound!
Cool.
I hand cut my own once in awhile if I’m making a special meal. I like to make fried chicken and will often do hand cut chips with it. I like crinkle cut chips so I got my own knife for it and they turn out pretty well.
‘Extra’ AFL games should be done by lottery.
Still six-six-six, but literally chosen by balls in a round spinny thing.
Screw your ‘have to play X twice’, or managing for attendance.
I was wondering what the unpopular opinion part was. And there it is. 
Border Security (tv show) is a bit of a ■■■■.
Apart from being super racist (no white people ever try to bring restricted substances into the country), but are we seriously expected to believe the cocaine you get at Revs (which we are not only totally fine with but freakin’ love) comes from a suitcase and not a shipping container?
Weird, weird show. That apparently rates its socks off.
Like some guy once said…
Give me COPS but for the white collar guy that embezzled a million dollars.
Let’s see you take that guy down physically with guns drawn.
Now that’s a friggin’ show.
There’s what at Revs???
GTFOOT! NO WAY!
Cops had to start trying to add more diversity, because certain groups said it was racist.
Early Cops episodes are still crazy fun to watch.