Plant based chips?

CavemanGrogg

Missed our cheat night last week as we where still feeling too ill to eat, decided to have a cheat night tonight instead, plus none of us are feeling well enough to cook.  So fired up a meal delivery app, and one of the takeaways that services my location has no joke here, and this is a Chippy, described is chips as ''plant based''.  As far as I'm aware all chips are plant based, and have always been, so unless, and please feel free to correct me here, that I've somehow missed out on something as glorious as chips made out of bacon, steak, chicken......., describing chips as being ''plant based'', is either pretty bloody redundant, or you're assuming that your vegan and vegetarian customers are thicker than regular people.

And yes I know how lazy it is to order delivery from a Chippy that is less than 500 meters away from my front door, we've both been feeling really ill since just after Christmas.

TheMadMick

Maybe there are better things to be eating than chips if you're not feeling the best?

Winny_Pooh

Do chill gammon, you quickly absconded from the vegan thread after research that disagreed  with your assumptions was posted. 

I think the reason the chips may have been marked as such is that some chips might hypothetically be made with tallow(the traditional Mcdonalds method) or goose fat, not likely but maybe people want to be sure.

RocknRollDave

Some chips are cooked in animal fats, so technically some chips aren’t vegan.

elstoof

If your chips are fried in the same fryer as the fish, they’re no longer going to be suitable for vegans are they.

Who’s the thick one now?

CavemanGrogg

TheMadMick said:

Maybe there are better things to be eating than chips if you're not feeling the best?

Since the 27th we've all but been main lining oranges, lemons, limes, honey, lots of vitamins including magnesium, Soothers, Lemsip, crap the Dr has prescribed us and Lucazade.  We've been feeling that sick and week, that we've come extremely close to trying Irn Bru, and to hell with the nasty side effect of being turned into a Rab C Nesbit ginger.  None of us has has been able to eat, or keep food down, so if we think we might be able to eat and keep chips down, chips is what we're eating.  It's called ''comfort food'' for a reason.

CavemanGrogg

RocknRollDave said:

Some chips are cooked in animal fats, so technically some chips aren’t vegan.

elstoof said:

If your chips are fried in the same fryer as the fish, they’re no longer going to be suitable for vegans are they.

Who’s the thick one now?

They're still plant based though, what they're cooked in, or even how they are cooked does not alter the fact that they are plant based, in this case potato based - he does sweet potato ones as well.

Winny_Pooh said:

Do chill gammon, you quickly absconded from the vegan thread after research that disagreed  with your assumptions was posted. 

I think the reason the chips may have been marked as such is that some chips might hypothetically be made with tallow(the traditional Mcdonalds method) or goose fat, not likely but maybe people want to be sure.

Seriously I'm a ''gammon'' for thinking it's strange/silly to have to tell people that chips are ''plant based''?  There's that tolerance the ''progressive left'' that claim to be the champions of tolerance for you.

And by the way there are has been for a good number of years internationally recognised symbols that are currently in use all over the world for vegan as well as vegetarian suitable food.

maharg101

I can assure you that chips cooked in animal fats are definitely not plant based. 

darthed1981

One of our locals advertises chips as gluten-free (potatoes are naturally gluten free) which is presumably a similar concept - perhaps people google "plant based"?

NB: Although "Do Chill Gammon" is possibly the funniest thing I've seen written this year, I'm now craving a traditional gammon and chips with a fried egg and a pineapple slice - so not sure if it had the desired effect.

Jeremiah

NB: Although "Do Chill Gammon" is possibly the funniest thing I've seen written this year, I'm now craving a traditional gammon and chips with a fried egg and a pineapple slice - so not sure if it had the desired effect.

Probably better to heat it rather than chill it, though...

Kittyfrisk

You have missed out if you haven't tried a bucket of Buffalo Chips.
Should only ever be attempted once & never to be forgotten...
Genuinely high fibre & vegetarian too :-D

CavemanGrogg

darthed1981 said:

One of our locals advertises chips as gluten-free (potatoes are naturally gluten free) which is presumably a similar concept - perhaps people google "plant based"?

NB: Although "Do Chill Gammon" is possibly the funniest thing I've seen written this year, I'm now craving a traditional gammon and chips with a fried egg and a pineapple slice - so not sure if it had the desired effect.

That's what I don't get, everybody who uses this chippy, and who's house is within the Chippy's delivery area, knows that the chips they do are made from either potatoes or sweet potatoes ''in house'', as in they buy in potatoes and sweet potatoes and wash, and cut them into chips themselves.  If you walk past the place an hour or 2 before it opens, you can see them washing, peeling, and chopping potatoes and sweet potatoes into chips.

We're not exactly a hot spot for tourists, or have any restaurants - besides the chippy, that people not local would come to village for. 

elstoof

CavemanGrogg said:

Seriously I'm a ''gammon'' for thinking it's strange/silly to have to tell people that chips are ''plant based''? 

It’s not telling you that potatoes are plant based, it’s telling you that everything in the dish you order will be plant based; no fish extracts or battered sausage juices seeping into the oil the chips are cooked in. Vegans and vegetarians quite rightly need to know that sort of information 

CavemanGrogg

elstoof said:

CavemanGrogg said:

Seriously I'm a ''gammon'' for thinking it's strange/silly to have to tell people that chips are ''plant based''? 

It’s not telling you that potatoes are plant based, it’s telling you that everything in the dish you order will be plant based; no fish extracts or battered sausage juices seeping into the oil the chips are cooked in. Vegans and vegetarians quite rightly need to know that sort of information 

You might want to have a look at what ''plant based'' actually means.  Put it this way, things can be ''plant based'', which are not suitable for a vegan or vegetarian.

The difference between a vegan and a plant-based diet

Kurtis

Potatoes are plant based, chips not necessarily.


What do you put in a toaster? 

maharg101

The article you've linked to claims that a plant-based diet means you can choose to eat animal produce. Have you got any authoritative sources to cite ?  

Philly_Q

Kittyfrisk said:

You have missed out if you haven't tried a bucket of Buffalo Chips.
Should only ever be attempted once & never to be forgotten...
Genuinely high fibre & vegetarian too :-D

What makes them high fibre?  (Or in other words, what are they?)

tony99

Philly_Q said:

Kittyfrisk said:

You have missed out if you haven't tried a bucket of Buffalo Chips.
Should only ever be attempted once & never to be forgotten...
Genuinely high fibre & vegetarian too :-D

What makes them high fibre? 

The buffalos are fed a shredded wheat diet.

Kittyfrisk

Philly_Q said:

Kittyfrisk said:

You have missed out if you haven't tried a bucket of Buffalo Chips.
Should only ever be attempted once & never to be forgotten...
Genuinely high fibre & vegetarian too :-D

What makes them high fibre?  (Or in other words, what are they?)

Sorry, I thought the term was more widely known 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_dung

darthed1981

Kurtis said:

Potatoes are plant based, chips not necessarily.


What do you put in a toaster? 

I once got a croissant stuck in one of those treadmill toasters they have at hotels.

I almost started a fire.... and burnt my croissant.

Wasn't my finest hour.

scrumhalf

You could argue that chips are plant-based but may not be wholly composed of plant-material.