Rock and Sole Plaice is apparently the oldest chippie in London. Not sure if that’s true or not but it does have good fish. The menu is simple. Fish. Chips. Mushy Peas. Yeah sounds gross. Tastes OK. And by OK, I mean like baby food….like whatever a baby would tolerate in their mouth.
I take many visitors to a proper chippie when they visit London. Now, chippies are like pizza vendors in New York. There are good ones and certainly are bad ones, but for the most part, they’re all kinda similar….and there’s always someone with bad hair serving you. Chippies are the same, except replace the bad hair with bad teeth.
You have to make two decisions when you go here:
1. Takeaway or sit down. If you sit down, the fish & chips will cost you 10gbp instead of 7. It does mean you get the tartar sauce and don’t have to eat your fish next to the homeless dude on the street, but the fee for sitting seems a bit steep. And the conversation with the homeless dude might be kind of interesting.
2. What kind of fish to order. Cod is the traditional fish but because of overfishing, haddock has been the replacement fish that people are going for these days. I’ve tried plaice and rock also and I would personally say that rock is the best fish to get but then again, I also enjoy eating thousand year old eggs and chicken testicles. Different folks, different strokes.
At the end of the day fish & chips is something you or your guests have to eat while in London. At Rock and Sole Plaice, I can guarantee fresh fish and bad teeth for the full experience.
Word: Bugger All or in a more harsh way…Fuck All.
Definition: British phrase for nothing, nil, zero.
Usage: “This morning I checked my bank account and since there was fuck all in there, I decided to do fuck all today.”
The Cock on the Sam Smith pub crawl route and is certainly one of the best pubs in London. Yes, there are grander, classier, nicer pubs out there but you cannot beat the name. They also make great cocktails. See what I did there?
Please do not Cock Block the pavement.
Ok, I will admit I have not actually been to this pub but I have walked by it plenty of times and…um it’s name is Spread Eagle. Next week I am going to visit The Spoon and The Dirty Sanchez. I’m sure they exist in London.
Word: Fanny
Definition: External female sex organs; vulgar slang for female genitals
Usage: “Wearing that American ‘Fanny Pack’ makes you look like you possess a fanny instead of proper manhood.”
- Worked on this for a while but was not a fan of any other examples. One interesting point is that the biggest lender in the US is “Fanny Mae”. Wonder how we got into this global economic crisis?
Word: Puff
Definition: Slang for homosexual, not to be misconstrued for puff pastry.
Usage: There are lots of puffs in San Francisco, not that there’s anything wrong with that…and btw, Puff Daddy is a puff.
My mates ODJ and Koko are visiting London for the next week for my birthday week. Since this is their first times in London, I decided to call upon my British friends for the best way for them to experience London and have found a nicely devised pub crawl. This was the brainchild of my mate Giles, who mapped out all of the Sam Smith’s pubs in London for a 20 pub crawl. There was one other option, the Monopoly Pub Crawl, that we considered but while it sounds interesting, it is 26 pubs and a bit too much to drink from 10:30am to 10:30pm. Also, a Monopoly board without Boardwalk and Park Ave is not real Monopoly as far as I’m concerned. Park Lane and Mayfair are the most expensive properties? WTF?
I ran across an interesting blog entry by Paul Kedrosky that mentions the four worst currencies relative to the dollar, which all of a sudden is a great currency to have (bloody hell).
Top four countries to travel to right now.
1. Hungary
2. Iceland
3. Pakistan
4. Argentina
I was previously planning on going to Argentina over January to climb glaciers and hunt for elk, but that trip has fallen through due to the current global economic meltdown and the fact that flights cost a lot over the Christmas period to fly there. Hopefully Argentina remains depressed so I can go out there. For me, hunting bears in Iceland and eating bear goulash in Hungary are in the plans for 2009. No offense to any Pakistanis that read this blog, but it may be a while before I go to Pakistan. And by a while, I mean when the US takes over China.
