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[cimorene]

Why can't we have salt and vinegar potato chips in Finland?

I bought a bag - a rather small bag at that - at Behnford's when we were in Helsinki for something like 8 or 9 euros, I think (inflation's not as much as you might think, because they were Kettle Chips - they could probably stock cheaper ones from Britain). Which was ridiculous, but I'd do it again. They were... a tastegasm. My tongue sort of tingles with bliss just remembering.

My first year here, I used to try to make my own. I'd actually drizzle vinegar over potato chips or dip them in it - proper imported malt vinegar, which you can buy at Stockmann Deli. But the result is mostly just a soggy mess (vinegar drizzled on fat home-cooked french fries, however, is pretty good).

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[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

depending on which part of u.s. you're from, they don't. in CA, for example, it's pretty rare--but my buddy from the east coast says it's what they all did when they went to boardwalks and stuff: get big baskets of fries and vinegar.

[vass]

I'd forgotten that. Our fish and chip shops don't just sell fish and chips, though. They also sell burgers and battered sausages and corn dogs and roast chickens and sometimes pineapple fritters or even deep-fried Mars bars. (OMG, I had to look that up, but you don't have Mars bars? You know what they are, right? Like Milky Way bars, but with caramel as well as nougat?) They're sort of a one-stop fried food shop.

Edit: and deep-fried dim sims, and sometimes souvlaki.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Are they like a restaurant? Or café? Or like a stall type of thing, like the vendors that sell hotdogs and big pretzels in NYC and DC?

[vass]

They're a take-away shop. Like a fast food place, only they're not chain stores. But yeah, they're an actual shop with a place to sit down and read a newspaper while you wait for your order, but no place to eat (usually. There might be some bar-stools at the counter.)