The Chippy Sauce Map
Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 11:18PM The Chippy Sauce Map
South East Scotland is home to many unique, marvelous things, and here at adopted domain, a slightly inebriated kitchen table char led us into a discussion about one of these marvelous things - Chippy sauce.
Not just brown sauce, not just vinegar, Chippy Sauce is a unique condiment proffered by takeaways in the region as an ideal accompaniment to, say a wee deep fried pizza supper. Ideally, the sauce should be served from an old glass Irn Bru bottle, with holes pricked into the top. I believe that this lends something extra to the taste.
Anyway, it dawned on us, and indeed many other people that I've spoken too since, that no-one really know the geographical limits of this fine foodstuff. So we're trying to map it, but we need your help.
How to do a Chippy Sauce Survey
- Enter Chippy and order a meal of your choosing, nothing to fancy mind. Take note of name and address of chippy.
- Check out the counter - is there chippy sauce there? If not, take a note.
- If there is Chippy Sauce there - do they just assume you'll want it? Or do you have to specifically request it? Take a note of this.
- Lastly, when you eat your delicious dinner, is the sauce the real deal?
- Decide which category of chippy your dinner fits into. There are three on the map. Chippies that have sauce, and assume you'll have it. Chippies that have sauce, but you have to request it and lastly, chippies that don't have the sauce.
- Contact me to tell me about your survey. Which category was your chippy in, what date did you go, and don't forget to tell me as much as you can about it's name and address. Or just add the details in a comment below.
Chippy Sauce Map Facebook Group
Yes, there is one. It's here.
Obvioulsly you need a facebook account to take part with the group. However, there are people there who can provide you with support and advice. If you need that sort of thing.


Reader Comments (10)
Biggar
Townhead Cafe (??)
Chippy sauce avilable but not offered
Canny mind if this is how you add places
Fort william PH33 6EU
Ben Fong
No Chippy sauce
No way! Bigger on the borderline. I thought it would be a definite.
Aberlady Chippy,
Smoked Sausage Supper, drowned in the stuff. Loves it.
Excellent, cheers Sean. Need more surveys for East Lothian :)
Aberfeldy
The Plaice in the Square
The Square
Aberfeldy
Brown sauce available (but not offered) but I'm not sure its chippy sauce in the strict sense, or rather just cheap brown...
Both Chippy's in Haddington(town house & Dino's) Chippy offered without having to ask!
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Both the Turkish and the Fry in North Berwick will drown your supper in the stuff...the Turkish uses less packaging though!
All Chippy's in Peebles and Innerleithen offer salt an sauce with any chippy. Can't have a chip roll without it.