Featured image credit: Cosmo.au
Right, nobody panic or anything but... when your local fish & chip shop asks you if you want vinegar and you say 'yes, that'd be lovely', they haven't actually been putting vinegar on your chips at all.
Somebody sound the fucking alarm because I demand to know exactly what the fuck they have been putting on our damn chips?!
Admittedly, I'm being melodramatic, and I don't want to piss off my local chippy because they're fucking excellent, but it does take the piss a bit to tell me I'm getting vinegar when I'm not.
It's like the horse-meat scandal except no one is going to get as sanctimonious about vinegar as they did about horses. Like if they didn't have anything else to eat or weren't just a curious carnivore like myself, they wouldn't eat horse meat... pssshhh.
Anyway, here's popular myth buster and very well-informed YouTuber Tom Scott to explain just what it is our chippy is putting on our chips...
OK, so it's not going to kill me but it's still not actual vinegar which, ultimately, is very disappointing.
Next time I go to the chippy I will be asking for actual malt vinegar, none of this water chemical crap. I should hope you will too.
Advert
I apologise to anyone who already knew all this but this has come as quite the shock to me.
Words by George Pavlou
Featured Image Credit: