All the same? How many other diners in NY can you post a picture of and get a nice post award ?
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Hows Scotties weathering the crisis?
Belgium and Netherlands are wall to wall kebab places and fast food chains from what I’ve seen.
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I was genuinely just going to post one of the best things about scotties was how bent out of shape @backinatracksuit used to get over us eating there 
that’s very good. It’s made my day.
When neediness on the internet spills over into dictating the agenda of a very expensive holiday to the best city in the world I find that amusing,
It’s a tradition tracksuit. Like going for a pint in searsons before a rugby game in the Aviva. If you don’t go to scotties you might as well not go to New York.
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For years boy vending machines hitting u in the bake as you alight from Central station
And those quickburger places.
When I lived in Brussels there were chip shops everywhere. You’d get a cornet of them with a dollop of mayonnaise on the top.
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@raylan our chippers have no Italian “influence”. They’re owned by Italian families, that’s it. You won’t get fish and chips in Italy or battered sausages either, and definitely not in the regions where those families emigrated from. Maybe in Irish Paddy whack roaster pubs in Italy, you’d get them with a €6 pint or bacon and cabbage Sunday meal.
It’s gas. Italians come to Ireland and go and buy fish and chips for the novelty.
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Never been to Scotties and feel like I missed nothing when I went to NYC. Saying that, I didn’t stay for photos in the shitbox that is Times Square either, so maybe I didn’t get the NYC experience… Maybe I should have gone to Queens and had pints with illegal Micks?
I like New York. I found the people very friendly and enjoyed rambling around. Three or four days is enough all the same.
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You’d see them all queuing up in the Place for a cornet of frites with a mayonnaise of their choice… Every bar in the Place would allow them to bring in the food… In Dublin you’d do well to find a place that let’s you bring in food , regardless if they serve food or not… I was surprised how good looking the women were in Brussels. Some absolute beauts about…
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I’d assume that a moderately busy chipper is a very lucrative business to be in. Especially if family run, I’d say the margins would be fairly kind and once you have volume you are laughing.
The real money is in chips vans. If you can get the spots in chelteham and places like that you’ll make an absolute killing and the grub doesn’t even need to be good. All staff are part time and you can charge way more than a standard chipper.
I am led to believe that the health and safety standards on chip vans is very high and that the cost of a spot in a decent location at music festivals/matches etc can be relatively prohibitive. But if you had a decent van and sweated the asset you would make money alright, bit more graft that just a regular chippy with regular hours though
Most lucrative bit is the taxman wouldn’t know half of what’s going on…
It’s probably all tied up now like most things. Ones at festivals and that must make a small fortune. I knew of one family in Dublin and they were millionaires. They had them on the road a long time. Are the ones for gaa games and that legal? Like do you need permission ?