Cromer Pier – Julia took it with her phone. Annoyingly it is better than the shot I took when we last visited, and I used a camera.
Julia has returned from her jolly to Norfolk. She reports that the Fish and Chip Restaurant where we dined is still there but has dialled itself back to be a top-class purveyor of ordinary fish and chips. It was more complicated when we dined there and though it was a great place to eat, we felt the experience of eating less common fish (she had some form of dogfish and I had hake) left something to be desired. There is a reason why cod and haddock are popular and the others are rarely seen. Fish and Chips at Cromer
Cromer – on our last visit
I said in my original post that Julia said she would go back again. I said I probably wouldn’t. Five years later (five years – where does the time go?) we both did what we said.
I notice that I also referred to the hake as tasting very fishy. I was being polite. It gets great write-ups in fish recipe sites for having a superior flavor to cod but this wasn’t my experience. It might have been a bad bit of fish, as I remember it as verging on unpleasant. I suppose I would see it differently if I had hake that needed selling.
The top picture is from No 1 Son. Julia put it on her Facebook page and several people wrote in to say it was awesome to see her in this seagoing gear. Others realised she was just sticking her head through a hole in a board. This goes some way to confirm my suspicions about the intelligence of many Facebook users.
They went round the Henry Blogg Museum while they were there. That was what led to Julia sticking her head though the board (she can’t resist them, I have several others like this somewhere) plus the stained glass window shot.
Although Henry Blogg is the famous one, there were many heroic lifeboatmen. Mainly they were modest men who performed acts of great gallantry on dark nights in raging seas, sometimes after rowing for hours to get there. If they’d have done it in daylight with drums and flags they would be a lot better known. maybe somebody should write a blog post on the subject.
Most fish sold in Aust is gummy shark (Mustelus antarcticus) which is very sweet and has no bones and is very popular. You will only get s different variety if you ask – otherwise fish and chips is actually shark and chips.
I just looked up Gummy shark. I see it is also classed as a smooth hound, which is the same as some of our species that are sold as Rock Salmon. Rock Salmon, it seems, is also known as flake, like yours.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_salmon
It’s amazing what you can learn from WP – I now know a lot more about fish and chips in Australia. 🙂
On any reasonable scale this is a fine post. Jackie often produces a better photograph than I do. I recently ate swordfish for the first time. which I found disappointing.
I had it years ago, just out of curiosity. I didn’t feel the need to try again. 🙂
Nor me
🙂
Good fish and chips are hard to find. Cod is the best for that.
I tend to have haddock when I have a choice. Not sure why – just habit I suppose. I look at all the fish they use on cookery programmes and feel little need to try others. I’m just not a fish enthusiast. 🙂
I did have to look at the picture of Julia twice to take it all in which probably says something about my intelligence.
Maybe I’m just being unfair to people on Facebook. It is quite difficult to make it out, but I wasn’t fooled because I know what she’s like with those things (“stick you head through a hole board” sounds inelegant, but you know what I mean).
There is such a lot to look at online that now and again one does tend to rush a bit.
All life seems to be a mad rush these days, it is true.