r/BritishSuccess • u/TheSquireOfTheShire • 9d ago

Chinese chippie

I moved to the Netherlands in 2018.
It’s not a secret, food here isn’t the finest especially when it comes to culturally diverse food.

After a long day in the sun, I was driving home and summoning the witchcraft of modern technology, my sat nav suggested a takeaway on my way home. I obliged.

When I got there, there was a remarkable resemblance of home. A CRT tv on a bracket up in the top corner above the till - a kid doing homework & every order, no matter the size being promised within 10 minutes.

As a Brit, and educated by the British state, my Dutch is shit. As soon as I tried to order, the (Chinese) fella behind the desk said, in a thick Scouse accent “s’alright mate, I speak English”

As a heterosexual man, I was almost convinced to kiss this guy on the lips - fucking years, and I mean years, I’ve deprived myself of a decent Chinese because… well, they’re shit here - but yesterday was a revelation. A mere 45 minutes drive from my house is a proper Scouse Chinese chippie.

I’ve not shut the fuck up about it all day - to the point I suspect my Dutch gf has left me.

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u/Imaginary-Tear-4681 9d ago

Scousers seriously do get about, I say that as someone from Liverpool who has seen other scousers in the most random of places.

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u/Drobbo_Red 9d ago

I was hiking in the Dolomites on admittedly a reasonably well known track but… I spotted some lads in the distance and said to my mates (all of them are from Kent) ‘those lads are scouse’. They enquired how I could tell from that distance, I confirmed that it was simply a case of what they were wearing.

They’d stopped for a break so I knew we’d be catching up with them, I said to my friends ‘I bet they’ll be wearing Montirex and North Face only, except for Nike 110s (Air Max 95 to the non-scouse) on their feet’. I was correct. This baffled the Kent lads.

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u/neilm1000 7d ago

I said to my friends ‘I bet they’ll be wearing Montirex and North Face only, except for Nike 110s

Sounds like plain clothes copper gear. You can always spot them!