LovEly We fry Babylon a mile from where they were grown By Austen Dack
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sle of Ely Produce have been promoting a Chip Ambassador role to promote the great British Chip in association with Agrico. The Chip Ambassadors are part of an UK wide group of shop owners and fryers who will promote best practice for potato buying, storing, and of course frying. The chain will also include key growers too like PJ Lee & Sons, and A. L. Lee Farming Company, as IOE looks to nurture the relationships they have grown across the whole supply chain during the last twenty years. Agrico have partnered with Isle of Ely Produce to bring new varieties into the trade initially via our Chip Ambassadors. The first one Babylon has been sampled at some of these ambassadors to back up the results of the early trial successes. We have travelled (keeping to covid restrictions) to many great shops in the last few months with Babylon. The overwhelming result of all of this testing is Babylon as a variety is looking like a star of the future. This month we went to my local shop The Fish House in Ely. The shop has been situated in the heart of the city since 1923 and ran by Ian Kilby for the last ten years! Ian said “I am proud to be the custodian of the shop at this time. We have customers coming into the shop who have been using it for decades. Their children and grandchildren now come in.” The shop is a busy city centre site which has two other operators within a small radius of it. Ran with a combination of staff and Ian the site is well respected in the area and well known for fish and chips cooked well. The pandemic has bought some problems to the business as of course have rising prices. “The uncertainty over Christmas about what restrictions were going to be in place
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Chippy Chat & Fast Food Magazine • February 2022
Chippy Chat & Fast Food Magazine • February 2022
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