'I lost faith in humanity and found it again in the city centre takeaway with a famous queue'
Salt & Pepper became a legend in its own lunchtime. Literally. Anyone who works in town will remember the queues that would snake around the foodhall in the Arndale food market each and every day, whether it was a dreary Monday or a busy Saturday afternoon.
It’s the kind of deflating queue that you see and think ‘gah, is it worth it?’. Let me tell you now, it is. I rejoin the queue, resigned that I’ll probably be eating my lunch off the top of a bin outside. Behind the tills, the kitchen is a blur and clamour of clanking woks and fizzing fryers. My number’s called, possibly my name too and the buzzer thing I’ve been given goes off. It’s a ‘belt and braces’ ordering system, and all the better for it. Pots of sauce - sweet sticky soy, szechuan mayo, I forget them all now - are pumped out and the ugly spectacle begins.
Beneath, the crinkle cut salt & pepper chips are buried - buried - under a savoury mix of fried garlic, chilli, spring onions. At that moment, with that combination of flavours, they were the best fried potatoes in Manchester, and likely the world.
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