David Vivian

Dentist who would rather be out on his bike

[David Vivian @Davevivimplants]

@europebarguide I remember when the old lady had it before him. Must revisit

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@visitcamberwell @ClarkeMicah @BigMing15 Pontevedra

[East Riding Band @EastRidingBand]

A huge congratulations to Dave on his well-deserved nomination for our Band ‘Thank You’ this week! 👏 Dave is pictured here with his Dad, Bill who was our very first life patron when we started our Patron's Scheme, holding our 2nd place trophy from the Regionals contest.
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@angus_young61 There is very little need for cyclists to bypass the city centre, we should be encouraging cycle use through the city centre. Cyclists will stop and use shops cafes etc. Bypasses are for cars.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Chips fried in beef dripping were a different object to what passes for a chip today.

Walk into a Whitby chippy in 1978. The fryer has been on since 11am. The fat in it is beef dripping, held at 180 degrees by a man in a white apron who has been frying chips since he was fifteen. There are no seed oils in the building. The idea would not occur to anyone.

Thick-cut Maris Pipers, ninety seconds in the dripping. Dark gold at the edges, fluffy inside, crisp in a way that sets your teeth against them. Salt. Vinegar. Paper. Two bob.

You eat them walking home along the harbour wall. The chip tastes of the chip and also of something underneath the chip, something deeper, something you don't have a name for because you are nine and nobody names it, it is just what chips taste like.

That taste was beef dripping.

By 2002, 90% of British chippies had switched to rapeseed, palm, or sunflower oil, on the advice of public health officials citing research since quietly retracted. A stable saturated fat used for ten thousand years, swapped for an industrial oil invented in 1911, oxidised at fryer temperatures for twelve hours a day.

A seed-oil chip is lighter, flatter. The crust doesn't hold. The flavour stops at the potato. No deeper note. No roast beef on a Friday.

Ask a British person under thirty what chips are supposed to taste like and they will describe, with complete sincerity, the chip they have always eaten. A chip their great-grandfather would have considered a practical joke. They cannot miss it, because the reference point was removed from the national palate before they were born.

A handful of chippies still fry in dripping. The Magpie in Whitby. A few survivors in Yorkshire, Lancashire, the Black Country.

Go. Drive. Queue. Eat them standing up, out of the paper.

You will understand, in one bite, what was taken.

The cow is still in the field. The suet is still at the butcher. The fryer could be switched back tomorrow.

A whole country forgot what a chip was.

[David Vivian @Davevivimplants]

@andycomfort A real pro.

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@norfolknog1 I’ll have a party seven!

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@CuriosityHull @angus_young61 @hull_libraries Got to be Louis Armstrong at Beverley Road Baths !

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@GDPUKcom RIP a sad loss for our profession

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@europebarguide Hope the Lamb and Flag hasn’t changed much.

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@angus_young61 I moved to Hull in in 1988 and have seen a succession of projects on the A63 castle street 1033 corridor all have caused massive disruption and none made a blind bit of difference. Design for people not cars!

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@tonyatthehop @HullCAMRA Always good ales with Shepley spring water 🍺

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@norfolknog1 I’m sure there will

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@HullFerens @FolkHull Wonderful

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@paulspencer1973 @philmcraig Oh the @TimothyTaylors best bitter in there, developed my teenage beer palate. Sublime

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@LordHull @discoverHullEY It’s about time we had another Holderness Road tramway!

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@gazza_d @WilliamNB Nothing better

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@modacitylife @Hullccnews come on guys send someone along !

[David Vivian @Davevivimplants]

@TheCampagKid Nooo! Hopefully can be resurrected like Bob Jackson and Woodrup @woodrupcycles