It’s Showtime!

By Austen Dack

Babylon are set to hit the road again as we take the chipping variety to Bolton first for the VA Whitely Innovations show and then to Harrogate for Henry Colbeck’s What’s Cooking? 2023. Customers attending both shows will be treated to a range of food samples, entertainment and advice from industry leaders during the daylong events as well as it being a great opportunity for networking and support.

At VA Whitely popular pre prepped supplier PG Chips based in Bury will be supplying the Babylon. They will be fried by the team from Duncrue Food Processes. Duncrue Food Processors Ltd produces a full range of Dripping products, from traditional yellow Dripping, refined white de-odorised Dripping to the top of the range Premier Jus used in the food manufacturing trade.

Suppliers for packaging, oils & fats, frozen at sea fish, equipment, frying ranges and frozen foods will flock in from across the UK and Europe to attend the trade shows.

Here at Chippy Chat & Isle of Ely Produce, we will be once again be at both shows sampling the Agrico chipping variety Babylon to the thousands who turn out across the days.

Isle of Ely Produce have been promoting a Chip Ambassador role to promote the great British Chip in association with Agrico and Babylon. The aim will be to carry on and extend the good work promoting chipping potatoes at their hugely successful open days, and through the ‘Field to Frier’ award.

The Chip Ambassadors will become 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 over the last forty years.

Oliver Boutwood Isle of Ely Produce Director said. “It was great for us to be at the shows this year in Bolton and Harrogate trialling Babylon. It is important for shops all over the UK to try Babylon for us to get the results we need for the variety.”

Alex Moore National Sales Manager for Agrico says: “It is nice to see Babylon going on tour once again and be tried by so many shops. We were very happy to see the variety sampled across the UK by some of the best chip shops and get the same positive results.”

The shows sandwich The National Fish & Chip Awards, which are being held in London on Tuesday 28th February. Isle of Ely Produce and Babylon are a joint sponsor of the Field to Frier award which will crown the shop who have demonstrated the best knowledge of chip choice, preparation and storage in the judging process.

The top three business shortlisted are:

Pier Point Fish & Chips, Torquay

Fiddlers Elbow Fish & Chips, Leintwardine

The VA Whitely Show held at the football stadium in Bolton is on Sunday February 19th 10-4

What’s Cooking 2023 will be held at the Great Yorkshire Showground Harrogate on Sunday March 26th

If you would like to try Babylon and become a chip ambassador, please email austen@chippychat.co.uk