The pure Cork business is closing after 70 years, sparking a flood of happy dining memories
, will close on October 6th. And while Cork people are capable of arguing for days about the best chipper in the city, everyone recognises Jackie Lennox’s as a true original.As our farm was about 30 miles outside Cork , Jackie’s wasn’t a regular thing when I was young. It was a treat when you went to the city with your parents. It was something that you’d tell everyone in school about the next day.
Watching the cooked items appear, ready for the person manning the front to wrap the orders. Listening to them occasionally shouting into the kitchen for a missing potato pie, piece of fish or battered sausage that hadn’t appeared on time.Newspaper wrapping being folded and rolled. ‘Salt and vinegar?’Eating our chips in Dad’s old Land Rover in the dark on the road outside. If we had my mother’s car, the windows were rolled right down so the smell of chips wouldn’t linger and give the game away.
Lately, when home, sitting down with my parents, sisters, brother in law and niece, having just collected our order. Unwrapping all the packets, the criss-crossing of items around the table until everyone gets what they ordered. Now that tradition is interrupted. We’ll switch to another chipper, but it will never be the same. No more little paper bags with the Jackie’s gothic-style script. No more of their epically good curry sauce. No more Jackie’s full stop.
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