DR Vinegars Chip Shop on the Willenhall Rd, home of the orange chip.

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Dr Vinegars is the new venture by the family behind the original Majors Chip Shop. Theye have a few branches but we take a look at the one on the Willenhall Road.

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00:00 [Sound of wind]

00:12 Hello ladies, how you doing?

00:14 Good thank you.

00:15 We're here at Dr Vinegar's on the Willanall Road.

00:18 Quite a new business to the Willanall Road isn't it?

00:20 How long have you been open now?

00:21 Two months.

00:22 Two months, but in terms of the black country,

00:25 there's a bit of history to this place isn't there

00:28 and the people behind it.

00:30 Just fill us in on what that is.

00:32 Majors.

00:33 Oh that was open, oh God.

00:38 Quite a long time since I've been open.

00:40 A few years, it's famous for the orange chip wasn't it?

00:42 Famous for the orange chip, yeah.

00:44 So what do you do here?

00:46 Is it battered chips is it?

00:48 Battered chips.

00:49 Yeah, all battered, yeah?

00:50 And you find that that's what the black country folk,

00:53 they're loving.

00:54 Yeah, they love them.

00:55 And what other sort of stuff are people tending to have then?

00:58 Is it still the fish or is it the kebabs?

01:00 Kebabs.

01:01 Is it kebabs?

01:02 Yeah, that's kind of taking over the fish these days

01:04 in the chip shop world.

01:06 So how long have you girls worked here then?

01:09 I've worked here.

01:10 Well in terms of the business like, yeah?

01:12 Two months I've worked here.

01:14 And then you've been with the firm a few years?

01:16 I've been with Royston for 18 years.

01:18 Yeah, a few years, and you're quite a newbie.

01:19 I'm newbie.

01:20 I've been here since the shop opened,

01:22 so I've just started for two months now.

01:24 So working in a chip shop, do you still enjoy chips yourself?

01:27 No.

01:28 I guess it's good to say because you see them all the time, don't you?

01:30 Yeah.

01:31 So it's that kind of, yeah, catch 22.

01:33 Well thank you ladies, thank you for that.

01:35 Thank you.

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