Sprout-rageous! Chippy is blasted for selling battered sprouts as the snack is branded ‘wrong on so many levels’

• The Almighty Cod in Hartlepool, County Durham is selling BATTERED sprouts 
• READ MORE: I sell chips for 5p at my takeaway and people love it so much they queue around the block 

A chippy has left customers overjoyed and horrified in equal measure by flogging portions of deep-fried battered sprouts – but grinches have branded the snack ‘wrong on so many levels’.

The Almighty Cod in Hartlepool, County Durham, recently casued a stir after revealing they are dunking the controversial veg in batter for Christmas, leaving some horrified.

Sprout fanatics raved about the belly-busting festive addition while others branded it ‘wrong’ and ‘a disgrace to the chippy name’.

The chippy’s defiant manager Michael Dodd conceded it was a controversial move, but hoped to make some converts out of people.

Portions, containing eight to ten of the little green balls, cost just £1.80, with foodies having the option to fork out on a luxury cheese sauce dip until the end of December.

Pictured left to right: Chippy worker Chantelle Alton and manager of The Almighty Cod Michael Dodd holding up deep-dried battered sprouts 

Pictured – the deep-fried battered sprouts cut in half showing the crispy interior and the soft sprout interior 

Pictured – a portion of deep-fried battered sprouts and deep-fried pigs in blankets sold at The Almighty Cod in Hartlepool, County Durham

Pictured here is the process – the brussels sprouts are being dropped into the batter

Michael said: ‘We decided to include a deep-fried brussels sprout on the menu with the festive season coming up.

‘Sprouts are a pretty controversial veg. A lot of people do turn their noses up to it but I would recommend to anyone to try because they are lovely.

‘They get battered with the normal batter used on the fish, they go into the pan where the fish is fried and get put in the top box like your cod would.

‘The batter is light, golden and crispy, the middle of the sprouts are quite mushy so the texture on the outside and inside works well together because of the contrast.

‘We’ve been doing it for a couple of years now, but this year they’ve taken off’.

But no festive treat is safe from the deep-fat fryer, as the chippy is also serving up deep-fried pigs in blankets, pork and stuffing balls and even deep-fat fried mince pies.

The manager continued: ‘Sprouts are controversial because you get people saying they wouldn’t even have them on the menu because they don’t like the smell of sprouts.

‘But when they come [to the chippy] they’ve said “I’ll give that a try”. I like to hope we can make some sprout converts’.

Social media users are divided – some branded the indulgent fried treat as ‘tasty’, while others labelled the item as ‘a disgrace to the chippy’

A photo of the gut-busting festive addition went viral, racking up more than 500 likes, shares and comments.

One person wrote: ‘That’s just wrong on so many levels’.

Another commented: ‘It’s a disgrace to the chippy name’.

One wrote: ‘Oh I need these!!! I love sprouts’.

Another commented: ‘Sounds and looks quite tasty’.

One added: ‘Lifting duvets all over Hartlepool and beyond’.

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