The leap from custard filling to ice cream isn´t far. They look like fun. Sort of like fair-grounds food. 
Bob
Very much that sort of thing, although not exclusively so.
I’m hungry now, and would definitely go for some chips and fiffle given the turn the thread has taken.
And here I was at least semi-convinced that it was a Photoshop job…I feel like an ass now.
But how can I blame you? To Western eyes, taiyaki are pretty bizarre; we have no cultural underpinning to explain why a sweet would have a fish shape, of all things. But allow me to elucidate: In Japan the Tai, or red sea bream, is the premier food and/or gift on auspicious occasions (the very best are the preferred offering, if you can afford them), so even the tai’s mere image is celebratory. Where I would have a sort of dissonance between the taiyaki’s fishy look and the sweet stuff within, the Japanese apparently do not; the tai is such a culturally ingrained meme for good luck that it exceeds any notions of fishiness. Peeps, I think, would be on a rough - if overstretched - parallel with the idea. Normally tai images would be depicted as red so you know what you’re looking at, but with taiyaki you have to have the name to go by - although I expect that given the Japanese color vocabulary, they’d consider the more deeply-browned parts to be a form of red, so they’re going to be squared away there, too.
I wonder if OAIM has taken note of the email that bigsciota sent to them.
And now I want taiyaki…
That is my assumption as I know the site is well-regarded, but if I didn’t know them from Adam? I’d be turned off.
I have yet to receive a reply, and the page is unchanged, so probably not.
Yesterday I directed someone here who is looking for a whistle a member has for sale, and had to correct from chip and fiffle, after I noticed my typo.
It’s starting. There’s no vaccine. Watch out for Irish music bands playing waffles and poker FAR more than usual.
Well, let’s just keep mocking, then. We have to help somehow.
I’ve tried to steer clear of this, honestly I have, but please … guys and gals … could I please refer you to this post of Mr G’s way, way back in the thread?
Let’s say you’re right. The answer is that obviously it doesn’t work, as-is. It’s no deficiency on our part if we don’t get it; the deficiency is theirs. Either OAIM needs a clearly-designated humor section to house the page in (if taking the mickey is really what they’re doing), or they need to eliminate the page if they don’t want to scare off the conscientious, or worse yet, disinform. A humorous intent doesn’t matter one whit if it’s backfiring: we already see that mickey or no, the credulous are taking the chiff-means-tube thing as gospel. Does OAIM want that laid on their doorstep? “Chip & Fiffle” is the least of my concerns.
Looking at the two offending items in context, I doubt it. If they are jokes, they are jokes that only informed readers would understand; novices would only be led astray. It is a very long page, and I see nothing else on the page not intended for novices, nothing intended as an in-joke for informed readers. If it’s intended as a joke, it’s a bad one.
(Cross-post with Nano.)
It’s all back-to-front anyway; in terms of sound production, the fipple comes before the chiff! 
But, yes, I agree with Nano and Tunborough; it’s not obviously a joke, but it’s a bad own goal if it’s meant to be one.
Well, I didn’t look closely enough and thought you said “chiff-means-lube” and that made that sentence waaaaay more interesting (and kinda scary)…!
BUT what comes first, the chip or the fiffle??
Not that I want to push this … but that sounds kinda scratchy … 
I just want to know whether whistle fiffle is the same as the original pipe organ fiffle.
Disregarding the Chip and fiffle bit, the rest of the page is poorly written, and the “fipple” and “chiff” designation for the head and body is extremely misleading to beginners even if it is a joke. It’s just a poorly done page, and not a very good advertisement for their services.
I’m not a charter member, nor long term member for that matter. Look over to the left, that’s me. I’m just a penurious tone deaf beginner (with some experience now) whistler trying to pick up a tune. I do know that Chiff & Fipple was (still is) the first place I turned to for whistle help. Early on I spent hours and hours reading the old passages from the original website. I mean hours! Hungry for whistle knowledge and how to play and play well. Yes, I belong to the other current internet/social media whistle forums for a rare commenting opportunity. Yet, I rely on Chiff & Fipple for the “searchable” archive for whistle information as the best source. FB and other social medias lack the searchability factor at their loss.
I do understand the power of the image so maybe a return to the original image may spark a sincere membership and participation. By now I know who I like to follow for information and filter the remainder of information as needed. For me the fight to learn to play whistle came from a don’t give up image here at C&F. I don’t know who owns the image but it is powerful:
And I have not given up the fight to learn the whistle. Proud to be here… thank you all!
Its nice that the board does not assign its membership inane titles like “rank noob” and “whistle god” (such titles oftentimes have no bearing on an individual’s skill or knowledge level, rendering them all the more asinine and pointless).
I’m just a penurious tone deaf beginner (with some experience now) whistler trying to pick up a tune.
Another great thing about this board: come to learn about things musical, stay to expand your vocabulary!