Is it really that bad? Thinking about it, I’ve only been to a chippie a couple of times in the last year or so.
https://youtu.be/oWejP3cZBcU?si=HcqV9EnoImQ2DQer
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Is it really that bad? Thinking about it, I’ve only been to a chippie a couple of times in the last year or so.
https://youtu.be/oWejP3cZBcU?si=HcqV9EnoImQ2DQer
I could get a bag of chips for sixpence as a kid, now before you all go on about that was then, it was working class food at working class prices
Now (depending on where you live) you are looking at 12-15 quid or more for fish and chips. There are cheaper options.
I can't think of any other product where the price seems to have "gone mad" since Covid thank Fish and Chips. It used to be a cheap tea but now its almost unaffordable. The only time I really get it is in pubs as part of a deal nowadays.
Oil and heating went up a lot, but they have come down now but doesn't seem to have been reflected..
Not where I live you aren't. Cod and chips (large) - £9.50.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToTaL ITK
whenever I go to a chippy, I'm constantly taken back by the price there days.
in my mind it's about £1.50 for chips and £3.50 for fish
unfortunately it isn't as cheap as chips any more
It's haddock ooop North?Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
Most chippies do haddock and cod. Haddock is more expensive these days (used to be the other way around).Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
A lot of chippies have closed though, and even the fancy national chains like Harry Ramsden's have been and gone around us - lasted a few years then closed (partly due to Covid, but failing anyway).
Local Chinese take aways are also disappearing although Indians (actually Pakistani/Bangladeshi) are surviving for now.
It's zee great fish & chip shop reset.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
That's probably the one thing from the UK that I miss!!!
Used to be Friday night regular at The Cardiff Road chip shop in Aberaman when I lived in Aberdare.
Always cooked fresh and never disappointed.
Couple of years ago when I stayed in Cardiff for a few months I sampled most in the town....never that impressed apart from the F&C meal in The Queen's Vaults.
Bradford chippies did a great haddock butty and chipsQuote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
Part of the issue with the price is the lack of portion control. You get way more now than when I was younger.
Lot of waste with chips isn't thereQuote:
Originally Posted by PontBlue
Huge
£5.40 for fish and chips at Maelfa Chippy in Llanedeyrn. Good value & delicious but far too many chips though. Can never finish it.
My parent’s nearest chippy - fish and chips £30+ for 3 of us!
Each serving included a battered whale and a hundredweight of chips.
Ridiculous waste. Won’t do that again.
I'm trying to eat healthier and it must be over 12 months ago since I had fish and chips from our local chippy. Usually the chips are soggy and a poor portion of fish so no great loss not having them.
I know it's not healthy but I started making my own pasties and they are f'in awesome and very easy to make. I use beef steak or mince, potatoes, onion and swede and tons of pepper and a little bit of salt. I cheat and get ready made pastry. Egg wash is essential, give it a go and you won't be disappointed.
https://cornishpastyassociation.co.u...cornish-pasty/
It's also easy to cook potato wedges in the oven which taste b1oody good.
Not sure if it's still the case but cost of fish such as cod and haddock have risen due to a reduction in supply caused somewhat but not fully by a reduction in UK quotas.Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
The fishing industry generally has taken a bit of a battering (pun intended) the last few years.
Left over chip shop chips are delicious reheated in the air fryer next day. There is no need for any waste. If you don't have an air fryer just buy one portion and split it between two of you (assuming you have someone to share with).
It surprises me that Wales doesn't have much of a fishing industry given most of the country is surrounded by sea.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jordi Culé
Plenty of coastal seafood such as cockles, whelks, lobsters but I guess it's too tidal along the Channel for any substantial trawling industry.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
Was shocked the last time I went. Very rare now.
The Welsh fishing industry has never really registered with me but found this interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/n...minal-26007372
we rarely visit as we are all Veggie, we had some chips about 2 weeks ago, before the last time we had chips was at the beach down Bournemouth way shortly after one of the lock-downsQuote:
Originally Posted by PontBlue
3 portions of chips for 3 adults and a 16yr old should enough we thought, I kid you not, must have had a portion and a bit left, they were massive, but at £4.80 a portion I guess we should expect good portions
Still be thousands left, they are everywhere.
I've never been in one where there is no queue or demand..
Think they secretly breed from a Chippy into Chippies .
The clever ones now do alternatives, such as fried chicken, Kebabs, curries, burgers. ( all part of one's five a day)
They will survive I'm sure.. Folk love em.
Too much Welsh sewage for my liking, stick to the popular fished delicacy of sausage in batterQuote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
F off you trying to make me mad I love fish and chips likeQuote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY