Half of fish and chip shops to close by 2025?

Does it class as vegetarian to have Fish and Chips?

Asking for a friend

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Originally Posted by Jordi Culé

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.

The fishing industry generally has taken a bit of a battering (pun intended) the last few years.

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I think all take-aways will be closed by 2030, once we are 100% reliant on 18th century windmill energy technology :biggrin:

We have fish and chips around once a fortnight. Fortunately there's a very good chippy close by where fish and chips is around £8.50. According to the BoE inflation calculator, that equates to around £3.50 in 1990.

We don't often visit chippies if we're out and about. Too many poor standard places about and, despite the best of trip advisor reviews, we've been disappointed too many times. Greasy, pale chips are a no-no. Thick, greasy batter is another. Some places try and cook too much when it's busy and it's never as good.

Like others have said, it's too expensive.
Last time I went it cost me about £25 for 4 people. Nobody had fish, i'm not rich. Won't be rushing back.
Could smash one now though

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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY

Bradford chippies did a great haddock butty and chips

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My Mrs is from between Bradford and Leeds and the haddock and chips round there was a large reason for us getting on so well 😀 😀

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Originally Posted by fugsyphil

My Mrs is from between Bradford and Leeds and the haddock and chips round there was a large reason for us getting on so well 😀 😀

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I lived in Shipley, between Bradford and Leeds

Moved up to Baildon which was beautiful

Great chippies everywhere up there

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Originally Posted by superfeathers

Like others have said, it's too expensive.
Last time I went it cost me about £25 for 4 people. Nobody had fish, i'm not rich. Won't be rushing back.
Could smash one now though

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I'm like one of Pavlov's dogs reading this thread. Bloody gagging for some chips now!

This part of the catering industry is taking a battering.

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Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie

This part of the catering industry is taking a battering.

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It's floundering let's be honest

Cod and Chips

Bread roll for butty

Mushy peas

Curry sauce

Sausage in Batter

Fishcake

Meat pie

Fried chicken

Rissole

Saveloy

Faggots



It's not healthy but it's great

who doesn't love fish, chips and pea wet.

Plassey Street fish bar does a roaring trade, its always busy in there.

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Originally Posted by HiVis

who doesn't love fish, chips and pea wet.

Plassey Street fish bar does a roaring trade, its always busy in there.

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What's "pea wet"?

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Originally Posted by RichardM

What's "pea wet"?

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Used to be the left over water from the mushy peas. If you wanted a free scoff, scraps & pea wet.

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Originally Posted by Des Parrot

Used to be the left over water from the mushy peas. If you wanted a free scoff, scraps & pea wet.

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Shocking 🤯

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Originally Posted by jon1959

Not where I live you aren't. Cod and chips (large) - £9.50.

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It’s still too much, you go to get it for a family of four it’s almost £50, ridiculous. On broad haven beach they like to fleece you even more, I think it’s something ridiculous like £15.00 or £17.00 I can’t quite recall….

It is interesting to see the Fish & Chip Shop story over time.

According to my extensive research the first chippies in the Uk opened in the 1860s.

By 1910 there were 25,000 of them; and that rose to 35,000 by the mid 1930s.

Probably similar by the mid 1960s when Alf Tupper 'the tough of the track' was working through his fish suppers after a running spike had gone through his foot!

By 2009 it was down to 10,000, but then there was a small revival despite the banking crisis and Covid so that in 2023 it was 10,500.

Not sure if those later figures include fusion take aways (kebabs, chips, burgers, chinese food).

The size, spread, costs and 'menu' of chippies has changed over time - and the dream of a retiring centre back is no longer to run a pub or open a chippy.

But still they survive - sort of.

When I was in the comp, (early '80s) I used to go to the chippy every day. Chips and gravy: 15p.

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Originally Posted by David Lemma

Does it class as vegetarian to have Fish and Chips?

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I’d say no, but I bet there’d be plenty who disagreed with me.

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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY

I lived in Shipley, between Bradford and Leeds

Moved up to Baildon which was beautiful

Great chippies everywhere up there

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Little Englander.

Living about 40 minutes from Cleethorpes, it’s Steels every time. A bit more expensive, £30 for two of us, but its straight off the trawler, and can’t be beaten.

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Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman

Little Englander.

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I went there for work

You get a nosebleed through stress when you get on the bus into wood street

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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY

I went there for work

You get a nosebleed through stress when you get on the bus into wood street

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You two make me laugh.:thumbup:

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Originally Posted by the other bob wilson

I’d say no, but I bet there’d be plenty who disagreed with me.

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My wife isn't much of a meat eater and will sometimes ask after a vegetarian option. We went out for Sunday lunch somewhere several years ago and she asked what the vegetarian option was - salmon....

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Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee

My wife isn't much of a meat eater and will sometimes ask after a vegetarian option. We went out for Sunday lunch somewhere several years ago and she asked what the vegetarian option was - salmon....

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That's not what you told us a few years ago