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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….Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
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.
I’d say no, but I bet there’d be plenty who disagreed with me.Quote:
Originally Posted by David Lemma
Little Englander.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
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.
I went there for workQuote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
You get a nosebleed through stress when you get on the bus into wood street
You two make me laugh.:thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
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....Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
That's not what you told us a few years agoQuote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
Plenty of good chip shops in Ely . Fryers club large cod and large bag of chips £10.95 it will feed 3 people and it's the dogs cahooners.
My local chippy does fantastic meatballs in gravy. They really are the dog's bollocks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alfresco
Mr Chips on wilson road used to be goodQuote:
Originally Posted by Alfresco
When it closed, did people say Goodbye Mr Chips?Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
That's sharp fair playQuote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
Still good normally have the chicken kebab from there.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Not a Doner fan ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alfresco
When I was a lad there was a chippy called Stratos, quite often went in and ask him if there was any spare scratchings, he'd scoop up the batter that fell off the fish and put it on a piece of newspaper. No charge
What are the top names?
Cod Father
The Batter of Bodsworth
Fishcotheque
Cod Fellas
Fry Days
Oh My Cod!
The Prawnbrokers
Codrophenia
The Town Fryer
New Cod On The Block
The Almighty Cod
Plaice Station
Good Pie Mr Chips
Vinegar Jones
For Your Fries Only
Codswallop
Friendchips
Fishbook (Facebook logo)
Battersea Cod's Home
Frying Nemo
The Frying Squad
A Fish Called Rhondda
Abera KebabraQuote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
Sad to say that Good Pie Mr Chips no longer exists - like A Fisn called Rhondda in Treorchy (there’s still one in Pentre), it has had a change of name to something much more bland. When I first moved up here, I had Fish and Chips from Good Pie Mr Chips on my first night in my new house and I wasn’t long n getting some from a Fish called Rhondda as well, but, in truth, both chippies were nothing special - there’s at least two up here that I think are a lot better than them.
The Cod's pollocks in Northwich.Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
I live to see the day when a chippy is called 'Never Mind the Pollocks'.
I recall seeing one in South London called "The Rock and Sole Plaice"Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
Do chippies still do "rock salmon", sometimes called Huss, but was actually dogfish, a member of the shark family.
My Mrs is from Thornbury and yeah the chippies all round there are superbQuote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Shipley is not between Bradford and Leeds. It's NNW of Bradford. Leeds is east of Bradford. Pudsey, Farsley, Rodley and Calverley are the places between Bradford and Leeds.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
It's like saying Pontypridd is between Cardiff and Newport.
My brother lives in Shipley and has done for 25 years. It's on the up thankfully after years of decline.
I think you are splitting hairs thereQuote:
Originally Posted by severncity
Bradford and Leeds literally merge into each other
There is 10 miles of countryside between pontypridd , Cardiff and Newport
West Yorkshire and in particular the Leeds Bradford metropolitan area is one huge blob and when I lived in Shipley people would either go into Bradford for sports, entertainment and shopping
It's a town between the two big urban centres
If you were saying Otley or Ilkley are similar to ponty then I would agree with you
Nice canal in Shipley, great fishing
You don't know it yet, but you, your brother and the maps of Great Britain are ALL wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by severncity
Sludge has never been wrong in his life, about anything. It'll get spun.
Just bought fish and chips for the first time in ages, mainly because they are cash only and I've never got any.
£9.90 for a large fish and chips. It's not too long back, probably pre covid that the same place charged either 5 or £6.50 so that is some mega jump up in price.
Dear me dembeQuote:
Originally Posted by Dembe
You keep getting banned or have a few weeks off then come back exactly the same
Then get upset when you get called a idiot
Are you one day going to get the message that this isn't working ?
How do you get all of that on your plate?Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
It's a choiceQuote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
One item
The day you admit you're wrong, or learn to read a map, whatever one comes first.Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
"what's for tea"Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
"curry sauce"
Is there something else you could do ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dembe
Go down the pub
Take up knitting
Learn to play chess
Anything ?
You are a young man , you are completely wasting your life
It works like thisQuote:
Originally Posted by Dembe
You walk into the chippy
Choose jumbo battered sausage and chips
Then you can add curry sauce
That will be 7 quid please dembe
That sort of thing
OhQuote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
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Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Can’t be beaten but probably battered
If half of all fish and chip shops close will they just be chip shops, or fish shops?
Calm down bluetitQuote:
Originally Posted by xsnaggle
Fops or Chops?Quote:
Originally Posted by xsnaggle