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Does it class as vegetarian to have Fish and Chips?
Asking for a friend
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
This part of the catering industry is taking a battering.
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.
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.
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.