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British fish for British people, where is your patriotism.

£9.30 for a fish supper at our local according to his online menu

“Supper” being the alternative spelling for: “and chips too please”.

For some reason.

It is. I know that it is. I just don’t really understand it, is all.

Is this at a local chippy or in a pub/restaurant? It has always been about that much if you're sitting down somewhere to eat it.

£9 for fish & chips at our local chippy.

Just got 2x scampi and chips, 1x large cod and chips, curry sauce pot and 4 drinks. £32

It's a while since I've been out, obviously. Seems similar everywhere now.

Have cod and haddock import prices gone up due to Brexit?

I paid £24 today for our meal for 2 this evening. That's halibut, 6 oysters, 6 crab claws. That was from the fishmonger. I cooked it. Bloody lovely.
Money well spent. Fish is expensive but considering the conditions the fishermen put up with its worth every penny.

Money well spent. Fish is expensive but considering the conditions the fishermen put up with its worth every penny.

This

Chippy in Ambleside.
You'll all be relieved to hear it worked out ok in the end.
I decided to go budget option and ordered haggis supper instead. But my the time my mate's fish had arrived it was clear they had forgotten my haggis completely.

So I suggested they "just give me a fish or whatever's cooked". Which they did.

Gnom.

Fish for £2.50 eh.... 😁

Is the use of the word 'Supper' for a meal in the evening very much a middle class thing? To me 'supper' is a slice of toast or a bowl of cereal before bed

Is the use of the word ‘Supper’ for a meal in the evening very much a middle class thing?

Yup. Country supper engenders a massively over the top reaction in me mainly since this: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/jun/14/camerons-country-suppers-nasty-taste

Chippy in Ambleside.

There's your answer - tourist tax innit.

£6.50 for small cod, chips and peas at my local chippy - and the small cod isn't small. Just the regular ones are massive!

Does the price of the fish get higher the further you are from the coast?

£7.65 for cod at our local. + £2.40 for chips.

8.50 down here for regular cod and chips only £9.30 for a large cod and chips
The price of a shish is another step up!

@ cloudnine - I thought most Cod and Haddock imported to the UK came from Iceland.

Haddock and Plaice are £4.50 at my local chip shop, I don’t know about the Cod, it is however, cheaper.

I thought supper was an older term for a pre bed snack on it’s own. As ‘fish supper’ I have only ever heard it used by people in/ from Scotland so I though it was regional thing used by all, not just the posh.

Is the use of the word ‘Supper’ for a meal in the evening very much a middle class thing? To me ‘supper’ is a slice of toast or a bowl of cereal before bed

In a general context that may be true, but anywhere in Scotland a "supper" at the chippy means it comes with chips. This terminology is used by everyone from the most sophisticated occasional visitors to a chippy, to those who go every day, or on the way home from the pub. It is entirely irrelevant the time of day that you are having a chippy - lunchtime, early evening, late evening or even just after midnight - if it has chips its a supper. If it is just the fish/haggis/sausage/pudding/pie etc then its a "single". In some establishments a "singe sausage" will actually include two sausages (and there may be a kids portion with only one, or a small sausage or "half-single sausage" option), this complexity also applies to the deep-fried pizza which is often available as a "single pizza" "half pizza" "pizza supper" or "half pizza supper"...

If you are confused, think of the poor Scots trying to order in an English chippy...

Cheapest Ive seen is in a local Chinese at £1.30 for a small cod and 80p for small chips

(this Chinese does a cracking Chicken curry and chips for £2.70!)

Dearest is £11 for medium cod, line caught in the Atlantic within the last week, £4 for chips using King Edward spuds from a local farm

I dont like fish.

Neither the taste, nor the way they swim.

bargain!

was £15 for fish-n-chips the last time I was on the Newcastle ferry, and even then it was more like something you'd get from the freezer section and reheat in the oven rather than fresh.

twas why I'd blag a greggs picnic to take on board, although that was before B****t, so would probably get nicked for illegally exporting meat products doing that now.

Local (southern) chippy is now £10.45 for medium cod and chips.

Midlands based fun vacuum sister-in-law nearly died when i said we pay ~£40 to feed two adults two kids

Fish is about £3 at my local, chips are 90p small and £1.20 large I think. That's in Woodlesford near Leeds. Bloody lovely as well.

Does the price of the fish get higher the further you are from the coast?

Well I live near to the point in the UK that is the furthest from the coast and I get Fish, Chips and large mushy peas for about £4.50. Massive fish, Cod or Haddock, and loads of chips. Way too much really, tend to share the chips with my daughter. But the fish is delicious.

what poly says ^

Is the use of the word ‘Supper’ for a meal in the evening very much a middle class thing? To me ‘supper’ is a slice of toast or a bowl of cereal before bed

say's the man having his breakfast before bedtime....is that an upper class thing?

@poly - you forgot the English folk going on to order a "fish and chip supper" in Scotland not realising that's a tautology.

£5.50 for 'small' fish and chips, feeds two.

£8.50 near my area.

British fish for British people, where is your patriotism.

At least the fish is "managed" in this part of the world.

Want to eat fish that's near extinction then go to other part of the world. Yes, they will eat them until they are extinct coz fish in the ocean are free.

So I'm the only one that didn't know deep fried pizza is a thing?

I suspect there's an engineering solution to all but your wildest deep frying ambitions.

Fish n chips ain't cheap locally, I've overheard visitors to the area kick off over the price having ordered assuming a universal fnc constant.

So I’m the only one that didn’t know deep fried pizza is a thing?

It's been a thing for at least 46 years. My third job as a lad was working in a chippy and we had cheap pizzas for deep frying. We used to hate them. It was fine if somebody wanted a whole one as you could just fold it over but a half pizza resulted in bits of topping coming off in the pan and messing up the lard. They'd also soak up so much of the lard that a heavy night of them meant topping the pan up regularly.

Some folk had them battered.

Edit. Yes. Lard. Big blocks of it.

I went to our local chippy and asked for twice and a bag of chips. Pretty standard order in my home town. Turns out not to be the case where I live now. They just stared at me until I said can I have two fish and three portions of chips. Costs £8.50 for fish and chips.

We used to use the term supper for a late evening snack and definitely weren’t middle class.

Having checked 'urban dictioary'. I was amazed that "fish supper" is NOT a euphemism.

Was visiting my mum in the Blackcountry last night, we had fish and chips from a local chippy, two x regular fish with a cone of chips, one regular fish and a jumbo sausage and chips special. Two bottles of Oasis, one can of soft drink and a fruit shoot. £15.95 - and I got a free large bottle of Lemonade for spending over £15.

The fish weren't huge - between a large and mini fish they use for the specials. Far too many orange chips (as delicious as they are). Best thing was we ate them straight away, so they were as fresh as flip!

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Fish is about £3 at my local, chips are 90p small and £1.20 large I think. That’s in Woodlesford near Leeds. Bloody lovely as well.

I’m concerned that either a) not actually food, or b) stuck in a 1991 time warp

£9.50 for a fish supper on Sunday, expensive but at least you can have deep fried Cadbury's creme egg for afters.

Edit. Yes. Lard. Big blocks of it.

Pretty certain it would be beef dripping, not lard. Lard comes from pigs.

Beef dripping is by far the best way to cook fish and chips.

Pointless thread resurrection eye-opener thing...

Bloody hell Corbridge. Takeaway curry for five people was over eighty quid !!!!
Admittedly we bought too much and have nans and a tiny bit of curry left today, but still... £84.

And it took 110minutes to cook. Ordered at 6:32 for pickup at 7:40.
Sat in the restaurant till 8:20 waiting for it.

PS. Do I win a prize fir the most boring thread ever?

Well that’s what you get for ordering one in Corbridge. In the time it took to wait for that you could have been into Newcastle and back.

The last fish and chips I had cost £8.25 from The Watch House in St Mawes this summer. Surprised it was so little tbh (and was very good).

There are three chippies in town, two of which I go to semi-regularly, and cod & chips, which means a piece of fish nearly a foot long, and a pretty respectable portion of chips is between £6.50 and £7.00, IIRC. There’s often a queue outside both of them as well.
72 miles from the nearest bit of coast, 130-ish from the nearest fishing port, which is Brixham.
Oh, and Joey always used to call f’n’c in the early evening a fish supper, which I hadn’t come across before. She was born in London, on the King’s Road, grew up in Barmouth in North Wales, and lived for some time in Schull, in the very south of Eire, so I’ve no idea where she picked the term up from.
Too late to ask her now, though. 😢

£7 takeaway price for F&C at the very popular local seafood restaurant (Catch in Holmfirth, also in Halifax, Leeds and Harrow-gate) so we’re getting a good deal apparently.

Not sure how much this geezer charges these days

Corbridge is an over rated shite hole.

A few years ago the locals chased away a mobile fish and chip van because it was too down market for them. ****ers.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/mar/10/peterhetherington

I've never really heard anyone in Scotland refer to fish n chips, very much a fish supper.

And it's usually haddock, which IMO has a wee bit more flavour than Cod.

When visiting parents in Brizzle , I get the kids cod bites and chips. 4 really good sized gougons of cod and a bag full of chips .
With a bonus cup drink and a lolly for the princely sun of £3.80
It’s more than enough for an adult , let alone a kid

If you are confused, think of the poor Scots trying to order in an English chippy…

Or the poor guy in the chippy in Ft William, when a Wiganer asked for "Babbies yeds and pea-wet"

So I’m the only one that didn’t know deep fried pizza is a thing?
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Just wait until you find out about a deep fried mars bar.

Some chippys near me will deep fry anything, I bet if you asked for them to batter your children they would.

Englandshire don't seem to do special fish either.

As for weird local ways, when in Yorkshire (East Ayton to be precise) they asked if I wanted scraps with my supper. After a lengthy discussion about what a supper was and why the menu in Scotland is much more comprehensive I tried the scraps and was underwhelmed.

Scraps are rank.

Scraps are rank.

They're the bits we throw away. And folk have a cheek to slag us off for what we eat.

deep fried mars bar.

The best thing to do with those tasteless little mini-Mars Bars and Snickers you get in a tub of Celebrations.

This was discovered one Christmas when we had some left-over batter from having a go at doing a tempura prawn starter.

'Tempura battered Mars Bar' 🙂 does that make it sufficiently STW / middle-class?

Does the price of the fish get higher the further you are from the coast?

What, like in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? Although fish ought to be bountiful, you may struggle to find a chippy.

Bloody hell Corbridge. Takeaway curry for five people was over eighty quid !!!!
Admittedly we bought too much and have nans and a tiny bit of curry left today, but still… £84.

That's only a little less than I'd expect to pay for our family of 5 to eat sitting in a decent local Indian, including a drink or two. Was it worth it?