[Closed] Violated at the chippy....

Haddock, not Coelacanth.

Be grateful for small mercies, its supposed to be minging.

But was it any good?

Not had fish and chips in pounds for ages though is it that bad

@Rusty - do you live in the 1980s?

F&C have been steadily increasing in price in recent years due to fish stocks, potato shortages, fuel duty, Brexit, the Black Death, Suez Crisis etc etc.

Bout standard round me. And I live in the North. Maybe not quite in Leeds, but definitely in Harrogate.

 do you live in the 1980s?

We’re not in Burnley anymore Toto.

I think they got the 80s next valley over channel 4 and everything

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Battered sausage?

Deep fried mars bar and a couple of scotch eggs more like...

You'd be looking at spending £8.00+ up here in Kirkcudbright for a fish supper, all locally caught fish though.

Eeey ba gum it were 2 shillin and 6 punce last time i were out.

The prices are frightening - even over £6 in Hulme (Manchester) for fish chips and peas.

From £4.50 to just over £7 here depending on what size. I guess you’ve not had them for along time.

Change from a fiver at our local. Big fish and loads of chips.

Haddock & Chips at my local .....

£12.50

We have a national award winning chippy just down from our house, and an order of F&C, generously provisioned, is just shy of £4.

I'd be questioning the quality of a fish supper at 6.50.

Chippy in Ullapool (which is the best I've ever had) is £8 to £10 depending on size of Haddock fillet (large to seriously large). Fish are landed at the harbour pretty much next door and are as fresh as it gets without going out and catching it yourself.

I'd be suspicious of anywhere claiming to sell a quality fish supper for less than that.

Small NE town here, our very local chippy is £4.50 for small fish £6.50 for a moby dick sized Cod/ haddock. Chips extra £1.50 but that's enough for 2. Fried in dripping of course.

It's a decent chippy and seems about the going rate despite this being one of the cheapest parts of the country.

Well down here in Surrey the local chippies seem to give pretty large portions, so a large cod & chips will do easily for two people, and therefore is quite cost efficient. Same with the Indian.

Local chippy at the last plaice:

Ali's mum used to make the best samosas this side of The Punjab (the one on Milkstone Road). Large portions for regulars, so two lots of chips would feed four.   🙂

Seaside is different. You pay more for big, beautifully fresh fish fed on your own effluent, rather than someone else's.

I miss those samosas.

Did you ever find out what the fish was?

You must be up The North?

£6 just for battered fish hereabouts

(Which is incidentally a piece of mushy, flavourless tat)

You have to dig another 2 quid deeper if you want chips with it.  Mushy peas also?  Another quid.

Now we're at £9 for fish chips n peas.  It's at this point I usually realise that for the same price I can purchase an excellent freshly prepared curry cooked to my taste.

Going back to the chippy - the portions are, to be fair, big enough to share for two, so if you like bland sloppy tat then that works out at £4 each for a couple to jointly celebrate the demise of the great fish supper.

Ah well, it's all fattening if eaten regularly.  I try and wait and save instead for those rare times we pass a good fish n chip shop, then go crazy with the fish and peas and everything!

I always thought it best not to enquire.🙂

Not difficult for a man partial to a sober, lunchtime kebab.

Well. Next time just get the battered sausage and think of fishy smells 😉

I'm not even sure how much a single portion is at our Leeds local but 4 fish , 2 chips , 1 battered sausage ,1 portion of pineapple fritters and a large curry comes in at £23.50.

I don't think that's too bad a price for that amount , the fish are enormous as are the portions of chips (hence only 2) all freshly cooked . Well worth it.

Someone mentioned mushy/tasteless fish , that'll be cod then #bluergh . The guy who has the chippy on my post round started serving cod instead of haddock when there was a price increase , myself and a work colleague asked him to get some haddock in and he said 'yeah but it will be 70p more than before' after 2weeks he stopped the cod off the menu as everyone was stumping up the extra for haddock.

Was the fish good and fresh and caught in a sustainable manner and the staff paid a decent wage?

there are more important things than saving a bob or two on your fish supper.

£16 for haddock and chips at my local chippy in Herne Hill

if you went for large chips it would do 2 of you if you are not chubby waddlers

(none of that curry sauce nonsense either)

Battered sausage with curry sauce. We’re posh.

Chippy in Ullapool (which is the best I’ve ever had) is £8 to £10 depending on size of Haddock fillet (large to seriously large)

I haven't had fish from the chippy in Ullapool for years, but this was certainly true. We used to call it going for  Moby supper. (And I don't mean the bald 90's producer). The gulls in Ullapool are the size of teradactyls!

if you went for large chips it would do 2 of you if you are not chubby waddlers

The OP is somewhere up north. 3 large chips will do a couple and their toddler.

Sounds like a bargain!  At least 8.50 here!

That’ll be £8.50 here, well after they’ve found some peas to sell you anyway.

The trick with our local is to go for large portions for an extra £1.50 (£1 fish, 50p chips) and it’s pretty much twice the size. Also near half-price pensioner special feeds a 12 year old quit well.

What type of spanner would that rusty one be sir.

My wife opened this thread and was disappointed that the thread didn’t include some kind of violation by a battered sausage!

Bloody hell. My local chippy in Leeds is just over £3 for fish and chips!! We can get dinner for the four of us for about a tenner.

Not massive portions but well nice!

The Mayfair Chippy, supposed best chippy in London do fish, chips peas and a sauce for £8 (haddock) or £10 (cod).

Plus they will do you a black pudding fritter and apple sauce which is bloody lovely.

Quite expensive, but bloody lovely

Nothing beats good quality fish and chips. Especially in beef dripping and you should have to pay a good rate for that, which will be still cheaper than the average pub meal.

Ullapool. - southern prices but so so good.

Largs is about £6 for a fish supper from the two decent chippies.

Troon though, if you ever go to the Wee Hurrie make sure it's payday!

@mattoab - would never dream of ordering that from the chippie in Bridge of Allan! (I swear they put crack in their chips

I’m in Aylesbury Monday to Friday; don’t know how much the chips are but a battered cod is £4.40

pretty sure I can get haddock & chips for less than a fiver at home in Baildon (near Bratfud). There’s a chippy in Shipley that’ll do f&c for < £3. Can’t speak for the quality mind

Bloody hell. My local chippy in Leeds is just over £3 for fish and chips!!

How how is that even possible?  Are you posting from the 1990’s?

Just been up to Erik's Plaice near Chelsea-on-Sea tonight.

Medium cod & chips in a box to take outside to eat at their tables £8.50.

I'm with the OP.

And Dick Turpin wore a mask!

My local (I have fish and chips twice a week) is 4.50

The posh one is 6.20.

Although this is in brighouse which is still in the 80's

our local is roughly that.  we pay about £11.50 for 2 fish, one small chips and peas.

so it's probably around £6.50 - £7 for fish chips and peas.

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Chippy in Ullapool (which is the best I’ve ever had) is £8 to £10 depending on size of Haddock fillet (large to seriously large). Fish are landed at the harbour pretty much next door and are as fresh as it gets without going out and catching it yourself.

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Thats not the one at the top of the hill which has a sign up proudly proclaiming that they use 'sustainably fished icelandic haddock' is it?

the chippy at fort augustus is good, but its a 3 or 4 hour round trip for me

How how is that even possible?  Are you posting from the 1990’s?

🙂

Fish is £2.30/2.40 ish and chips 80p I think. Large chips are £1.10 but it's just eating for the sake of it. And that's coming from a fat knacker!!

£4.50 in sunny armley where we go for dinner. £5.00 at local chippy.

Blimey, some cheap prices around!  £8.50 for large cod and small chips in my surrey local.  ‘‘Tis good though!

The OP is somewhere up north. 3 large chips will do a couple and their toddler.

I’ll think you’ll find 3 large chips is a full meal up north. Starter, Main and pud.

Haddock, chips & peas is around £7 in my local chippy (Rotherham).

A lot of the fish & chip shops that are cheap willl not be stating the fish species and will be serving Basa (Vietnamese catfish). Once battered, covered in salt & vinegar and covered in peas/gravy it's pretty much indistinguishable from cod.

Yep - well over £6 last time I had to get it. As others have said - anything less than a fiver and I be getting little concerned where the fish was coming from ... local sewer plant/Chernobyl/etc

That said ... there is a local chippy/chinese in Newport (just down from civic centre) that does a school day special for the kids. £3.00 for a small bag of chips, 2 fish bites and a small bottle of pop.

As long as you got a sturdy stomach ... there be no problems!

Battered jumbo and chips and a regular (still decent sized) haddock and chips is less than a tenner I think from the chippy I use in Cockermouth.

There’s two chippies fairly close to me, both are pretty good, the one I usually go to, which is owned and run by a Chinese family, does Cod with chips, and a pretty large piece of fish with a very generous portion of chips, for around £5.60, IIRC. And the fish is firm and flakes nicely, just how Cod should.

Damn, now I’m feeling like I need a big bag of F&C’s!

Yes lunch specials tend to be around £3 mark here for a little cut of fish and a few chips, just snack size though so not really the same leauge of a proper fish and chips.

Fish and chips near me is expensive, about £7 for a nice piece of fish, plus chips (civilised part of north london)

I went to huddersfield to pick up some fish and chips (we were staying around the corner), it was literally half the price. Price variation was ridiculous

Am I the only one who starts up with the intro lines from 'Sandy' from Grease after reading the thread title?

Just me then...

£5.50 here in Brixham but the cod is off the scale ace.

I don't get why most chippies do massive portions, I usually get cod and small chips and I still can't finish it (and I can eat a lot...)

Leeds chippy fans, try the Bearded Sailor in Pudsey.

The best fish and chips I've had.

There’s only one chip shop in Harrogate that doesn’t use Beef Dripping as the “oil” to cook the fish and chips in.

I didn’t believe it until I did the Friday night fetch chips supper and asked the owner/fryer what oil they used...

Bit of a shame for the Veggies in this world innit.

Go for the sausage, it's tastes better anyway. £2.50 here.

Just over a fiver for fish and chips here in Leeds at a number of great establishments. Haddock and fried in dripping, none of that pollock or veg oil nonsense.

The two best chippys in Fife are the Tailend in St Andrews and the Anstruther fish bar, both are about £6.50, both are getting on for about a fifty mile round trip for me, but I wouldn't risk anywhere nearer.

bout 50p over the odds round here that

£6.50 sounds good value. Our local which is good but nothing outstanding is around £8 for a small cod and chips.

I have been in there a couple of times when some old moaner starts making sarky comments about taking out a mortgage when it's time to pay. It's not like there's a massive price list that occupies the entire back wall of the chippy that allows you to make an informed decision before ordering.

I’m in Aylesbury Monday to Friday...

You poor sausage.

Bit of a shame for the Veggies in this world innit.

Maybe for those in Harrogate.  There's always smug and lettuce in a pitta option  👍🏼

£3.50 cheapest my way (north of Huddersfield) smallish and not great, got 3 or 4 chippys within a mile £4.50-£6 is a regular price. (all proper chippy's, not pizza/curry/kebab houses).

compo's - holmfirth was always a favourite £5-6, or catch (more upmarket £12-14)

I don’t get why most chippies do massive portions, I usually get cod and small chips and I still can’t finish it (and I can eat a lot…)

Evidently not.

£5.80 in Skipton.  They sell enough of them.

The dear wife's brought fish and chips twice, one carton of peas, one of curry home from the local - £11.50 here, nr Wakefield.

They were nice enough, but this fat sow couldn't finish them all.

Fish n' Chips has been a constant let down after the fish and chip I had in Kununurra, Western Australia in '94. Just done a 14 hour shift picking melons in proper heat and humidity without a meal and the two locals that ran the shop, clearly well gone, served me the most epic barramundi and chips with a free glass of crisp cold chardonnay. Eaten watching the sun go down over the atypical WA red mountains with a flock of parrots danced together before settling down for the night.

It's all gone down hill from then. If food is judged as much by location and context as it is flavour that would be the best meal of my life by a stretch.

You had me until "Chardonnay"

You had me until “Chardonnay”

This was 1994 - in Australia - different rules. 🙂

Far be it for me to criticise, but in the 8 years I lived in Burnley, I never found a chip shop that wasn't utterly shit, serving soggy chips, mean fish and, much to my never ending astonishment, closing at 6.30pm on a Friday!

Yes, chips cost more here in Yorkshire, but they're not utterly awful and that's worth a few quid I reckon.

Wot no gravy??!    Sad.

Why do fish and chips improve the further away you get from the coast? Sea-side fish and chips are are almost always a disappointment.

Any edinburgh recommendations? I do like a good chippy but the initial excitement always wears off by half way.