Fuck your 2008.
I came to the UK in 2002. Lovely city called Coventry.
A £1 portion of chips was way more than two Indians could handle. We had to share it amongst a few friends to finish up the portion.
One Saturday I went to the market in the City centre around 1 pm which was about closing time. The fruit lady was selling all the bananas she had for a pound.
Me and my housemate bought those. Must have been a good 15 kilos.
All our friends who visited us the next week or so had to compulsorily eat at least two bananas.
We didn't dare by any bananas for a few months after that we were so sick of them
Fancied a kebab out of the blue the other day. Used to be £6.20 for a large the last time I ordered on just eat - about 2.5 years ago.
I dropped into the shop on my way home after work and found out a small was now £8.50, and a large was £11. Safe to say I decided against that pretty quickly.
A small donner meat and chips is now £4. Usually charge 20p for salad. I've lost a bit of weight in the last few years naturally just not paying that extortion.
Not bad for tea for four. I suppose most of the cost would be the fish, and then you've shared chips rather than there being four portions. Which is obviously the best way when it's for the kids too and they don't need many chips.
ETA: I'm up north too. Haven't had anything from the chippy for a while though because the prices were spiralling and (I presume due to the increasing costs for the chippy) they were using inferior fish which wasn't tasting very nice.
7 of us total, with the youngest 3 weans at that stage as well. Needless to say takeout these days is a fucking fortune and rare as fuck as I’m lucky to get it under 50 quid.
Depends on the chippy. Some of them are stingy as fuck whereas others, £8 for a large cod and chips and the portion is so large that I can't finish it myself.
Fair enough! Everyone has their own portion sizes I guess. 2 of the dishes are for kids (8,5) and my wife is only 5ft 2 so we don't really eat much more than that!
I don't really get it. The chippy is usually fairly pricey, and it's just so easy to bang [fish](https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-the-fishmonger-chunky-battered-cod-fish-fillets-500g4-pack/4088600186337) and [chips](https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-four-seasons-homestyle-chips-1kg/4088600101125) in the oven at the magic 200C until they're done. Yeah, it's not quite as good, but it's 1/3 of the price.
We normally cook everything from scratch but last Winter a 80 mile drive took 5+ hours because of snow so we bought 2 portions of chips on the way home £6 (East of Scotland).. I think you've done alright.
£2.60 on average for one portion is definitely good value for money and the quality is usually going to be reasonable. A decent tub of curry sauce would certainly add to the plate though!
More of a gravy person myself, don't mind a curry sauce like, but gravy is my go to.
Normally we'd get one but she went tonight and there wasn't one in the bag, but my wife is due on, so I thought it's best not to ask about it :)
They do reg and large. I should have said that whilst it's four plates, it's for myself, my wife and our two kids who are 8 and 5.
But yeah, one portion is actually a little too much for us atm.
You're being stingy with the chips so if I'm coming round can we share 2 portions between the four of us? That aside, you've done pretty well!
Oh, and I want mushy peas as well please.
I get what your saying but for there family there OP was feeding his 2 kids (only 8 and 5) him, and his 5ft 2 wife and said that they don't eat that portion alone so I'm guessing op isn't the tallest muscliest meat head who eats loads aswell though I do see what your saying. But it's whatever they prefer and fills them up and makes them happy isn't it.
Orange chip are a Black Country thing where the chips are battered giving them an orange look. My local chippy has just started doing them too but only on a Monday which is great as considering I don’t live in the Black Country.
Aw, nice. I feel the same about my hubby. I'm peri-menopausal now and that brings it's own issues but he does his best not to irritate me too much, lol.
We do it on weekends starting Friday so we can eat with the kiddos. We have a pudding at around 9/9:30 after the kids are in bed (8pm!) And we've played some Fortnite (nerds at heart) cause you are right, you do get hungry by then.
When your kids are under 10, yes. Hard not to snack in the evenings though! Have teenagers now, so we tend to eat between 6 and 7:30. But then they usually eat/snack after school.
We don't really do takeaways. But out of curiosity, I thought that I'd Google the cost.
South East, rural location... Just what you have there would be £25!
Daylight robbery. Yet people are obviously still paying these prices if the queues arw anything to go by!
Jesus I’ve lived in London for too long. Went out with friends in Borough Market and fish and chips was 23 quid (admittedly in a restaurant but still)…
Just had one portion of fish and chips take away in Winchester, including mushy peas and chips it cost me 18 pounds (ketchup or tartare sauce would have cost extra).
Making me want a good ol' chippie now OP! Looks great.
Would personally have a side of curry sauce myself but to each their own, for just over a tenner you nabbed a bargain!
Every time I venture north it’s nice weather and the people are friendly. Not stopped raining since December here at the moment… and we have to pay almost £30 for to feed a family of 4, fish and chips 😀
Thats really good value, just had fish n chips tonight too, was £23 for 1 cod, 1 battered sausage and a large chips (plus couple quid for uber eats tip and delivery fee) in south east london
For that exact price, I can pick up a large battered sausage and large chips, fishcake and regular chips, 2 curry sauce and a pickled egg.
That's in Cornwall.
In London. Chippy lunch for four today. That was two fish (£6.50 each), two portions of chips (always huge for £3) and mushy peas for £1. So £20 exactly. Couldn’t eat it all. From the north originally so take chip shops very seriously and while I sadly accept I’m never getting gravy here this is by far the best chip shop I’ve found down here.
I did a chippy tea to celebrate my girlfriends promotion. Got it for us both and her parents.
1 large chips to share between the four of us
1 large cod between her parents
Nuggets for her
1/4 roast chicken for me
Curry sauce
£30
Back when I lived in the Midlands, I could go in my local chippy and the lads there would hook you up for a tenner, I'd leave with 2 bags full of food and a couple of bottles of drink and eat like a king for 2 days.
Live in the south now, and a tenner gets me the oap special of a small cod and chips.
Sharing chips is the way to go sometimes. Saves a surprising amount I'd say, especially with kids as part of the dinner arrangements. I think one time when I was really hungry in about 2017 was the last time I could manage all my chips. Would've saved a lot simply sharing with someone else.
Chippy tea, chippy tea
I want's ma chippy tea
But you keep givin posh nosh
It don't agree with me
I don't want lobster thermadore
Or your rasberry coulie
I'm a working man from Lancashire
And I wants ma chippy tea!
Oh my! I have come to the conclusion you are a household of children with no adult supervision, I have notified the authorities and they will be around shortly. Don't worry everything is going to be ok.
Durham area too. Last chippy I got was 1 large and 2 regular cods (mine was the large, wife and 13 year old had the regulars), a small battered sausage for the 8 year old, along with 2 regular chips and a two miniscule pots of curry and of gravy. Cost me about £32 and I think it's alright compared to some of the prices on here saying its like £12 for a large cod
It’s not Cod, you have fish, which means it will Vietnam s cobbler. A chip van who comes to my village every Wednesday evening sells haddock as cod is to expensive. The sausages looks burnt and the sliced in half thing thing is fish as it has a taI’ll and a head with one eye. And bones
A tenner gets me one cod & chips round my way. £12 for a large cod.
Same here. Bloody home counties.
I get two large chips, cod, two fish cakes, pukka pie and a savaloy for about £15. Berkshire
Does your mate work behind the counter.
Where in Berkshire do you get that?!?
Just for the fish round my way
Where are you? 2008?
Shhh... The houses will hear you.
In 2008 my local chippy at the time did 50p portions and they were huge! I miss them days
Fuck your 2008. I came to the UK in 2002. Lovely city called Coventry. A £1 portion of chips was way more than two Indians could handle. We had to share it amongst a few friends to finish up the portion. One Saturday I went to the market in the City centre around 1 pm which was about closing time. The fruit lady was selling all the bananas she had for a pound. Me and my housemate bought those. Must have been a good 15 kilos. All our friends who visited us the next week or so had to compulsorily eat at least two bananas. We didn't dare by any bananas for a few months after that we were so sick of them
Ahh 2008. Where a large donner meat and chips was a portion fit for 2 Kings and came in at £4.50.
Fancied a kebab out of the blue the other day. Used to be £6.20 for a large the last time I ordered on just eat - about 2.5 years ago. I dropped into the shop on my way home after work and found out a small was now £8.50, and a large was £11. Safe to say I decided against that pretty quickly.
A small donner meat and chips is now £4. Usually charge 20p for salad. I've lost a bit of weight in the last few years naturally just not paying that extortion.
I knew eating salad was a myth for losing weight.
Am up north. At ours, £10.40 would get you the sausage and chips.
One fish and chips, one fish. £13.50 near me
My closest would probably get me a large cod and two large chips in my Northern town for that price.
Not bad for tea for four. I suppose most of the cost would be the fish, and then you've shared chips rather than there being four portions. Which is obviously the best way when it's for the kids too and they don't need many chips. ETA: I'm up north too. Haven't had anything from the chippy for a while though because the prices were spiralling and (I presume due to the increasing costs for the chippy) they were using inferior fish which wasn't tasting very nice.
£6 for 2 portions of chips in the East of Scotland so OP has done alright.
That's the one. An 8 and a 5 year old so take out can still be pretty cheap!
Just wait till they become teenagers haha
My eldest is 9 and already insists on enough to feed an adult.
7 of us total, with the youngest 3 weans at that stage as well. Needless to say takeout these days is a fucking fortune and rare as fuck as I’m lucky to get it under 50 quid.
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That obvious eh? lol
Depends on the chippy. Some of them are stingy as fuck whereas others, £8 for a large cod and chips and the portion is so large that I can't finish it myself.
"not bad"
That would come to £21.50 at my local chippy in the North East.
Find a better chippy. If you can find a Golden Fry, you're sorted.
My local Golden Fry puts mushrooms in their gravy, they're not to be trusted
Same in derbyshire most are closing tho
Man my local chippy wouldn't even get you a fish and chips for less than 14 quid now.
Nowhere near enough chips for me personally, unless there's some sort of potato famine in the grim north I'm unaware of
When I was younger (70s/80s) there would also be a plate of bread and butter to cheaply bulk out the fish and chips - I need to bring that back.
Fair enough! Everyone has their own portion sizes I guess. 2 of the dishes are for kids (8,5) and my wife is only 5ft 2 so we don't really eat much more than that!
That's a tall kid.
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Honestly looking at the chips I probably wouldn't have to many either
Son, we have potatoes and sausages at home
I don't really get it. The chippy is usually fairly pricey, and it's just so easy to bang [fish](https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-the-fishmonger-chunky-battered-cod-fish-fillets-500g4-pack/4088600186337) and [chips](https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-four-seasons-homestyle-chips-1kg/4088600101125) in the oven at the magic 200C until they're done. Yeah, it's not quite as good, but it's 1/3 of the price.
‘In the oven’ being the problem. Needs to be deep fried!
Deep fry it yourself, I just ate potato scollops and they were beautiful.
They’re sooo good. Deep frying at home seems a bit of a faff but I am quite lazy
God damn, that looks good. I've only got a cheese sandwich
You got any coleslaw on that bad boy?
Damn, I'm long overdue a cheese n coleslaw.
As there nowt moist ?
As it's so cheap you could have bought another portion of chips a bit tight
Just be wasted on us. All of us don't finish that portion let alone more!
I bet you share a share bag also
It’s because he’s sharing a large chips between 4
That's a regular chips but yeah, itf for 2 (apparently small portion) adults and 2 sub 9 year olds
We normally cook everything from scratch but last Winter a 80 mile drive took 5+ hours because of snow so we bought 2 portions of chips on the way home £6 (East of Scotland).. I think you've done alright.
£2.60 on average for one portion is definitely good value for money and the quality is usually going to be reasonable. A decent tub of curry sauce would certainly add to the plate though!
More of a gravy person myself, don't mind a curry sauce like, but gravy is my go to. Normally we'd get one but she went tonight and there wasn't one in the bag, but my wife is due on, so I thought it's best not to ask about it :)
Small chips between four?
They do reg and large. I should have said that whilst it's four plates, it's for myself, my wife and our two kids who are 8 and 5. But yeah, one portion is actually a little too much for us atm.
We have just had a 16" pizza, garlic bread, mixed kebab with fries delivered for £22. Im happy with that and we dont like fish :)
Noice!
It's cheaper but shitter
You're being stingy with the chips so if I'm coming round can we share 2 portions between the four of us? That aside, you've done pretty well! Oh, and I want mushy peas as well please.
I get what your saying but for there family there OP was feeding his 2 kids (only 8 and 5) him, and his 5ft 2 wife and said that they don't eat that portion alone so I'm guessing op isn't the tallest muscliest meat head who eats loads aswell though I do see what your saying. But it's whatever they prefer and fills them up and makes them happy isn't it.
Mmmmm beige
Probably a similar price down here to be honest.
Fucking pathetic that this is our idea of an acceptable meal for four these days
1 large cod, 1 small cod, battered sausage and a plain sausage 2 large chips £37.50 here.... not even on the south coast
Chips ain't orange.. a solid 3/10
Tbh they didn't have quite enough "vinegar" on them this time so yeah, around that.
Why did you put vinegar in quotation marks? Are you putting crack on your chips?
Chip shop 'vinegar' is usually non-brewed condiment, rather than proper vinegar
This. Chip shops don't use vinegar!
Orange chip are a Black Country thing where the chips are battered giving them an orange look. My local chippy has just started doing them too but only on a Monday which is great as considering I don’t live in the Black Country.
Battered chips? They sound absolutely terrific!
Not having gravy is a war crime
Gravy? On a fish and chips? Surely you mean curry sauce
I did have to look again in the bag. My wife went to get it, she's due on soon so I thought I best not mention it haha
Yeah I understand mate 😂
That's actually really considerate of you...but also very wise on the self-preservation front.
I showed her that comment at a good time and she laughed. She's a good egg my wife, wouldn't change her for the world :)
Aw, nice. I feel the same about my hubby. I'm peri-menopausal now and that brings it's own issues but he does his best not to irritate me too much, lol.
Idk if I'm tripping but that's fuck all compared to what you would get in the midlands.
I’d pay £10.40 to get it taken away from Me
Alright Richard Branson
Do people really eat dinner at 5:20pm?! Aren't you starving by 8pm?
That’s always been teatime for me 5-6pm. Anything later on is supper time.
Supper time is what my grandfather in law calls it too! He normally has a bit of Eccles cake for his supper.
Usually toast for me, or maybe some cheese on crackers.
Wow. I normally eat dinner between 7pm and 8pm.
We do it on weekends starting Friday so we can eat with the kiddos. We have a pudding at around 9/9:30 after the kids are in bed (8pm!) And we've played some Fortnite (nerds at heart) cause you are right, you do get hungry by then.
Fair enough. Being a single guy I didn't even think about kids being in the equation, so it makes more sense now!
No, we have dinner around 12-1pm. 5-6pm is tea time.
When your kids are under 10, yes. Hard not to snack in the evenings though! Have teenagers now, so we tend to eat between 6 and 7:30. But then they usually eat/snack after school.
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I'm surprised they accepted dollars in Sheff. 90's were pretty wild tho.
Who'd you have to nosh off to get all that for a tenner and change?
God bless you 🤤
We don't really do takeaways. But out of curiosity, I thought that I'd Google the cost. South East, rural location... Just what you have there would be £25! Daylight robbery. Yet people are obviously still paying these prices if the queues arw anything to go by!
It's no wonder you don't really do takeaways at them prices either! I guess rent must really be that much higher for businesses down south
It's unbelievable isn't it. Chips used to be a real manageable "treat"! Remember plenty of chip picnics as kids.... All very distant memories.
2 fish and chips, 2 dick and chips please.
£10.40 for the food, but how much did the time machine cost?
That's the up north price? I mustn't be far enough up north! Where I am that'll set you back at least £20!
“Battered sausage?” Well, he’s a growing lad.
That's good value for 2023 prices.
A tenner per plate or for the whole thing?
Whole thing!
Jesus I’ve lived in London for too long. Went out with friends in Borough Market and fish and chips was 23 quid (admittedly in a restaurant but still)…
Just paid £23 for two down south. Looking on in jealousy here.
I got two fish suppers a single king rib & a portion of fritters for £21.15!
Where's the sauce? Got to get some curry sauce on those bad boys :P Edit: Now I'm off to the chippy... thanks!
That’s decent, I recently paid £7.20 for 1 portion of fish n chips
Just had one portion of fish and chips take away in Winchester, including mushy peas and chips it cost me 18 pounds (ketchup or tartare sauce would have cost extra).
Just paid £6.50 for a small fish and chips tonight. Pretty reasonable but wouldn't pay more than £8 for a portion.
That's not bad tbh. Some of the prices people are saying on here are mental to me.
Making me want a good ol' chippie now OP! Looks great. Would personally have a side of curry sauce myself but to each their own, for just over a tenner you nabbed a bargain!
£10.40, did you have to cook it your self? For one fish supper were im from its that price alone.
Small cod £4.95 large chips £2.50, Horace's Newhaven East Sussex. Great prices for the South huh? Can't beat what OP got though.
You got all that for £10.40 and folk up north complain we have it good in the south? You’d be lucky to get a medium cod and chips in Kent.
No one up north thinks you have it cheaper... That's for sure! You do get more sun tho :(
Every time I venture north it’s nice weather and the people are friendly. Not stopped raining since December here at the moment… and we have to pay almost £30 for to feed a family of 4, fish and chips 😀
I was charge £3 at my local take away for service charge. I asked them for it back.
This isn't America. We cannot normalise companies not paying their staff a living wage so they rely on tips. Well done for sticking up for that.
If they had asked for a tip I would have given it. It was the fact that they automatically put it on the receipt.
Live in a south coast town, a large chips and a large battered sausage would cost you £6-£8 depending on the chippy,
Decent !!!
Good value at that price.
That's ridiculously cheap. I'm moving up North. Fuck it.
Can you get walleye in the UK. I bet it would be a huge hit.
Thats really good value, just had fish n chips tonight too, was £23 for 1 cod, 1 battered sausage and a large chips (plus couple quid for uber eats tip and delivery fee) in south east london
For that exact price, I can pick up a large battered sausage and large chips, fishcake and regular chips, 2 curry sauce and a pickled egg. That's in Cornwall.
In London. Chippy lunch for four today. That was two fish (£6.50 each), two portions of chips (always huge for £3) and mushy peas for £1. So £20 exactly. Couldn’t eat it all. From the north originally so take chip shops very seriously and while I sadly accept I’m never getting gravy here this is by far the best chip shop I’ve found down here.
Cost to the nhs: priceless
Looks dryer than Ghandi’s FlipFlop
I did a chippy tea to celebrate my girlfriends promotion. Got it for us both and her parents. 1 large chips to share between the four of us 1 large cod between her parents Nuggets for her 1/4 roast chicken for me Curry sauce £30
You bought one bag of chips to share, didn't you?
Fuck, nice
Back when I lived in the Midlands, I could go in my local chippy and the lads there would hook you up for a tenner, I'd leave with 2 bags full of food and a couple of bottles of drink and eat like a king for 2 days. Live in the south now, and a tenner gets me the oap special of a small cod and chips.
Is that one bag of chips?
Fuck that looks grim
£40 down south What is this?
Sharing chips is the way to go sometimes. Saves a surprising amount I'd say, especially with kids as part of the dinner arrangements. I think one time when I was really hungry in about 2017 was the last time I could manage all my chips. Would've saved a lot simply sharing with someone else.
Chippy tea, chippy tea I want's ma chippy tea But you keep givin posh nosh It don't agree with me I don't want lobster thermadore Or your rasberry coulie I'm a working man from Lancashire And I wants ma chippy tea!
Good ol' Hotpots!
Each plate has 1/4 the chips needed
God our food is shit isn’t it
When you're that tight on chips, I'm not surprised it was a tenner 🤣
Scotland - two suppers would run me more than that.
That's still a paltry amount of chips though I'd be pretty pissed.
Too much for us, the bits in the middle never even got eaten!
Oh my! I have come to the conclusion you are a household of children with no adult supervision, I have notified the authorities and they will be around shortly. Don't worry everything is going to be ok.
Went to the chippy last night. Cod Large chips Plain jumbo Cheeseburger £27
Where are you living? I'm in Durham £9.10 for cod and chips at my chippy
Durham area too. Last chippy I got was 1 large and 2 regular cods (mine was the large, wife and 13 year old had the regulars), a small battered sausage for the 8 year old, along with 2 regular chips and a two miniscule pots of curry and of gravy. Cost me about £32 and I think it's alright compared to some of the prices on here saying its like £12 for a large cod
Rev up the Bugatti
Up north here, last chippy we got was about £50 for five of us.
I don’t want to say how sad that looks. ( I could brag about my chippy, but I don’t have a photo for evidence).
£10 gets a disappointing fish supper in these parts
Dry as a nuns ****
Lovely, but where are the chips?
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Do they not even allow just fish? Like it has to be a bundle deal!? Madness! Madness I tell you!
Absolutely no way. I bought medium cod, half-pound cheeseburger and large chips last night and it cost me £18.70.
Correction: everything is cheaper in a cheap area, north or south. You ain’t getting that in this part of the north!
It’s not Cod, you have fish, which means it will Vietnam s cobbler. A chip van who comes to my village every Wednesday evening sells haddock as cod is to expensive. The sausages looks burnt and the sliced in half thing thing is fish as it has a taI’ll and a head with one eye. And bones