Price of Fish & Chips - How Much?!?

[seyre1972]

dickymint said:

petemurphy said:

Alickadoo said:

The bread looks awful and the plate is too small.

Ah that’s proper fish and chip bread that is

Yes but it should never be cut in half. Should be folded to stop the curry sauce dripping down your arms

Should be cut on the diagonal/into triangles rather than into rectangular slices. And as we're posh/drink our tea with our pinky sticking up - never left whole/uncut as the plebs will be making chip butties with them ....

[dickymint]

seyre1972 said:

dickymint said:

petemurphy said:

Alickadoo said:

The bread looks awful and the plate is too small.

Ah that’s proper fish and chip bread that is

Yes but it should never be cut in half. Should be folded to stop the curry sauce dripping down your arms

Should be cut on the diagonal/into triangles rather than into rectangular slices. And as we're posh/drink our tea with our pinky sticking up - never left whole/uncut as the plebs will be making chip butties with them ....

Pleb here: That's the whole point of having B & B with fish and chips I take it you've never had a Pot Noodle sandwich

[seyre1972]

dickymint said:

seyre1972 said:

dickymint said:

petemurphy said:

Alickadoo said:

The bread looks awful and the plate is too small.

Ah that’s proper fish and chip bread that is

Yes but it should never be cut in half. Should be folded to stop the curry sauce dripping down your arms

Should be cut on the diagonal/into triangles rather than into rectangular slices. And as we're posh/drink our tea with our pinky sticking up - never left whole/uncut as the plebs will be making chip butties with them ....

Pleb here: That's the whole point of having B & B with fish and chips I take it you've never had a Pot Noodle sandwich

If at home - yes, couldn’t agree more. Whereas if out in a Fish and Chip restaurant (think original Harry Ramsdens @ Guiseley with carpet/chandeliers) then that’s a no for me.

I can’t say I’ve ever had a pot noodle sandwich - but do similar with baked beans with mini sausage if that counts ? (gain only would at home

[dickymint]

seyre1972 said:

dickymint said:

seyre1972 said:

dickymint said:

petemurphy said:

Alickadoo said:

The bread looks awful and the plate is too small.

Ah that’s proper fish and chip bread that is

Yes but it should never be cut in half. Should be folded to stop the curry sauce dripping down your arms

Should be cut on the diagonal/into triangles rather than into rectangular slices. And as we're posh/drink our tea with our pinky sticking up - never left whole/uncut as the plebs will be making chip butties with them ....

Pleb here: That's the whole point of having B & B with fish and chips I take it you've never had a Pot Noodle sandwich

If at home - yes, couldn’t agree more. Whereas if out in a Fish and Chip restaurant (think original Harry Ramsdens @ Guiseley with carpet/chandeliers) then that’s a no for me.

I can’t say I’ve ever had a pot noodle sandwich - but do similar with baked beans with mini sausage if that counts ? (gain only would at home

I remember my Mum giving me a kick under the table when I started to make a sandwich out of a Sunday roast in a Berni Inn and another for good measure whilst mopping up the gravy at the end

[captain.scarlet]

FiF said:

Tried a different f&c shop recently as our regular place the owners had gone back to Greece for August

£14:15 for a whale sized piece of fish, sold as cod, large white flakes, lovely crispy batter, top notch. No reason to doubt from taste it was anything other than cod.
A generous portion of chips, perhaps might have preferred them to be fried a little more but certainly ok.
Large battered sausage for the heathen in the family.
Portion onion rings, good size, light crispy batter, not at all greasy, which is usually the case from the chippy that the locals usually offer as the best around. (We find them generally greasy and expensive)

That lot fed 3 of us, with a few chips nicked by a 4th person, and some leftover fish and chips.

Those leftovers reheated today in air fryer fed two of us for an excellent 'light' lunch.

Think we might be changing our allegiance, pity the parking and traffic is a total nightmare.

£14 for all that, or just the jumbo fish and chips alone? Even so, that's pretty cheap at less than £4 per head.

[Bullett]

Do I win a prize?

Ok, it was at the Hinds head in Bray (Heston's pub) came with about 4 different 'condiments' Curry sauce, Tarte sauce, minted peas, ketchup etc. and was delicious and huge but £29! That was for the lad.

Wife and I had a whole Brill, sides (chips) and that was £60.

We had starters and deserts as well.

And booze.


It was a bit more than the local chippy.

[FiF]

captain.scarlet said:

£14 for all that, or just the jumbo fish and chips alone? Even so, that's pretty cheap at less than £4 per head.

The whole lot, can't find a menu online, think f&c on its own is just over a tenner.

[Cockaigne]

Bullett said:

Do I win a prize?

Ok, it was at the Hinds head in Bray (Heston's pub) came with about 4 different 'condiments' Curry sauce, Tarte sauce, minted peas, ketchup etc. and was delicious and huge but £29! That was for the lad.

Wife and I had a whole Brill, sides (chips) and that was £60.

We had starters and deserts as well.

And booze.


It was a bit more than the local chippy.

getting on for 10 quid plus from chip shop, so 29 quid seems o.k

[soxboy]

Dibble said:

Large haddock, chips, bread/butter (swapped out the mushy peas for an extra slice), drink - £11.75. Worth every penny.

Looks very good, although if being pedantic:
1. Wouldn’t have swapped out mushy peas for extra bread (bread fine BTW)
2. Pot of tea if eating in instead of Coke (unless hungover). Take out ‘minerals’ of choice would be Dandelion & Burdock

[Dibble]

soxboy said:

Dibble said:

Large haddock, chips, bread/butter (swapped out the mushy peas for an extra slice), drink - £11.75. Worth every penny.

Looks very good, although if being pedantic:
1. Wouldn’t have swapped out mushy peas for extra bread (bread fine BTW)
2. Pot of tea if eating in instead of Coke (unless hungover). Take out ‘minerals’ of choice would be Dandelion & Burdock

1. I really have to be in the mood for mushy peas. That was not that day. Council white bread is fine with F&C, but as others have said, I’d have preferred it uncut. At least it wasn’t diagonal, so not a complete disaster.
2. I had consumed “several” pints of Guinness the previous evening, catching up with a mate I’d not seen for a few months. Hence the Coke… D&B is indeed a more than acceptable choice, as is Vimto.

[seyre1972]

So keeping the tradition alive of getting fish and chips and eating them in a new car … (something my parents did…

Having dropped my daughter back to Liverpool for her 3rd year, headed over the Pennines to Wakefield where I grew up (but I was born in Leeds

This morning did a 28k bike ride with my mate and his boys to feel like I’d earned it.

Wetherby Whaler Outwood.

£7.60 - Special / large Haddock
£2.60 - Chips
£0.00 - Scraps
£1.10 - Breadcake
£1.30 - Small chip shop curry sauce
£2.40 - 2 cans - one D&B/other bitter Shandy
———-
£17.00

Bloody delicious and well worth the 560 mile round trip … . (Home-Liverpool-Wakefield-overnight-then back home this afternoon (darn sarf))

[soxboy]

seyre1972 said:

So keeping the tradition alive of getting fish and chips and eating them in a new car … (something my parents did…

Having dropped my daughter back to Liverpool for her 3rd year, headed over the Pennines to Wakefield where I grew up (but I was born in Leeds

This morning did a 28k bike ride with my mate and his boys to feel like I’d earned it.

Wetherby Whaler Outwood.

£7.60 - Special / large Haddock
£2.60 - Chips
£0.00 - Scraps
£1.10 - Breadcake
£1.30 - Small chip shop curry sauce
£2.40 - 2 cans - one D&B/other bitter Shandy
———-
£17.00

Bloody delicious and well worth the 560 mile round trip … . (Home-Liverpool-Wakefield-overnight-then back home this afternoon (darn sarf))

Did you bring your own salt and vinegar from home especially for the trip?

[seyre1972]

soxboy said:

seyre1972 said:

So keeping the tradition alive of getting fish and chips and eating them in a new car … (something my parents did…

Having dropped my daughter back to Liverpool for her 3rd year, headed over the Pennines to Wakefield where I grew up (but I was born in Leeds

This morning did a 28k bike ride with my mate and his boys to feel like I’d earned it.

Wetherby Whaler Outwood.

£7.60 - Special / large Haddock
£2.60 - Chips
£0.00 - Scraps
£1.10 - Breadcake
£1.30 - Small chip shop curry sauce
£2.40 - 2 cans - one D&B/other bitter Shandy
———-
£17.00

Bloody delicious and well worth the 560 mile round trip … . (Home-Liverpool-Wakefield-overnight-then back home this afternoon (darn sarf))

Did you bring your own salt and vinegar from home especially for the trip?

I bought new ones the previous night (cheeky Chinese as staying in a Premier Inn). And always have vinegar on my rice/knew I’d be needing it for this.

[sherbertdip]

Our local chippy is now running about £17 for large cod, large chips and large mushy peas, admittedly chips is enough for 2 decent single portions.

[vikingaero]

seyre1972 said:

So keeping the tradition alive of getting fish and chips and eating them in a new car … (something my parents did…

Having dropped my daughter back to Liverpool for her 3rd year, headed over the Pennines to Wakefield where I grew up (but I was born in Leeds

This morning did a 28k bike ride with my mate and his boys to feel like I’d earned it.

Wetherby Whaler Outwood.

£7.60 - Special / large Haddock
£2.60 - Chips
£0.00 - Scraps
£1.10 - Breadcake
£1.30 - Small chip shop curry sauce
£2.40 - 2 cans - one D&B/other bitter Shandy
———-
£17.00

Bloody delicious and well worth the 560 mile round trip … . (Home-Liverpool-Wakefield-overnight-then back home this afternoon (darn sarf))

You're like me. Whenever I drop one of The Vikingettes Ooop Nurf for University, I sometimes stay overnight, and pick up things on the way down from Facebook Marketplace or visit places.

I took the day off on Friday 14th, left Kent at 4:30am, and a nice traffic free run up to Manchester by 8;30am sticking to the speed limit. Moved her in to her new student flatshare, and took her to Sainsburys for a shop. £280 later the car was full again. Luckily I had a £100 gift voucher from work for being the dogs, so that took the sting out of it. Once we moved the food in, her flatmates started to arrive, so I said my goodbye.

The problem was that I would either hit Heathrow or Dartford by 4-5pm, so I drove 40 minutes to Snake Pass, got my Jetboil out and heated up a Wayfarers breakfast which I ate out of the pouch. Afterwards I walked up to the Over Exposed crash site and the stones. I was expecting a 2 hour round trip, but was far quicker on my tod. So I looked at the map and decided to head to Skegness across country. It was a nice ambling 3 hour trip and I went to The Trawlers Catch for a large cod, chips and a pot of gravy for £8.95. Much cheaper than Kent which would be around £14.

[FiF]

Blimey, that's a fair old round trip. I used to find moving in day exhausting, mainly because the amount of traffic around Sheffield uni meant parking a good distance and lots of carrying. By final year had bought a trolley.

[seyre1972]

FiF said:

Blimey, that's a fair old round trip. I used to find moving in day exhausting, mainly because the amount of traffic around Sheffield uni meant parking a good distance and lots of carrying. By final year had bought a trolley.

By far the most fun is playing “spot the 1st year Uni student” while driving up. Looking for a car packed to the rafters, with prodigal daughter/son squashed up against the rear seat window with all their worldly possessions packing in/around/on them

Biggest giveaway is the white clothes airer still in its shrink wrapping

[Alickadoo]

seyre1972 said:

By far the most fun is playing “spot the 1st year Uni student” while driving up. Looking for a car packed to the rafters, with prodigal daughter/son squashed up against the rear seat window with all their worldly possessions packing in/around/on them

Biggest giveaway is the white clothes airer still in its shrink wrapping

My fresher granddaughter went up last weekend.

Two car loads!

[FiF]

Alickadoo said:

seyre1972 said:

By far the most fun is playing “spot the 1st year Uni student” while driving up. Looking for a car packed to the rafters, with prodigal daughter/son squashed up against the rear seat window with all their worldly possessions packing in/around/on them

Biggest giveaway is the white clothes airer still in its shrink wrapping

My fresher granddaughter went up last weekend.

Two car loads!

LoL. When we took her as a fresher in 2008 , yep two cars.

When we eventually emptied her 1 bedroom flat in 2014, we had one of these full to bursting...



then went back for the rest of it the next day.

Though that day we didn't have F&C but a dirty KFC near j28 M1.

[seyre1972]

vikingaero said:

You're like me. Whenever I drop one of The Vikingettes Ooop Nurf for University, I sometimes stay overnight, and pick up things on the way down from Facebook Marketplace or visit places.

I took the day off on Friday 14th, left Kent at 4:30am, and a nice traffic free run up to Manchester by 8;30am sticking to the speed limit. Moved her in to her new student flatshare, and took her to Sainsburys for a shop.£280 later the car was full again.D Luckily I had a £100 gift voucher from work for being the dogs, so that took the sting out of it. Once we moved the food in, her flatmates started to arrive, so I said my goodbye.

The problem was that I would either hit Heathrow or Dartford by 4-5pm, so I drove 40 minutes to Snake Pass, got my Jetboil out and heated up a Wayfarers breakfast which I ate out of the pouch. Afterwards I walked up to the Over Exposed crash site and the stones. I was expecting a 2 hour round trip, but was far quicker on my tod. So I looked at the map and decided to head to Skegness across country. It was a nice ambling 3 hour trip and I went to The Trawlers Catch for a large cod, chips and a pot of gravy for £8.95. Much cheaper than Kent which would be around £14.

Bloody hell - is that a terms worth of food ? Think ours was £80 ish (no booze). However did already have 2 large bags for life already in the car full of cooking essentials (herbs/oil/household cleaning materials etc) so suppose that kept the cost down on the day.