Can someone translate - 1950's English speak

[Mr_B]

In the film Wish You Were Here, can someone translate the chip shop order. 2 sixes, two cod and fours etc

1.43 in to this clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKWDr-YQCfc&in...

[spikeyhead]

a six was six penny's worth of chips, which is why the total was a shilling.

[davhill]

IIRC, the numbers refer to chips by the penny worth. It would, in full, have been expressed, "Six penn'orth" and whatever.

[tumble dryer]

This is a runner...

[thebraketester]

"Open or closed"..... its years since I heard that expression. :-)

[Mr_B]

For some reason I was thinking numbered menu. Thanks

[davhill]

It's from a long gone period of time when takeaways hadn't even been thought of and the food was inexpensive. Hence the expression, 'As cheap as chips'.

[CountZero23]

Ah 'crispy bits', used to buy those for 10p in coppers from the local chippy when I were a lad!

[fttm]

davhill said:

It's from a long gone period of time when takeaways hadn't even been thought of and the food was inexpensive. Hence the expression, 'As cheap as chips'.

WTF is a chippy if not a takeaway ?

[davhill]

fttm said:

WTF is a chippy if not a takeaway ?

In earlier days, only Chinese short order places were called takeaways. A chip shop was a chippy or chip oil and was never called a takeaway.

[john2443]

CountZero23 said:

Ah 'crispy bits', used to buy those for 10p in coppers from the local chippy when I were a lad!

Buy!? Scraps were free when I were a lad - seeing they were going to be binned anyway they may as well give them away. Fish and chips with scraps - 9p (I must be older than you!)

[227bhp]

Scraps are still free now....

[Vizsla]

john2443 said:

CountZero23 said:

Ah 'crispy bits', used to buy those for 10p in coppers from the local chippy when I were a lad!

Buy!? Scraps were free when I were a lad - seeing they were going to be binned anyway they may as well give them away. Fish and chips with scraps - 9p (I must be older than you!)

Scraps? We used to dream about eating scraps, we were so poor, our dad etc etc

[Vaud]

227bhp said:

Scraps are still free now....

Yup. Best done in dripping, like the rest of the fish and chips.

[Baryonyx]

Paying for scraps? Give over.

[Thankyou4calling]

I went to a chippy in Islington, it had chandeliers and staff in pinafores but was still basically a chippy.

2 cod and chips, bread and butter, pot of tea.

£52!!!!!!!

It was a step up from the norm but even at that price plenty of takers.

I'd be interested to know regional variances in price for a normal cod and chips.

I use a chippy near Bedford. Standard chips are £1.90 and cod is £3.70. £5.60.

Always get annoyed when they keep the salt and vinegar behind the counter and you get in some ort of convoluted wrestling match over it as they never give me enough.

Love fish n chips :-)

[Vaud]

£5.50 I think in our local including mushy peas. Haddock. Done in dripping.

Very, very nice.

[227bhp]

Vaud said:

227bhp said:

Scraps are still free now....

Yup. Best done in dripping, like the rest of the fish and chips.

They can't be any other, they're the bits that fell off!

[vixen1700]

thebraketester said:

"Open or closed"..... its years since I heard that expression. :-)

I always ask for my chips to be 'open' from a chip shop.

Old habit to break.

[spikeyhead]

Haddock and chips last night in Leicester, £5.70 for a decent sized fish and enough chips to feed two.