Price of Fish & Chips - How Much?!?

[RayDonovan]

Our usual Chinese which is superb

Egg fried Rice
Salt & Pepper Chips
BoBo Chicken

£20.45 and easily enough for 2 people.

[theplayingmantis]

RayDonovan said:

Classic PH, £60 on a takeaway for one person FFS.

50 quid ive - made a boo boo!

mea culpa

if you don't have takeout regularly and aim to make it stretch for next days lunch thats not too bad, especially if your powerfully built...anyway thats my justification...

[FiF]

bumskins said:

FiF said:

Regular order for 3, S&S chicken £10.50, Char Siu pork, £10.50, stir fry 3 delicious, £11.90, Yung Chow F rice £9, Prawn crackers, free. Those prices are sit in, = 41.90, ie 13.98 pp, takeaway -20% = £11.17 pp.

For 3? Jesus Christ, could monster that by myself and still have room for S&P chips with a nice Singapore Vermicelli

No wonder nation is turning into a set of fat bar stewards. That lot for one is just gross.

[snuffy]

theplayingmantis said:

ok ok, i've made a mistake!!! apologies this was genuine.

i've just checked my barclaycard and it was 50.70 so not 60 quid...i must have misheard what the lady said and didn't check the cc receipt properly. also i had thai fishcakes as well which i forgot... as ive dug out the menu for prices and reminded me and it all checks out:

Vegetables Spring Rolls £5.50
Sesame Prawn on Toast £5.50
Thai Style Fish Cake £5.50
Steamed Prawn Dumplings £6.80
Deep Fried Salt and Chilli King Prawn £10.50
Egg Fried Rice £4.30
Chicken Chow Mein £5.80
Singapore Style Noodle (slightly hot) £6.80

One more waffer thin mint, Sir ?

Edited by snuffy on Wednesday 15th February 19:48

[J6542]

mr mac i said:

Bannock said:

mr mac i said:

Yeah, that's the one, £70, wow that must have been some order... we are usually under £30 for two adults and two kids, admittedly more if either of us actually have fish ??

Yeah, if I remember correctly, 4 fish suppers and you're already almost at 40 sheets, add mushy peas for everyone, a couple of single haggis to share (we're on holiday, don't get it down in exile in Berkshire, so what the hell!), some sides off the specials board and a few tins of drink and there you go. Soon adds up. Top scran, though. Will be back.

That makes sense! Still think almost everyone else is being ripped off when I see what is served elsewhere in comparison to Anstruther and a couple of others; usually small coastal towns or villages.
We're spoiled as Anstruther is about an hour's drive so whilst not a frequent haunt we can decide on the day we fancy it

Edited by mr mac i on Tuesday 14th February 14:00

The wee chippy is decent but it isn’t a patch on the famous one, The locals only prefer it because it doesn’t have the same queues.

[markiii]

central London today, Southbank at £12 for cod and chips seemed almost reasonable

[theplayingmantis]

snuffy said:

theplayingmantis said:

ok ok, i've made a mistake!!! apologies this was genuine.

i've just checked my barclaycard and it was 50.70 so not 60 quid...i must have misheard what the lady said and didn't check the cc receipt properly. also i had thai fishcakes as well which i forgot... as ive dug out the menu for prices and reminded me and it all checks out:

Vegetables Spring Rolls £5.50
Sesame Prawn on Toast £5.50
Thai Style Fish Cake £5.50
Steamed Prawn Dumplings £6.80
Deep Fried Salt and Chilli King Prawn £10.50
Egg Fried Rice £4.30
Chicken Chow Mein £5.80
Singapore Style Noodle (slightly hot) £6.80

One more waffer thin mint, Sir ?

Edited by snuffy on Wednesday 15th February 19:48

Tis a fair cop


I'm now on annual spring operation shred. No more ste and 25 miles cycling each weekday and 80 most weekends. 13.5st here I come...

[C70R]

theplayingmantis said:

ok ok, i've made a mistake!!! apologies this was genuine.

i've just checked my barclaycard and it was 50.70 so not 60 quid...i must have misheard what the lady said and didn't check the cc receipt properly. also i had thai fishcakes as well which i forgot... as ive dug out the menu for prices and reminded me and it all checks out:

Vegetables Spring Rolls £5.50
Sesame Prawn on Toast £5.50
Thai Style Fish Cake £5.50
Steamed Prawn Dumplings £6.80
Deep Fried Salt and Chilli King Prawn £10.50
Egg Fried Rice £4.30
Chicken Chow Mein £5.80
Singapore Style Noodle (slightly hot) £6.80

A ridiculous and unrepresentative amount of food for one person. I'd be full on 15 quid's worth of that.

[theplayingmantis]

C70R said:

theplayingmantis said:

ok ok, i've made a mistake!!! apologies this was genuine.

i've just checked my barclaycard and it was 50.70 so not 60 quid...i must have misheard what the lady said and didn't check the cc receipt properly. also i had thai fishcakes as well which i forgot... as ive dug out the menu for prices and reminded me and it all checks out:

Vegetables Spring Rolls £5.50
Sesame Prawn on Toast £5.50
Thai Style Fish Cake £5.50
Steamed Prawn Dumplings £6.80
Deep Fried Salt and Chilli King Prawn £10.50
Egg Fried Rice £4.30
Chicken Chow Mein £5.80
Singapore Style Noodle (slightly hot) £6.80

A ridiculous and unrepresentative amount of food for one person. I'd be full on 15 quid's worth of that.

a ridiculous and completely and utterly subjective viewpoint based on unknowns. You have zero idea of portion size, no idea of physical situation (how many calories i burn etc), neither i of yours, and have seemingly ignored the previous comments about said plans for such a volume.

I politely doubt you would be full despite me knowing nothing of your appetite/physicality, if you had eaten the top 3 listed items for example.

Eating all in one sitting would indeed be a completely pig out and difficult to achieve even one being very greedy/fat/calorie deficit due to physical exertions, and is certainly anomalous in the amount of food for one person.

But thanks for the comment, however its somewhat OT now regarding the price of F&C, moving on from what some see as being value in their takeaway pricing vs. what others do, happy to create a new thread about it, but its not so relevant here anymore.

[redrabbit29]

This thread has made me really hungry

[C70R]

theplayingmantis said:

C70R said:

theplayingmantis said:

ok ok, i've made a mistake!!! apologies this was genuine.

i've just checked my barclaycard and it was 50.70 so not 60 quid...i must have misheard what the lady said and didn't check the cc receipt properly. also i had thai fishcakes as well which i forgot... as ive dug out the menu for prices and reminded me and it all checks out:

Vegetables Spring Rolls £5.50
Sesame Prawn on Toast £5.50
Thai Style Fish Cake £5.50
Steamed Prawn Dumplings £6.80
Deep Fried Salt and Chilli King Prawn £10.50
Egg Fried Rice £4.30
Chicken Chow Mein £5.80
Singapore Style Noodle (slightly hot) £6.80

A ridiculous and unrepresentative amount of food for one person. I'd be full on 15 quid's worth of that.

a ridiculous and completely and utterly subjective viewpoint based on unknowns. You have zero idea of portion size, no idea of physical situation (how many calories i burn etc), neither i of yours, and have seemingly ignored the previous comments about said plans for such a volume.

I politely doubt you would be full despite me knowing nothing of your appetite/physicality, if you had eaten the top 3 listed items for example.

Eating all in one sitting would indeed be a completely pig out and difficult to achieve even one being very greedy/fat/calorie deficit due to physical exertions, and is certainly anomalous in the amount of food for one person.

But thanks for the comment, however its somewhat OT now regarding the price of F&C, moving on from what some see as being value in their takeaway pricing vs. what others do, happy to create a new thread about it, but its not so relevant here anymore.

Is that lot of waffle a way of completely backing down from your original point, or did I misread it?

[andyA700]

theplayingmantis said:

C70R said:

theplayingmantis said:

ok ok, i've made a mistake!!! apologies this was genuine.

i've just checked my barclaycard and it was 50.70 so not 60 quid...i must have misheard what the lady said and didn't check the cc receipt properly. also i had thai fishcakes as well which i forgot... as ive dug out the menu for prices and reminded me and it all checks out:

Vegetables Spring Rolls £5.50
Sesame Prawn on Toast £5.50
Thai Style Fish Cake £5.50
Steamed Prawn Dumplings £6.80
Deep Fried Salt and Chilli King Prawn £10.50
Egg Fried Rice £4.30
Chicken Chow Mein £5.80
Singapore Style Noodle (slightly hot) £6.80

A ridiculous and unrepresentative amount of food for one person. I'd be full on 15 quid's worth of that.

a ridiculous and completely and utterly subjective viewpoint based on unknowns. You have zero idea of portion size, no idea of physical situation (how many calories i burn etc), neither i of yours, and have seemingly ignored the previous comments about said plans for such a volume.

I politely doubt you would be full despite me knowing nothing of your appetite/physicality, if you had eaten the top 3 listed items for example.

Eating all in one sitting would indeed be a completely pig out and difficult to achieve even one being very greedy/fat/calorie deficit due to physical exertions, and is certainly anomalous in the amount of food for one person.

But thanks for the comment, however its somewhat OT now regarding the price of F&C, moving on from what some see as being value in their takeaway pricing vs. what others do, happy to create a new thread about it, but its not so relevant here anymore.

Well, I would be full up at £10.10 - chicken chow mein and egg fried rice.

[FiF]

C70R said:

theplayingmantis said:

C70R said:

theplayingmantis said:

ok ok, i've made a mistake!!! apologies this was genuine.

i've just checked my barclaycard and it was 50.70 so not 60 quid...i must have misheard what the lady said and didn't check the cc receipt properly. also i had thai fishcakes as well which i forgot... as ive dug out the menu for prices and reminded me and it all checks out:

Vegetables Spring Rolls £5.50
Sesame Prawn on Toast £5.50
Thai Style Fish Cake £5.50
Steamed Prawn Dumplings £6.80
Deep Fried Salt and Chilli King Prawn £10.50
Egg Fried Rice £4.30
Chicken Chow Mein £5.80
Singapore Style Noodle (slightly hot) £6.80

A ridiculous and unrepresentative amount of food for one person. I'd be full on 15 quid's worth of that.

a ridiculous and completely and utterly subjective viewpoint based on unknowns. You have zero idea of portion size, no idea of physical situation (how many calories i burn etc), neither i of yours, and have seemingly ignored the previous comments about said plans for such a volume.

I politely doubt you would be full despite me knowing nothing of your appetite/physicality, if you had eaten the top 3 listed items for example.

Eating all in one sitting would indeed be a completely pig out and difficult to achieve even one being very greedy/fat/calorie deficit due to physical exertions, and is certainly anomalous in the amount of food for one person.

But thanks for the comment, however its somewhat OT now regarding the price of F&C, moving on from what some see as being value in their takeaway pricing vs. what others do, happy to create a new thread about it, but its not so relevant here anymore.

Is that lot of waffle a way of completely backing down from your original point, or did I misread it?

[snuffy]

If say I went to a restaurant, on my own, and ordered 2 starters, 2 main courses and 2 desserts for just me, and that it came to £100; would the conclusion be said restaurant is charging £100 a head ?

[trickywoo]

snuffy said:

If say I went to a restaurant, on my own, and ordered 2 starters, 2 main courses and 2 desserts for just me, and that it came to £100; would the conclusion be said restaurant is charging £100 a head ?

From the POV of a number of people on here yes.

Its not a straightforward analysis though because I have found portions getting smaller. £20 used to be enough at my local Chinese takeaway for a good meal for two people, £25 now isn't enough, the equivalent quantity wise would be £30+ now.

[C70R]

andyA700 said:

theplayingmantis said:

C70R said:

theplayingmantis said:

ok ok, i've made a mistake!!! apologies this was genuine.

i've just checked my barclaycard and it was 50.70 so not 60 quid...i must have misheard what the lady said and didn't check the cc receipt properly. also i had thai fishcakes as well which i forgot... as ive dug out the menu for prices and reminded me and it all checks out:

Vegetables Spring Rolls £5.50
Sesame Prawn on Toast £5.50
Thai Style Fish Cake £5.50
Steamed Prawn Dumplings £6.80
Deep Fried Salt and Chilli King Prawn £10.50
Egg Fried Rice £4.30
Chicken Chow Mein £5.80
Singapore Style Noodle (slightly hot) £6.80

A ridiculous and unrepresentative amount of food for one person. I'd be full on 15 quid's worth of that.

a ridiculous and completely and utterly subjective viewpoint based on unknowns. You have zero idea of portion size, no idea of physical situation (how many calories i burn etc), neither i of yours, and have seemingly ignored the previous comments about said plans for such a volume.

I politely doubt you would be full despite me knowing nothing of your appetite/physicality, if you had eaten the top 3 listed items for example.

Eating all in one sitting would indeed be a completely pig out and difficult to achieve even one being very greedy/fat/calorie deficit due to physical exertions, and is certainly anomalous in the amount of food for one person.

But thanks for the comment, however its somewhat OT now regarding the price of F&C, moving on from what some see as being value in their takeaway pricing vs. what others do, happy to create a new thread about it, but its not so relevant here anymore.

Well, I would be full up at £10.10 - chicken chow mein and egg fried rice.

This. Spring rolls, fishcakes and chow mein and I would be stuffed for ~£15.

Defending spending £50 on a takeaway for one feels like an odd hill to die on.

[FiF]

Trying to be fair, it's a multi faceted situation, local market prices which clearly do vary according to location and region, portion sizes combined with the appetite of the individuals. Often said I'm staggered at the quantity some people consume, and I'm certainly no skinny minnie living off a letttuce leaf and a slice of chicken.

But it does seem a particularly odd route to follow to try to justify the accusation that others are consuming pets prepared in unhygienic conditions!

Having said that with environmental health professionals in the family it is true that some operators could be seen to be challenging in terms of food prep and storage behaviour. You can get dodgy practices in a 5 star hotel, just like a burger van.

[theplayingmantis]

C70R said:

This. Spring rolls, fishcakes and chow mein and I would be stuffed for ~£15.

Defending spending £50 on a takeaway for one feels like an odd hill to die on.

ive made my bed.

although as i have said both originally and numerous times, it was not just for on meal, and vis a vis portion sizes...but as ever its PH so lets not facts get in the way of a good debate.

the general point was my lack of understanding of people eating bargain bucket takeaways at a time when portions are falling costs are going up 30% at these places yet still get a filling and or delicious feed for very samll amounts of money. my experiences are mutually exclusive of such places, a questioning how they keep costs down and the quality of what's being served up, but i'm obviously too fussy. and greedy.

[dapprman]

redrabbit29 said:

This thread has made me really hungry

Well, between this thread and the video I posted earlier i ended up going out and getting haddock and chips yesterday. £10. Haddock and cod (small) were £7.40 and small chips was suspiciously £2.60.

[Ridealong]

theplayingmantis said:

quarter duck is 12 quid half is 23 (with pancakes)!! this is provinces outside london, i would question the food standards of anything less than that.

The duck is a portion of "meat" and is definitely smaller than a quarter of duck, the same with the belly pork and char siu, the portion is about a 5th/6th of the piece of meat that you would buy that is displayed in the window. Aromatic duck (with pancakes, spring onions, cucumber, hoisin or plum sauce) is always more expansive than a Cantonese roast duck (£17 half, £32 whole) around Chinatown or Queensway.

You can have a proper portion/piece of belly pork (£11) or char siu (£12) at home for 4 people, just need to go out and buy the cooked meat (asked for it not to be cut/chopped as you should get a bigger portion). Get home, get the your rice on, may be boil some "choi"(Chinese leaf or pak choi) with a bit of soy sauce that comes with your "meat" or all add oyster sauce, cut up the meat in the size/portion you want all for under £15.