Price of Fish & Chips - How Much?!?
Discussion
FiF said:
Anyway back to arguing about portion sizes, tonight we, as in three of us, had the following order
Char Siu pork in soya sauce.
Sweet and Sour chicken
Yung Chow Rice
Prawn crackers (free)
£21.00
Dog rather disappointed as there were leftovers but he was not allowed anything.
Fed all 3 well, bit full really, in fact all agreed that it would easily have fed 4, and that's not to be interpreted as could have stretched to 4.
If anyone reckons they could have eaten that lot single handed and had some starters / side orders they need to give their head a wobble.
2 main dishes and a portion of rice? Were the mains giant size portions?!Char Siu pork in soya sauce.
Sweet and Sour chicken
Yung Chow Rice
Prawn crackers (free)
£21.00
Dog rather disappointed as there were leftovers but he was not allowed anything.
Fed all 3 well, bit full really, in fact all agreed that it would easily have fed 4, and that's not to be interpreted as could have stretched to 4.
If anyone reckons they could have eaten that lot single handed and had some starters / side orders they need to give their head a wobble.
Hard to say without seeing it, but it's a two person meal here. A quarter portion per person isn't much.
andyA700 said:
FiF said:
Anyway back to arguing about portion sizes, tonight we, as in three of us, had the following order
Char Siu pork in soya sauce.
Sweet and Sour chicken
Yung Chow Rice
Prawn crackers (free)
£21.00
Dog rather disappointed as there were leftovers but he was not allowed anything.
Fed all 3 well, bit full really, in fact all agreed that it would easily have fed 4, and that's not to be interpreted as could have stretched to 4.
If anyone reckons they could have eaten that lot single handed and had some starters / side orders they need to give their head a wobble.
Excellent value. To be fair, anyone who could polish that lot off on their own, would be wobbling not just their head, but every other part of their obese body.Char Siu pork in soya sauce.
Sweet and Sour chicken
Yung Chow Rice
Prawn crackers (free)
£21.00
Dog rather disappointed as there were leftovers but he was not allowed anything.
Fed all 3 well, bit full really, in fact all agreed that it would easily have fed 4, and that's not to be interpreted as could have stretched to 4.
If anyone reckons they could have eaten that lot single handed and had some starters / side orders they need to give their head a wobble.
A decent portion of fish and chips, nutritional content aside, is actually not terrible. Probably around half your daily calorie intake, which is manageable depending on other factors. But things like kebabs and pizzas can easily mount up to much beyond this. Heck, even a supermarket frozen pizza can easily amount to almost a day's worth of calories.
Obviously everyone is free to eat exactly what they want, and nothing I say should have any influence on them. But I wonder if awareness of what they are eating would change that?
number2 said:
2 main dishes and a portion of rice? Were the mains giant size portions?!
Hard to say without seeing it, but it's a two person meal here. A quarter portion per person isn't much.
It's all relative really. Which is partly the point. What one person regards as a meal another regards as a snack. At various times I'm just amazed what quantities people eat, threads on here, seeing it in person, travelling.Hard to say without seeing it, but it's a two person meal here. A quarter portion per person isn't much.
Recall there was a restaurant critic in the Sheffield Star years back who bemoaned that too many in that city judged the quality of a place by the extent to which their belt had to be loosened due to vast portion sizes to the detriment of places that served better food.
Couldn't fault what we had yesterday in quality. The char siu was excellent, far better than the version I do at home.
C70R said:
Obviously everyone is free to eat exactly what they want, and nothing I say should have any influence on them. But I wonder if awareness of what they are eating would change that?
Depends on their job surely? I did a manual job once, all the new recruits, we all started losing weight, figured out we burned about a 1000 extra calories a day. Had to increase what I ate significantly. Then got an office job, eating the same amounts, the pounds piled on and I had to readjust my portion size and snacking significantly. I remember on one of my first office team lunches, my colleagues where shocked at the amount I piled on my tray. Fish, chips, peas, battered sausage, salad, buttered roll, dessert. I couldn’t eat like for long sat at a desk all day.
wyson said:
Depends on their job surely? I did a manual job once, all the new recruits, we all started losing weight, figured out we burned about a 1000 extra calories a day. Had to increase what I ate significantly. Then got an office job, eating the same amounts, the pounds piled on and I had to readjust my portion size and snacking significantly.
I remember on one of my first office team lunches, my colleagues where shocked at the amount I piled on my tray. Fish, chips, peas, battered sausage, salad, buttered roll, dessert. I couldn’t eat like for long sat at a desk all day.
No.I remember on one of my first office team lunches, my colleagues where shocked at the amount I piled on my tray. Fish, chips, peas, battered sausage, salad, buttered roll, dessert. I couldn’t eat like for long sat at a desk all day.
If you do a physical job it doesn"t mean that eating piles of crap is a good idea.
Evoluzione said:
wyson said:
Depends on their job surely? I did a manual job once, all the new recruits, we all started losing weight, figured out we burned about a 1000 extra calories a day. Had to increase what I ate significantly. Then got an office job, eating the same amounts, the pounds piled on and I had to readjust my portion size and snacking significantly.
I remember on one of my first office team lunches, my colleagues where shocked at the amount I piled on my tray. Fish, chips, peas, battered sausage, salad, buttered roll, dessert. I couldn’t eat like for long sat at a desk all day.
No.I remember on one of my first office team lunches, my colleagues where shocked at the amount I piled on my tray. Fish, chips, peas, battered sausage, salad, buttered roll, dessert. I couldn’t eat like for long sat at a desk all day.
If you do a physical job it doesn"t mean that eating piles of crap is a good idea.
Piling loads of processed food and saturated fat into your body is a bad idea no matter how active you are.
This is a fish and chips thread? Also don't know what you are expecting to see on a dirty takeaway thread.
Definitely reading alot into stuff and being holier than thou. I guess that is to be expected on piston heads, just makes it unpleasant.
Definitely reading alot into stuff and being holier than thou. I guess that is to be expected on piston heads, just makes it unpleasant.
Edited by wyson on Saturday 25th February 11:14
Youtube is swamped with so-called 'food review' channels - same guff: basically junk food reviews a lot of the time (easy money if you get a bit of ad revenue in) - but you can glean from them what you pay to eat out nowadays.
It seems as though the average bill for several items now runs beyond the £20 mark.
A basic no-frills chicken burger and chips meal would have cost between 2 and 4 pounds a few years ago, with the more 'gourmet' versions in the 5-7 pound bracket.
Now the poverty spec burgers are in that range and 'gourmet' beyond a tenner.
Throw in some wings or something, and additional bits, and there you have it - beyond £20.
I remember curries were 3 or 4 quid about 20 years ago, and they stayed fairly stable around the £6 mark for many years until recently.
Same with fish and chips. You could get them for about £7 up until recently (and even that was evidence of madness in recent years).
As I recall in 2015 or so, you could get a jumbo fish and chips for a tenner at one place and fish and chips were about a fiver.
Recently bought two fish butties (which had a total of four fillets inside) for I think 5 or 6 quid from one place near me.
You're looking at about £25-£30 for three standard fish suppers with any sauces presently.
Dire times.
It seems as though the average bill for several items now runs beyond the £20 mark.
A basic no-frills chicken burger and chips meal would have cost between 2 and 4 pounds a few years ago, with the more 'gourmet' versions in the 5-7 pound bracket.
Now the poverty spec burgers are in that range and 'gourmet' beyond a tenner.
Throw in some wings or something, and additional bits, and there you have it - beyond £20.
I remember curries were 3 or 4 quid about 20 years ago, and they stayed fairly stable around the £6 mark for many years until recently.
Same with fish and chips. You could get them for about £7 up until recently (and even that was evidence of madness in recent years).
As I recall in 2015 or so, you could get a jumbo fish and chips for a tenner at one place and fish and chips were about a fiver.
Recently bought two fish butties (which had a total of four fillets inside) for I think 5 or 6 quid from one place near me.
You're looking at about £25-£30 for three standard fish suppers with any sauces presently.
Dire times.
Edited by captain.scarlet on Saturday 25th February 11:58
Depends where you live and how much you eat.
Small fish and chips near me is £6 and the chips can feed two.
A full sized curry dish with rice a naan and popadoms from the local Indian is around £13.
A Big Mac or Big Tasty meal is £5-7.
A Five Guys meal is around £18-20.
There's no end of places knocking out gourmet burgers at £10-15 before you add any sides.
There's plenty of choice where I am.
Small fish and chips near me is £6 and the chips can feed two.
A full sized curry dish with rice a naan and popadoms from the local Indian is around £13.
A Big Mac or Big Tasty meal is £5-7.
A Five Guys meal is around £18-20.
There's no end of places knocking out gourmet burgers at £10-15 before you add any sides.
There's plenty of choice where I am.
wyson said:
This is a fish and chips thread? Also don't know what you are expecting to see on a dirty takeaway thread.
Definitely reading alot into stuff and being holier than thou. I guess that is to be expected on piston heads, just makes it unpleasant.
Actually what makes it unpleasant is people accusing others of eating pets because their quoted prices don't conform with some random poster's expectations.Definitely reading alot into stuff and being holier than thou. I guess that is to be expected on piston heads, just makes it unpleasant.
Edited by wyson on Saturday 25th February 11:14
I don't eat at super cheap places as they likely keeping margins by not disposing of the waste oil correctly, underpaying migrant staff etc..
The days of all you can eat being a thing seem to be over, there was one in Croydon that was £4 in the day a fiver in the evening.
Went a a bottomless brunch a while back but it was just the prosecco that was unlimited, the food portions were measly so will never try that again.
captain.scarlet said:
A basic no-frills chicken burger and chips meal would have cost between 2 and 4 pounds a few years ago, with the more 'gourmet' versions in the 5-7 pound bracket.
Now the poverty spec burgers are in that range and 'gourmet' beyond a tenner.
Throw in some wings or something, and additional bits, and there you have it - beyond £20.
Wasn't that long ago that George Osborne was being mocked in the media for being out of touch with the public spending £7 on a takeaway gourmet burger!Now the poverty spec burgers are in that range and 'gourmet' beyond a tenner.
Throw in some wings or something, and additional bits, and there you have it - beyond £20.
The days of all you can eat being a thing seem to be over, there was one in Croydon that was £4 in the day a fiver in the evening.
Went a a bottomless brunch a while back but it was just the prosecco that was unlimited, the food portions were measly so will never try that again.
untakenname said:
I don't eat at super cheap places as they likely keeping margins by not disposing of the waste oil correctly, underpaying migrant staff etc..
The days of all you can eat being a thing seem to be over, there was one in Croydon that was £4 in the day a fiver in the evening.
Went a a bottomless brunch a while back but it was just the prosecco that was unlimited, the food portions were measly so will never try that again.
As annoying as it is, could it just be relative to the day and age we live in and something we'll eventually get used to in the absence of any kind of price crash?captain.scarlet said:
A basic no-frills chicken burger and chips meal would have cost between 2 and 4 pounds a few years ago, with the more 'gourmet' versions in the 5-7 pound bracket.
Now the poverty spec burgers are in that range and 'gourmet' beyond a tenner.
Throw in some wings or something, and additional bits, and there you have it - beyond £20.
Wasn't that long ago that George Osborne was being mocked in the media for being out of touch with the public spending £7 on a takeaway gourmet burger!Now the poverty spec burgers are in that range and 'gourmet' beyond a tenner.
Throw in some wings or something, and additional bits, and there you have it - beyond £20.
The days of all you can eat being a thing seem to be over, there was one in Croydon that was £4 in the day a fiver in the evening.
Went a a bottomless brunch a while back but it was just the prosecco that was unlimited, the food portions were measly so will never try that again.
I.e. we could look back later on in the decade and say burger meals were a paltry £6 back in 2022/23;etc.
On the flip side, prices were creeping up over time and that's when we began to see the emergence, dominance and popularity of 'bossman' type takeaways and budget stores - they both filled a gap and helped stabilise escalating costs, so there may very well be a new generation that comes to do the same, undercutting the old faces and names in food and retail and profiting by giving people what they want again.
In chippy speak I doubt there'll be anyone able to undercut everyone else with low prices and high volume sales. It's certainly never been a race to the bottom type of food in my experience.
Will it mean a return to 4 Cadbury chocolates for a pound? Possibly - assuming the weight is shrunk down to less than 30g per bar!
Gluggy said:
Forgot to post this one from a week or so ago.
A "mini fish" special at lunchtime for the grand total of £4 including the pot of curry sauce, was more than enough to keep me going until well into the evening and Mrs G would have been done for the rest of the day.
Conidering £4 for that in 2023 not bad value even though the fish is not much bigger than the chips.A "mini fish" special at lunchtime for the grand total of £4 including the pot of curry sauce, was more than enough to keep me going until well into the evening and Mrs G would have been done for the rest of the day.
Have to say the 1980s were the heyday of fish and chips, especially if you visited the seaside. It was caught that morning and then fried in beef dripping.
Hence why us 50/60 year olds are all on blood pressure pills just to get our next chippie meal. that and the 20 bennies of course ...
Gluggy said:
Forgot to post this one from a week or so ago.
A "mini fish" special at lunchtime for the grand total of £4 including the pot of curry sauce, was more than enough to keep me going until well into the evening and Mrs G would have been done for the rest of the day.
I passed a chippie in Ringwood this morning, and it had an A4 sheet in the window advertising 'Lunchtime Specials' which included "cod and chips £5.80". When I saw it I was imagining a full size portion of cod and a decent portion of chips, but now I've seen your photo I'm imagining the £5.80 cod'n'chips would look more like your example.A "mini fish" special at lunchtime for the grand total of £4 including the pot of curry sauce, was more than enough to keep me going until well into the evening and Mrs G would have been done for the rest of the day.
I live in Bournemouth and lots of the chippies nearer the sea front charge 'Tourist Tax' prices, as do any with decent parking and lots of passing trade. I found one more off the beaten track when we moved here and it was worth driving past four other chippies to go there, both for quality and value. Then they started doing Just Eat, etc, and the service and quality went downhill and the prices went up. The chippie we use now is the closest one to home, takes cash only, has generous portions and good prices and is next to a Chinese, and an Indian, and a Kebab/Burger/pizza outlet so it's convenient if my wife wants chips but I want something different. Their prices have gone up a fair bit over the past year but despite price rises they're still good value compared to many local chip shops and the quality hasn't changed for the worse either.
Gluggy said:
Forgot to post this one from a week or so ago.
A "mini fish" special at lunchtime for the grand total of £4 including the pot of curry sauce, was more than enough to keep me going until well into the evening and Mrs G would have been done for the rest of the day.
That looks foul. Something about a Bargepole comes to mind.A "mini fish" special at lunchtime for the grand total of £4 including the pot of curry sauce, was more than enough to keep me going until well into the evening and Mrs G would have been done for the rest of the day.
Evoluzione said:
Gluggy said:
That looks foul. Something about a Bargepole comes to mind.Gluggy said:
Forgot to post this one from a week or so ago.
A "mini fish" special at lunchtime for the grand total of £4 including the pot of curry sauce, was more than enough to keep me going until well into the evening and Mrs G would have been done for the rest of the day.
I’d pay £2.50 for that but at £4 they are driving a Bentley and putting two kids through private school.A "mini fish" special at lunchtime for the grand total of £4 including the pot of curry sauce, was more than enough to keep me going until well into the evening and Mrs G would have been done for the rest of the day.
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