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Title: fast food
Post by: pscocoa on 19 February 2014, 14:52:46
with kitchen appliances out of action for a day or so I was requested to go get fish and chips last night.

WTF - £4.60 for a piece of haddock, £2.40 for chips - what is going on?
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: anddyy88 on 19 February 2014, 15:24:51
about the same as what ours charges.

i wont order a fish from ours ever again, had 3 from there on seperate days and all full of bones >:(
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Post by: 05omegav6 on 19 February 2014, 15:25:59
Fish sounds about right for price, but chips are nearly doulble what ours charge :o
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: pscocoa on 19 February 2014, 15:49:00
I think it used to be 2 shillings including a soft drink.

I would like to eat f and c strolling the promenade at Blackpool I must admit - or has that changed as well?
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Post by: Stemo on 19 February 2014, 16:24:01
When I were a lad, I could get fish and chips for a tanner. :y
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Post by: GastronomicKleptomaniac on 19 February 2014, 16:30:13
Christ on a bike, there are some perks to living up north, my local takeaway is £4 for fish and chips, and its lush.
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: anddyy88 on 19 February 2014, 16:37:55
I think it used to be 2 shillings including a soft drink.

I would like to eat f and c strolling the promenade at Blackpool I must admit - or has that changed as well?

you still can, but you wont be paying anywhere near £4.60 for fish, last time i looked it was somet like £8 for fish and chip :o
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Post by: Elite Pete on 19 February 2014, 16:49:26
It's grim down south ;D ;D
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Post by: Gaffers on 19 February 2014, 17:08:44
I have yet to find better than the Big Fry in North Camp and just over a fiver for small fish and chips :y
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Post by: GastronomicKleptomaniac on 19 February 2014, 17:12:19
I have yet to find better than the Big Fry in North Camp and just over a fiver for small fish and chips :y

We need an OOF Good Grub Guide. Online, I'm not suggesting we publish a softback alternative to the Michelin guide...
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: pscocoa on 19 February 2014, 17:29:29
Not sure about this - we will probably get treated to a review of the Wakefield Tripe House before we know where we are. You might have to price band it to sort the wheat from the chaff.
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: GastronomicKleptomaniac on 19 February 2014, 17:32:39
Not sure about this - we will probably get treated to a review of the Wakefield Tripe House before we know where we are. You might have to price band it to sort the wheat from the chaff.

I am so disappointed that's not real. *proud bloody northerner*
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: Stemo on 19 February 2014, 17:42:27
Not sure about this - we will probably get treated to a review of the Wakefield Tripe House before we know where we are. You might have to price band it to sort the wheat from the chaff.
The weatherby whaler is a fine establishment for fish and chips in Wakefield. You'd be hard pushed to eat the 'whaler' as well, it's bleeding massive. I think that's about £8, just for the fish. I shall look on Friday when I go.

And don't call me junior  :P
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: chrisgixer on 19 February 2014, 17:58:52
Sounds like Sandhurst is paying through the nose for everything to me, rob the rich to feed "the poor plebs in the low lands" ::) ;D
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Post by: Entwood on 19 February 2014, 18:00:34
Sounds like Sandhurst is paying through the nose for everything to me, rob the rich to feed "the poor plebs in the low lands" ::) ;D

All them "orrficooor" cadets can afford it ... "Daddy will pay " ..  :)
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: Vamps on 19 February 2014, 18:19:21
When I were a lad, I could get fish and chips for a tanner. :y

And that included Scrap's too.................. :y :y :y
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Post by: Stemo on 19 February 2014, 18:28:21
When I were a lad, I could get fish and chips for a tanner. :y

And that included Scrap's too.................. :y :y :y
That's right, Mike. The fourpenny fish was only a tail though, skin on.
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: omegod on 19 February 2014, 18:57:20
About £5.50 from Captain cod near me, fish is that big they have to snap it in two to get in the container :y
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: TheBoy on 19 February 2014, 19:04:45
We don't have fish and chips often, as the 3 chippies here in Brakkers are now all shite.  I seem to recall its around £8 for cod, pie and a large chips (we share the chips).

If they were any good, I might accept that as value for money, but they are rank, we only have in emergencies - like last Friday when we couldn't get a table or a takeaway from anywhere else on our way back to Brakkers...  ...something to do with the date
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Post by: 05omegav6 on 19 February 2014, 20:10:03
Nothing beats a nice romantic KFC ;D
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Post by: TheBoy on 19 February 2014, 20:14:07
Nothing beats a nice romantic KFC ;D
No KFCs around here...  ...probably just as well, given the effect they have on me
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Post by: Stemo on 19 February 2014, 20:25:00
Nothing beats a nice romantic KFC ;D
No KFCs around here...  ...probably just as well, given the effect they have on me
No KFC's? One horse town.
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Post by: redelitev6 on 19 February 2014, 20:38:51
 :) mmm , KFC , food of the gods   :y
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Post by: 05omegav6 on 19 February 2014, 20:45:15
Nothing beats a nice romantic KFC ;D
No KFCs around here...  ...probably just as well, given the effect they have on me
No KFC's? One horse town.
Not any more :'( KFC had to close after they cooked the last one ;D
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: chrisgixer on 19 February 2014, 20:51:30
Now, of course the real mark of a decent chippy, do they do spam fritters? :)
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: Stemo on 19 February 2014, 20:57:16
Now, of course the real mark of a decent chippy, do they do spam fritters? :)

mmmmmmm.....I could just eat a spam fritter...or six.....
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 19 February 2014, 23:13:16
Maybe I'm out of touch.

I thought that cod and chips was about £1.50 these days. :'(

Why so expensive? Fish and chips is supposed to be cheap nutritious peasant food. :-\ :-\ :-\
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 19 February 2014, 23:17:01
We don't have fish and chips often, as the 3 chippies here in Brakkers are now all shite.  I seem to recall its around £8 for cod, pie and a large chips (we share the chips).

If they were any good, I might accept that as value for money, but they are rank, we only have in emergencies - like last Friday when we couldn't get a table or a takeaway from anywhere else on our way back to Brakkers...  ...something to do with the date


£8 from the 'chippie'.........not what I would call value for money. :( ;D
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: Seth on 19 February 2014, 23:20:14
Large fish and large chips is £6 nearby - and I mean large 8)
Enough for tha two of us ... plus the hoond gets some of the fish! :y

Also spud fritters for 20p each and a bag of batter scraps for free! ;D

Title: Re: fast food
Post by: chrisgixer on 19 February 2014, 23:28:49
Maybe I'm out of touch.

I thought that cod and chips was about £1.50 these days. :'(

Why so expensive? Fish and chips is supposed to be cheap nutritious peasant food. :-\ :-\ :-\

Two small cod, 1 small chips, spam fritter, spring roll. £11 near us.

And the chips are in a box, which means they aren't steamed and hold some crispness by the time they are home. Ordering to eat now get wrapped in paper. :y
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: pscocoa on 19 February 2014, 23:37:41
Maybe I'm out of touch.

I thought that cod and chips was about £1.50 these days. :'(

Why so expensive? Fish and chips is supposed to be cheap nutritious peasant food. :-\ :-\ :-\

Two small cod, 1 small chips, spam fritter, spring roll. £11 near us.

And the chips are in a box, which means they aren't steamed and hold some crispness by the time they are home. Ordering to eat now get wrapped in paper. :y

Do you order on the internet? ::)
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: chrisgixer on 19 February 2014, 23:41:13
Maybe I'm out of touch.

I thought that cod and chips was about £1.50 these days. :'(

Why so expensive? Fish and chips is supposed to be cheap nutritious peasant food. :-\ :-\ :-\

Two small cod, 1 small chips, spam fritter, spring roll. £11 near us.

And the chips are in a box, which means they aren't steamed and hold some crispness by the time they are home. Ordering to eat now get wrapped in paper. :y

Do you order on the internet? ::)
Yoghurt pots door to door. Vm still down btw ;D
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: GastronomicKleptomaniac on 20 February 2014, 10:20:54
Maybe I'm out of touch.

I thought that cod and chips was about £1.50 these days. :'(

Why so expensive? Fish and chips is supposed to be cheap nutritious peasant food. :-\ :-\ :-\

You can still get fishcakes and fish patties for a quid or two, but the price of fish has gone through the roof.
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: Stemo on 21 February 2014, 18:58:25
Not sure about this - we will probably get treated to a review of the Wakefield Tripe House before we know where we are. You might have to price band it to sort the wheat from the chaff.
The weatherby whaler is a fine establishment for fish and chips in Wakefield. You'd be hard pushed to eat the 'whaler' as well, it's bleeding massive. I think that's about £8, just for the fish. I shall look on Friday when I go.

And don't call me junior  :P
£7.10, not too bad at all.
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: Bigron on 21 February 2014, 20:00:55
Morrison's In-Store cafeteria, fish, chips and peas (mushy or plain) for £4.55 - but not served after 4 PM.
Sometimes they have a drink included, and on rare occasions a half-price promotion!

Ron.
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: powerslinky on 21 February 2014, 21:02:32
Best I ever had  was in Aberdeen  . . .  long way from here  ;D ;D   

Scarborough was good as well ;)

I find the more Northerly the better . .   don't know what they fry them in    but it ain't the yuccy oil they use down here in the south :( :( :(
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: 05omegav6 on 21 February 2014, 21:38:43
The chippy at Potter Heigham Bridge is one of the best I have been to... proper chips. On the face of it a total shithole, the trout behind the counter leaves nothing to be desired, at all. Made the mistake once of trying to have a conversation with her ::)
Better off season than on, and never eat in the restaurant as they'll serve you oven fish and chips ;D

Best fish and chips was either from the chippy just south of the river in Brora, or from the chippy in Cobo on Guernsey  8)
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: omegod on 22 February 2014, 20:57:36
Best I ever had  was in Aberdeen  . . .  long way from here  ;D ;D   

Scarborough was good as well ;)


I find the more Northerly the better . .   don't know what they fry them in    but it ain't the yuccy oil they use down here in the south :( :( :(

Had a cracking Whale and chips on the front in" Winking Willy's" last summer, possibly the best fish I have ever tasted :y
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: GastronomicKleptomaniac on 22 February 2014, 21:32:41
Best I ever had  was in Aberdeen  . . .  long way from here  ;D ;D   

Scarborough was good as well ;)


I find the more Northerly the better . .   don't know what they fry them in    but it ain't the yuccy oil they use down here in the south :( :( :(

Had a cracking Whale and chips on the front in" Winking Willy's" last summer, possibly the best fish I have ever tasted :y

I was going to recommend the same, God that takes me back...

Hexham Fish Bar is fantastic, if anyone's on their way to see our Northumbrian correspondent...
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: Paddy Flannery on 22 February 2014, 21:39:30
Best fish suppers I've had we're in Oban and Wells Next The Sea. Expensive but worth it.
Sadly, fish n chips is a treat nowadays.
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: pscocoa on 23 February 2014, 00:05:07
Best I ever had  was in Aberdeen  . . .  long way from here  ;D ;D   

Scarborough was good as well ;)

I find the more Northerly the better . .   don't know what they fry them in    but it ain't the yuccy oil they use down here in the south :( :( :(

Yes I remember Scarborough well for f & c but 1962 to 1964. Not been since!!
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: omega3000 on 23 February 2014, 16:34:25
Fish & chips around here are rank  :( Best fish & chips were from Scarborough  :) But onion bhajis i had yesterday were more'ish  :P
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Post by: 05omegav6 on 23 February 2014, 16:41:59
Fish & chips around here are rank  :( Best fish & chips were from Scarborough  :) But onion bhajis i had yesterday were more'ish  :P
How many more did you have... ;D
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: omega3000 on 23 February 2014, 16:44:32
Fish & chips around here are rank  :( Best fish & chips were from Scarborough  :) But onion bhajis i had yesterday were more'ish  :P
How many more did you have... ;D

Quite a few  :-[ Just slip down like butter  :-X
Title: Re: fast food
Post by: darrenfos on 23 February 2014, 16:47:25
You lot stay away from my pond, get people all the time say gunna eat them. That would prob be the most expensive fish and chips of your life, £250/koi £1.50 for ya chips.
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Post by: GastronomicKleptomaniac on 23 February 2014, 17:27:21
Fish & chips around here are rank  :( Best fish & chips were from Scarborough  :) But onion bhajis i had yesterday were more'ish  :P
How many more did you have... ;D

Quite a few  :-[ Just slip down like butter  :-X

I keep vowing to make my own, since one of my favourite restaurants closed down...