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Apparently chippies are taking a four way hit - virtually the whole menu - and about a third could close.
Cod and haddock problems, flour for the batter, oils to cook in, potatoes.

I only go four or five times a year but will miss the local if it goes.

It used to be a regular cheap family meal on Friday evenings (for us Catholics) when I was younger, but it is becoming a luxury at today's prices. £8 or so a go!

Burger or chicken and plastic chips at about £4 or less, wins out. F 'n C's at about at £7 or more cannot compete. Sad.

I agree

In early December 2021, I went with my grand=daughter. There were at least 30 customers ina queue waiting outside the shop.
Went last week on my own and there were only two people in the shop.
The prices has gone up so I won't be going again. It has been going a long time, probably more than 40 years,

We can get an .O.A.P portion here for £4 and it's huge ,we share one.

The last time we had fish and chips was when we were back in England, about 10 years ago.

Cost us over ten quid then

I only have fish and chips at the seaside

MM I don't have fish and chips and I live at the sea side

Workingman wrote:It used to be a regular cheap family meal on Friday evenings (for us Catholics) when I was younger, but it is becoming a luxury at today's prices. £8 or so a go!

Burger or chicken and plastic chips at about £4 or less, wins out. F 'n C's at about at £7 or more cannot compete. Sad.

I was in Whitby last week. In Trencher's small fish and chips were £12.50, regular £15.50 and large £17.50.
That said, the regular was big enough for me. Locally you'd be looking at £8-9. Not as good quality however.
Whitby prices are above the norm but we have noticed how much they have gone up.
I would be a shame if we lost the local chippie. Times change though.

We're losing one of the three chippies in town in August; Mr. Lee is moving away and it is unclear if he's selling the business as a going concern. I've seen it said that the premises has been a chippie for nigh on 100 years, but I don't know if that's accurate. He is by far and away the best chippie in town, the others are run by Middle Eastern folk and the quality is not great, to be honest. One of them does / did do an OAP portion for £4, I haven't investigated recently; the other produces humungous portions of chips even at regular size which quite often go to waste, we simply can't finish them.

Mr Lee's fish is cooked to order, and large cod, medium chips and curry sauce currently costs £9.80 (fish up by £1 and chips by 50p recently). It comfortably feeds the two of us, but it is a "treat". I think if the price of cod and chips in town ever tops £10, then we wouldn't bother any more. After all, a 2-pack of cod fishcakes and a small can of mushy peas from Aldi is under £3 ......

Me and Joe called into one in Penkridge on the way home from a match a couple of months ago. They were just closing and the owner gave us extras, as in each mini fish and chips (we were taking a portion home for John too) had two fish and extra chips. Joe had kebab meat and he really loaded it up with extra meat and chips.

They only took cash and I only had a £10 note on me and we got all of that for £9.50 and they were really good.

Contrast that with us getting a couple of bags of chips a few weeks ago from the chippy in the village on the way back from the pub with Tom and Shannon. They were awful, they were hard, cold and dry (it took us 2 minutes to walk home with them) and we paid £7 for the two bags.

I'd have walked the two minutes back to complain and get a refund or a fresh batch.