What is the price of fish and chips in your area?

[Mr Quatro]

To heck with Brexit and EU problems lets get it down to the
basic common denominator that we can understand and that
is the price of fish and chips.

Fish and chips is a hot dish of English origin consisting of fried battered fish and hot chips.
It is a common take-away food: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_and_chips

Chippy's Fish and Chips http://chippysfishandchips.com/menu

Cod fish plate: $10.50

Fish and Chips prices in the UK http://www.whatprice.co.uk/fish_chips.html

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Fish_and_chips.jpg/600px-Fish_and_chips.jpg

[Jimbuna]

The prices quoted in that link are seriously below the reality level.

[Betonov]

If I take fish and chips as an order of fried fillet and fried potato, I'd say about €5-10
Depends where the place is. The nearby train station has an excellent restaurant with affordable food and F&C would cost about €5. Ljubljana downtown would probably be double that.

[Mr Quatro]

The prices quoted in that link are seriously below the reality level.

That's what I wanted to see ... if they are going up or down. Will the price return to that level or will it double?

[Penguin]

The closest dealer here would be an Irish pub: 11,50€ - though they are the most expensive among the 3 good Irish pubs here: http://oreillys.com/dusseldorf-menu.html
In comparision, in my regular haunt a pint of Guinness goes for 4€, in contrast to the 5,20€ there.

[Jimbuna]

That's what I wanted to see ... if they are going up or down. Will the price return to that level or will it double?

Okay....in the north east of England prices can vary between £5 and £10, the average being £6.50

[Catfish]

I'd say something similar (if not exactly the same) is 6.50 Euro here in Germany, in the "North Sea" restaurants.
But we don't get newspapers, with it.

[vienna]

There is a fairly good-sized population of UK ex-pats living in the Los Angeles area, mostly around the sea-side city of Santa Monica. A few rather good pubs there serving fish and chips; the average price for a serving is about $9-10 US. There is also a small chain of fish and chips franchises named H. Salt serving up a decent product for about one or two dollars more...

The newspaper reference reminded me of a fish and chips shop that opened up in my old neighborhood in San Francisco in the late 60s. It was run by a married couple of English ex-pats. They served their F&C in newspaper as they had done back in England; they did this until they ran afoul of the local health and safety officials who cited them for using newspaper for wrapping. I recall how upset the F&C shop owners were when they had to stop using the newspaper; the husband, in particular, grumbled that "It just isn't right, It just isn't British!"...



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[Mittelwaechter]

Fish may be somewhat more expensive the first month, because the Pound Sterling is down, but with ignoring the EU fishing quota, the price should drop, due to the additional supply.

Not the perfect indicator.

Take a Big Mac - it is agreed upon to be a good indicator for economic comparison.

[Jimbuna]

I'd say something similar (if not exactly the same) is 6.50 Euro here in Germany, in the "North Sea" restaurants.
But we don't get newspapers, with it.

Reminds me of the time when I resided in Holland and a Dutch friend said similar...."We (the Dutch) don't eat our fish from a newspaper" and I responded...."At least we cook ours before consuming."

[MGR1]

Prices in Aberdeen are anywhere between £7 and £30, depending on where you go.

Average is about a tenner.

Most of the smaller Chippy's are Chinese owned.

Mike.

[STEED]

Only popped in to read a PM then I spotted this thread

R=Regular L=Large

Chips £1.65 R / £2.10 L
Cod £3.95 R / £4.45 L
Rock £4.95 R
Plaice £4.15 R / £4.50 L
Haddock £4.70 R

To be honest my local fish shop regular size chips is a big portion and too much for me with fish. Just about ok with a a couple of sausages. Can not fault them always had a good nosh up from there. Friendly Chinese and they won an award and always get a hygiene rating 5 very good.

[Commander Wallace]

my experiences are about like that of everyone else.

10.00 buys a good fish and chip platter with cole slaw. A good beer to wash it all down is extra. :D


If you get a chance. try a beer batter dipped or marinated fish, either deep fried or broiled. :up:

[em2nought]

Now you've made me hungry for some shoestring fries with malt vinegar from the end of the pier at Sandbank, and an ice cream Snickers. ...and some lamb at the Coylet Inn along Loch Eck. ...and a doner kebab over in Gourock. :D

[Commander Wallace]

Now you've made me hungry for some shoestring fries with malt vinegar from the end of the pier at Sandbank, and an ice cream Snickers. ...and some lamb at the Coylet Inn along Loch Eck. ...and a doner kebab over in Gourock. :D

Talk about making someone hungry now. :)

[Jimbuna]

Only popped in to read a PM then I spotted this thread

R=Regular L=Large

Chips £1.65 R / £2.10 L
Cod £3.95 R / £4.45 L
Rock £4.95 R
Plaice £4.15 R / £4.50 L
Haddock £4.70 R

To be honest my local fish shop regular size chips is a big portion and too much for me with fish. Just about ok with a a couple of sausages. Can not fault them always had a good nosh up from there. Friendly Chinese and they won an award and always get a hygiene rating 5 very good.

Yeah, I know a good cheap source for getting those hygiene certificates printed :)

[August]

Around here in NEW England a good fish and chips platter goes for around $10 to $15.

http://amaralsfishandchips.com/Restaurant_Take_Out_Menu.html

http://amaralsfishandchips.com/img/fishandchip.JPG

[Betonov]

That thing on the right, thar's one of them coleslaw* I heard about.
I need to try it one day.


*had an argument with google I was not looking for cold sloth. Fathers fears for my sanity are worsening

[Jimbuna]

Around here in NEW England a good fish and chips platter goes for around $10 to $15.

http://amaralsfishandchips.com/Restaurant_Take_Out_Menu.html

http://amaralsfishandchips.com/img/fishandchip.JPG

Forget them french fries and get something more realistic...chips :03:

[Catfish]

That thing on the right, thar's one of them coleslaw* I heard about.
I need to try it one day.

*had an argument with google I was not looking for cold sloth. Fathers fears for my sanity are worsening

:rotfl2:

Coleslaw can be easily made by yourself! Fits very well to Hamburger and the like.
Completely OT: Slovenia.. i would like to visit the region, maybe next year. And maybe charter a boat, if it's not too expensive. May i contact you for assistance?

[Betonov]

Completely OT: Slovenia.. i would like to visit the region, maybe next year. And maybe charter a boat, if it's not too expensive. May i contact you for assistance?

Sure.
But I live 170km north of the coastline, although I know a few people in the charter business.
I'm the person to contact if you want to trek up a mountain.

[Jimbuna]

Sure.
But I live 170km north of the coastline, although I know a few people in the charter business.
I'm the person to contact if you want to trek up a mountain.

I hear Brokeback Mountain is your speciality :O:

[Betonov]

I hear Brokeback Mountain is your speciality :O:

My biggest fear if I ever take you tracking, considering how you loved to touch my knee in York :O:

[Catfish]

My biggest fear if I ever take you tracking, considering how you loved to touch my knee in York :O:

heh what :timeout:

Trek up a mountain and sightseeing would also be nice, but would have to pack all into two weeks :hmmm:

[Betonov]

Trek up a mountain and sightseeing would also be nice, but would have to pack all into two weeks :hmmm:

The Karavanke range of the Alps, where I live, is tourist friendly. 2060m or 2260m peaks can be reached and descended in one day with an overpriced lunch at one of the huts.

[Jimbuna]

My biggest fear if I ever take you tracking, considering how you loved to touch my knee in York :O:

Ah, you remember....how sweet :)

[Eichhörnchen]

http://i.imgur.com/GN83mCJ.jpg From £5-6 here in East Anglia

[Mr Quatro]

It looks like perhaps $10 or so here in the USA and 6 pounds or so in the UK which is up from 3.50 a pound what it was in the UK four years ago by the way.

I think this will be the real economic barometer of the future of the UK which seems to be still alive after last week.

Here's a bit of history:http://inflationdata.com/articles/2012/12/14/cost-living-fish-chips/

Fish and chips still remains the favorite take away meal in the UK despite fierce competition. The exact origins are unknown but it has been established that chips arrived from France during the 18th Century. There was also mention of fried fish and bread in ‘Oliver Twist’ by Dickens, published in the 1830s. The Oxford English Dictionary claims the earliest usage of “chips” in this sense was in Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities (published in 1859).

The modern fish-and-chip shop (“chippy” or “chipper” in modern British slang) originated in the United Kingdom, although outlets selling fried food occurred commonly throughout Europe. According to one story, fried-potato shops spreading south from Scotland merged with fried-fish shops spreading from southern England. Eventually they came together with the opening of the first fish and chip shop around 1860. Growth in the number of shops was rapid, peaking in the 1930s at around 35,000 shops in the UK.

[nikimcbee]

Cod or halibut?
Is this a trap for Steed?

[Eichhörnchen]

Here's a bit of history...

We've always called it 'The Chippy' but it's odd, now I think about it, that there's no slang expression for the fish & chips meal itself.

You can buy other things there to have with your chips, such as fish cakes... minced up fish and mashed potato formed into patties with a bit of seasoning and covered in breadcrumb.

You can also always get sausages if you prefer, and we call these "lips and arse".