How much is a piece of cod roe in your local chippy?

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Just been to the chippy and shocked at the price of cod roe. I could have sworn that the last time I bought one it was less than a quid.

I have moved to a slightly more affluent area but literally a couple of miles up the road and these isn’t a huge wealth divide but £2.50 seems a bit steep!

I paid 3.55 for some at my local chippy atm! Shocked

£1.30, £1.70 and £1.80 at the three local ones to me so yours is expensive!

Ooh I've never seen cod roe in a chippy.

What part of the country are you?

They don't sell it anywhere round here either. There's a huge variation across the country in what they sell.

Round here it's haddock and chips cooked in beef dripping and fishcakes made with sliced potato and battered, not the mash in breadcrumbs kind.

Cod roe is from the dark side! Stuff of nightmares for me. £2.50 seems not too bad though.

Cod roe

I don't think I've ever seen it in a chip shop.

£1.80 in my local chippy!

I don't even know what one is. I don't think they have them in chip shops around here.

LOVE a bit of roe! Is it regional then? I’m in greater London.

Roe is fish eggs. Like caviar but much cheaper

I sent DH to the chippy when I was up north for cod roe and discovered that way that they didn't have it. He looked at me like I had three heads

Just looked it up, £1.50. Although I understand what roe is, how is it cooked? Battered? All in individual lumps? All globbed together and deep fried? Or a different way? Does it substitute the fish element of fish and chips?
So many questions!

I've never seen cod roe in a chippy but then I've never eaten it so may just have not noticed.
When you say a 'piece' of, how does that work, given that it's fish eggs? Is it like a fish cake made of fish eggs?

Well I never, looked at our local chippy menu and apparently 2 x cod roe are £2.10. Never noticed it before!

No cod roe in our parts. It’s quite grand if you get a choice haddock or cod.
In a family holiday in Norfolk we were gobsmacked to be offered 5 different fish choice. 5!

Cod roe generally comes pressed into a can,. for those wondering, so it can be sliced and battered. Approx the same size as a fish cake but all fish and no potato.

On that basis, given that a fishcake here is £1.50, charging £2.50 for roe seems more than fair.
I'm from the North but never saw roe in a chip shop until i moved to east midlands.

I've never heard of that before from w chippy, but I have to say processed sliced deep fried and battered fish eggs doesn't sound great...

Chippy doesn't have that here. (Lizard)

I'm also curious. Is it instead of the fish, so like a poor mans fish supper, or with the fish, so like a rich mans luxury version?

I can live with hard roe because it’s eggs. But soft roe is sperm and it turns my stomach, I don’t know how anyone can eat it.

I'm near Fleetwood, Lancashire. Spiritual home of Chipperies.

No Cod Roe 'ere lass. Did you just mean Cod?

Cod, haddock, Hake, pollock, plaice. All common oop north.

Definitely don't sell it in Manchester / Salford area.

98p. Grim stuff.

Cod dun't roe in Lancashire love, it swims.