To be agog at the price of dish and chips?

[HuzzahIndeed]

Don't have stuff from the chippy very often but went today. Standard take out place in the north.

We ordered:
2 × fish and chips
1 x pie and chips
1 x curry sauce
4 x tom sauce packets
3 x drinks

It cost £37! Is this really how much they cost now or were we ripped off?

We stopped getting Chinese takeaways some time ago once the dishes got close to £10.

Have you checked their own website not deliveroo where they have to infoate prices because deliveroo charges 30%+vat?

East Midlands here , regular haddock and chips are £8.10 and pie and chips £5.20, agree it’s the extras which bump up the price, tin of mushy peas between us rather than buy from the chippie, cheaper than the Chinese and Indian takeaways in our town.

This seems quite expensive. I am in an expensive part of the SE and cod and chips is 10.50. Pie and chips would be about 6.00 (though we would prob skip the extra chips and share). Given how expensive fish is, it's probably not unreasonable. Fish just isn't a cheap food, however it is cooked and served.

Personally I'd never buy ketchup or drinks from the fish and chips shop (unless we were away from home)

Price of fish has gone up a lot. Price of oil has gone up even more. Not surprising really that fish and chips has gone up.

I was brought up in a very working class, poor household in the 60s and 70s and fish and chips (usually a Yorkshire fishcake - slices of potato with fish in the middle and covered in batter - for the kids) was a really cheap meal.

The portions were quite a bit smaller, mind.

Comes to 35.25 here. But it's expensive round here, so I am quite surprised at your figure.

Are you sure you don't boil up the fish bones for broth @Mardyface ? 😃

I need to see pictures of some of that "feeds x people" fish and chips because.... We have 2 each

What 2 large fish and chips per person ?

1 each! Dang it

You obviously don't live in Yorkshire. The portions of a standard fish and chips are so big that they don't fit on a large dinner plate. That's the ones we have from Ikea that were actually too large to fit in our old kitchen cupboards.

You'd need a dustbin lid to hold two portions of fish and chips from the chippies round here.

Largs fish and chips is £13.70 here. London.

Over £10 for a medium cod and chips locally

Well, of course. And I scrape the grease off the wrappers and keep it in a jar for future fry ups. Doesn't everybody?

OK so my post may have been a bit like that but I honestly am greedy and fat (really fat, not Mumsnet fat) and share a portion of F&C when we have them. I am Yorkshire though so probably tight as well.

Our chippys don't do pie and chips! I wish they did! I love a chippy pie and chips 😢😢

@InCheesusWeTrust

I would say where I am 1/2 a large is a decent sized normal meal for an adult if you have already had breakfast and lunch. Maybe a tad more than that - one extra portion of chips will cover it.

Obviously it is pretty subjective though.

If anything I would say the portions in the SE were larger than the ones I get in the midlands.

Around here it would cost:

2 × fish and chips - large portions are £7.30 each, so £14.60 for two.
1 x pie and chips - £4.85.
1 x curry sauce - £1.10.
4 x tom sauce packets - free.
3 x drinks - 70p per can, so £2.10 for three.

Total: £22.65

Yep the prices are fucking outrageous now. Me and DH used to get one fish, a regular bag of chips and a large mushy peas (or curry sauce.) Was about £6.50. (Only late 2021.) Last time we went (April this year,) it was £9.50 for the same meal. Fish and chips and a large mushy peas/curry sauce... nearly a tenner.

We get a pack of 4 fish from Aldi now for £2.50, and Morrisons steak cut chips, and 'Harry Ramsden's chip shop curry sauce' - 2 for £1 from Iceland. Tastes exactly the same as the curry sauce from the chip shop.

We share each pot of curry sauce, so that costs 50p between us, we have 2 fish between us, so £1.25 in total for them, and we have about 25p worth of chips between us. Total cost... £2.00! For virtually the same meal. Bit of a difference. FIVE times less. We get less chips, but we often left half of them anyway, as there were always too many. Also, less chips = slimmer waistlines!

Should probably have said, when we got fish chips and a large curry sauce, we shared it.

It does sound a lot, but we only ever have 1 large chips between the 4 of us and never buy drinks or sauces from the chippy so there are ways of making it cheaper.

Sad thing is most chip shops will probably go bust soon. People can’t afford these prices with rising petrol costs, energy costs and supermarket prices. They’ll buy Birds eye fish and oven chips. Maybe save a chip supper for rare occasions but it won’t be enough to keep the businesses viable.

Fish and chips £11.50 here (West Midlands)

That seems a hell of a lot. Pricing that up at our local (in Sussex not the North!) would be £29, can't get 4 packs of tom sauce, but did include a bottle of ketchup.

That said, prices have gone up massively - We used to pay £21 for our standard order - now it's £26 so basically 25% increase. That's pretty much all going to be down to all that "uncapped" energy going into fuelling the fryers though.

£11.50 near me 😭😭 Nearly fell over when I had to pay. Won’t be going back as the bloody batter was under cooked

£13.50 and this is in the north an hour away from the sea!