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.

Ifailed. Supermarkets can get ingredients far cheaper than any small business because they buy in such huge quantities. Theres on way you can compare the two.

Omg take out a mortgage.

I am sure more and more people will find cheaper alternatives, which taste just as good and if not better at a supermarket.

Cod and chips is £13.50 here on Uber eats
Or £10.50 in store

Sounds good to me. We’re N/E Scotland and its £10 - £12 for one standard fish supper, depending which shop we go to. The ones who use very locally sourced fish and potatoes (instead of buying frozen) charge even more!

Just totting up the order in the OP from our local chippy, to see how prices might have changed since October. It came to £30.50, assuming the drinks are standard cans of pop. They don't do sachets of sauce - there's a squeezy bottle on the counter, but if ordering from home I'll just use the ketchup from the fridge.

These were the basic prices from our local chippy on Uber Eats. Delivery is £0.79. In totting up the price I realised I have a code for 35% off, so the whole thing comes to 0.65*£30.50 + £0.79 = £20.62.

Nice one, that's dinner sorted.

The fish and chip "store"?...........

I cooked fish and chips for 3 adults (and leftovers for 2 dogs) last night - the fish itself (1kg boneless, skinless cod fillets from a specialist fishmonger) cost €26, the chips about €3. Then there was a can of mushy peas from Lidl for 40c or so. A few cent for the flour and baking powder. We didn't have drinks with it, but if we had, it would have been around another €3. So that's about €32.50, or £28.66 (thanks Alexa!).

Bearing in mind that the chip shop did the cooking and paid for the fuel etc., I don't think their prices are far off.

2 fish, 1 chicken breast, 9 chicken nuggets, 1 mushy peas and 1 large chips was £21 last week in south wales

VAT at 20% (uk) is also part of the chip shop price, plus staff wages, rent, etc - not just food cost and power, lots of other overheads too!

No VAT on supermarket raw ingredients, but a20% VAT on chip shop sales -makes a big difference!

Was listening to the radio last week and they were interviewing a chip shop owner. There electric bill had gone from hust over 1k a month to 9k a month. No wonder dome are going out of business

Dh and had a meal from local Chinese last week. They do a large meal for £2 extra and large side for £1 extra. So ordered one which came to £10 and was enough for the both of us.

I paid £10.90 for one portion of fish and chips from the chippy the other day.

Wow that is really good value. I am in Dublin and there was only two of us last night. Chicken with cashews in chilli sauce with noodles and chicken curry with boiled rice delivered cost 24euro.

This is one thing that has always deluded me people complain about fish and chip prices at the chippy but willing to spend £15-£20 on the same meal at a chain restaurant who's fish and chips don't even come close to a chippys

It’s expensive round here too. Around £9 for cod and chips! However the cod is like a whale and it’s a mountain of chips. We normally get 1 x cod and chips to share between me and DH, a pickled egg each and he has a battered sausage. It’s around £15.

We were used to cheap fish for far too long. Anything that gets people eating less cod is a positive in my book.

Fact is we still have plenty of cheap fish. Sardines, mackerel, sprats, mussels, plaice, bream, hake... all great value but people seem to be obsessed with the relatively bland, predictable, unsustainable cod. If there was plenty to go round it wouldn't be so expensive, surely people understand that?

Not our nearest, but a massive takeaway place with a huge reputation 2 villages over effectively in a less rural area of Berkshire where there are a lot of takeaways withing a 5 mile radius does everything from pizzas, burgers, kebabs, fish and chips they do a meal deal of F&C+can of drink for £10.50, and they always add in a pot of homemade coleslaw/olives/hummus plus homemade crisps or small round of garlic bread for free. Huge portions too.

2x jumbo sausage and chips is about £8 in our local chippy. Cod and chips is a little more expensive and one portion is £6.50. I don’t find it too bad.

Chinese takeout the other day was £16 for Sweat and sour chicken with egg fried rice and beef with green pepper in black bean sauce. + 2 drinks, nothing else. It’s gone up recently and is a little pricy.

2x jumbo sausage and chips is about £8 in our local chippy.

I bet they are those horrible pink things made out of donkey lips and pigs bollocks.

Where I live:

Large Cod x 1 = £14.95
Large chips x 1 = £5.15
Can of drink x 1 = £1.60
Total: £21.70 for one meal.

If you're paying 15 quid for a piece of cod, have you considered either a different fish, or just buying it and cooking it yourself?

And a fiver for chips? You could buy 5kg of potatoes with that.

You could buy the same amount of cod from a monger for about a fiver.

Just checked my local chippy for price comparison. I am in Dublin.
Cod is 7euro
Chips 3.30
Can of drink 1.50
Total 11.80 euro

Maybe Ireland is not quite the rip off I think it is!

I think everyone knows that you can usually cook at home for less than buying takeaway food, but that misses the point. People get takeout when they don't want to or can't cook, or for a treat.

In these parts (Yorkshire) haddock, which I much prefer, is the norm, not cod.

The menu from a small, well regarded local chain says that the fish is MSC certified and fish and chips is £7.55 (up from £6.95 when I last went a couple of months ago). That is for a large portion that few people would be able to eat all of.

menus.preoday.com/Wetherby-Whaler/#/main/venue/menu