to think it isn't greedy to eat a whole fish, portion of chips and mushy peas with bread and butter?

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Opinions vary wildly in our family; DH and DS2 will happily eat a large portion of chips with a fish, or a pie and a fishcake, or a fishcake and a jumbo battered sausage. I will eat a fishcake and 2/3 of a portion of chips, but I like bread and butter to make chip butties as well. In-laws think we are all insanely greedy and will split a small fish between them and a handful of chips each. If they have mushy peas, they will eat commensurately fewer chips because peas are incredibly filling.

What's your chippy order? And do you think a portion of chips is designed to be shared, or is an expected portion for one person?

I'd personally go for a Massive Salad honestly.

We’ve lost sight of what a normal portion is. 😉

See, this is what you're up against.

Surely no-one thinks that's a portion of chips for one person?

I have the fish (haddock) and a few of the chips on day 1, perhaps with mushy peas, curry sauce or a slice of bread and butter.

On day 2 I make a chip omelette aka shortcut tortilla for brunch with the leftover chips.

Sounds like their appetites are shrinking.

My mum is early 70s and has in the past year or two dropped to 2 meals a day, her dinner is at 4pm and not a big meal.

Would split fish and chips between the kids. I don’t rate it at all

Agreed @BarbaraofSeville
This is what I meant earlier. That bag of chips would serve 3 of us, with a fish/pie/whatever. My full sized dinner plate would be full. Been to some chippies, a small polystyrene tray is considered a portion. It’s so subjective.

Well my local chippy’s portions are enough to kill me. So I often have half a fish, and a big handful of a huge bag of chips between us. Plus some mushy peas. Maybe a can of Coke. Lush. I could do that right right now.

So it depends. I’d not add the bread and butter though, that would be for the next day for the remainder of the chips. I’m wee though, and currently sharing custody of my torso with a soon-to-be-born baby.

Your MIL sounds a twat though. She can deprive herself if she must, but she has absolutely no manner or class passing judgement on your consumption of food.

Log it with 101

I had an ex whose family did just that to him. He had a huge appetite and was built like a rake at the time but they still taunted him about being a human dustbin and what size he’d be in the future.

Thirty years later he is indeed pushing 17 stone but part of me wonders if that was self-fulfilling, and what kind of damage was caused by the regular ‘banter’ (because it was, of course, ‘all in good fun’.)

It depends. The “artisan” fish and chip shop near me does a portion of fish and chips that almost anyone could finish without effort. The “proper chippy” over the way does a portion of chips that would relieve Jesus from the need to feed the five thousand.

But anyone who says I’m “greedy” for eating as much as I damn well please can fuck right off with their weird eating rules.

I am greedy but I never eat bread and butter or mushy peas with my fish and chips. I think it's a northern thing.

I can polish off a "medium "portion easily!however there is a sign saying fish size smaller than it used to be.chips not huge .but really tasty. Plus a coke. Just eat what you want .I think older people eat less food ,maybe rationing or whatever. None of their business!

No way! I am as northern as they come, and HAVE to have a buttered butty (white bread!) and mushy peas with my fish and chips. Also a pot of curry for dipping said butty in! 😁

Yuk (personally speaking) but isn't that just a normal meal?

The humanity! I am such a food pude it seems 😊

*prude!

If we are having a chippy dinner I order double cod and double chips. Don't have it often but bloody love it! I'm a healthy weight, it's an occasional treat but I dread to think the cals, 3000 ish? Plus couple slices hovis with lurpak!

I can't stand the under eating performances, They faff about and claim to be full, I bet they cram in a whole pack of biscuits in when no one is looking.
We go for a chippy lunch as a big treat one in a blue moon. I always go for the whole meal. Chips, fish, peas, bread and butter and a pot of tea, (£11 near us) Sometimes I can't finish, other times I can. If we are doing take out we have chips and curry sauce and sit near the sea to eat.
Your in-laws are odd, ignore them.

It’s £13 here just for fish and chips.

It feels like a lot of money so a rare treat for me, of course I’m going to eat all the chips whilst they’re hot.

I used to go up north a lot around 2016 and remember the Harry Ramsdem lunch time deal for fish and chips for less than a fiver I was always amazed as it’s double the price down south.

No it isn't at all, I went to a hipster fish and chip shop in Islington and bread and butter and mushy peas was a staple, being a somewhat northern girl couldn't get gravy, gravy is northern, mushy peas and and bread and butter is southern.

Imagine being a person who wants to try and play a class marker on the subject of fish and chips...

It's not a northern thing. My parents are real Londoners and have always had bread and butter with their fish and chips.

I just think we generally eat less as we get older (and perhaps forget that in time) I could have polished off a full fish n chips with bread and butter (can't stand mushy peas though....they are the devils dumplings) in my yoof, but, even though I'm a fatty, I can't polish off a kids portion anymore! Dh who does a very active job, could easily demolish a large portion and still have room for more (he's very slim), we're all different, and I know this is unpopular and people poopoo this, but I do think we all metabolise food at different rates, just as some people have intolerances and allergies to some foods and others can eat everything and anything.

That's exactly why these threads are a bit pointless, given the massive difference in portion size everywhere.

That looks like a standard (but huge) portion of chips in my local chippy, and it's definitely too much for the majority of people I know, especially when eaten with fish and/or bread and butter.

I’ve just come back from holiday in Yorkshire where fish and chips are half the price and twice the portion size that they are down here, and we had them four days in a row. I don’t eat all the batter but otherwise I can polish off a full portion of fish chips and mushy peas no problem, might even squeeze an ice cream cone in afterwards too! (Then lie on the sofa moaning that I’ve eaten too much)

That's what I meant I'm southern and don't . Although I do now like chips and curry sauce.

We had a chippy tea tonight.

Growing up, all that was available was fish and chips, or maybe sausage and chips, or pie or fishcake etc. And chips. This was in the home counties.

Now I live in the NW, and chippies do 'fish dinners' or 'sausage dinners' etc. Which are essentially a polystyrene tray filled with chips, with your fish/sausage/whatever on top, plus peas and gravy or curry sauce if you want them.

I can eat a 'dinner' but not a 'fish and chips' because they're HUGE!

(but let's pretend it's because I'm well dainty )