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

[Greensleeves]

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?

Same. I alternate between
The under £5 for a meal chip shop with free scraps and huge potions
The posh one that fries in dripping and you can choose your salt. That's pay day only

Indeed. In Yorkshire, our fish and chips are the best, just about everywhere else is a disappointment although I did have some very good ones in Orkney when I went there.

Plus just about all our chippies use beef dripping, not just the 'posh ones'.

And it's usually haddock unless it says otherwise.

That's what you get if it just says 'fish', nothing to be suspicious about here for whoever said they wouldn't buy from anywhere who wasn't open about which fish it was would serve something weird.

I can easily eat that and have done in the past. At my mum's chippy the portions are very generous so lately dh and I share a bag of chips, and half a fish each with peas and curry. I'm also laying off the buttered bread although that used to be a staple for me with chips from the chippy.

@Iwantmyoldnameback ahh sorry, I misread.
I am definitely in agreement on the curry though 😁

She sounds awful! and no I don’t think what you or your family eats is greedy or overeating. And for me splitting a small fish with a handful of chips wouldn’t be enough usually but it depends what else I’d eaten throughout the day.

😂😂😂😂😂 too funny.

I'm from Yorkshire originally and its taken me over a decade to find a passable chippy where I now live. Even then, although it's nice, it's only passable, not what I'd consider amazing. Whenever I visit home I want fish and chips!

No it's not. Every Northerner I know (including me) loves bread and butter to make a chip butty

Cheesy chips but never manage to finish it.

At our regular seaside chippy - when we visit - I can eat a whole fish and chips but I'd not eat much else for the rest of the day. I don't do mushy peas, would do curry sauce/bread + butter but don't want to add too much to the cost, it's a dear old do these days.

I'm not one of those mumsnet full after half a grape types, I can eat a lot, but I can't remember the last time I finished a portion. The portions are always huge. DH and I usually get 2 fish, 1 large chips, mushy peas and curry sauce. There's always chips leftover.

The man in our house is 6ft tall 12 stone and has a large fish, peas and no chips; or medium/regular fish, small chips and peas. But that could often be the only meal of the deal (OMAD).

I don’t eat fish & chips.

It’s all calories, you eat what you need, unless you want to get fatter in which case you have more chips and bread.

I get a small cod and chips and devour it and am nicely full. Ours does do fairly big portions though and people are always surprised it’s a ‘small’ so probably equates to a medium/ large elsewhere.

Your MIL sounds like mine, she does my head in!

To be fair though, surely it depends on what you’ve eaten the rest of the day too? If you’ve had a big breakfast and lunch, you’re probably not going to be able to eat a pig a portion as someone who had a small breakfast and skipped lunch for instance?

What’s for pudding? Does it really matter! Is this really a thing. You do you, they do them….sorted.

DH and I have a fish each, share a chips and share a large mushy peas

One piece of fish and a handful of chips.

Deep fry really fills me up and makes me a bit queasy after....
However, when I do go for it please add tarter sauce and brown vinegar. I'll take some coleslaw, too. 😋

In our household, there is myself, Dh and dd (8). Between us, we share 1 portion of medium chips, which even then, aren't finished, daughter will have 1 sausage and hubby and I will have 1 fish each which we can't finish.

In our house that's called "normal".

I remember as a family when I was a child doing exactly that. Not since, but it triggered a memory.

Scampi or plaice with mushy peas a few chips and lashings of tartare sauce

☝This! 😂

Best fish and chips I ever had were from Lewis's in Seahouses. Tasted lovely washed down with a crisp chardonnay.

Wine with fish and chips??? Are you mad?🙀

A crisp dry white wine with fish and chips is the best!