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?

Depends on the chippy ..We share a large chips between 3 and all have our own fish or pie and share things like curry sauce . My late parents would have eaten much less though - I think older and more petite people do need less .

Just eat what you want!

If the three if us (me, DH and 20yo DS) get a chippy tea then DH has either a saveloy or battered sausage, DS and I share a piece of fish (his portion is bigger than mine) and we share a small portion of chips (the portion is still too much for us). BUT that is us. None of us are big eaters. If my brother and his wife are here the will quite easily eat a portion of chips and piece of fish each but they are much more active than us and no larger than us - they just need more “fuel”.

Different cars do different “miles per gallon” and so do people. 🤷‍♀️

First, define the actual size of 'a portion' or 'small portion' or 'large portion'.

Of the three decent chippies in my area, none have standardized portions, one places small is not far off anothers large!

Some places we get a large between us, others a small each, some we avoid unless we want left over chips the next day.

The nearest - a small portion each and I'll probably manage half or three quarters depending on if I have bread and butter as well (I don't eat fish and went off chippy sausages a long time ago).

Greedy though... if you eat to the point of feeling ill, deny others, take more than your fair share then waste it - thats greedy behaviour. The amount you actually consume to satisfy your hunger though, does not denote greed!

I couldn’t eat a whole fish, whole bag of chips, peas and bread and butter. I’d have half a fish, half chips, all peas and 1 round of bread

appetites reduce when we age in many cases so it probably does them to share

We order two haddock and one chips and one peas

hubby has a full haddock and about 3/4 of the chips and I have the other fish , chips and peas - I usually end up giving the hound half of my fish

Mushy peas. Curry sauce (WTF). Strange forrin things to me.

What about a wally or two ?

Vegan batter?? Batter is only flour water and seasoning

If just for me, a small chips, a pie/small fish/large sausage, large mushy peas. Or a fish special, which is a cone of chips, small fish, small, sausage, and peas.

When we’re ordering for all of us, 2x large chips, each person’s ‘thing’ (usually 2x cheeseburgers, and 2 pies or 2 large sausages), peas for me. There are always chips leftover. Always. I keep telling him that we only need a large and small… 🤷🏻‍♀️

My chippy does 4 sizes of chips and 3 sizes of fish….

Me, DH and Dd (13). Two large haddocks, one large portion of chips, two mushy peas, two curry sauces. It’s very important to put the mushy peas in a chip nest and then pour the curry sauce over the top.
As an aside, the best fish and chips EVER is the meal they do at the Black Country Museum, which is SO good I always think I could possible eat two back to back.

But it needs to be cooked in non contaminated oil

What is a Wally??

chip shop curry sauce is delicious.

I'm not living in the UK so if I'm in the chippy I'm having one of everything. Pukka pie with the top taken off to dip your chips in. Faggots with chips and gravy mmmmmm. I so miss crispy fish batter.

Would I be unreasonable to invite myself to stay at MIL's for a week, just so I can go to the chippy every night?

I would eat that minus the bread and butter.

I now fancy some fish and chips

Complete aside but leftover chips are great airfried the next day

I would refuse to eat with her. She is the one with food issues.

Also surely it depends on the size of the portion, some fish and chip portions are huge, others not so. I always have scampi as feels smaller than the portion of fish.

My mother now eats very small portions but she in her 90s, but will polish off a roast if having Sunday lunch with us!

We usually get a large fish, large chips & large peas (as opposed to ‘regular’). We share them between the two of us and have bread & butter to make chip butties. The large chips is a huge quantity, so we often don’t finish them between us.

Scallops? I assume this isn't the seafood and is something different in other parts of the country?

Vegan batter?? Batter is only flour water and seasoning

Not all. My friend is allergic to eggs and dairy and her local chip shop uses batter she can’t have as it contains one of those.

DH usually share a large fish and chips, neither of us have big appetites

Yes. Potato in batter and fried

Obviously hadn't finished reading the thread 🤦‍♀️

And weird if in laws are commenting that. Obviously fish and chips isn’t a healthy meal but fine as an occasion treat

I rarely finish a whole portion of chips because I find them boring. I keep adding ketchup and mayo but still. I go looking for icecream.

Exactly what we do! Enough for two days…. 😋

At 25? No. Nowadays? It would kill me