Are Fish and Chips worth it?

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Normally cook my own, but last night went to the Chippy.
Had 2 large Cod and Chips and a pot of mushy peas.
Cost 23.80.
Found it very underwhelming.
So glad I normally do my own.

I know costs have gone up, but do you think it's worth the cost?
Do you enjoy it?

To be honest, I feel this about fish generally. The chippie is lovely, but they can't maintain it as a cheap and cheerful takeaway, I'm sure.

I'm always horrified at what it costs to buy fish, even just in the supermarket. I get 4 small fillets (about 120g each) for about £10 or more. We have one of those fish market vans that comes to our high street once a week. Really great fish. But to do cod from him for three of us cost me something like £24 last time. I haven't done it again.

Same here. A lovely chippy with very good quality fish n chips has recently closed although it was quite popular. In place of it is an Indian/Balti restaurant/takeaway. I am wondering how they can make a go of it but the chippy can't?

I'd pay about half of that for the same at my local chippy, and its bloody lovely.

Definately worth the money for me, and cheaper than pretty much any other kind of takeaway

Chip shop fish and chips is the best.... I really miss that now I don't live on the UK. Home made is not the same

Used to be very worth it but after paying £55 for 3 people recently I'm not going to bother.

A single portion of fish and chips with mushy peas, curry sauce and tartare sauce is £19.80 from our nearest “chippy”. And that’s their meal deal price! It’s not much less to buy a single portion of fish and a single portion of chips. It is fish and chips perfection though. TBF it is more of a restaurant.

There are cheaper places but the food is nowhere near as good.

IMO the expensive ones are worth the price their charge but the cheap ones aren’t. I would rather pay £20 (once in a blue moon) for something high quality that is better than I can make than £10 for something I won’t especially enjoy that I can make better.

You are correct that fish and chips is no longer a cheap meal though.

If they are cooked the traditional way, in beef tallow then yes they are worth it. But 95% of chippies fry in cheap, nasty, rancid vegetable oil which is terrible for our bodies. Paying extortionate prices for disgusting cheap food basically.

The good one up the road from us certainly is.

The crap one down the road from us certainly isn't.

Difficult to see how that helps you, really. Or how any answer could.

One of our local chippies fries everything in lard - it tastes so much better than all the others. Again, not cheap though, but we only have takeaway as a very occasional treat, so i don't mind.

Family of five here and a round of fish and chips is about £50 now. We have it less often than we use to buy them. I'm not sure how much it would have to be, to be not worth it at all.

In the Old Days, when I were a lass, chippies used beef dripping in the fryers. This reaches a higher temperature than vegetable oils, making for crisp batter and chips - lovely! I find the vegetable oil can't make them crispy, it seems to leave them flabby/soggy and frankly not as nice to eat

@WhereYouLeftIt thats so true. Proper Irish chippers (the Italian ones) use beef dripping hence why everything is so bloody delicious. We were visiting DHs cousin in York and got some fish and chips one evening. They were very nice but missing that distinctive taste that can only be gotten from tallow. She said it’s not as popular to use it anymore on the UK

This is the very good and high quality fish and chip shop in our town (fish is landed a few miles away from the shop). £9.30 gets you two small fish and chips, that feeds DD & I, DH and DS usually get that to share plus a portion of scampi between them. Worth the drive and good value.

£22 here (Surrey) for 2 cod and chips. The portions are huge. I freeze left over chips and reheat them from frozen (200C for about 10 mins) - fantastic. Worth the money.

If you find a good one then yes definitely worth it. A family member of mine goes for the cheapest option. I would rather pay a bit more and enjoy it. One local one to me does a huge fish and generous portions of chips and they make their own tartar sauce which is amazing. I get a large fish small chips mushy peas and gravy or curry sauce between 2 and it's plenty. I I get anymore it's too much and my DD wants to eat it all even though she's full to the point that she's sick,

Daft question (sorry OP) as it depends on the chippy.

Now that has been answered we have a great chippy in our town (and one that's ok, but too greasy). The great one the food is delicious. Salivating right now thinking about it.

Depends on the chippy imo! Cod with half portion of chips, breaded mushrooms and curry sauce is under a tenner at our local and absolutely delicious! If I was just having cod and chips without the sides I'd probably do it at home.

The Watch House - St Mawes
The Chippy - Maidenhead High Street

Both gluten free and both great.

I think it depends where you are and the place you go to. Our local one is lovely, and two large cod and chips and sides comes to about £14. I’m in fhe Midlands though

It was over £30 last time we had it cod and chips twice with a pot of curry sauce and one of peas. They don't deliver or they would be on the takeaway rotation as it's bloody delicious

Depends on the chippy ime, some are gorgeous but some are gross.

That would be £17 here. The fish is lovely and massive. A cod strip is £2.50 and enough, with chips, peas and then bread from home. Tbh Weatherspoons gives the best value on F&C, £13.60 with alcohol drink, or £11.84 with a refillable hot drink. On a Friday or Monday it can be the manager's special and only £8.

And 23 quid is a rip off.

Just checked the prices on the menu of the great chippy in our town:

Large chip 2.30
Fish (cod) in batter 4.20

6.50 for a delicious meal.

Also 5.50 for a full breakfast (Ulster fry, which is by far the best fry up in the UK). Potato bread (fried) is the base of the meal. Also soda bread fried. God I'm hungry thinking about this.

I like it occasionally. Also find the portions huge so one large cod and chips is enough to share.

I always get a battered sausage, chips, scraps and Irish curry sauce. Less than a fiver and really nice

It’s a rare treat now, and quite often hit and miss as to whether fish and chips will be worth the money.

We shared a large portion of chips, a not particularly large cod and a small tub of curry sauce a couple of weeks ago and paid £14.80. We’re in Staffordshire.