Fish and Chips - not a cheap meal anymore

Silverlining how come your Insurance is so high, that's almost more than the car is worth.
I have a 10 year old fiesta too, and my fully comp insurance is under £250.. and I'm in greater London

£9 - 10 for a small portion in my corner of South Oxfordshire. Large cod and chips is £13. They also do a mini-fillet and chips for £6. We find that suits us nicely, but it is only available weekday lunch time.

This is very sad. My first part time job (age 14) was in the local chippy and every night I worked we had a free supper and a bottle of Tizer. My school friends were a bit sniffy about my working in a chip shop until they found out I got paid twice what they earned in a department store. I worked there on and off for years and later when I was a student. Of course I was paid in cash.

We pay £15 each for takeaway hake and chips at the harbour in Padstow. Expensive, no doubt because of the chef's name, but superior to those from the chippie.

Witzend my car is a 10 year old fiesta. 😅

Bite off their arm. £7.50 is a good price but sad that the historic fishing industry in hull has been decimated. Is that post Brexit or earlier, sorry I live a way away and don’t know hull.

Our local chippy serves a cheap white fish not cod or haddock at all with chips and peas £11. If we go to a restaurant or pub locally £16/18 depends where we go. I only like this meal in the summertime on holiday.

Here in Hull it is around £7.50 for Haddock and chips (Cod would never be served in a Hull chippy!)

Back in the day Hull would smell of fish as so much was landed from the trawlers, freezers and sidewinders that came into the fish dock.

The area was buzzing with life and activity, local business thrived due to the fishing industry and now it’s all gone.

No fish is landed here in Hull, there is one fishmonger left in the Hessle Rd area, it’s so sad.

The only reminders are the beautiful murals in tribute to the all the men who worked so hard in treacherous conditions to bring home the fish and the “headscarf revolutionaries that fought for better working conditions for these men and boys.

£7.50 seems like a bargain really!

Someone we know told dh yesterday that he’s been quoted £5k to insure his new Tesla. This is a reasonably sedate bloke of 50 odd, not a boy racer. This was in Oxford.

Dh heard elsewhere yesterday that someone in a fairly affluent London postcode, has been unable to find anyone to insure his Range Rover - apparently because so many in that area get nicked!

Yes not fish and chips, sorry 🫠

Don’t understand why things have increased so much. My car insurance last year was under £300, this years quote was just under £1000. No claims no change. How do they justify that.

Not fish and chips ( obviously) but the guy who fitted our log burner a few years ago told us yesterday that it would cost us twice as much to have one fitted now.

Call it what you like GSM my car, house and holiday insurances have tripled this year. I see that as 300% increase in cost. No change or claims either.

Last time we had F&C from the chippy near dd in Oxford, the portions were HUGE - and we’re not small eaters - easily plenty for 2. Seemed quite reasonable, but it was over a year ago.

TBH I’ve never considered any takeaway a ‘cheap’ meal.

I have Bells quite near me - award winning. Take out fish and chips are just short of £11.
To eat in, it’s nearer £15, although they do a smaller portion midweek for £10. For some reason, the smaller isn’t available to take out.

I live in a so called deprived seaside town

Local chippie, small haddock chips, mushy peas 4.30
Large haddock and chips, mushy peas 7.70, enough for two .
Rating 4.7.
They're very good. Must remember though wages here are lower, but doesn't stop them eating their weekly treat.

Around £6 to £8 for cod and chips around here

We live near the coast and get Light Bite cod n chips for £6.50 each. You get a reasonable sized piece of fish and half chips (generous) or you can have sausage and chips or chicken nuggets and chips for same price.

I think full size fish n chips is about £12 but we find that too big and we hate waste.

Philippa111

I know prices of things have gone up but I think many are just putting up prices because it's accepted now. My Virgin Media bill has gone up 33% in a year. I have to make the call.....

My Virgin bill went up to £68 this year, just a basic TV package and broadband, after a phone call it came down to £29 for 18 months with some sort of boosted broadband speed.

WhatsApp is answered quicker than the phone line.

£11 for large cod and chips in Hampshire, we share it, plenty for two.
As GSM said, fuel, oil, fish and potatoes have gone up and wages.

I have to say , despite the price of cod & chips now. I was recently in the local Chunese take-away. I rarely have it because it alo has risen in price.. but on the way home I dropped in and ordered a curry, and waited 15 minutes for it.

In that time, the phone didn't top ringing with orders. There must have been 10 call or more, and every call was given their bill total, and not one total was less than £40.

I couldn't believe what I was hearing, so in just 10 calls or 15 minutes that one Chinese take-away took a minimum of £400 in orders. Goodness knows what they're taking from the whole day are , much less the week

£15 for cod & chips at the local chippy here in the greater London area.
The chippy was a favourite for miles around for decades and every Friday night without fail, the queue would be around the block even in the height of summer.
Not now.. very few people can afford it

Inflation is just the rate at which prices are increasing silverlining, not the amount of the increase.

I know prices of things have gone up but I think many are just putting up prices because it's accepted now. My Virgin Media bill has gone up 33% in a year. I have to make the call.....