Fish and chips is a British family favourite equally enjoyed around the table on a Friday night or out of the paper on an often overcast beach.
But the deep fried delicacy has seen the biggest price increase of some of the UK’s most popular takeaways, according to new figures.
The average price for a portion of fish and chips rose more than 50% to nearly £10 in the five years to July – while the cost of a kebab went up 44% and pizza 30%.
Chip shop owners cite a “perfect storm” of costs in recent years, including soaring energy bills, tariffs on seafood imports and extreme weather hammering potato harvests.
This all means a family of four won’t get much change out of a £50 note once they’ve forked out for their tea and added some mushy peas and cans of pop.
My favourite local Chinese takeaway has stickers on the menu saying the prices aren’t accurate, presumably because they got a big batch printed and don’t fancy binning them. As they don’t have an online presence, you have to order by phone or in person, so you never know how much it’s going to cost. Despite this, they are always run off their feet as the food is a level above the competitions - the salt and pepper siu mai are divine.
I mean I get that prices have gone up, but it’s not difficult or costly these days to print out correct pricing for accurate up to date, in store menus, should someone call in for an order, remind them over the phone prices have changed, and tell them what each item will cost when they order it, anything other is shady as fuck, no matter how good the food is, it would probably annoy me to the point of going elsewhere. Probably. Unless they sold huge old school new york take out egg rolls as big as half your arm, if they did that I’d turn my pockets inside out until lint fell out.
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They don’t do deliveries either and only take cash.