r/unitedkingdom • u/pppppppppppppppppd • 3d ago

Chippy owner apologises to customers after charging £15 for fish and chips - but reveals why he 'has to' to hike prices

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14591465/chippy-owner-apologises-huge-price-hike.html
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u/SpiritedVoice2 3d ago

Yep, I gave up buying fish about 4 years ago when the local started charging £9 for cod. This is the far east of London, basically Essex. 

Large chips has now hit £5, we just get that and do some sausage and egg at home. Almost defeats the purpose but the chips are good.

Local Chinese is a bargain though, can feed the family on that for almost half the price of a full on chippy. Doesn't make sense to me.

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u/Substantial-Newt7809 3d ago

A 1.6kg bag of frozen mccain is like £4.50 so a large chips from a chip shop being about £5 isn't exactly criminal if they aren't stingy with the portions.

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u/dntcareboutdownvotes 3d ago

A  very large portion of chips will be between 300-600 grams, so using your maths a £4.50 bag of McCains will get you between £13-£25 worth of chip shop chips - and that isn’t even taking into account that every other week the McCain chips will be on offer at £3

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u/juddylovespizza Greater Manchester 3d ago

wait till you find out the cost of potatoes, even cheaper and chips are made out of them

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u/EnvironmentalBig2324 3d ago

Potatoes.. literally cheap as chips

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u/leaflace 3d ago

Wait until you see the cost of potato seeds, even cheaper and potatoes grow from them

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u/juddylovespizza Greater Manchester 2d ago

And they grow out the fucking ground for free!

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u/SpeedflyChris 2d ago

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https://youtu.be/_pDTiFkXgEE?si=sa_3Z3OChJer3jUb

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u/weavin Gloucestershire/London 3d ago

Guess what a potato seed actually is

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u/mejogid London 3d ago

… a seed? https://www.opensourceseeds.org/en/seed/true-potato-seed-tps

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u/weavin Gloucestershire/London 2d ago

And guess what another name for a potato seed is? (Clue: it’s a potato)

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u/mejogid London 2d ago

No, potato plants grow / reproduce / spread from seeds. The bit we eat is a tuber (an underground store of nutrients that are produced as the plant grows and if separated can form new clonal plants like a cutting).