Harry Rams-Done?

[FatticusInch]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-62650572

Hopefully this won’t happen but who knows? It is strange that for an island nation our fish prices are so astronomical and have been high for years.
Coupled with the cost of other ingredients, have we had our chips?

[webbo3]

Have a look at the prices at the Bishopston Fish Bar

[Zacs-Master]

'Some shops in the West of England' wouldn't seem to indicate a national crisis.

[davebro]

Just had fish, chips & mushy peas. £5.50 - comparable with burger joints & probably less than Indian/Chinese takeaways.

[Old_Geezer]

Harry shut up their nearest shop to me decades ago.

Everyone is feeling the pinch from both pandemic and Russian aggression. Chip shops ain't alone. Let them sell pie & chips, sausage & chips, pasty & chips, etc. instead. Or better still make the portions a feasible size instead of trying to feed the five thousand and charging for it in each "portion".

[jourdain2]

The original Harry Ramsden's up at Menston (between Bradford & Otley) is still going strong as far as I know - chandeliers and all. It was a great treat to go there when I was little.
If sunflower oil etc. is too expensive, why don't the shops return to using dripping?

[emeritus]

The original Harry Ramsdens at Guiseley is now a Wetherby Whaler. Part of a Yorkshire chain of Fish Restaurants.

[barry1010]

I had fish and chips cooked in dripping last week - the only way to cook them.
I eat a lot of fish and really haven't noticed the price of wet fish rising too much. I had 6 sides of sockeye salmon delivered by Ocado yesterday because it's currently on offer.

[DTCwordfan]

£4.25 for cod and £4-75 for plaice or haddock, an amazing £2.25 regular chips and £1.50 for mushy peas..One local place is charging £6.50 for cod, £6.80 for plaice and £7.00 for plaice, add a £1 on for large and the std. chips even come in at £3 - outrageous.

Not much change out of a tenner - and we have *** fish all around us!

[barry1010]

DTC, I have never eaten pizza but I do drive past a Domino's a see that a 'small' pizza (7")for one is £9 to take away - and that's just the pizza. Give me fish and chips any day

[DTCwordfan]

I agree on that - and certainly not a Dominos......

[burlyshirley1]

Aww that would be a shame if we said goodbye to the good old fish and chip shop ! I had a lovely fish and chip meal at Harry Ramsdens on a day trip to Blackpool some years ago together with bread and butter and a pot of tea, it would be a shame to see all that die out. However, there is a fish and chip shop in my town centre which seems to always have customers, I only went once and I found the chips too hard !

[barry1010]

The chip shops round here sell battered orange chips http://www.foodsofengland.co.uk/Orange_Chips.htm

[DTCwordfan]

its so that tonyav can see them, barrie....

[naomi24]

Large cod, haddock, rock or plaice £6.70 - with chips £8.40. Skate with chips £10.40. Mushy peas (a sin against fish & chips in my opinion and to be avoided at all costs - bloody northern habit!) £1. Extra large fish £1 more.

Good fish & chips worth every penny. I would hate to see the shops close.

[barry1010]

I'm sure tonyav has eaten them many times, DTC

[DTCwordfan]

they are orange so the locals can see them through the daytime smog emanating from their motorways and, at night, they can help as reflectors.

[barry1010]

Very true.

[Captain2]

Our guilty love is the Chippy once a month; two large cod, large chips (enough for at least three), large mushy peas (sorry Naomi) and large spicy curry sauce, for £18.20, which is not too bad; but must say it has just gone up from £15.20. Still love it.

[naomi24]

Curry sauce!!! Noooooo!!

[Zacs-Master]

Yeeeeees! ;-)