Why are Fish & Chips so Expensive? £££

Talking about the price of fish and chips and why they are so expensive now. For more videos, click this link • Daily Vlog

[@steveandrews5274]

Maybe we should start a campaign for british fish and chips, not to be taxed as a national dish for the people

[@PaulDenison-h7t]

Just lost my fish shop this week everything has gone up in price oil was £28 now £37 fish was 65 now £90 and with the new rules of the new packaging and electric gas ect i was working for nothing back in the day you could make a good living now your lucky if you can pay the bills.

[@Kennynwten]

Thats very sad

[@Baldfoodieguylifestyle]

Oh I'm so sorry Paul to hear it. I hope things get better for you.

[@Krookavan]

@@PaulDenison-h7t sorry you've had to close your shop 😢 But why have prices gone up so quickly? There must be a cause or reason why. 🤔

[@Kennynwten]

I lost my used car business during covid and i also lost of money

[@EdsCanineAcademy]

Chippies lost their appeal when they stopped cooking in beef dripping 🤷‍♀️. Personally myself I would never eat out a chip shop that uses oil over beef dripping. Sorry you lost your shop, but there has been no public push back on anything this government has pushed 🤷‍♀️. People compliance during the pandemic really didn’t help!

[@thefirstmanwho]

I always laugh at the episode of the royal family where they all order fish and chips and Jim gives Anthony a £20 note and says don’t forget the change there was like 7 of them lol

[@AliSkarsgard]

😂 too right… those were the days (I think I’m officially old to have just said that🤪) *best show ever by the way*

[@martinjb55]

When I was 18, in 1973/1974 I used to go out with my mates on a Friday night. I had £1 for the night and we'd have 4 pints, 17p each pint, and fish and chips and still have change. If I go way back my Mum got us fish and chips for two shillings each, 10p in modern prices. I have no doubt someone can beat that,😂

[@yorkiemike]

@@martinjb55 Right but what was that actually the equivalent to in today's money? Because you weren't buying fish and chips for the equivalent of 10p modern money, were you?

[@lauren6889]

@@thefirstmanwho Royle

[@englishcat19]

@@thefirstmanwho yeah,blowing the £20 note to make sure 2 weren’t stuck together

[@Steve3851]

I wish all the fish and chip shops all the best.

[@Baldfoodieguylifestyle]

Spot on Steve

[@harleymac6308]

Fish & chips have to be a real treat these days. Back in the day, it was a regular family occurrence on a Friday. The family would get together & enjoy a Fish & chips tea. It can't be easy running a chip shop with all the rising costs. You're spot on! 👍

[@robertcreighton4635]

In Victorian times, it was a life saver for street urchins and the like. It's a bit posh now 😂

[@robertcreighton4635]

@peterwickett9088 or just make at home takes less than an hour

[@chipnroll]

yeah my nanny and grandad use to have it every Friday and mum n dad not possible now

[@yutehube4468]

When your parents are having building work done on the kitchen like a new floor put in, so cooking is impossible and every night for a week was a chippy tea... or was that just me... it can't be. That was probably 40 years ago around 1984 and I remember it like it was yesterday because a chippy tea was a treat, once a week or twice a month, but that week it was every night for 6 days in a row. 🙂It was up there with going to "Makro" once in a while.

[@EdsCanineAcademy]

Hardly a treat when cooked in cheap oils 🥴.

[@paulcole4902]

I remember when I was kid if I had a £1 note I was rich, because i could get a small bag of chips a can of pop a couple of games on space invaders plus a 10 penny mix afterwards and still have change,that's what i call happy days and very very happy memories growing up as a child on a rough housing estate back then,but I never got into any trouble with the law because I was the fastest runner back then 😅👍

[@gulfstream7235]

Yeah, a quid lasted a long time as a kid in the 80's...

[@MRMURK4G3]

We run a café, which isn't a dedicated fish & chip only establishment so i cannot fully speak on behalf of them, but fish & chips is the most expensive item on our menu. Fish is generally very expensive to buy these days, even at wholesale. Cod from memory is around £34.99 for 2.3kg which give you around 8-9 pieces of fish only which already is ~£4.35 per fish and thats without the chips + extras. Most places now are not even selling you cod, they will be obscure and say fish & chips, serving you with something like Basa instead for similar money to keep costs down. Oil is also very expensive, lets say £28 per 20 litres. Fryers take a lot of oil and need regular changing to be fresh and clean. Big scale chippies probably get better prices on what i described above due to mass buying and agreements with catering suppliers, but it will still be not much cheaper imo. It's high because they need to earn money to survive. There is so many costs to running a restaurant which people dont even consider. Understandably, i am in the same boat when i go out and see the high prices but i can see from their POV and i dont mind paying it every now and then - sadly it will probably only ever go up too

[@Baldfoodieguylifestyle]

Thanks for this comment 👍 very open, I appreciate it. Hope your business is doing ok.

[@robertbox5399]

With net-zero electricity and electric transport things will get cheaper in another 100 or so years!

[@bigwideworld387]

​@@robertbox5399the problem is the supply of fish as the seas around the UK are not rich in fish, the seas have warmed up to much for haddock, they prefer the waters of Scandinavia and have migrated. Brexit removed most of our fishing quota to fish up there. So supply is short and you get bidding wars at the fish markets.

[@petersloan5779]

@@MRMURK4G3 so why were they so expensive before Covid etc ? Chips shouldn’t be anywhere near the price they are now I know what your paying for potatoes & 90 % of chippys are buying the cheapest every last piece of potatoes goes into a bag to the point you can’t feed kids the hard pointed crap that should be discarded ,if your produce is good you’ll make a good living even if you discounted a fish & chips by 40%. I think you lot look a a mc Donald’s & my stuff is well worth more than that crap & your right but that shit isn’t worth the box they put it in ,get kids coming back to the fish shop that’s gonna be ya future make them tasty

[@petersloan5779]

@@bigwideworld387 well they would if we took control over our waters that’s why we brexited we are a soft touch vote REFORM to get Britain great again we will totally Brexit from the ECHR then we can take control of the the stupid QUOTER system the fishermen have to discard perfectly good fish because of the stupid EU incompetence this policy is THE MAIN cause of low stocks

[@paulthomas3889]

1/6d when I was a kid, Friday Nights, and Steptoe and son, in Black & White.

[@tigerrick]

@@paulthomas3889 Sounds like heaven! 👍

[@Rowan-d2y]

I think some are definitely taking advantage of the overall price hike costs for fuel and it’s knock on effect. Some are using it as an excuse to get more profit, some are not. Seems counterintuitive to up prices too much because ultimately people will walk. I’ve stopped going to some that we’re taking the Micky, so basically they have lost trade. I know many who have cut back, sadly that way, we all loose because if enough stop going they will have to decrease prices or shut. Take care 😊

[@lynnharling7497]

@@Rowan-d2y agree with you view ! Think another have got very greedy x

[@SpotlessLeopard]

I'm having fish, chips, and garden peas cos it's in the oven as I write this. Fish, about £2.50 for four, and the oven chips about four quid a bag. Peas next to nothing. To make it seem like a real chippy, I'm gonna wrap it in newspaper and get my Chinese neighbour to serve it to me after I've employed twenty actors to stand in a queue behind me tutting and looking at their watches.

[@LurkingCrassZero]

The Chinese neighbour makes it truly authentic. lol. Granny Wong's is my local Chippy. They're pretty great. Cheap as well. Ironically their limited Chinese menu isn't very good at all. lol

[@sevenjane1]

😂😂

[@SpotlessLeopard]

​@@LurkingCrassZeroI've also added one of them things that catch flies, and employed twenty teenagers to stand outside smoking spice.

[@SpotlessLeopard]

​@@sevenjane1I'm having kebabs for my tea later, so I've employed twelve illegal immigrants to stand around looking in various cupboards and then wrapping my tea in a plastic carton with a fork stuck in the top.

[@sevenjane1]

@@SpotlessLeopard 🤣🤣

[@brianbarber4070]

I think people forget about where the fish come from. A lot is caught in waters that are dangerous for the fishermen and women who risk their lives to catch them. As an example one of my uncles worked off a trawler out of Hull where my mothers family came from. He did not go to sea once and it was lucky for him, though not for his mates aboard it, because that boat sank with all hands. This was the life of fisher folk. Most families in Hull lost people to the sea. Sorry to ramble on but they deserve every penny they earn, and more.

[@bigwideworld387]

As a Hull lass yes it's true but the bigger issue in this day and age is we don't have a lot of fish left in our waters. Haddock doesn't like our warming waters and has migrated to Scandinavian waters that Brexit has largely banned us from fishing in.

[@julesb7707]

Mathews Chippy in Grimsby does fish & chips for £3! Let’s all go there.

[@LurkingCrassZero]

Was watching a video of their fish and chips the other day. Not only cheap, but looks like amazing portion size and quality.

[@yutehube4468]

The fish where I am (Manchester) is £3 and small chips is £1.50. Their small chips is huge though. Their large chips (£2.50) would feed 3 or 4 people, as long as it had peas, gravy, curry or all of those with it. Back in the late 1980's I remember buying chip cones (maybe half a "small" chips of today) for 25p. Always bought them as a kid, because those chip cones cost the same as a Mars bar, but the chips were way more filling. We were poor... I remember my mate getting fish fingers from his freezer and we used to eat them frozen!

[@chucky2316]

It won't be cod it will be coley or pollack

[@annettewalter2273]

@@julesb7707 wish they were in Australia, Fish are plentiful but still very expensive. Used to be a staple. 😒😒

[@LurkingCrassZero]

@@chucky2316 Mathews Chippy is haddock he smokes himself.

[@susandavis4821]

Evening Gareth I agree think fish and chips are expensive these days it use to be a cheaper meal, not now. Maybe if councils didn't charge small business owners less rates etc they wouldn't need to charge so much for stuff/ food etc. Lots of small business's near where I live have closed as they can't afford the rent/rates. She shops are all boarded up looks terrible. Surely its better to have shops open so reduce rents/rates. That's my thoughts Gareth. Thank you for vlog Sue

[@Keinerboy]

2 cod fillets from Lidl for £3.65 . Make my own batter (flour and water), deep fry and serve with home made chips . 2 fish and chip suppers for less than a fiver and better than most chippies. Not been to a chippy for about 3 years after being brought up having fish or whatever every week. Feel really sorry for families today.😒

[@yorkiemike]

There's something about the real thing though that just hits different...even though it's a treat I can rarely justify anymore.

[@Keinerboy]

@@yorkiemike I agree. But when other things are going up its difficult to justify the expense.

[@lucifermorningstar4606]

More competition would be a factor. Back in the day, the chip shop would only need to open for a few hours a day, get a massive que and sell up by closing. Now to compete with all the other take a ways and fast food options, they need to be open all day increasing their costs wile spreading the purchasing over the day rather just those few hours they were open. I am sure anyone over 35 will remember always having to queue up outside for ages to get your order and having to remember the Monday 12-2. Tuesday closed. Wednesday 4-6... and so on.

[@john-gr8in]

The cost of fish and chips has gone up because of the lack of customers. People don't have to go out to get a takeaway now, they can have it delivered to wherever they are within 20 - 30 minutes from any takeaway of their choice, and with the country having a huge change in its ethnicity and culture in the past 10 years, fish and chips is no longer the go to takeaway. Pubs are the same, they have been on the decline in the past 5 years blaming the costs going up, but again it's the lack of customers and change in culture that's causing it. People use to have fish and chips on a Friday for supper/dinner and coming out of the pubs on the weekend they would get fish and chips or a kebab, them days are almost gone now. Give this country another 5 - 10 years and you won't know it anymore.

[@shanemckinnon5586]

Great topic to discuss. Love my fish and chips. Over here in Australia you can generally get two pieces of fish and minimum chips for about $20 which I think is roughly £10 over your way. That would feed two people. Some places are more expensive than others. Fish and chips are just as popular over here as they are where you are and the trick is to finding a really good one that provides generous servings for the price and does great chips. So you shop around til you hit a good one. I haven't been in one for a while though so I don't know just how the cost of living crisis has affected prices on this much loved meal. But I know the one I did use was still reasonably priced today. I need fish and chips now you've talked about them 😊

[@Baldfoodieguylifestyle]

Thanks Shane

[@leedsman54]

When I visited my daughter over there in the colonies we had barramundi and chips. Not quite as nice as cod or haddock but ok. Maybe cod and haddock are northern hemisphere fish.

[@shanemckinnon5586]

@@leedsman54 yes we have fish caught from New Zealand waters over here to called Hoki. That is really nice. But barramundi is popular yes.

[@unionjakjakson]

I own a Fish & Chip Shop. In a nutshell, on average, every single factor of production has doubled over the last five years. Some have more than doubled. So that's as simple as it is.

[@gordonS293]

Why have the prices doubled? Not being cheeky, just want to know why.

[@unionjakjakson]

@@gordonS293 Wow, that's a big subject. World economics. Covid started it all rolling, everything became scarce so prices started to rise. Then Ukraine really stoked it up, energy prices trebled which impacted nearly everything. As an example, Fish prices rose around 70%, potatoes 300% !. Things have steadied now, but what's next..Israel and the middle east conflicts! Who knows mate, who knows.

[@gordonS293]

@unionjakjakson Thanks for that bud. I just feel now that big companies look for any excuse to keep prices high. Covid was the start, but that was 3 years ago and prices are at the same level or higher. In a so called cost of living crisis, nobody seems keen to cut prices. Not a dig at fish and chips mate, just in general.

[@rkeirle1]

@@unionjakjakson Being a fish shop owner could you please tell me if it’s true that you cannot give or sell what I call scratching (the bits of batter). Some one told me it’s now against the law, but some people it seems can still get them, some being charged for them. Thank you.

[@unionjakjakson]

@@gordonS293 I agree. Sadly having reached a benchmark, i think that suppliers will be very reluctant to go back to the old prices. You also have to factor in the 3rd world is getting richer. Their mass populations now have more money & they are now able to buy things that 20 yrs ago, only a few could dream of...like Fish. Hence the price will follow demand, fish is finite. In a nutshell, if you want Haddock or Cod, we will have to outbid them!

[@susannah1184]

The supply chain puts the prices up and so the knock on effect for retailers/us. Great vlog, cheers xx

[@johncahill9215]

Hi Gareth. Fish Stocks are decimated compared to the 1980's . Trawlers have to travel farther and stay out longer to get enough fish to pay the bills. there are a lot less local boats now but the Factory Fleet's come from all over the World. Demand is High for Fish pushing up Prices everywhere and they will get even higher as stocks decrease.

[@yutehube4468]

In the past, fisherman have become millionaires, not from trying to become millionaires, they just went out doing their usual fishing in places like Grimsby and that's just how things went. I am going back a long way, to the late 1970's and early 1980's. Nowadays it's impossible but really, those guys are risking their lives out there every time they go out. 40 years ago they got rewarded but not now.

[@Baldfoodieguylifestyle]

Thanks John

[@MartynCampbell-ib5gr]

Potato suppliers have put their prices up and so have fish suppliers and the rise in electricity costs all adds to the cost . Our local chip shop in Cowbridge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 for four of us is around £18 all fish and chips if I took the family to fcdonalds 😂 it would cost a lot more . And the chip shop we use cook in a healthy oil so your topic is a great one some charge a fortune x Our chippy on a Friday is jammed all day as here is always fish Friday Indian/Chinese Saturday x now the blooming Chinese restaurant takeaway here prices are very expensive cheaper to have an Indian x looking good Gareth Best wishes from a ☀️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 very rare

[@Baldfoodieguylifestyle]

Cheers Martyn all the best pal, have a good weekend 👍

[@Nite-owl]

Oddly enough I was watching a KZbin video earlier where a chippy in Grimsby is selling fish, chips and mushy peas for £3.

[@captaincat1743]

Me too ! I just wrote a comment about it also. He is selling at cost price, so we know how much the other chippys are making. (about £6 profit per portion)

[@gregevigan]

@@captaincat1743 no that is not accurate, he is selling at a loss. no profit.

[@unionjakjakson]

@@captaincat1743 Not necessarily true. What type of fish are they using? Haddock, Cod, or some random catfish from Vietnam(cleverly renamed by marketeers as " Bassa "). Massive difference in cost there. Has the fish been frozen(at sea), frozen when landed, or is it genuinely fresh?. Massive difference in cost there. What weight of fish is in a portion in each shop? massive difference in cost there also. I could go on and on. Just find one that you think gives you pleasure and value.

[@captaincat1743]

@@gregevigan I bet you or your family owns a chip shop. And if you do I bet you have nice cars houses and designer clothes. Yes you deserve that if you work so hard but many people do real hard work for minimum wage, in steelworks and all sorts and chippy owners think they have it hard., it makes me laugh and £3 easily pays the costs. dont try and pretend otherwise.

[@jimg9820]

@@captaincat1743 Its possible the Grimsby one is operating from an owned chippy. A lot of chippies will be in rented premises and so have much higher overheads, especially if the business rates are high in their area.

[@Pattilapeep]

Same here in the US. Everything is up. The fishery where we picked up ours is in a small town called Keyport. The fishery has been in business since 1936. The quality is super, but the prices have skyrocketed over the years. We don't have it nearly as often as we used to. as for fish & chips flounder and chips is $18.76 . That's for fish (a good portion) fries (also a good portion) and a very small amount of cole slaw. Haddock is somewhat cheaper, but for an ordinary weekday meal it has priced us out. Except for very special occasions. Take care. Cheers Pat in New Jersey

[@Baldfoodieguylifestyle]

Thanks Pat

[@menopausalbarbie7467]

Fish and chips is an occasional treat for me these days. Thanks for another interesting video 💜💜💜

[@Baldfoodieguylifestyle]

Cheers Barbie, yes I had a moment lol got my thinking head on lol

[@TroubleCTR]

It hurts now when you treat yourself to fish n chips and it's not even made well 😢 happened to me last night.

[@paulcole4902]

Simple answer about why fish is so expensive these days because the is a lot less fish in the sea, due to over trawling with mile long net's catching everything within it and a lot ending up back in the sea dead,Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall once done a program about it,very interesting to watch to find out why fish are so expensive 👍

[@petersloan5779]

This is why we need to get out of the EU completely lock stock & barrel it’s the EU that is at fault for the price of fish & more so the bloody waste GET OUT OF THE ECHU & take our waters back we have loads of fish ,the way to preserve it is to stop throwing good fish back into the sea dead because of a quota nonsense

[@TheSkids1234]

My local chippy, where I've been going sine '75 does a large fish & chips, peas, bread & butter and a pot of tea for just under £9, not too bad!

[@AliSkarsgard]

This is a great topic for discussion Gaz- honestly, prices blow my mind, but it trickles down doesn’t it? I mean supplies are so high, the chippy has to make a living ~and if I’m honest it’s not the same making fish dinner at home. Sometimes you just gotta have a good ol chippy xx

[@Baldfoodieguylifestyle]

@@AliSkarsgard thanks Ali x

[@coolerkin]

In the 80s the self service restaurant I used to manage you could purchase Fish, Chips, peas and a pot of tea for£1.99

[@Baldfoodieguylifestyle]

They were the days.

[@robertcreighton4635]

@coolerkin I'm so old I remember those days. It was all fields when I was young

[@timcrook2231]

Bargain 😋

[@dannyhogi4953]

Yep they was the days ​@@Baldfoodieguylifestyle

[@Electrowave]

Our Morrisons do fish & chips with peas or beans for £8, and it's pretty decent. Cod and chips at our local restaurant with many awards is £12.30 for a fish meal to take away, and includes new landings of cod or haddock, local chips, mushy peas (or beans), lemon, and home made tartare sauce. I think it costs more to sit in and eat but I can't remember. They are a seafood restaurant so have a lot more on offer but that's the popular fish & chips meals. They do a light option for £11.05 which is the same apart from less chips and I think a smaller fish, too. The £12.30 meal I used to share with my daughter (back when it was under a tenner just a few years ago!) but she's too big now and eats too much so she gets her own meal! 🙂

[@JumpinJackCaf]

I'll watch the full vid later I promise mate but gotta say (I'm not into blokes either 😂).. look like a different bloke since no boozing, well done again.. 133 days today for me so race you to a year! Have a good weekend and thanks again for the channel

[@john07973]

We're going to Port Isaac Cornwall tomorrow for a few nights (free at a mates 2nd home 🌝) will probably have fish and chips - I doubt if there is an out of season rate.

[@mctasty6094]

It's so tasty love fish & chips

[@ScottishT]

I think the main point is there isn't anything left in Britain that is a nice little bargain. Everything has went up, wages haven't particularly and it means it's a bigger struggle for families

[@lauragibbs7859]

Yes, in the 80’s the prices were no problem. I remember Tony’s on my street in Sharrow area of Sheffield, he was very popular. Customers came from far to his fish & chip shop because the food was so good.

[@yutehube4468]

When I was a kid (late 1980's / early 1990's) we used to get a "chip cone" and that was a decent amount of chips, for us as kids... those were 25p. Today a small portion of chips is £1.50. Fish is over £3. I am sure back then fish was under £1.

[@davidclayton8660]

A lot of small businesses used to pay there staff cash in hand also no minimum wage. I think this has a lot to do with the cost of a chippy tea these days.

[@stevelewis2378]

I remember in the early 70s, there was a massive shortage of potatoes due to insects or disease. The price of chips rocketed that year. No problem with that, as it was justified. The next year, crop levels returned to normal and the price of potatoes dropped to a much lower level, but did they reduce the price of chips? Of course, they didn't. Chip shop owners were making massive profits ripping off their customers.

[@simonKagree]

It's funny because fish and chips used to be a workers' meal, a cheap dig-in. I think it's partly down to increased regulation of fishing, partly labor costs of handling (battering and cutting), partly less tolerance of bad product (fishy fish, old oil) by the consumer, partly the cost of transport, and who knows what else. The town where I live (in the States!), we have one great chippie and some lesser possibilities, and I don't think I'm getting out of them without dropping $20, so I buy frozen (breaded, not battered) fish and frozen chips and stay at home. I do cook, but that's a lot of oil to deal with for one meal.

[@KeithWright-nn9fz]

Weatherspoons,do Fabulous fish and chips,great price as well,🤠🍻🍻 Love spoon,s,miss it as well,as I am now living in France,1st thing I do when I pop back to the uk,is vist my local spoons in Basingstoke,Bon weekend,guys,🤠🍷🍷🍷🍷al

[@FoodTravelwithJames]

Good vlog this and like you say mate, up for discussions really. I've done loads of F&C reviews and prices do vary and some are still decent value for money....like with everything, you do tend to need to pay for good quality stuff. Sadly, see loads of chippies closing because they aren't financially viable.

[@Baldfoodieguylifestyle]

Thanks James

[@betagombar9022]

I've not had fish and chips in 3 years 😭 the last time I did treat myself to it I nearly fell over when they told me the price of £9 😳 I think it's around £14 now here where I am in Essex, I definitely won't be having it anytime soon 😳😳

[@marineboy1964]

It is £3.30 just for a bag of chips at my local chippy , We've started buying our fish from aldi , 4 chucky cod in the air fryer and chips from the chippy , that's in brum

[@peterclarke3300]

Interesting topic Gaz the price of chips is extremely silly, when you consider the price the farmer gets for potatoes,fish I can understand a bit concerning where it comes from,and process it goes though I know that, a chippy about 30 years ago and about 6 miles away from us changed hands for just under £1 million then put the rates they pay which has also gone silly 🤷‍♂️👍👍

[@Baldfoodieguylifestyle]

You're right Peter

[@johnembery7801]

Business rates are horrendous then rent, electric, gas, water, before you start to buy any produce, wow i wonder sometimes how they actually make a living. As you said everything has and is still going up i worry what is going to happen will it ever stop. I really worry for the future and our kids. 🙄. Thanks Gaz for highlighting this. 👍😊

[@mousecharger]

In 80s our chippy night was every Friday or after we went on a day out, even as a kid just fancying some chips for me dinner in newspaper (and change lol). Pies n sausages in a chippy are going up as well even the small tubs if gravy or peas. It's become a treat now

[@ED-209-8K]

I use to get a small fish and chips much peas on the way home from cod’s corner after a night out for 2.25 and that was the early 2000s! It was even cheaper when we had chick king chippie at five shops in the 90s! Can’t really get decent fish and chips now for less than £30 where we were living in the UK! Now I eat Thai foods daily it’s great 😂 All the best Gaz

[@Cromptoversial]

I was only saying this to the better half the other day, We haven't even got a potato famine or the cod war now nirther. Love your videos keep up the good work,

[@Baldfoodieguylifestyle]

Thank you

[@bigwideworld387]

We haven't got much fish in our waters, our seas are too warm now for haddock which have migrated to the waters of Scandinavia and Brexit took away most of our quota to fish up there.

[@AshleyKitchin]

Me and my wife Sammy went to Bowness and had a cone of chips and curry sauce plus a can of pop today and it was near £5. I was going there back in the 90s and it couldnt have been more than £1.50 for the lot. Its more now, but my word was it worth it! We're going to go back tomorrow and on Sunday too - you cant beat it

[@adfe8921]

Historical overfishing worldwide has drastically reduced the numbers of fish in the ocean, so the cost of it has gone sky high! It's too bad. Ocean fish used to be an excellent source of lower priced protein.

[@williamlong7188]

We had a takeaway from Blackpool ‘s famous Yorkshire Fisheries where it’s been rated very highly by locals & tourists alike just about 3 weeks ago before we left to go home to Scotland. We got a king Haddock ( bloody massive) with loads of chips which is about £17.40 or £17.60 . Added extras curry sauce, tartare sauce ketchup, mushy peas and gravy all homemade and delicious. We bought a can of Vimto and a bottle of Coca Cola . It came to around £22 or £23 all in . We shared it me my other half and the dog . It was a rare treat. Probably saved money that way because the fish was massive and chips plentiful. It was a rare treat won’t be back down until the next year now . Sat in the car in the central car park opposite Coral Island 🏝️ looking out to the sea on my left hand side and the tower on the front. But most of the time now we make our own at home using an air fryer which you can cook haddock or cod alongside simultaneously for 15 minutes at 200 heat setting. Easy peasy stuff .

[@katiemartin2279]

July 23,sit down restaurant in Seahouses in Northumberland,3 of us.2 fish and chips and fishcakes and chips for one with mushy peas,bread and butter and tea.£63.😢

[@captaincat1743]

There's also a vid on YT of a Chippy owner who sells fish and chips for £3.00 because he has made his money and is selling it at cost price to give something back to the community. And the portions are very generous! Just to let you all know how much profit is made on a fish and chips meal. Anyone charging over £7 and complaining they are skint is talking out of their backside.

[@gregevigan]

not accurate. the £3 guy is making a loss.

[@hunglikeanhamster931]

@@captaincat1743 I smelly something fishy going on there 🙄

[@yorkiemike]

No, you are mistaken. You have found one example of a man making a loss on his business and decided that all fish and chip shop owners must be ripping you off. This is a false equivalence.

[@yorkiemike]

@@hunglikeanhamster931 the fishy thing is that his logic is flawed.

[@EdsCanineAcademy]

Yeah that stuff looked cheap and nasty!

[@thedean4431]

tesco beer battered cod yellow label 2.30 then buy the chips and curry 3.50 supply your own peas 70p mushy asda so for 2 meals £6.50p

[@lynnlarkins5172]

At our local chippy its £8.50 for Fish and Chips .When i was a kid we had a chip shop across the road from us everyone used to ask for a Fish and Six. We always used to get larger portions because my next door neighbour worked there and the owner was my dads friends Mum lol.There were 2 in our street the one further up sold nothing else but Fish and Chips no peas or extras no pop just Fish and Chips

[@Baldfoodieguylifestyle]

Thanks Lynn

[@lynnlarkins5172]

@@Baldfoodieguylifestyle Just watched another you tubers video you may have seen him he travels aound trying food on recomendations and like yourself a lovely down to earth guy. he visited my home town of Grimsby and went to the Fish and chip shop around the corner from my childhood home the cheapest Fish and chips in the uk.He got Fish Chips and Mushy peas a can of Fanta £3.80 fish chips and peas £3 he wasnt expecting much for the money but was a good portion chips cooked in Beef dripping he gave it a 9 out of 10

[@martynwestone1]

You would be lucky to get a large cod and chips for less than £16 down here. I have been pushed to supermarket frozen fish n chips. But its not the same zzz-zz

[@blaser80]

Fish and Chips got hit with inflation on everything, it's no joke, could probably write an essay on this. Fish is expensive and everyone wants cod mostly imported, cooking oil more than doubled in wholesale prices, potatoes used to be cheap and a lot of farmers dropped production around 2015 for more profitable crop. Those that do still grow potatoes got hit by poor yield due to bad weather, if you remember last year all our normal veggies were tiny. Then you have rent and energy prices, businesses aren't protected with energy price cap like household consumers.

[@nicolavallely8076]

❤ I like home baked fish and chips, just blows my mind how much they are these days ❤️🌟🍟🍦🐟

[@SD-fb7ev]

I was watching a video on KZbin and in Grimsby there was a shop doing fish & chips and peas for £3-00 I think it was called Mathews.

[@mandyg.3004]

Due to over fishing and the cost of living prices have doubled.

[@Baldfoodieguylifestyle]

Very true

[@Phil_McAvity]

Good video. I’m not from the uk but my question would be….. what was the hourly wage for the common working man in 1985? And what is it today? Compared with the price of fish & chips to then & now, including inflation I wonder what the actual difference is.

[@TheAdArchive]

Murgatroyds in Leeds does a regular fish and chips for £15 and another down the road is essentially £10. I think both are very reasonable and the quality is amazing. I think running a chippy must be hard but if you give exceptional quality like Murgatroyds- people will still flock to you and pay. Murgatroyd’s are queing out the door every Friday.

[@PERKYWENDY]

I cook my own, I do 50p per portion fish either battered or breaded from Tesco’s “hearty food company” with cauliflower cheese (50p each) and various types of chips but always the cheapest and healthiest only 125g I was diabetic, but this diet has helped my lose 10 stone and my diabetes has gone into remission. I was doing mushy peas but don’t need those anymore so now I have 80g of Birds Eye frozen peas and 50g of mushy peas. Sometimes I can even eat that meal twice a day, not great but I haven’t been feeling hungry and can stick to 1500 calories per day. All going well until my medication changed, don’t need my diabetes medication anymore so my doctor stopped that. However that was a diet suppressant, and I am now struggling to keep my diet down to 1700 calories per day. Good luck if you go this as I have, for someone who had zero will power I found cutting back on things hard but not impossible. Reducing one thing at a time is how I did it. I didn’t realise my Metformin was restricting what I was eating

[@Baldfoodieguylifestyle]

Sounds great

[@shaun30-3-mg9zs]

Hi Gareth, Fish and Chips today is more of a luxury, not as it was in the 1980's back then it was a cheap meal wrapped up in yesterday's news paper. Saying that Jones's chippy in the centre of Wrexham do a fish and chips for £7.20 and one of if not the best fish and chips in Wrexham. Catch you soon have a good weekend take care

[@lisanelson9979]

Chips in news paper was the best.

[@karl8049]

I buy a fish meal deal from my local chippy, you get small fish, chips, mushy peas, and a can of pop for £6.50. I think it’s a great deal . You have to be ready to look for the best deals out there. 😃

[@martinquinn9007]

I agree got fish and chips last week and it was nearly £9 for a small one

[@suzylawrence6]

I can remember a time when Mum used to give me a Ten shilling note (50p) and I used to get 5 cod and 5 chips with 5 large pickled Onions and give her back change..sadly on my small pension fish and chips is no longer an option for me..

[@Baldfoodieguylifestyle]

Good memories

[@tilerman]

I remember fish and chip shops the fish would be cooked ready to go when you walked in. The chip shop near me no fish cooked and ready to go, instead in it's place catering sausages, chicken bites, wings, you know the type stuff. Fish now only cooked to order and you have to wait and the owner told me fish and chips is about 1 in 10 customers.

[@stevenblood1284]

I do my best to help businesses like fish and chip shops to lower their overheads by helping to arrange new cheaper energy contracts and also lower their merchant contracts by reducing their card payment processing fees every month.

[@andrewhead6267]

We have fish and chips about half a dozen times a year. Two fish, share a large chips and a mushy peas about £27. If it’s good I think that’s fine. Compared to the price of Domino’s pizza (we are not keen but our daughter and son in law do when they stay with us - it’s a treat and they don’t have one near them). The cost of electricity is a factor. The best fryers use electricity as they create more even heat. Gas too for cooking. All adds up when you look at the cost of the ingredients. Just checked the list of Uk richest 100 people. None run a chippie.

[@Jayemceetee]

We go to Longlands Hotel in Tewitfield. Their Thursday deal is fish, chips and mushy peas for two with curry sauce for £19. Fabulous value. Table service. The works. And it's good too!

[@Baldfoodieguylifestyle]

Good heads up 😊

[@1697djh]

The store needs to employ people and pay them the minimum wage, rent, raw food costs, fuel costs are not cheap either. Sadly no beef dripping used these days!

[@dieselbushcraft1299]

Definitely no longer a cheap meal, my children are all adults now so rarely does dad have to cough up for the whole family. When the children were growing up we did lead extravagant lives and holidays were out of the question but we always managed to have at least one day out in Whitby when we had Fish n Chips at teatime as a treat. Honestly I don’t know if we could have afforded that nowadays so I really do empathise with families.

[@keithb9207]

Five things killed this popular meal 1 Brexit we could sell our fish to the EU and now we cannot without tarrifs. 2 Energy costs to make the food cook it. 3 landlords demanding exoerbitant rents ie make the buisness fail and sell it for housing. 4 Compition by local food outlets or big chains like M&D and KFC. 5 The cost of labour not the govenment but staff as the people of this land cannot not afford to live on the pittance of the minimum wage anymore. Very dark days not just for the chipys but for all of us we are a nation of debt and buy now pay dearly latter!

[@charlotter95]

There’s a chippy in Blackpool which sells fish chips and mushy peas with bread and butter, also tea or coffee for a little over £7 and I think that’s a bargain. It’s nice also. I think it depends on a lot of things as to what the prices are

[@williamlong7188]

Is that Tower Fisheries in Topping Street? Seen it on KZbin

[@wellstream0126]

Being from a fishing town on the east coast and doing a few years on the fishing boats myself I can honestly say that the fishermen certainly don’t get much of that money made off the final product. Yet still rated the most dangerous job in Uk

[@christophersmith3338]

Do you remember the saying you don’t get much for a fiver these days, more like twenty now 😂 👍🏻

[@Mrs.S-UK]

Or £50 is the new £20! Scary

[@christophersmith3338]

@@Mrs.S-UK True 👍🏻

[@tinasmith1259]

I buy Harry Ramsdens battered haddock for our chippy night and make my own chips. They are £6 from Iceland for two fish in a box they are huge thick white fillets and taste lovely. I cook them in the air fryer, the batter is crispy and it tastes just like chippy fish. They also do battered pork jumbo sausage, chippy chips, curry, mushy peas, fishcakes, scampi , deep filled steak pie which are all just like you get from a chippy. It is cheaper than the chippy and just as good 😋

[@BASS-ALLIANCE-SOUND-SYSTEM]

Have a look in M&S freezer, beats harry ramsdens mystery fish

[@tinasmith1259]

@@BASS-ALLIANCE-SOUND-SYSTEM Do M&S deliver shopping? I have to do all my shopping on line as myself and the husband are house bond.

[@BASS-ALLIANCE-SOUND-SYSTEM]

@@tinasmith1259 Ahh, no. but ocado are full of M&S stuff and normally do a very good welcome offer of you havent used them before

[@surfleetsurfer6370]

There used to be a chippy in Keighley called H Brooks. In the late 70’s a fantastic portion of cod, chips and peas used to cost 2 quid. Now that would equate to 12 quid today. Just saying.

[@davescorpion]

It's not just chip shops, we usually have a butty day. The wife gets 2 pork sarnies, and I get a ham and peas pud and a chicken breast, usually £12.50, today it was £14.90........nearly a 20% price rise.....I guess take aways etc have to do what they have to do to make ends meet.......Cheers.

[@riddimchef1]

In the mid 70s I worked at a chip shop. Chips were 5p a portion, kids sixpence. Where I live now I paid £9.50 for a large and a standard chips 😩😢

[@carolbrand181]

Saw Gregg from Masterchef the other day on a programme from a farm & they had lots of empty potato storage crates & the reason was because of the very bad wet weather we had back then where the fields were flooded so no potatoes

[@heidihorrell319]

I keep telling myself in 10 years time i will be getting my oap fish and chips

[@cordypants3639]

Sustainable practices like line caught are less cost effective than trawlers but cause far far less damage to the ocean and other marine life. For example, pole and line fishing uses barbless hooks and short lines that can be checked more frequently. This reduces the risk of accidentally catching and killing other animals, such as dolphins, sharks, sea turtles, and diving birds. It also avoids overfishing. Myself personally, I don't mind paying more, I just have it less often.

[@jonjohnson2844]

I think about fish and chips a lot more than the other things blokes are said to think about a lot.

[@elky1883]

I smell fish a lot more then other blokes ...price a fairy jeez

[@tigerrick]

😂

[@alanalderson1427]

The increase in energy costs in 2022 caused a massive increase in costs for Fish and Chips. However, since then, the energy prices have dropped 40% and more, with no reduction in the cost of Fish and Chips. It is things like this why people think they are being ripped off.

[@oneofthenorth]

@@alanalderson1427 since the end of covid, potatoes have doubled in price. Fish is at least 50% higher if you are buying decent stuff (haddock, cod etc), oil has tripled in price. Energy costs are up, fuel is up. These also affect the suppliers of these products, which put the prices up further. Most food businesses (and there will be exceptions) aren’t putting prices up to fleece anyone, it’s literally what is needed to keep trading. And there has to be some profit or else what would be the point? There are hundreds of factors in deciding what you need to sell your product for. And they are all much higher than they used to be.

[@alanalderson1427]

@oneofthenorth as I said, since the height of the energy price rises, energy costs have dropped by 40%. There is no evidence to suggest potato or fish prices have risen dramatically. Transport fuel cost have dropped dramatically over the past year. Remember when petrol was over £2 per litre. Now about £1.30. Inflation overall has dropped. I don't know where you get the information from, but it is totally wrong. My information can be verified.

[@oneofthenorth]

@@alanalderson1427 I work in a restaurant. Potato prices have doubled. Fish prices have risen at least in line with what I stated. Oil to fry things has trebled in price. Energy prices to domestic consumers may have come down a bit recently, but are still higher than before the start of the Ukraine war. And energy prices for businesses aren’t regulated in the same way as consumer energy anyway. In fact, I’ll go further. Flour prices are 50% higher than they were 3 years ago. Minimum wage has gone up. Base interest rate is up. At what point would you accept that businesses have had no choice but to put their prices up? And not even to cover the full cost of the increases. A fair percentage of it has had to be absorbed in order to try and keep customers coming through the door.

[@alanalderson1427]

@oneofthenorth the point is prices for Fish and Chips have increased to allow for cost increases, but they never reduce when costs decrease.

[@oneofthenorth]

@@alanalderson1427 but they haven’t reduced. I review menu prices every other week at the moment to see what we can do to make things fair. Have you been shopping? Even if you find things a bit cheaper, it’s either an inferior product or they’ve altered the pack/portion size to make it seem cheaper. Those kind of tactics in a restaurant will result in a lot less custom

[@EdsCanineAcademy]

Maybe the high prices will curb gluttony? I don’t see a cost of living crisis, if I judge by waist size 🤷‍♀️. Seems like a lot of folks just aren’t spending money to eat out. Maybe just maybe, these places are charging more to make up for the short fall of customers? I’ve a local horse box food place near by and the guys charging prices as if he was in a 5* restaurant 🤷‍♀️. A 6oz beef Pattie is costing him around a £1 and he sells the burger for £8.50. Personally at that price, I’m heading for a ribeye from the shop and I’ll cook it myself. I’d rather have a 10oz ribeye than a beef burger that really is just overpriced!

[@christine899]

In 1967 I worked in our local chippy, fish and chips were 1/9d just under 10p in today's money the fish was 1/6d and the chips 3d you didn't get a piece of fish the size of a whale or 1lb of potatoes for your chips, chips were put into a paper bag which took about a scoop of chips and the fish was less than half the size of toady's, BUT people didn't eat so much then, that's why people weren't fat like they are today and we all got more exercise, like walking to school and the shops and to work, our local chippy charges £15 for fish and chips, needless to say he doesn't get my custom, I cook my own.

[@Baldfoodieguylifestyle]

Thanks Christine 👍

[@Lucy-Wilkinson]

I think it's just that everything is going up, I noticed in the harvester restaurants they stopped serving cod, it's haddock now, again because of cost as cod is very expensive now. Everything is just way to expensive now, we will be eating bread and beans soon lol

[@Baldfoodieguylifestyle]

Good point

[@adztaylor2277]

From the top, it's a very overfished and greedy world with every expense filtered down to the customer at the bottom, us. Regulatory expenses, processing costs, fuel costs, transport costs, ingredients costs, high taxes on imports now our stocks in the sea around us have run dry, just to name a few reasons. Most of the people at the top don't give a damn about sustainability where fish is concerned, just the money lining their bank balances, so the product just gets smaller and smaller as the price increases. Same with everything really these days. Pure greed from the top. All the best Gaz.

[@Baldfoodieguylifestyle]

Thanks Adz 👍

[@bigmacca1]

In south London in the last couple of years a lot of fish and chips shops have closed down, that tells you something 😮

My friend has recently sold his fish shop. His boxes of frozen fish has nearly in price in less than 2years.!

[@Scott_M]

I think there was a Gary Eats review where he had fish and chips for £3 - actually said they were quite decent for the price! It’s funny as back in the day we never had all these takeaways and so your decent chippy would make a fortune! Must be hard running one nowadays with all the competition everywhere.

[@YogisWorld50]

A sack of spuds 2 years ago was around £6, suddenly there £20 a sack , 50 litres of oil was around £36 trade which is now close to £85, fish however hasn't risen that much but the carriage and supply costs have due to wage and fuel delivery costs ,in hull at the community chippy large fish and chips with peas is £3.99 ,everywere else now is around a tenner ,see were ime going with this...

[@MrWillyMrBrightside]

With the exception of maybe Greggs, the days of cheap hot food to go is basically over, the economies of scale just aren't there anymore when every single factor in the production chain has basically doubled over the past four years and prices won't be coming down. Also, I think a lot of people have just changed their habits, eating out less or getting fewer takeaways, which in turn raises the price because of supply and demand. When people do get a takeaway it'll be more of a special occasion than something they do on a whim, so they'd rather push the boat out and get something pricey but not what they'd have all the time, like a really nice properly done burger or a Chinese or Indian

[@Marraboy66]

Chippy owners got together and said let's charge pizza prices. After all , a pizza is only cheese on bread. Ridiculous prices, chips used to be cheap poor man's food, not any more, people will pay any money these days, they don't know it's worth. I will get a chippy every blue moon now, only after I've had a nice win on the gee gees 😂

[@onemorecast6001]

Good video. We live on an island surrounded by sea, fishing and great seafood. I would have thought it would be cheap as chips for US. We can buy basa, shipped half way around the globe cheap as chips. Doesn’t make much sense to me.

[@Baldfoodieguylifestyle]

You're right there.

[@brianmcmunn5864]

I worked in Essex, and I used a fish shop that you paid for the fish by weight. The bigger the fish the more it cost etc which seemed a fairer way of charging.

[@darrenelkins5923]

In the early 2000s I had a friend who mum and dad owned one chip shop My friend had several siblings While the mum and dad lived modestly and worked very hard My friend and his siblings had sports cars and allowances of 500 a week from the shops proceeds

[@eddiejones.redvees]

We don’t get fish and chips when out now we buy are a box of haddock 8 big fish for £9 on offer at the moment from Costco and cook it in the air fryer but no chips maybe just with salad or or rice maybe a mix of different beans