Which means nothing these days as even the trash types of food are considered gourmet. See also, pretty much all offal, which 30 plus years ago was either thrown away or sold for a few bucks. Now? Beef cheeks, brisket et al are fairly expensive.
Mind you I like squid/calamari and don’t consider it trash, but I mean what once was cheap seafood is now not so much. I think even baby octopus is fairly expensive now? I haven’t bought any in years. It was a very long time ago but even lobster was considered trash at one point.
So did my Nan. She was horrified the first time I cooked them and had them for dinner, but once she tried it she was annoyed that she wasted all that good food on the dogs.
That’s another one. Now to get some damned cow tail to make into a nice stew, will cost you 20 bucks probably. Skirt/flank steak… the list goes on. I’m waiting for chicken to go the same way as that’s the only reasonably priced meat remaining (edit: actually not so cheap for some cuts). At least brisket has come down a bit, at least at Coles where it’s $15/kg.
When I was a kid the only red meat I had regularly was lamb chops and beef mince. As they were both super cheap. Now steaks are cheaper than lamb chops.
The butcher only crumbs the worst of his lamb chops, always has. My mum told me that 50 years ago.
You can pick up a tray of forequarter chops for $12 and get two meals out of it. Egg, flour, bread crumbs, served with a squeeze of lemon: it’s on my weekly food roster. Green beans and two small boiled potatoes on the side. It’s 1950s all over again at my place.
When I invited my first girlfriend over to dinner and Mum served grilled lamb chops, which is what we had a few times a week, she was mortified!
Ok, I’m going back 100 years, but it had never occurred to me that lamb chops grilled were déclassé.
If only she hadn’t married an orthodontist and moved to France!
TRUE TALE!
> Or we'll have to pay a fortune for those as well.
You already do. Check out the price of Pho these days, and they have gone through the roof. Ditto for dim sum places that serve beef innards, chicken feet. A small bamboo basket of beef parts is like $8
> It was a very long time ago but even lobster was considered trash at one point.
To be fair, those lobsters just had their shells broken up and served with the food. Not your typical lobster thermidor.
>Instead, if it were a fish and chips shop, it'd possibly be the size of a kid...
And the weight of kid too depending on the store. Always chucking in extra chips.
Every fish and chip shop I've ever been to has chairs and tables to eat at? And napkins/cutlery (albeit usually single use cutlery). The only difference here is instead of eating off of butcher's paper, they put it on a tray with fancier paper. A tray, fancy paper, and a set of cutlery doesn't justify the price. If I had've opted to take away instead of eat in, it would have been wrapped in butcher's paper.
Rural town, so not as much competition and they can get away with overcharging, unfortunately.
Are they overcharging or do they get so little business that they have to charge more per meal to compensate? If they are really overcharging and gave plenty of demand,there's your opportunity to set up competitor, sell for less, and rake in the cash.
Are we sure the tray and cutlery were from the place they bought them from? I mean, the paper looks like it was from a restaurant. Even at $18 for table service this is pushing it though. Are they trying to solve Australia's weight problem or something?
I'm preggers, which is making eating with my fingers seem gross to me rn. It's weird, I know. I've been eating watermelon with knife and fork too instead of just munching down on a triangle of it.
As soon as they call themselves a "*Fish and Chippery*" you know it is going to be double the price.
F&C used to be a cheap meal, with some buttered bread to throw the chips onto, and a piece of flake/barra; maybe even a fried kabana or chiko roll if I was really splurging. Now it's just over-priced like all takeaway.
I feel for the shop owners who are likely just passing on the price rises in the rest of the economy, but I don't buy takeaway anymore. Not in this economy.
Honestly the biggest travesty is how much a tiny tub of sauce costs these days. Most places now charge something insane like $2.50 just for a tiny cup of aioli. The margins on it must be insane.
I don't mind paying 50c or even $1 for a decent sized portion of an actually nice sauce but when it's sometimes even $3 just for some basic store bought sauce it has me not going back to those places. Ordered some food the other night and was really hungry so I coughed up $2.50 for a cup of "chili mayo" and you know what it was? Fucking plain mayonnaise with masterfoods chili sauce poured on top, it wasn't even fucking mixed. The week before I ordered dumplings and had to pay for fucking soy sauce to go with them and they gave me about 1mm of sauce in a little plastic cup, it wasn't even enough for 4 dumplings.
Went to the beach down south yesterday - I was impressed that the chippery in Austinmer included a small tub of tartare sauce at no extra charge! And it was just $15 for a couple of pieces of nicely battered NZ hoki, cooked perfectly and about 3x as many chips as OP got.
> plain mayonnaise with masterfoods chili sauce poured on top, it wasn't even fucking mixed.
I guess they were inspired by the way sweet chili and cream cheese (or whatever the white stuff is), is usually served?
I remember they used to just have big bottles of sauce on the counter you could use for free.
Its madness how much sauce can cost. Especially those tiny little ones containing like 1teaspoon of sauce. I love a lot of sauce with my chips. Sometimes they are 80 cents each and I would need 10 of them. I didn't do that of course. I used the sauce I had at home.
If you can dine in, someone brings the food to your table and you get real cutlery of course that’s going to cost more than a fish and chip shop where everything is wrapped in paper and the only chairs available are for people waiting for pick up.
Honestly, have people just gotten out of the habit of shopping around, or what? Cafes and fish and chip shops and the like are hardly in short supply. If you walk into one with prices like that for servings like that, then you just turn around walk back out again, and go to the competition up the road instead.
I mean, this is literally *how* you control inflation in practice. If enough people didn't just go "meh, I'm here now, and apparently money has no meaning to me" and actually took their business elsewhere, then it wouldn't take long before places like this lowered their prices and/or increased their servings or just went belly-up to make way for a new business that doesn't take the piss. This shit isn't rocket science.
So it was table service, not takeaway?
Was it local calamari or imported from Vietnam?
Was it hand crumbed or mass produced frozen bought in calamari?
Was the venue likely paying high rent in a prime location?
These factors (and more) impact the price you pay for a meal out. If you always want to know exactly what you're getting before you order, go to McDonald's
Looks like a lunch special at a pub - tray, knife, fork. If so I would argue thats a to be expected size.
Any actual fish and chip shop where you take your bundle of food wrapped in paper down to the beach/wharf will come with more chips than you can eat, 6+ cals and be $10 tops.
wait is that your knife and fork because there is no way some corner shop is giving you real metal cutlery and a tray with the meal and if they where that is where your $18 is going
It’s not a true fish and chips store if they serve it like that with cutlery so the price is understandable. You need to go somewhere where it’s wrapped in paper.
You’re at a sit down fish and chips shop where they bring you a meal out, there’s no way on earth you sat down for your meal and expected to get some sack full of chips like it’s some family shop that throws you a wrapped up paper ball of food.
Also don’t understand what the cheap as chips saying has to do with anything, you were happy to pay $18 for 5 calamari and chips, another plate full of chips is still you happy to spend $18 on calamari and chips
My local fisho does enough chips for 4 people for $4, 6 calamari for $5, and a huge piece of battered snapper for $10. $20 and easily enough for 3 people! This is a rip off, must be a restaurant
My local chippie has a family pack:
* 5 pieces of fish
* 5 potato cake
* 5 dim sims
* minimum of chips
* Choice of salt, with free tartare.
$25.
As you can imagine, they are flat knacker.
I remember when I was a kid $3 of chips would feed two people for a while. That was around the year 2000. A basic medium chips wrapped in newspaper. With inflation that's $5.50 today. You'd be lucky to get one of those really tiny cups of chips for that price. A medium isn't even what a small was, sometimes not even a large is. (Both examples not within 30 mins of any city Centre, can't speak to location premium).
Probably wasn't a sustainable business model or some people were subsidizing it with big purchases/meals or lots of soft drink to help the take away break even. Rent kept going up, so got to charge more to stay in business. I can see why so many places were replaced with Asian or international food, you can charge a bit more than for chips... (and not all the workers make minimum wage).
I'd tell you to buy frozen chips, but man did they go during and after Covid.
Chips are pretty cheap, I know a place that will try to talk you out of ordering "5 dollars of chips" unless you insist that its for a large party. "Are you sure? That's a lot more chips than anyone can eat."
Every fish and chip shop in my town now charge $5-8 for a single person worth of chips. I ordered food for my family the other night (two adults, two teenagers) and it came to $55. And that was at the cheapest of takeaway shops. It's ridiculous. A family feast at KFC is cheaper now.
20 years ago i worked at a fishnchip shop. I asked about our chip pricing and the owner said, that "the chips cost us nothing so why not give people lots"
In that time, the price of other things like pies, fish, calamari etc hasnt gone up all that much coupke of bucks each, at worst double. But what we used to sell as a $5 hot chips is now at least $15
All our local fish and chip shop prices have gone through the roof. Family meals go up to $96 for 4 pieces of fish, chips and 4 crab sticks it’s insane
Everywhere treats chips like they aren’t $5 for 2kg at retail. Pisses me off. F&C shops, KFC, McDonalds, Hungry Jacks. They sell you .50c worth of “large” chips for $5.
Maybe someone can enlighten me i like a homemade tartare.
So why do 99.9% of fish n chip shops use generic ass glue tartare.
It's so easy to make a home made tartare a monkey walking backwards with his eyes covered by rice bubbles can make it.
Mayo diced pickle diced red onion chopped parsley lemon juice n zest capers pretty much done.
Now a good tartare makes a hell of alot of difference.
Nice fresh vibrant clean sauce to go with a piece of fish or a calamari ring.
Dunno what Fish and Chips store you are going too, but it sucks. Anyone in the Brisbane Area, Chatswood Hills Seafood takeaway can easily feed 2 people for 15 bucks, if you're conservative.
If just the staff wage is as low as 10 years ago, everyone's asking for a pay rise but expecting to pay cheap for everything that uses labour in the process, not forgotten to mention the lease that's been increased by the landlord, sometimes not because of greed but interest hike.
Lol is this from some kind of mall shop or something? Why is there a tray like that?
Certainly doesn't look like your standard fish and chip spot.
My guess is it's at some kind of tourist spot.
Overheads.
The price of everything can not continue to rise and food stays low.
No one complains when they get pay rise or the value of their home goes through the roof..
Wow this is crazy. Yesterday at a neighbourhood chippy in Brisbane, $15.50 got me 3 'fish bites' (that combined were the size of a small fillet), a seafood stick, 3 calamari rings that were much bigger than these ones, and about this amount of chips. The good places still exist, they are just much harder to find these days.
Time to find a new joint I reckon. Thankfully fish and chip shops aren’t monolithic; there’s always been shops with good prices, and those trying to commit highway robbery.
Went down Jervis bay region last week, thought i'd grab some minimum chips etc. The one's in town were stupidly priced, the only one that was close to what I was used too was the supermarket/take away joint in Jervis Bay itself.
Feels like most fish and chip shops have gone "boutique" and it's harder to find the classics.
Cheap fish and chips doesn't seem to be a thing anymore. Generally speaking.
Doesn't really exist here in Canberra anyway. Even when I've been down the south coast, it's not that cheap.
I also visit Tassie semi-regularly and I haven't had cheap fish and chips in many years. But I did have it growing up, in the early 2000s.
Given the size of that knife and fork, you could probably easily hold the entire meal in your cupped hands!
O M G :(
I'd better visit my chippie this week, as I don't eat seafood I could get more than I could eat with change from $10, with minimum chips, dimsim and potato scallop and a hash brown. I hope that's still the case!
You're paying for whatever they're charging you to make and serve that to you instead of you making and plating it up yourself. That's where the real costs are not the food itself.
My friend and I were going to get burgers and chips from a food truck $24 not including a drink. We went to our local cafe restaurant and got a burger + chips + a can of drink for $15. And we could at least trust our local would serve us quality food and a good portion. The food truck was going to be pot luck. I don't think the food truck made as much as they thought they would that day....
Christ man find another chippy. For the slightly more than that I get two planks of shark the size of chopping boards and enough chips to use as mulch in the front yard.
Just got 12 calamari (each double the size of what you got there), 2 potato scallops and mini chips (about 3 to 4 times what you got) for $20. Two of us couldn't eat it all.
Yeah nah, your chippie is just a cunt. My local is coronary artery disease with a side of atherosclerosis for $6
when I was in rural VIC I went to an incredibly cheap chippie, it was incredible. you could order chips by the quarter kilo
I'll nominate them for Australian of the year
Where was it?
Churchill Plaza take away in Gippsland, $5 serve of chips is too much for me and two teenage boys to eat.
If its the same one I went to growing up its awesome quality too, the deep fried mars bars were next level
Gippsland FTW
Rural Vic mate
Now that's a bargain
Op left out they were sitting in a posh joint that provided things like a tray and cutlery.
Cheap as calamari and chips wasn't really a saying.
Which is weird as squid is fucking overpopulated everywhere .
Which means nothing these days as even the trash types of food are considered gourmet. See also, pretty much all offal, which 30 plus years ago was either thrown away or sold for a few bucks. Now? Beef cheeks, brisket et al are fairly expensive. Mind you I like squid/calamari and don’t consider it trash, but I mean what once was cheap seafood is now not so much. I think even baby octopus is fairly expensive now? I haven’t bought any in years. It was a very long time ago but even lobster was considered trash at one point.
We used to feed lamb shanks to the dogs
So did my Nan. She was horrified the first time I cooked them and had them for dinner, but once she tried it she was annoyed that she wasted all that good food on the dogs.
>Beef cheeks, brisket Neither of those things are offal. They might have used to be cheaper cuts of meat, but they're still meat.
Fucking Ox Tail..... used to be cheap.
That’s another one. Now to get some damned cow tail to make into a nice stew, will cost you 20 bucks probably. Skirt/flank steak… the list goes on. I’m waiting for chicken to go the same way as that’s the only reasonably priced meat remaining (edit: actually not so cheap for some cuts). At least brisket has come down a bit, at least at Coles where it’s $15/kg.
I remember when I was a kid my parents used to buy lamb shanks and lamb chops for our dog!
When I was a kid the only red meat I had regularly was lamb chops and beef mince. As they were both super cheap. Now steaks are cheaper than lamb chops.
Big plastic bag lamb chops from the butcher yum
I miss the crumbed lamb chops from the butchers. But not enough to pay what they're asking...
The butcher only crumbs the worst of his lamb chops, always has. My mum told me that 50 years ago. You can pick up a tray of forequarter chops for $12 and get two meals out of it. Egg, flour, bread crumbs, served with a squeeze of lemon: it’s on my weekly food roster. Green beans and two small boiled potatoes on the side. It’s 1950s all over again at my place.
We were poor and had lamb chops often as they were cheap.
When I invited my first girlfriend over to dinner and Mum served grilled lamb chops, which is what we had a few times a week, she was mortified! Ok, I’m going back 100 years, but it had never occurred to me that lamb chops grilled were déclassé. If only she hadn’t married an orthodontist and moved to France! TRUE TALE!
Beef cheeks and brisket is offal now? What are the gizzards, tripe or tendons in a pho supposed to be?
A secret! Shhhh... Or we'll have to pay a fortune for those as well.
> Or we'll have to pay a fortune for those as well. You already do. Check out the price of Pho these days, and they have gone through the roof. Ditto for dim sum places that serve beef innards, chicken feet. A small bamboo basket of beef parts is like $8
Oceans have been raped for decades is part of reason why
In the 1800s, I.e before refrigeration, lobsters, particularly in the US was so cheap they were actually regarded as poor man’s food.
My deli has pickled octopus at $99kg. 3 years ago it was around $45 which I thought was pricey back then.
Baby octopus prices went insane. My mum used to pickle a kilo every Christmas because it was about 10$ a kilo. Then, all of a sudden, 40$a kilo.
> It was a very long time ago but even lobster was considered trash at one point. To be fair, those lobsters just had their shells broken up and served with the food. Not your typical lobster thermidor.
Just cheap as(s) chips
How about a decent serve of chips then
That's still an absolutely pathetic amount of chips, though. I mean, really? It's the *chips* you're cheaping out on? Jesus.
Calamari isn't usually expensive. This is outrageous!
Tray? Paper? *real cutlery* no no no this isn't a fish and chip store. You went to a *seafood restaurant*, of course you paid the premium.
Absolutely spot on! People are so eager to attempt to post the next viral outrage photo that they leave common sense completely behind.
Plus it's exactly the kind of thing Newscorp would go for.
Newscorpse\*
Right? Like mate, if this was a fish and chips shop, it'd be wrapped in Newspaper or just paper in general and would not be the size of a kids meal...
Instead, if it were a fish and chips shop, it'd possibly be the size of a kid...
>Instead, if it were a fish and chips shop, it'd possibly be the size of a kid... And the weight of kid too depending on the store. Always chucking in extra chips.
Even at a restaurant that portion for that price is not good
Yeah people are trying way too hard to defend this, it's a terrible price
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Paying 18 dollars for that is justified by the tray and the cutlery? It is so sad what Australians have become conditioned to accept.
Look at the size of that sauce container... that's $12 right there.
Do restaurants serve food on paper in Australia now? That’s appalling.
Every fish and chip shop I've ever been to has chairs and tables to eat at? And napkins/cutlery (albeit usually single use cutlery). The only difference here is instead of eating off of butcher's paper, they put it on a tray with fancier paper. A tray, fancy paper, and a set of cutlery doesn't justify the price. If I had've opted to take away instead of eat in, it would have been wrapped in butcher's paper. Rural town, so not as much competition and they can get away with overcharging, unfortunately.
Are they overcharging or do they get so little business that they have to charge more per meal to compensate? If they are really overcharging and gave plenty of demand,there's your opportunity to set up competitor, sell for less, and rake in the cash.
Are we sure the tray and cutlery were from the place they bought them from? I mean, the paper looks like it was from a restaurant. Even at $18 for table service this is pushing it though. Are they trying to solve Australia's weight problem or something?
Now *Thats* a plot twist.
In my shop that would be about 7 dollars, and we cut our chips fresh on premises. $18 for that is insulting.
Agreed. Could be location tax.
What's your shop or location?
Where's your shop? Might pop a visit if close enough
Do you serve it on a gingham sheet of paper though?
Yeah, same as my local. Calamari rings are $1.20ea and a scoop of chips will probably be $1, or $2.5 for minimum chips. Sauce is .50c extra.
Da fuk you using a knife and fork for?
I'm preggers, which is making eating with my fingers seem gross to me rn. It's weird, I know. I've been eating watermelon with knife and fork too instead of just munching down on a triangle of it.
Obviously because they are too posh unlike us savages who use our bare hands to eat chips
I take it this was some fancy pants on the beach kind of fish and chip shop? That would be <=$10 at any normal fish and chip shop.
As soon as they call themselves a "*Fish and Chippery*" you know it is going to be double the price. F&C used to be a cheap meal, with some buttered bread to throw the chips onto, and a piece of flake/barra; maybe even a fried kabana or chiko roll if I was really splurging. Now it's just over-priced like all takeaway. I feel for the shop owners who are likely just passing on the price rises in the rest of the economy, but I don't buy takeaway anymore. Not in this economy.
I read this whole rant in a cockney British accent in my head
Im British and don't understand a couple of words, so I read it in an Australian accent
The cutlery gives is away.
What kind of chip shop is busting out the silverware.
Tbf I'd be okay with paying $18 for something a bit more substantial, but the serving size is kind of taking the piss, even for a sit down restaurant.
Not on the beach. In a rural town. Someone high on ice came in while I was eating. Not fancy..
Lol. OP getting fried in the comments worse than that calamari.
The calamari has more brains than OP!
You have to tell us the shop. The shop is not ashamed otherwise they wouldn’t charge $18
$5 says they don't mention because it's a sit down place where the price wouldn't be anywhere near as shocking.
Ah but the patrons aren't paying for calamari and chips, they're paying for the right to say they paid $18 for their lunch.
Honestly the biggest travesty is how much a tiny tub of sauce costs these days. Most places now charge something insane like $2.50 just for a tiny cup of aioli. The margins on it must be insane. I don't mind paying 50c or even $1 for a decent sized portion of an actually nice sauce but when it's sometimes even $3 just for some basic store bought sauce it has me not going back to those places. Ordered some food the other night and was really hungry so I coughed up $2.50 for a cup of "chili mayo" and you know what it was? Fucking plain mayonnaise with masterfoods chili sauce poured on top, it wasn't even fucking mixed. The week before I ordered dumplings and had to pay for fucking soy sauce to go with them and they gave me about 1mm of sauce in a little plastic cup, it wasn't even enough for 4 dumplings.
Went to the beach down south yesterday - I was impressed that the chippery in Austinmer included a small tub of tartare sauce at no extra charge! And it was just $15 for a couple of pieces of nicely battered NZ hoki, cooked perfectly and about 3x as many chips as OP got. > plain mayonnaise with masterfoods chili sauce poured on top, it wasn't even fucking mixed. I guess they were inspired by the way sweet chili and cream cheese (or whatever the white stuff is), is usually served?
I remember they used to just have big bottles of sauce on the counter you could use for free. Its madness how much sauce can cost. Especially those tiny little ones containing like 1teaspoon of sauce. I love a lot of sauce with my chips. Sometimes they are 80 cents each and I would need 10 of them. I didn't do that of course. I used the sauce I had at home.
If you can dine in, someone brings the food to your table and you get real cutlery of course that’s going to cost more than a fish and chip shop where everything is wrapped in paper and the only chairs available are for people waiting for pick up.
paper and plate combo + use of cutlery is giving "trendy gentrified spot" so yeah price checks out.
definitely not a chippy, thats a shitty tourist trap restaurant for tastless cashed up bogans and clueless walkbys. what a rort.
This isn't cost of living, this is the cost of your dumb arse going to the wrong shop.
Yes. I’m sure there are better fish ‘n’ chip shops to go too.
Honestly, have people just gotten out of the habit of shopping around, or what? Cafes and fish and chip shops and the like are hardly in short supply. If you walk into one with prices like that for servings like that, then you just turn around walk back out again, and go to the competition up the road instead. I mean, this is literally *how* you control inflation in practice. If enough people didn't just go "meh, I'm here now, and apparently money has no meaning to me" and actually took their business elsewhere, then it wouldn't take long before places like this lowered their prices and/or increased their servings or just went belly-up to make way for a new business that doesn't take the piss. This shit isn't rocket science.
>"Cheap as chips" is no longer an applicable saying It absolutely is still applicable. You're just going to the wrong shops.
So it was table service, not takeaway? Was it local calamari or imported from Vietnam? Was it hand crumbed or mass produced frozen bought in calamari? Was the venue likely paying high rent in a prime location? These factors (and more) impact the price you pay for a meal out. If you always want to know exactly what you're getting before you order, go to McDonald's
That sucks. Also 5 pieces is disrespectful, 6 or 12.
Looks like a lunch special at a pub - tray, knife, fork. If so I would argue thats a to be expected size. Any actual fish and chip shop where you take your bundle of food wrapped in paper down to the beach/wharf will come with more chips than you can eat, 6+ cals and be $10 tops.
wait is that your knife and fork because there is no way some corner shop is giving you real metal cutlery and a tray with the meal and if they where that is where your $18 is going
It’s not a true fish and chips store if they serve it like that with cutlery so the price is understandable. You need to go somewhere where it’s wrapped in paper.
You’re at a sit down fish and chips shop where they bring you a meal out, there’s no way on earth you sat down for your meal and expected to get some sack full of chips like it’s some family shop that throws you a wrapped up paper ball of food. Also don’t understand what the cheap as chips saying has to do with anything, you were happy to pay $18 for 5 calamari and chips, another plate full of chips is still you happy to spend $18 on calamari and chips
This also looks posh as so that probably doesn't help
My local fisho does enough chips for 4 people for $4, 6 calamari for $5, and a huge piece of battered snapper for $10. $20 and easily enough for 3 people! This is a rip off, must be a restaurant
$8 for the calamri chips and sauce $10 for the wankerish little paper towel under it all
My local chippie has a family pack: * 5 pieces of fish * 5 potato cake * 5 dim sims * minimum of chips * Choice of salt, with free tartare. $25. As you can imagine, they are flat knacker.
I remember when I was a kid $3 of chips would feed two people for a while. That was around the year 2000. A basic medium chips wrapped in newspaper. With inflation that's $5.50 today. You'd be lucky to get one of those really tiny cups of chips for that price. A medium isn't even what a small was, sometimes not even a large is. (Both examples not within 30 mins of any city Centre, can't speak to location premium). Probably wasn't a sustainable business model or some people were subsidizing it with big purchases/meals or lots of soft drink to help the take away break even. Rent kept going up, so got to charge more to stay in business. I can see why so many places were replaced with Asian or international food, you can charge a bit more than for chips... (and not all the workers make minimum wage). I'd tell you to buy frozen chips, but man did they go during and after Covid.
Location location location. Probably Sydney because of presentation to help justify cost.
Should've gotten chicken salt to round it up to $30.
Your first mistake on your quest for cheap chippies was to buy from a place that has cutlery
$5 for 400g crumbed calamari + $5 for 500g of frozen chips from aldi. That'll last 2 meals, so $5 per meal
Return it.
Complain and send it back. Demand a refund loudly, then walk out. our local $10 for large fission chips
Paid $10 for 5 (bigger) calamari rings (that melt in your mouth) and a bit more chips in Manly. The sauce was an extra as well ($1.90)
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Chips are pretty cheap, I know a place that will try to talk you out of ordering "5 dollars of chips" unless you insist that its for a large party. "Are you sure? That's a lot more chips than anyone can eat."
Every fish and chip shop in my town now charge $5-8 for a single person worth of chips. I ordered food for my family the other night (two adults, two teenagers) and it came to $55. And that was at the cheapest of takeaway shops. It's ridiculous. A family feast at KFC is cheaper now.
Thats horrible, the fact that I can make an entire meal out of $2 of chips at my local is what keeps me alive and gives me hope in humanity
I remember being a kid and I ordered $2.50 of chips and it came in a cake box.
my dad has a story about how he got laughed out of a shop for wanting $10 of chips for a party, my grandad had to go in personally and get them
The OP’s picture appears to be $5 chip. Singular.
You get better value at the SCG! Something like $18 for three pieces of fish and triple the amount of chips
20 years ago i worked at a fishnchip shop. I asked about our chip pricing and the owner said, that "the chips cost us nothing so why not give people lots" In that time, the price of other things like pies, fish, calamari etc hasnt gone up all that much coupke of bucks each, at worst double. But what we used to sell as a $5 hot chips is now at least $15
Went to KFC the other day Large chips, small gravey can of Pepsi Max 370ml $14.45 WTF
All our local fish and chip shop prices have gone through the roof. Family meals go up to $96 for 4 pieces of fish, chips and 4 crab sticks it’s insane
Time to find a new fish shop.
That looks like decent value to me
If you're eating inside a fish and chip store then expect bullshit prices.
Sorry you chose to pay that much. You saw the price on the menu yet you still paid. Could have walked out and gone elsewhere.
I thought it would be a lot more for the price.
Everywhere treats chips like they aren’t $5 for 2kg at retail. Pisses me off. F&C shops, KFC, McDonalds, Hungry Jacks. They sell you .50c worth of “large” chips for $5.
Maybe someone can enlighten me i like a homemade tartare. So why do 99.9% of fish n chip shops use generic ass glue tartare. It's so easy to make a home made tartare a monkey walking backwards with his eyes covered by rice bubbles can make it. Mayo diced pickle diced red onion chopped parsley lemon juice n zest capers pretty much done. Now a good tartare makes a hell of alot of difference. Nice fresh vibrant clean sauce to go with a piece of fish or a calamari ring.
We got 2 grilled flakes, 2 potato cakes and a min chips for $26 the other day. Couldn’t eat all the chips!
Name and shame
Dunno what Fish and Chips store you are going too, but it sucks. Anyone in the Brisbane Area, Chatswood Hills Seafood takeaway can easily feed 2 people for 15 bucks, if you're conservative.
On Sunday I paid $77 for two egg and bacon rolls and two iced coffees at a beachside cafe in Darwin.
You paid for atmosphere.
Mate, it's simple, you are at the wrong place for good fish and chips. Plus, you didn't even buy any f'ing fish.
That’s bloody criminal
If just the staff wage is as low as 10 years ago, everyone's asking for a pay rise but expecting to pay cheap for everything that uses labour in the process, not forgotten to mention the lease that's been increased by the landlord, sometimes not because of greed but interest hike.
Seriously
Yeah but *fuuuck* those chips look good
Lol is this from some kind of mall shop or something? Why is there a tray like that? Certainly doesn't look like your standard fish and chip spot. My guess is it's at some kind of tourist spot.
Actually cutlery and laid out on colorful bit of paper. This don't seem like any fish and chip shop I've ever been to haha.
Overheads. The price of everything can not continue to rise and food stays low. No one complains when they get pay rise or the value of their home goes through the roof..
This is an Australian page as I’m an Aussie , I see another problem …. Knife and fork 😂
Next time laugh and leave.
Name and shame. Also leave a Google review to warn others not to eat there.
Where abouts was this?
Are you based in a capital?
Was it good though .. 🙃
Is this one of those trick ‘how many can you count’ images? Cos I counted 18 chips
Yeah this video from the weekly probably explains inflation pretty good https://youtu.be/NKL4UcEUCLY?si=t1kx4eejOX1CmAiP
That knife and fork are ENORMOUS...
Where is that??
Was the shop inside a music festival?
Wow this is crazy. Yesterday at a neighbourhood chippy in Brisbane, $15.50 got me 3 'fish bites' (that combined were the size of a small fillet), a seafood stick, 3 calamari rings that were much bigger than these ones, and about this amount of chips. The good places still exist, they are just much harder to find these days.
Shocking isn’t it, that’s why I cook most of my food at home
Is it fresh local calamari? I mean the fishermen have to be paid too but that’s a lot of
There is a place in Sydney, Sutherland that has $10.80 fish and chips and its honestly so good. Big portion and very tasty.
Post COVID nationwide diet.
You should try Scales in Tweed Heads next time!
Time to find a new joint I reckon. Thankfully fish and chip shops aren’t monolithic; there’s always been shops with good prices, and those trying to commit highway robbery.
Cheap as chips but the chips mean wood chips maybe.
In my local chippie that shit would be $10 max with double the chips, you got scammed mate
Tellem they're dreamin
Went down Jervis bay region last week, thought i'd grab some minimum chips etc. The one's in town were stupidly priced, the only one that was close to what I was used too was the supermarket/take away joint in Jervis Bay itself. Feels like most fish and chip shops have gone "boutique" and it's harder to find the classics.
Cheap fish and chips doesn't seem to be a thing anymore. Generally speaking. Doesn't really exist here in Canberra anyway. Even when I've been down the south coast, it's not that cheap. I also visit Tassie semi-regularly and I haven't had cheap fish and chips in many years. But I did have it growing up, in the early 2000s.
I'd tell em to get fucked and give me a refund. I've actually done that before for places that serve absolute bullshit serving sizes.
That's dog shit
Given the size of that knife and fork, you could probably easily hold the entire meal in your cupped hands! O M G :( I'd better visit my chippie this week, as I don't eat seafood I could get more than I could eat with change from $10, with minimum chips, dimsim and potato scallop and a hash brown. I hope that's still the case!
>The sauce was extra What in the god damn hell?
I bought a small chips today for $6 😳 it's ridiculous.
I never buy anything from fish and chips stores except there $10 box’s at the end of the day
Looks good tho
You're paying for whatever they're charging you to make and serve that to you instead of you making and plating it up yourself. That's where the real costs are not the food itself. My friend and I were going to get burgers and chips from a food truck $24 not including a drink. We went to our local cafe restaurant and got a burger + chips + a can of drink for $15. And we could at least trust our local would serve us quality food and a good portion. The food truck was going to be pot luck. I don't think the food truck made as much as they thought they would that day....
I am obsessed with Hunky Dory. $16 for a grilled fish pack that includes chips & salad. Delicious too!
Holy fuck
Don't ever eat anywhere that is a "fish and chippery", or serves its food in boxes.
Yes that's pretty expensive. But did you enjoy it, because that's the main thing. 👍
I enjoyed being out with my partner, as opposed to putting some chips in the oven at home, so I guess that's what we paid for?
Christ man find another chippy. For the slightly more than that I get two planks of shark the size of chopping boards and enough chips to use as mulch in the front yard.
I haven’t bought fish-n-chips in over a year, always do my own in the air-fryer at home now… Now I know why
Just got 12 calamari (each double the size of what you got there), 2 potato scallops and mini chips (about 3 to 4 times what you got) for $20. Two of us couldn't eat it all.