Mid-sixties my mate John and I used the Welcome Fish Bar in Parsons Hill, next door to the Castle pub. The shop is still in business but as a Chinese takeaway, called the Happy House. Hard to give a review after nearly sixty years but the Welcome was ok.
Coverd End.As I do not know how to incert a comment in the place where some one has written one,I have to write it here.Do I still go to the Valley! No. The last
game was 2015 against Bournmouth.It was getting a little expensive with season ticket,driving up from kent,programme and having something to eat.And being on a pension I had to stop going.Back to Fish and Chips,does remember the chip shop at Sand Street?.Used to go there when I stayed with grandparents at Woolich.
That rekindled a long lost memory of a Chippie my family used in the very early sixties in Woolwich, called "The hole in the wall".
Around £7:00 here in West Yorkshire. News item on local tv a few weeks ago was saying that around at least a third of Chippys set to close because the price of heating the oil, price of fish and potato’s are just too expensive and people are not now buying in the same numbers. Tragic really.
Probably cos they've sussed how appallingly bad it is for your health.
It's not a tragedy if people are choosing to stop eating shite regularly and making healthier choices. Quite the opposite really.
Well it’s a different argument really. The falling numbers of fish and chip suppers bought are directly due to rising cost. Nothing to do with any evangelical health awakening.
Not where I'm concerned. Nothing to do with cost but more to do with it being extremely unhealthy and therefore it will be few and far between when I eat them and I imagine millions up and down the country are the same.
It's a good thing that junk food is getting more expensive surely as that should incentivise people to eat healthier.
The usual highly flawed argument that gets trotted out is that it's too expensive to eat healthily which is false.
In this case I think you are missing the point completely
Make the point more clearly then. What is the "tragedy" about less people eating junk food regularly and a brand of junk food that is particularly unhealthy at that?
Fish and chips are still one of the UK’s biggest and best loved takeaway meals. That’s a fact. Not been cheap for a long time but people still enjoy eating it but the current cost of living crisis is pushing it out of the reach of many. Because of that there are a lot of Chippys struggling and will go out of business. You can argue that’s a good thing but I don’t. I like most people eat relatively healthily but I do enjoy fish and chips when I’m at the coast and I expect most people on here do as well. The fact that a tradition and well loved and not the worst offender in terms of healthy eating is being priced out is I think to me a tragedy. Clear enough.?
Clear but ultimately flawed and no need to be so patronising in your tone SHG. Especially when the medium to long term effects of junk food on the population is far more harmful than covid and you've spent 2 years arguing about the priority of health etc which completely annihilated businesses and whole industries (and for the record I've agreed with 99% of what you've posted on that subject).
Some people love a beer and a fag. That's gone up disproportionately the cost over the years and both are or were a national past time as much if not more. And that's a good thing if it's disincentivised people to stop killing themselves with cigs and (too much booze) surely.
If people want to shovel shite into their bodies and place strain on the over burdened NHS then they will have to suck up the cost.
Unless you are at the coast regularly it's not people like you who are hitting the shops' bottom line iit's the drop in those likely eating it once or twice a week.
It's bad for the businesses of course but then that's the nature of change when you're living is made pumping out shite unhealthy food that will harm your regular punters and people are wising up that they need to take a bit more responsibility about what they feed themselves and their families regularly.
Anyway I'm not spending a sunny Monday afternoon arguing the toss over fish and chips so will bail out.
Mate….do stop it. You seem to be enjoying pissing on peoples fireworks/chips. Don’t you comprehend that eating fish and chips is a much loved tradition for countless millions of Brits. I have a reasonably good diet, however I’ll always go for f&c once in a while, been doing it for more than 70 years and I’m fucked if I’m gonna stop now……so what, you make it sound like a fucking crime.😵💫
When I was a kid we used to go to Spray Street Woolwich for fish and chips sometimes. I'm talking about 55 years ago plus so that chip shop may no longer exist!
Some stunningly excellent fish and chip shops in Whitby if ever you’re in the vicinity
Aah - many happy memories of queuing for the Magpie Cafe back in the 80s/90s. Delicious food - hope it's still as good!
Never ever not a long queue to get into The Magpie. Best fish and chips I’ve had ever. The fish is walked across the road from the market straight into the shop. No more than twenty paces.
She’s both right and wrong. Correct that many Catholics would not be eating meat and therefore be more likely to be in the queue. But the increase in the queue would also probably include High Church (in the traditional sense) who also wouldn’t be eating meat.
The best fish and chip shop that ever existed was called the 'Ocean Breeze' on the Surrey Docks Underground Station one way system. The queues there on a Friday evening used to stretch back half way to Deptford. My confession is that since becoming a vegetarian the two things I miss are tinned salmon sandwiches, and Ocean Breeze Cod and Chips, even to the point of occasionally dreaming about the cod and chips! I wouldn't have fish now, but if desperate tormented and tempted after a long agonising while I might weaken for cod and chips. Gosh, I feel guilty and awkward even typing all that.
Coverd End.As I do not know how to incert a comment in the place where some one has written one,I have to write it here.Do I still go to the Valley! No. The last
game was 2015 against Bournmouth.It was getting a little expensive with season ticket,driving up from kent,programme and having something to eat.And being on a pension I had to stop going.Back to Fish and Chips,does remember the chip shop at Sand Street?.Used to go there when I stayed with grandparents at Woolich.
That rekindled a long lost memory of a Chippie my family used in the very early sixties in Woolwich, called "The hole in the wall".
Some stunningly excellent fish and chip shops in Whitby if ever you’re in the vicinity
Aah - many happy memories of queuing for the Magpie Cafe back in the 80s/90s. Delicious food - hope it's still as good!
Never ever not a long queue to get into The Magpie. Best fish and chips I’ve had ever. The fish is walked across the road from the market straight into the shop. No more than twenty paces.
Great place, had to have Ham and Chips as i am allergic to fish, but the other half said her fish and chips was amazing. Great service also. Good to see the love for Chippy.
Some stunningly excellent fish and chip shops in Whitby if ever you’re in the vicinity
Aah - many happy memories of queuing for the Magpie Cafe back in the 80s/90s. Delicious food - hope it's still as good!
Never ever not a long queue to get into The Magpie. Best fish and chips I’ve had ever. The fish is walked across the road from the market straight into the shop. No more than twenty paces.
Great place, had to have Ham and Chips as i am allergic to fish, but the other half said her fish and chips was amazing. Great service also. Good to see the love for Chippy.
Cor someone else that allergic to fish, I can’t even have it in the house, whilst I’m unable to eat fish which is bad enough, the smell of certain fish makes me violently I’ll, kippers being one of the most spectacular ones, it’s hard for my misses who loves fish to explain why I’m running out a restaurant when someone seats near to me and order “smelly” fish. When we do our cruises, she eat fish every day, lucky we now know what fish smells affect me, so she can. It’s one of my great regrets not being able to eat fish / shell fish etc, feel that I’ve missed out on so much in culinary terms, but most of all missed out on the great British tradition of fish and chips.
Coverd End.As I do not know how to incert a comment in the place where some one has written one,I have to write it here.Do I still go to the Valley! No. The last
game was 2015 against Bournmouth.It was getting a little expensive with season ticket,driving up from kent,programme and having something to eat.And being on a pension I had to stop going.Back to Fish and Chips,does remember the chip shop at Sand Street?.Used to go there when I stayed with grandparents at Woolich.
That rekindled a long lost memory of a Chippie my family used in the very early sixties in Woolwich, called "The hole in the wall".
Was that in Raglan Road?
I can visualise the Hole in the Wall , but cant remember the name of the road.....it was a regular chippy for the family.
it lived up to its name as it wasnt a regular shop front.
Was a little surprised when 2× medium cod and chips, with mushy peas set me back £30, it's a nice chippy with a great view over a lake, but felt a little pricey.
Some stunningly excellent fish and chip shops in Whitby if ever you’re in the vicinity
Aah - many happy memories of queuing for the Magpie Cafe back in the 80s/90s. Delicious food - hope it's still as good!
Never ever not a long queue to get into The Magpie. Best fish and chips I’ve had ever. The fish is walked across the road from the market straight into the shop. No more than twenty paces.
Great place, had to have Ham and Chips as i am allergic to fish, but the other half said her fish and chips was amazing. Great service also. Good to see the love for Chippy.
Cor someone else that allergic to fish, I can’t even have it in the house, whilst I’m unable to eat fish which is bad enough, the smell of certain fish makes me violently I’ll, kippers being one of the most spectacular ones, it’s hard for my misses who loves fish to explain why I’m running out a restaurant when someone seats near to me and order “smelly” fish. When we do our cruises, she eat fish every day, lucky we now know what fish smells affect me, so she can. It’s one of my great regrets not being able to eat fish / shell fish etc, feel that I’ve missed out on so much in culinary terms, but most of all missed out on the great British tradition of fish and chips.
I know that feeling too well...I cant even have a left over that's touched fish on a plate. Strangely though I can eat tinned salmon or pilchards or fresh cockles.
If I come in contact my lips swell up and the sensation in my mouth is like someone's put a sparkler in it. lasts for about 20mins.
Same with fresh cherries, pears and peaches yet ok tinned. Yet noone else in my family is effected.
1952 was as far as I remember to be my first game at The Valley.Thats why I use it as my name.I would have been 10yrs old.
Pipped me by 5 years Derek, my first game was 1957.
You just missed out on seeing Sam Bartram then SoundAsa£. His last game was the year before.
Correct and didn’t attend the Huddersfield game either…..although that was in late 57 of course. Two of my biggest regrets. Though thankfully I did get to see plenty of Stuart Leary…….my all time favourite player. Years ahead of his time.
The last time I got caught out by it, was in a pub I had steak, boy was I bad lasted around 12 hours throwing up, wife was going to ring for an ambulance, she’s never seen me so Ill. Anyway went back to the pub and chatted to them explained what happened, and after much investigation they came to the conclusion it was either a dirty knife and fork or plate, they offered me a free meal, I didn’t take it up. My granddaughter has just developed the same symptoms and my son less so, but can suffer. I can eat prawns, but both myself and GD both suffer from the smell of fish, making walking past a wet stall impossible for us, I hold my breath and run.
Bought Cod and Chips last week cost £6.90,this week was £7.50.This was in Sittingbourne.What do you people in the London area pay on average.When I was a teenager in the fifties Cod and Chips cost
1 Shilling(5p) 9 old pennies for Fish 3 pennies for chips.
Large cod and medium chips (shared between me and partner) £10:75 Callington, Cornwall. (Fresh fish mind).
Some stunningly excellent fish and chip shops in Whitby if ever you’re in the vicinity
Aah - many happy memories of queuing for the Magpie Cafe back in the 80s/90s. Delicious food - hope it's still as good!
Never ever not a long queue to get into The Magpie. Best fish and chips I’ve had ever. The fish is walked across the road from the market straight into the shop. No more than twenty paces.
Great place, had to have Ham and Chips as i am allergic to fish, but the other half said her fish and chips was amazing. Great service also. Good to see the love for Chippy.
Cor someone else that allergic to fish, I can’t even have it in the house, whilst I’m unable to eat fish which is bad enough, the smell of certain fish makes me violently I’ll, kippers being one of the most spectacular ones, it’s hard for my misses who loves fish to explain why I’m running out a restaurant when someone seats near to me and order “smelly” fish. When we do our cruises, she eat fish every day, lucky we now know what fish smells affect me, so she can. It’s one of my great regrets not being able to eat fish / shell fish etc, feel that I’ve missed out on so much in culinary terms, but most of all missed out on the great British tradition of fish and chips.
I know that feeling too well...I cant even have a left over that's touched fish on a plate. Strangely though I can eat tinned salmon or pilchards or fresh cockles.
If I come in contact my lips swell up and the sensation in my mouth is like someone's put a sparkler in it. lasts for about 20mins.
Same with fresh cherries, pears and peaches yet ok tinned. Yet noone else in my family is effected.
I have the same reaction to seafood. Got tested and was diagnosed with a severe dust mite allergy. Apparently the protein of crustaceans and dust mites are similar and so the body confuses them and has a defensive reaction when you eat them. It's not technically a seafood allergy since they're normally life threatening but it's bloody annoying nonetheless.
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Mid-sixties my mate John and I used the Welcome Fish Bar in Parsons Hill, next door to the Castle pub. The shop is still in business but as a Chinese takeaway, called the Happy House. Hard to give a review after nearly sixty years but the Welcome was ok.
My local chippy.
Fried fish is good Jewish food by the way and one of the few foods not rationed during WW2.
Love fish and chips and I go a bit Northern and have mushy peas which should count as one of my five a day so keep RCT happy 😊
It's not the very cheap option it once was but compared to say Wagamama, which I love, it's still more affordable.
Mum told me it was the
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14929199
med cod and chips 10.95
large cod and chips 11.95
pensioners can get regular cod and chips for £5.50 before 5:30
You seem to be enjoying pissing on peoples fireworks/chips.
Don’t you comprehend that eating fish and chips is a much loved tradition for countless millions of Brits.
I have a reasonably good diet, however I’ll always go for f&c once in a while, been doing it for more than 70 years and I’m fucked if I’m gonna stop now……so what, you make it sound like a fucking crime.😵💫
The queues there on a Friday evening used to stretch back half way to Deptford.
My confession is that since becoming a vegetarian the two things I miss are tinned salmon sandwiches, and Ocean Breeze Cod and Chips, even to the point of occasionally dreaming about the cod and chips!
I wouldn't have fish now, but if desperate tormented and tempted after a long agonising while I might weaken for cod and chips.
Gosh, I feel guilty and awkward even typing all that.
it lived up to its name as it wasnt a regular shop front.
When I lived in Bromley I would often pop over there.
Top class f&c takeaway.
If I come in contact my lips swell up and the sensation in my mouth is like someone's put a sparkler in it. lasts for about 20mins.
Same with fresh cherries, pears and peaches yet ok tinned. Yet noone else in my family is effected.
Two of my biggest regrets.
Though thankfully I did get to see plenty of Stuart Leary…….my all time favourite player. Years ahead of his time.