The thing to remember is that a proper chippie will sell big fat fuck off chips.
None of your poncy froggie fries crap
I for one had no idea that chip shops served meat pies and faggots. In America, it seems to go against the grain to have a seafood place serving lots of meat dishes. You might have one or two least-common-denominator things on the menu to accommodate non-seafood eaters, but you’d hardly call attention to it.
The other issue is price. Fish these days is unbelievably expensive, even in the land of the bean and the cod. I can’t see fish and chips being offered for less than $10, while a typical fast-food meal might be half that. In other words, people will eat fish and chips at the higher price, but not three times a week.
But now I’m curious what people pay for fish and chips in England. I read a figure the other day that made my eyes pop out – 20 quid, or something like that? But that might have been an upscale place in London. (To be sure, the fish are getting ever scarcer.)
At my local chippie last week, 2 fish, 1 chips, large gravy, large mushy peas came to about £8
A chip shop is not a seafood place. No way, no how. It’s just…not.
I hesitate to ask…but please reassure me that chips and curry sauce is available down south!
Call it $16 to feed two, I guess. That’s not too bad. And explain the mushy peas – are they a puree, or just peas like out of a can?
Here’s one in VA. It’s called a Dublin Chipper which is the same thing as a Brit Chippy.
http://www.eamonnsdublinchipper.com/
Prices are better. $3.50 for a large chips for example. It doesn’t have a very large selection, most of the chippers over here do chips, burgers, sausages(battered and not), Onion rings, pizza, kebabs etc. but it does do booze which is nice 
They are mushy. No other word for it. Not quite a puree, but they do come out of a can. Pic here.
I can vouch for A Salt and Battery. Everyone behind the counter is English, plenty of their customers are English, and the chips taste just like i remember from England. I love nice, thick English-style chips; such a welcome change from American fries. I don’t eat fish, but my wife says the fish they do is fantastic.
It’s also located right next to a shop that sells English sweets, chocolate, and other products. Can’t remember the name of the place right now, but whenever i’m in New York i stop by to stock up on Maltesers, (proper English) Cadbury chocolate, and other similar goodies.
Ah, dueling pictures of mushy peas! Yojimbo gets a mention for his fast reflexes, but Surok takes the title with a spectacular closeup!
Yeah about the same here altho’ you can get different sized portions of chips:
Small… 70p
Med…1.00
Large…1.20
Waste of time getting small as there’s hardly enough chips to make a decent butty
All of these prices make me want to weep.
When I was a lad it was “six o’ chips 'an a fish please mate”
Cost 1/1 or in todays dosh 10½p
Yeah, but houses cost 12p back then.
That looks like an accident with a pressure cooker.
Only tenements, a bungalow was upwards of 5/-
One shilling converted to 5p, so 1/1 would be about 5½p.
Look I’m 66 cut me some slack, me brain aint wot it was
:smack:
Maybe so. But it’s a delicious accident.
Sorry, I’ll get off your lawn now.