What's up with the chips - Fish'n'Chips Shop - To Much on Sale

When it comes to British food and takeaways most people will think of fish’n’chips, as the quintessential British meal but going on my last few visits to the chippy could the popularity be on the wane due I believe to not so appetising chips. The last bag I had could be done under the trade description act for masquerading as a bag of chips. Do you lot out there think the quality of the chips have declined since the sell it all mentality hit most of the shops.

When I order a side order of chips when we have a Chinese or Indian the chips are always better than you get from the fish’n’chips shop. Their chips are chunkier and not shrivelled up tiny chips with lots of bits. Some chippies cut corners and not use real chips but serve up frozen chips in a cost cutting exercise. It should be against the law.

There needs to be a rethink on fish’n’chip shops and bring them back to the more traditional shops. if I were to open one I would lose most of the menu, Pizzas, Burgers and the like and bring it back to what a fish’n’chip shop should be a show case for British takeaway food. I would include curry, as curry sauce is British to the core like a chippy lane Chicken curry off the bone.

In your more traditional shops it’s a bit of a misnomer that fish and chips is the most popular meal with customers who are more likely to buy pie, pasty, fish cake or something along those lines if you discount the other rubbish on sale like I mentioned earlier.

If I wanted a burger let’s say I would go to McDonalds, I wouldn’t in real life because I don’t like their burgers or any of those big chain burger sellers. Why would anyone buy something like a pizza from a chippy over a specialist shop like Pizza Express for convenience I suppose? I don’t get it myself I always seek out quality that’s why I have had enough of my local chippies.

Some may say it is down to the ownership of the shops but the shop my son uses knock up some great chips and he sells everything. So it can be done and if you sell quality the customers will come.