Yeah, well, don’t forget that Dracula came ashore at Whitby.
How did he get a booking at the magpie Cafe?
When you buy chips, the cost of the potatoes is a small part of the price. And that’s gone up too. If you can secure rent, wages, insurance, utility charges, and materials/raw food deals for your local chippy at 2015 rates, I am sure they would be delighted… until then, don’t expect the prices to be like they used to.
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I’m still sporting a scar on my noggin and a badly disfigured finger from a fight there many years ago where I wore a pint glass
Chips have gone up more than the other items though.(fish, dimmies, chiko rolls etc etc)
Or you get less chips. So without being an expert on running a humble fish n chippo something is definitely up.
Did someone in a cape come and suck the blood off your scone?
Unfortunately not
Just a group of Toon supporters we had a run in with a few months previously
May be a function though of relative price rises. Spud prices I think have risen proportionally more than those other things. And maybe now they they actually do cost a bit, a chippy can’t any longer use them as a loss-leader to just get customers in regardless of margin on a ‘nothing’ cost, to sell the expensive fish etc.
Bell St Fish and Chips in Torquay Great fish a chips, it is also Greek owned and like the ones we had growing up. Exceptional.
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Was that the one near Bath Abbey ?
I lived in Bath for a while and it generally had the best food in UK, and that Chip Shop was expensive but great.
I’d be happy to give up our Potato “Cake” if the northern states give up their “Scallop” rubbish and we all settle on the Potato Fritter.
It’s time to unite this country on things that matter!
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A fritter is a slice of pineapple covered in cinnamon and fried isn’t it?
Technically they are potato slices fried. They aren’t cakes.
And scollop is a ye olde term for a slice or cut. But it’s ye olde.
I’d call them potato slices.
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I love the word “ye” In the 80s me and my mates started describing anything that was old and hackneyed as ye. To this day I still get a chuckle when I see a Ye… sign.
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the small pocket in WA calling it a fritter
And once we’ve done that we can settle on “parma” (the only correct description) and fire “parmi” into the sun…
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What about Parmo?
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No, clearly unacceptable…
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Yeah but it’s spelled PARMIgiana 
There’s a pub near me that has a Parmi night. I’ve never been there.
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