Demise of the traditional British chippy

It's the fast food burger chains who have ki11ed off the chippy. We have a teenage nephew who has been brought up on burgers as his main source of midday nutritional uptake. Needless to say he is an absolute slob. When in goes into burger shop he orders two of the largest for his own personal consumption, plus a large cola and large chips, all supersized. He downs these within 5 minutes. An hour later he is still hungry, and wants more. This has cost around £8.

I suggest all kinds of alternatives: fish and chips, sandwiches, Cornish pasty. The answer is always the same "No. I want a beef burger."

There ought to be triple VAT taxation on beef burgers, as they are destroying the nation's health, far more so than cigarettes and alcohol.

Beef burgers are among the most disgusting and unhealthy rip-offs there are. Sick big turds in a bun.

Well, I remember a portion of chips being ten pence and peas on top another penny in 1977, That would be nearly £2-00 nowadays,

But I also remember buying a 21 inch colour tv for £350-00 in 1982, bet you could buy two for that nowadays.

It"s because the spaniards and Icelanders steal all of our cod and haddock, we have all of our forces way out in the east, we need them closer to home!

Fish and chips in 1960 = 6 pence
FIsh and chips in 2010 = £4-50p

This is 74 times inflation. Nothing else has inflated by as much, not even cars, petrol not nothing!

I once asked why our local chippy closed at 10 pm & don t stay open later, his reply was he had so much trouble from drunk , abusive, little s****s,that it wasn t worth the aggro.How the minority really rule the majority,

Bibi, what are you talking about? Just because everyone isn't a brainiac like you!

I completely agree! Where have the chippy's gone? Though they were slightly greasy, they were delicious. There just aren't chips like that around any more! However there is nothing we can do abut it, so move on is what I say.

your language was very basic. how old are you, three?

most chippies have to shut by law at a responsible hour so as not to hack of the neighbours by creating noise when they clean up

"Lets continue to hope that someone somewhere is doing something."
Hahaha, Kays, that's the most British response to a problem.
And it's probably because of the drunken people coming out of the pubs! I'm not saying everyone is like that [kenny] but most young people do take drinking to the extreme these days and it probably puts the british fish and chip owners off. The kebab and pizza shop owners tend to be foreign, and for some reason seem to not mind the drunken behaviour. there is only one fish and chip shop in my village, and it started closing at 10pm, rather than 11:30pm, because of drunken idiots who smashed the shop window in. [the owners were not british though... funnily enough, they had enough of it too!]

Oh yes Sahib, we're the Punjab Chapati. Chapatis and Curried Cod with or without salt and vinegar. Okra perhaps, all cooked in a Tandoooorrriiii. Oh Mahatma Gandhi!

Probably sitting rat@rsed on a street corner somewher munching a kebab or a pizza. The traditional British chippy is gone - long live the British Chippy!