I have had some Fish and Chips tonight, decent size fish, it was ok, freshly cooked but the portion of chips is more than twice I can ever remember. Is this to justify the price of £11.50, same eating out, massive amount of chips. In the chip shop tonight a woman ordered food probably just enough for a family £30 ! In the year I have been away, I can’t believe the rise in food prices, how are people coping ?

Best to buy a half lot. £5.40 (ish) at Verrills. Its enough for me.

The biggest challenge is finding them OPEN!

Double post

We normally go to Verrills great portions alright prices. Tonight my son and his girlfriend went to Oddcod and got large sausage and chips and a bag of chips plus 2 cartons of gravy ( only do 1 size which is a small carton ) the total price was £11.60.The little gravy pots £1.50 each total £3.00 the large sausage was £2.50 leaving £6.10 for 2 bags of chips. That to me is a total rip off.

Fish n chips are no longer the cheap and cheerful tea they were. We used to get them when we couldn’t be bothered to cook but no more, now we have beans on toast.

Incidentally, fish and chips are about £15 down Cambridge way.

Yeh but that's because Cambridge is not on the coast.

Avoid that place now …overpriced and the chips are plentiful but not very appealing.

Fosters, Oxford Street for me. £9.50 for fish and chips, appears expensive but if you compare it to MacDonalds meals, great value and you don't feel hungry twenty minutes later.

As long as the gullible public keep buying them the prices will keep going up.

Fucking Hell Leggie- just when you think things can't get any worse - it would appear that you've taken the secret oath......







........ Verrills Opening Hours!

11am till 1.15 and 4pm till 5.45 Tues Wed Thur Fri
11am till 1.30 Sat
11am till 1.15 Mon
Shut Sunday
Maybe best you set off on Sunday morning to get to Verrills by Saturday 11am till 1.30 it's a long way from Kettering on a push bike.

You LEGEND!

Even if you are a bit cheeky!
I've got Half-term Parole, week after next so will get the Tandem ready and take my Mum, over to fetch some!


I PROMISE I won't tell anybody such classified information

Only you Kettering

What do do for fish and chips in Siam Jamie, send one of the staff out to queue for you , you tinker..

Long time since I had Fish and Chips in a restaurant, there are no take away fish and chip shops like we have here although you can get take away from a restaurant.it’s around £5, no idea what type of fish, I make my own fish and chips, I buy fresh pangasius from the supermarket and my partner coats it with breadcrumbs or you can also buy it cooked with breadcrumbs for some reason the same price just under £2.
Change of topic, I was out with my daughter, I fancied a coffee, she pulled into the one on the Teesbay Retail Park, medium Americano, £3.85, WTF ! How are companies justifying these prices, rising energy costs and staff wages or just a rip off ?

The wife was up Newcastle on Wednesday and coughed up £4 for a toasted teacake…..I’m convinced all the businesses who lost out on Covid are getting back all the money they lost and discovered they can carry on screwing the punters and are doing so with gusto.
Now call me a cynic

is that verrills or oddcod you are on about. wish verrills was nearer to home as their half lot portion is bigger than anywhere in my town and nearly two quid cheaper. some are so bad even the dog will not eat them. funny when they were cheap and chearful you could go anywhere and not many were bad and were the talk of the town if they were.

not a cynic but just telling the facts. only thing to do is swerve these places, especially those who put fancy names to food and drink to double the cost. problem is there are so many who like to tell others where they have been and get a window seat for people to see em. when debenhams in the boro was open they charged over £8 hust for a cup of tea and a slice of cake. just bought 3 in stockton market and had change for that scam.

Neither, I misread which one it was, it was another chippy, if you want to know I’ll pm you.

Yeh a Fishy tea for me and the family now is a treat - easily £25/30. But then again we recently ate in one of the local pubs and got charged nigh on 16 quid for stickleback coated in wall paper paste and some frozen shite chips. Its more scandalous how some of these gastro pubs are simply knocking out microwave scran or quick 2 minute pan fry meals and calling them fine dining with the price to match ! Pints in these places are all creeping towards £6 aswell. Its getting beyond a joke - the middle class divide is taking another turn.

F&C are a decent meal far better than a kebab or pizza which a lot of people have descended to.
A half lot at the Marine pub in Seaton is £9.95 with mushy peas. Drinks reasonable in very comfortable surroundings.

Wonder if they just run over to the Almighty Cod and buy them then just put extra couple of quid on.

All is good inflation down to 1.7%.

Ye course it is.

If you think Verrill's opening hours are limited, try the chippie in Third Street, Horden. Our lasses legs are open more often...!

Well worth the effort mind, as it's one of the finest fish and chip shops known to mankind.

Still ran by the same family who ran it in the late 1970s when we moved from Hartlepool to Horden - something I still have psychological issues with to this day - and their made-on-the-premises patties are truly exceptional.

give the place a fancy name, a large menu and give the food an exotic sounding name you,ll fill the place as more or less we are a country of snobs. we took her brothers up to the town a few years back into the headland cafe. one lives near bournemouth the other north london. both could not believe the value they got and the standard of the food served and made them change their minds where they went on getting back home to more modest places they previously visited. not a drinker but know plenty who are who are getting sick of the hype of real ale and craft beers with a charge well over other normal beers. its not rip of britain its conning britain.

is that because its good and they make enough anyway in the hours its open. places that resemble the windmill theatre are only doing it hoping a mug will enter because nobody else is open.

Aye, that sums the shop up perfectly.

They're only open Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and very limited hours. You'll wait a while too if you want fish as it's cooked to order, but well worth the wait.

Worth getting a visa on your passport for the People's Republic of Horden, and the bribe to get through the customs checkpoint at Blackhall Rocks..!

might give it a try next week when i,m up for the game. i,m in blackhall anyway getting some pies from taylors to take home. will make a change from the normal cooked breakfast and my car will not exactly stand out in the area so i,ll look local.

We haven't been since late last year and it looks like it only opens two days a week now - Thursday 4:00pm- 7:00pm and Friday 11:00am-1:30pm & 4:00pm-7-00pm.

All of their patties are lush, especially the corned beef ones. Oh, and they call a fritter a Yorkshire patty for some reason in Yakkaland. It's Farley's fish & chips in Third Street if you need info for a satnav.

Just been up to give it a try. The reason the patties are called Yorkshire is because her father was from Yorkshire but she lives in Hartlepool. The curry is top notch the best I have had since the 80s 90s when all fish shops had that curry. The chips spot on but the fish pattie average, the cost was £7.50. Next time I will get a fish priced at £6.00. Well worth a visit just for the curry and chips alone.

I've only used Cod on the Rocks in the 'Colleries' in the past and found it decent.
How does that Chippy compare to the Horden one in Third Street?
Hoping you say there is no comparison so I WILL HAVE TO TRY IT.

been to cod on the rocks once pre covid and will not repeat it again. might have just been unlucky but the batter was soggy and the chips underdone. think the time you go in can affect some places whether they cook fish to order or not.

so they are definatly closed saturday dinner time then. do they do a half lot anyway as a full portion is too much for her in the kitchen and she aint getting any of my chips.

The only fish price I noticed was £6 so I assume that they do not do half lots.

Big queue 15+ outside The Almighty Cod around 6.30, Fish Face no queue, I went to Fish Face fish only it was ok tbh, what’s the attraction to The Almighty Cod ?

It's a Almighty Cod and Fish face is normal size.

Glad you enjoyed it, and you're right about the curry.

Even when I lived nearby I never tried the fish patties, but me sister was always raving about them - whereas I was a corned-beef fan. The fish is excellent and I'm certain you'll enjoy it.

What stuck in my mind when I moved back to Yakkaland in 2010 was that the food was exactly the same as I remembered it from my first collieries exile between 1977 and 1984 - and there aren't many chippies where that claim holds true.

The lasses running it now are the grandchildren of the original owners, and their dad still pops in to make the patties even though he officially retired four or five years ago. It was weird seeing him as he didn't look much older than he did when I was a teenager.

Oh, and I hope you remembered it's "batter" up there not "scraps"...!

Balls of Prudhoe - give them a go if you are in the area.

Cod on the Rocks isn't bad - I'd give it 7 out of 10 - but Third Street gets a 10 from me.

Yoden Fisheries (top road near the Labour Club) was a 9 out of 10, but that went up in flames a couple of years ago, leaving Third St the only decent one left in Horden.

Avoid my current locale of Shotton as both of them here are shite. Thornley Fisheries is no Third St, but worth a punt if you're in the area. Other notable ones in these parts are Bell's in Durham and also Downey's in Seaham - where I got the finest haddock I've ever tasted.

Cheers Kenny...definitely going to give it a go.

Wetherby whaler if passing 10/10

Mods- can this thread be stickied to the top of the board for future reference please?

There are a lot of very important contributions including Leggie, sharing the highly classified Verrills Opening Hours!

I agree.

And the Almighty Cod in Seaton having the biggest cod.

the one actually in wetherby is, but not there other spot at the old original harry ramsdens in guiseley thats expensive and bang average.

Back in town for a few days during half-term Parole - went to Fish Face in Seaton with my Mum.

Sat in, and pleased to report that it was decent fare. I had the large cod with chips and mushy peas which was excellent. I only eat mushy peas with F&C and they were the best I've had in a while.

My Mum had Scampi- again really good, and would definitely recommend. Then went over the road to JoJo Gelato's and had an amazing ice cream with a coffee. Didn't need to eat again for the rest of the day.

(Leggie- got a puncture in the tandem - so took the car instead!)

Hope you enjoy the rest of your break here in little old Artlepool. And say hello to your Mum from the Bunkerites.

do not do ice cream but its good for seaton that gelato,s took off giving something that wasn,t there before. pity the bogs in the bus station could take off again rather than the beech huts where you,d piss yourself without any change or a phone with you.