Was wet, amusing to see a seagull swoop down and steal a pasty out of a bag in a blokes hand as he attempted to eat it, cheeky bastard.
£9.50 for fish and chips, shite batter and served on a side plate, Adam Ant cafe!

I do enjoy your daily whinge.

There are places in Whitby that charge a small fortune for average fish and chips.

If you go to one of the small ones off the beaten track they give you loads more, better quality for less.

Recently happened across The Harbour Fish Bar in Amble - excellent fish'n'chips and very generous portions. Shame that many of the locals are so closely related.

Is Luke James from Amble?

Why not try Aberystwyth it's sunny and I am drinking real ale.

Is the joke shop still there? the stink bombs were of high quality if i remember..

Didn't see one but tomorrow morning I think I may experience a stink bomb.

I saw what you did there!

something i always do at the seaside. even in blackpool you can find something cheap and really edible off the beaten track. think nine and a half notes is bad for fish and chips you can pay that for a bowl of soup in york city centre.

£10.50 here and it’s crap

Fish and Chips are shite anyway, tasteless greasy crap unless you drown them in salt and vinegar.

if they are anything like the ones in norfolk they smell crap as well.

Fish and chips are generally shite anywhere south of Sheffield.

Usually very good in Scotland, particularly the east coast.

We were in Cornwall the other week and got fissh and chips from Rick Steins place in Padstow, they were about a tenner as well but to be fair they were very nice, the batter was probably the best I've had from a chippy

Seaview chippy in Penzance probably as good as The Almighty Cod in Seaton Carew and reasonably priced.

thats true nottingham. its not the fish they use but its the funny smell that comes from what they cook in {used castrol gtx} and the usually soggy batter that comes off on your paper straight away. mind you i knew a chippy owner who used to go to cromer ever summer holiday where i local chippy owner told him that the locals there would not like his northern fish and chips and like it there own way.

Pastie on Manchester rail station £5.79.........

if you can afford a train ticket then that pastie will seam dirt cheap.

They leave the skin on here as well and the cod is flat as a pancake. If the shops here where at home they would be closed in a month. £1.20 for curry sauce or mushy peas

god i forgot about the skin on the bottom as well. so bad i had to resort to asda or morrisons to get edible fish and chips. apart from the fish the pies sold were crap as well and the chips all stuck together in a bit of a mush.

I'm sure a chippy somewhere in Hartlepool during my childhood years (1970s) did fish with skin still on one side.

Hughes' on Catty Road shops - or "Mucky Jack's" as we called it - was me local one, but I'm not sure it was from there.

Possibly over West View as me Dad's family all lived over there, or maybe down the Headland when the carnival was on.

Anyone else with memories of this going on somewhere in the 'Pool...?

I had fish with the skin on one side last week in Norfolk, it was lovely. Can’t remember where as a week there with our lass in the car is just blurred days exploring every road in the county.
That said we pulled up at one pub and she said she didn’t like the look of it and refused to go in. It looked picture perfect, but she was shit hot on the internet and quoted the menu, beetroot and truffle at £42 a shot.

[quote="Go Ask Alice"]I'm sure a chippy somewhere in Hartlepool during my childhood years (1970s) did fish with skin still on one side.

up to the early 60,s it seemed to happen everywhere in the town. when we moved to west yorkshire this didn,t happen and i enjoyed em much more.

Old Wives' tales top 100 ??....Plenty of decent chippies down South. And some of them are owned by foreigners.

I'm not really worried what your opinion is.

I've spent enough time working in the south to see and smell shite chippies ta.

same here nottingham. for me though they are worse in the midlands between nottingham and oxford than they are round london and the south coast.

It's a bit of a daft argument really. a bit like discussing beers. Some you like and some you don't. I've had a lot of holidays in Cornwall and eaten a lot of fish and chips, as well as drank my share of pints. Some are good, some are very good and some.....well I wouldn't have a second dollop. That is the measure for me........would I go back ????
I've been eating fish and chips whilst sat on the sea wall in Mevagissey since before most on here were born and I shall be doing that again quite shortly.

Had pancakes following the Delia Smith recipe after a few pints in the pub last night.It stated it makes 12-14 pancakes and i eat the lot.
The kitchen looked like a disaster zone this morning.

As a footnote i was using the 1978 recipe but taken from the eleventh reprint dated 1989.

Kids love them American style pancakes, bit thicker but easy to make, go well with tin cherries in syrup and ice cream, like the old little chef jobbies but nicer!

Had mine with golden syrup and lemon juice.
Gave me a dose of flatulence from 4am till i got up.

What's your opinion on Yorkshire puddings , is anyone South of Barnsley capable of making them ??

South of Barnsley? You mean Sheffield. Very unYorkshire that place.....

The big no no for Chippies for me and it’s an almost a constant away from real Fish and Chip shops in the North is when they have Kebab meat spinning and have pizzas on the menu. I just wouldn’t entertain Fish and Chips from anywhere like that. Heathens. I am not a fan of Fish Chip restaurants either sat down eating them off plates with a slice of lemon drinking tea out of chinas cup surrounded by pensioners. Fish and Chips should either be eaten at home or outside of the shop ‘open’ with a wooden fork with lashings of salt and vinegar.

Saying this Hartlepool doesn’t have a good one anymore, Verrills is still the best but it’s not great you have to go to Norton to get good Fish and Chips then Weatherby for really good Fish and Chips. A couple of decent ones in Redcar and Saltburn, Coleman’s in South Shields is nice. The nicest one in Whitby is just across the harbour bridge past the pub then turn right, I can’t remember the name.

I am properly craving nice Fish and Chips now, and greasy filthy Donner Kebab but not from the same place, that is a disgrace and should be against licensing laws.

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Agree if i see a chippy selling kebabs or pizza no way would i buy fish and chips from there. Its the 11th commandment....thou shall not.

her indoors is a londoner and can make really good ones. as for beer there is good and bad everywhere but cannot get my taste buds round scottish ones. never tried those kebab things as the look and smell puts me right off.

The big issue with fish is the batter, so many have that layer of sludge between the flesh and the outside, if the batter is thick when put on it stays that way, the batter is just to protect the flesh not render the damn stuff.
Worst I ever had was at Elizabeth rd chippy, closed and reopened now with Asian lad running it, Harry's I think

Wise man Mr Acc.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7841890.stm

There are some very good Scottish beers, but you have to seek them out. A lot of their mainstream common stuff is pish (McEwans, Belhaven etc).

my lad eats the things. gave some of the meat to my rottweiler i had at the time. she spit it straight out. that said it all for me coming from a dog that even ate horse shit.