Hi all, glad you liked the video. Here is the price broken down. Cod and chips 9 quid. Mushy peas 1 pound and can of coke 1.50 . 11.50 total. Have a good weekend all. 😋👍
@@annenunney9907 That’s astonishing. Did you know during the Blitz in London Prices varied for the type of order, the usual orders were for 2d worth of fish and 1d of chips. However the well to do would often ask for and get 6d worth of fish (often plaice). People nowadays don’t know they’ve been born.
£11.50p???? Geez!! I was brought up on a council estate back in the 50's & 60's, where Fish & Chips was a staple as it was a cheap meal for working folk. I now treat Fish & Chips very much as a 'luxury item' and rarely buy them, the last time being 2 years ago to mark a special event.
Same as, cant remember the last time bought a bit of cod. I do use the local chippy often, mainly for their chicken and hot wings as they're more reasonable and tasty.
This is true. I saw an old film from the 1960s about life in Bury, Lancs near where I live and the fish and chip shop was a god send. Nowadays, it's an expensive treat.
Every time I watch this guy he makes laugh with his witty comments.. such a genuine down to earth bloke! For me easy one of the best reviewers on RUclips. 👍
Two weeks ago- Portion of chips and curry sauce at my local chippy, and the chip portion was microscopic. £3.60. In the last six months the price has gone from £2.10p to £3.60 and the portion size is less than half what it was. Now literally not enough to fill a sandwich. Two days later in the next town, I called in a Chinese chippy, Chips and curry sauce was £2.50, and the portion of chips was at least 3 times the size. My local one has seen lunchtime business go down from queing out of the door to servers warming their backsides on the heated cabinets because no-one is going, solely down to rip-off price rises. I only live 50 yards away so I can see every day how it's gone down. The price rise is not cost of living, it's blatant profiteering. Some Chip shops are just taking the **ss. So much so that they deserve to go bust. And for the sake of fairness... It's not just Chip shops doing it.
Fully agree. I have always bought food in advance, ate what I had in stock, and backfilled. So I know there's been a food price increase. But some items were made years ago, before all the costs went up, spent years on a shelf, but the shop just increased the price. Greed. Opportunism. "Inflation in the news, our chance to increase prices"
@philyyew....if you payed £3.60 for a portion of chips and a pot of curry sauce that's good,I don't know where you live but I'm in Buckinghamshire and a small chips is £2.80 now and curry sauce £2.10 and yes portions are very small now so chip shops better be careful as they will run themselves out of business as people won't put up with it much longer.
@@mikeymike1854 of course price varies based on the profits or business property rents the chippy has to pay. If the chippy is mortgage free owner occupier then price can be half someone who's paying a landlord. Small is usually worse value so either I get a large and share it it finish rest off later. Also don't underestimate pubs, you usually can get a large, often larger than a chippy F+C+side for same to less cost. Avoid national chain pubs they measure their portions to be frugal.
devaluation of currency. We have to pay back the covid/furlough monies somehow. Some might be profiteering, some might have to do it to keep afloat.... your £1 is no longer that anymore. Plus all the other global stuff etc on top, recipe for disaster (no pun intended).
Agree I ordered from a place I usually order from the other day and they have made the curry and gravy carton tiny. There must of been about 4 spoons full of gravy and curry in each carton and also the special fried rice is now missing prawns and beef but has increased to £11 from £7.90.Total joke .
I love the Lake District! It's my favourite place. I've not been able to get there for years because of the pandemic and then I wasn't well enough to go so thank you for this video. Great review as always, fantastic views appreciated.
Absolutely nothing wrong with the quality of any of your videos. Whether you treat us all to a trip out or when your in your kitchen. The simplicity you bring all us techphobic folks is all part of the charm! ❤ That's a good looking, but small portion of fish and chips 👌🏼 £1.50 for a single can of pop it's bonkers mind 😂
I remember my father in law apologising to all the customers that he had to put a bag of chips up by 10p because the spud man had put his prices up. Back then a bag of chips was 85p! He thought he'd lose his customers because his price went up. Wish we were back in them times now. Haddock and chips with scraps was about £2.50 a bag.
I remember decimalisation. I used to get portion of chips for half shilling, which should have become 2.5p but they made them 5p, had to go home hungry. Greed exists and is always seeking believable excuses.
Damn! That's barely a mini fish compared to where I'm from! A large haddock (at least three times that size) chips, curry sauce and a can would be £8.50
That fish and chips looks lovely and so do the mushy peas , guess what I'm having for tea tonight 😅. Hope you and your wife and family are keeping well 👍 sending you all love and prayers 🙏 God bless, enjoy you holiday .
I grew up having fish on Friday and still do. Love the cod loin as my grandad always had tail end and nothing else also love Finnan haddock with new potatoes and garden peas. When we are skint it's fishcakes lol. Great show Gareth
Nice video ! Last year took my family on our last holiday together (probably), boys getting older now. Went to Cornwall and rented a cottage - so we could go out in the day, but boys could sod off in the evening if they wanted. As it happens, food was so expensive they stayed with us - I wonder why?! Went down to this fish and chip van in Charlestown. Let me just say now - the food was EPIC. Fish and chips, massive portions, cooked fresh in front of our eyes. There was also one large wine, two beers and one diet cook. £90 ! For fish and chips (and drinks!). Glad I have discovered your channel. Mark.
Our local chippy is now paying £19 for a sack of spuds, vs £15 for their last delivery and I think he said less than a tenner a couple of years ago. Utility bills must be huge too. Shwarma stall on our local market used to be very busy knocking out £3 wraps which were delicious - quiet there now £6.50 a pop and quality not as good as when it was constantly busy. And I'm not payinng £13 for a chicken Madras from our local takeway. These places will end up closing, I don't see what else can happen.
I totally agree with you there. I’ve got around a dozen takeaways where I live and honestly most of them have gone downhill in terms of produce quality, not to mention the price increases too
I love this chippy, I used to get fish and chips sometimes on lunch, I worked at a car dealership just down the road called Rayrigg motors, sadly gone now
They look good, I can smell them from here! 11.50 wouldn't be bad for eating in, but is out of my budget for takeaway. Cod bites and chips are a good alternative 👌
I enjoy when you're out and about Gareth. I've never been to Bowness before. I don't think it was a bad price seeing as you were at the lake district. It looked very nice even though the fish was on the small side. When I make my own mushy peas I add salt, pepper, chip shop vinegar and sugar. The sugar does make a difference. I've decided to have fish and chips for tea tonight.
I was intending to have fish and chips for lunch, but I've only finished breakfast at 8:30, so it will too early at 12 noon for a massive meal. I like to go to the chippy as soon as they open, because then both the fish and the chips are fresh out the fryer.
I'll be honest with you, if I saw you out and about I'd feel obliged to say hello and thank you for all the entertainment you have provided. I also think it fairly safe to say that that days of a cheap meal are limited now.
Good to see you out & about Gareth. I have been to both those chippys over the years. However, i think the last time i visited, it cost around half that 😂
Really I can guarantee Yorkshire fisheries don't cook their chip's in beef dripping and considering they charge £15 in Blackpool I think I'll avoid in future
Visited Bowness with my grandparents every October holidays in the 50/60s. . Things have changed a lot!! Things were so much quieter back then, not everyone had a car. Imagine that! We used to get fish and chips and eat them on the grass .No idea how much it cost but it would have been in £s shillings and pence. Finished it off on the way home with Kendal mint cake my Grandad’s favourite.
We go to the lakes (Ullswater) every year. Love it there. Retire there if I could afford it. Usually go in March or October but this year going in July. We tend to get fish n chips at home about once a fortnight. £18 for twice with 2 peas. Recently I've seen the price go up and up and up. Its not a cheap meal anymore like it used to be. Quite an extravagance now. You'll always pay more at the beach or in tourist places but I thought £11.50 still sounded a lot. It wasn't that long ago I was getting change from a tenner from what I now pay nearly £20 for.
Haven't been to Bowness for years. Used to frequent 'The Hole in T'Wall'. It was popular as a biker pub in those days. That fish looked nice and crispy!
Hi Gareth I have just watched this Lake District tourist video. By chance we have had home done fish and chips. ( from the freezer shop) Ours was Pangasius with 12 mm chips from macro. Delicious and not very expensive !! About a quarter the price you paid but for three of us !! Two days ago we had home farmed fish from one of our ponds, fried whole, name Talapia. Lovely white fish that is completely different if it is Wok steamed. We buy in Nile Perch sometimes and fry or steam that. Another nice white fish. I was telling my wife that many fish shops used to sell Pickled onions, or if we ate at home we had our own or pickled cabbage or beetroot. Today I had, my favourite Ginger pickle. Sorry to rabbit on, all our best wishes. Don, Phannee and the boys.
Looks delicious. Last week I had an extra large cod and chips, a piece of hake and small chips, and a cartoon of fruity curry. £25.50 plus £2 delivery from the Cardiff Road Fish Bar, Aberdare. It was superb.
I grew up around there, and in my day the go-to cafés/chippies were Crucci's and Carpanini's. I don't think they're still going, but I have fond memories of them.
I haven't had a chip supper for almost 4 years but I was trying to work out why the price has skyrocketed. Cooking Oil is at an all time high price Energy is the same and those fryers are on for very long periods. Transporting the food, fuel. Still think £11.50 is astronomical
True costs went up so prices went up. But subsequently costs have gone down so why hasn't prices gone down? Someone, not necessarily everyone, is making more profits under the inflation smokescreen.
Welcome to the NORTH Lakes… Definitely a north/south divide here too 😉 Pooley bridge ain’t too bad to be fair if you can find somewhere to park, and a table to sit
Great vid as usual. Never been to "Bowness" in Windermere but when we lived in Bo'ness (Scotland) in the 70's we got wrong numbers for that place all the time. Where I live now, a fish supper (two large pieces of fish PLUS chips) is £8.50/£9.
The chips look really crispy and golden with those essential smaller very crispy chip bits included but the fish is very small like you said. A lot of chippies struggle to Simply cook a chip that stays crispy and is a good golden colour which is where most of the flavour comes from,it’s a bit like roasting a spud that has no crunch or colour you just wouldn’t do it.
Been eating British chips for 40 years now and I never remember them being crispy. Batter is crispy though if done right. Maybe your thinking of French fries?
A lot of roast spuds or chips now are cooked but not golden because the extra time to crisp them up costs gas for no extra profit. Hence they'll serve it up as soon as its edible. Sadly taste often comes second to profit.
used to go this chippy when i was a child always liked it .. bringing back memories of days out in school holidays i cant boleive its still there it was over 30 ago when i last went
What a beautiful video Gaz. And the fish, chips and mushy peas look great, the prices are not too bad. Food, has gone up a lot so the days of fish and chips for £3.50 are well behind us. Thanks for your great work.
We £3.70 for mini fish and chips here in the Midlands and it's as big as the one in the vid. Some shops charge more than double that though and it's not always good and not always cod.
I remember back in the late 80s, when I first started working in London, there was a chippy nearby run by a Greek fella. I'd get cod and chips and I can remember his voice with a strong accent saying "£1.90 please".
Yeah filming out and about can be a challenge - I always feel quite self-conscious as people stare at me talking to myself while munching a burger or whatever!! Good to get out of the comfort zone sometimes though. Fish and chips looked decent too - and not a bad price (well certainly compared to down my way in Dorset anyway)
@@BaldFoodieGuy Just checked, and the same order you had at my local chippy would be £14.40. Not cheap that's for sure. Not long ago you'd have got a steak dinner somewhere for that!
Love the out and about footage mate,The way you do it makes it feel like your actually there along for the ride,Fish and chips looked really nice and reasonably priced,Never been to the Lake district looks like i need to add that to my list!
£11.50p too much for that size piece of fish... ive been buying the frozen bags of mushy peas but i also buy the small tins and mix half of the tin with the bagged peas, makes more and tastes the same, but cheaper than buying a half dozen tins...
I am an Englishman, living in Thailand for 20 years. What a comparison from 1958 in Birmingham with one shilling for cod, threepence for the chips!! That's about 6p for a sumptuous meal. I cook my own fish and chips here and though I can't easily buy cod, I buy some nice fish - cost for fish and chips for one about £1.50. Last year I went to a restaurant in Chiang Mai Northern Thailand and had real British cod and chips and mushy peas for less than equivalent £4 .
Great video Gaz we spent a week there and stayed in the old England hotel for a treat a great place to go and the boat trip set sail and the bar was open happy days, keep up with the great videos 👏👏👍👍
Oh crikey! I was salivating just looking at those fish and chips , I could almost smell them 😄 if I had to choose my final meal on this earth it would be fish and chips from a really good fish and chip shop that used beef dripping 👍
Your vid's are spot on, don't change a thing. I live in a tourist town and we do pay higher for fish & chips. We only have one or two in town which is a shame (BC, Canada). Best chippy in the UK from what I remember is on St. James' Street, Nottingham. Suggested it to a friend visiting and when he came back, he's like, the fish was THIS big.... ha. Love to see the country, cheers!
Great Video, I live in the lakes some places are way more expensive. You picked a quiet day, this weekend was so busy. Love all your videos, keep up the good work Xx
I’ve recently learned how to make an absolutely moreish batter that’s perfect for fresh fish in a deep fat fryer AND it works perfectly for sweet-n-sour chicken balls (I’ve also got a s&s sauce recipe and it’s all so gawdam easy and cheap it’s unbelievable). It brings me so much joy. Takeaway food prices are just bldy scary these days.
We love the Lake District especially Ullswater,we had a friend who lived in Bowness and used to visit them on occasion,It's a nice we drive from our home in Ayr where it's only £8.50 for a fish supper with two large fish,another great video Gareth
have a great weekend, and anyone reading this have a great weekend do something for yourself and be kind to yourself. love the different video today thankyou.
I've been to that chippy and yes agree the staff are friendly. But I have to ask why in a car you'd go there. I've spent this last week in Langdale. I had a very good Fish+Chips at Wainwrights in Chapel Stile, and the best food in the whole area is the Old Dungeon Ghyll at the end of the road, I had a Hagiss+chips which was very tasty. Great beer (if not driving) and last couple of nights live music. Catch the 516 bus from Ambleside. If you fancy a few beers the last bus from Old Dungeon Ghyll is 7.10pm and their dinner menu is 5pm-8pm. I was backpacking camping so YMMV.
Love Bowness-on-Windermere, we go down 4 or 5 times a year for a weekend. The restaurant next to fizzy tarte, Porto, is superb. The Chinese down the road a bit is wonderful too. Will try the chippy next time!
Hi there, another great video like always do enjoy your videos all the time. No see you out and about. Keep up the good work. We can’t wait to start our filming in Devon next week and have a great video from you. I did okay okay good work
I'm all up for fish & chip friday! Nice change of pace for a video and it sounds like you had a hell of an adventure. The price would be a bit of a shocker from your local chippy but you're on holiday in a beautiful part of the country so it's alright to push the boat out a bit. Great vid and a nice end to the week, Gareth!
You've got better weather than us on the East Coast. Seafarer was lovely restaurant in Romford, Essex I do think it's there anymore but I preferred the Chicken and chips.
I helped fit a lot of carpets in lakeside mansions in my youth, a fish and chip dinner with peas was 2 shillings, the fish was much bigger but we had less chips than what we get today. Looking at the menu chips was £3 if you added them to a pie.
11.50 omg rip off! Its 7.50 at our local chippy! But the lake district is higher prices for tourist!! It looks nice though,nice to see a change of scenery Gareth great vid.👍
In our town you can get two plates of fish chips and peas for what you paid. (Ripley's, not in Yorkshire or Surrey the chippies named after our town been there since the 1950's). You have to order a large cod slice when entering the shop (it tells you that on the price list!) then you order a large chips plus whatever size peas you want. You are given a massive box of fish and chips which you take home and serve up on plates cutting the fish into two portions plus a generous serving of chips. My wife gets them and she says she pays eleven quid or so.
yeah, small fish, but the prices have shot up... we sometimes have fish and chip from out local chippy of a saturday night - large frish and chips for 9 quid... I've only just discovered (well, over a year ago) curry sauce with fish and chips...amazing..!
Just found your channel. What a great bloke, love the humour! With regards the price of fish and chips. My stepson thinks im tight cause I wont buy them anymore. The worst part is you will pay through the nose for them and 9 times out of 10 they are not cooked right niether the fish nor the chips! The industry needs a shake up! All the best mate!
I only have the odd fish and chips from my local chippie. He hasn't really raised his prices by much. But down on seafront you would easily pay £15 to £20 for a medium fish and chip take away. On the pier? You would pay a bit more. I personally love all kinds of fish, except Basa, but that is more about where it's from than the taste. I really think I could eat fish every day, with each day's fish being different and cooked differently. Your fish and chips did look good though. The chips looked to be cooked just right and although a bit on the small size the fish looked good with a nice batter. Glad to see you out and about. The beautiful views AND fish and chips? You must have been in Heaven. 👍👍😇😇.
6d a portion of chips costs me as a kid in the late 60s, my mum would send us to the chippy at the end of our street with a plate for um, huge portion aswell. World's gone mad.
Looks delicious and I now have hunger pangs! 😅 In Scotland 🏴 chippies usually give you 2 fish in your fish 🐟 suppers; handy for families with kids, as they can stretch their meals out between them, especially with the current prices! 😬
Hi all, glad you liked the video. Here is the price broken down. Cod and chips 9 quid. Mushy peas 1 pound and can of coke 1.50 . 11.50 total. Have a good weekend all. 😋👍
I can remember the days when fish and chips was one shilling many moons ago
Where I live in Ireland I get a chip box as it's called, it consists of a large fresh cod and a big portion of chips all for 7 euro. Coke €1.50.
Near me it's £11.10 just for cod & chips!
Our local chippy is nine quid just for the fish
@@annenunney9907 That’s astonishing. Did you know during the Blitz in London Prices varied for the type of order, the usual orders were for 2d worth of fish and 1d of chips. However the well to do would often ask for and get 6d worth of fish (often plaice). People nowadays don’t know they’ve been born.
£11.50p???? Geez!! I was brought up on a council estate back in the 50's & 60's, where Fish & Chips was a staple as it was a cheap meal for working folk. I now treat Fish & Chips very much as a 'luxury item' and rarely buy them, the last time being 2 years ago to mark a special event.
Same as, cant remember the last time bought a bit of cod. I do use the local chippy often, mainly for their chicken and hot wings as they're more reasonable and tasty.
This is true. I saw an old film from the 1960s about life in Bury, Lancs near where I live and the fish and chip shop was a god send. Nowadays, it's an expensive treat.
Yes was cheap meal then, we had a mobile fish and chip van on a Friday, great stuff!
My takeaway bill for a month is about £200 , my usual 2 haddock 1 chips and 1 peas is £23 with which I am quite content 👍
@@SirReginaldBlomfield1234 I think you totally missed the point John.
Every time I watch this guy he makes laugh with his witty comments.. such a genuine down to earth bloke! For me easy one of the best reviewers on RUclips. 👍
Thank you Mark
So True, we love him too, watch him every night without fail, Genuine is the word and so nice to see in this day n age, Humble too.
lol!!!!!!!
Agreed 👍
Two weeks ago- Portion of chips and curry sauce at my local chippy, and the chip portion was microscopic. £3.60. In the last six months the price has gone from £2.10p to £3.60 and the portion size is less than half what it was. Now literally not enough to fill a sandwich. Two days later in the next town, I called in a Chinese chippy, Chips and curry sauce was £2.50, and the portion of chips was at least 3 times the size. My local one has seen lunchtime business go down from queing out of the door to servers warming their backsides on the heated cabinets because no-one is going, solely down to rip-off price rises. I only live 50 yards away so I can see every day how it's gone down. The price rise is not cost of living, it's blatant profiteering. Some Chip shops are just taking the **ss. So much so that they deserve to go bust. And for the sake of fairness... It's not just Chip shops doing it.
Fully agree.
I have always bought food in advance, ate what I had in stock, and backfilled. So I know there's been a food price increase.
But some items were made years ago, before all the costs went up, spent years on a shelf, but the shop just increased the price.
Greed.
Opportunism.
"Inflation in the news, our chance to increase prices"
@philyyew....if you payed £3.60 for a portion of chips and a pot of curry sauce that's good,I don't know where you live but I'm in Buckinghamshire and a small chips is £2.80 now and curry sauce £2.10 and yes portions are very small now so chip shops better be careful as they will run themselves out of business as people won't put up with it much longer.
@@mikeymike1854 of course price varies based on the profits or business property rents the chippy has to pay. If the chippy is mortgage free owner occupier then price can be half someone who's paying a landlord.
Small is usually worse value so either I get a large and share it it finish rest off later.
Also don't underestimate pubs, you usually can get a large, often larger than a chippy F+C+side for same to less cost. Avoid national chain pubs they measure their portions to be frugal.
devaluation of currency. We have to pay back the covid/furlough monies somehow. Some might be profiteering, some might have to do it to keep afloat.... your £1 is no longer that anymore. Plus all the other global stuff etc on top, recipe for disaster (no pun intended).
Agree I ordered from a place I usually order from the other day and they have made the curry and gravy carton tiny. There must of been about 4 spoons full of gravy and curry in each carton and also the special fried rice is now missing prawns and beef but has increased to £11 from £7.90.Total joke .
“We’ve run out of large fish ! Just put small, regular and medium, they’ll never notice” !! 😂even the chippys are getting in on the shrinkflation.
Yes lol
I love the Lake District! It's my favourite place. I've not been able to get there for years because of the pandemic and then I wasn't well enough to go so thank you for this video.
Great review as always, fantastic views appreciated.
You're welcome thank you 😊
Absolutely nothing wrong with the quality of any of your videos. Whether you treat us all to a trip out or when your in your kitchen. The simplicity you bring all us techphobic folks is all part of the charm! ❤
That's a good looking, but small portion of fish and chips 👌🏼 £1.50 for a single can of pop it's bonkers mind 😂
Haha cheers Vamp 👍
I remember my father in law apologising to all the customers that he had to put a bag of chips up by 10p because the spud man had put his prices up. Back then a bag of chips was 85p! He thought he'd lose his customers because his price went up. Wish we were back in them times now. Haddock and chips with scraps was about £2.50 a bag.
I remember decimalisation. I used to get portion of chips for half shilling, which should have become 2.5p but they made them 5p, had to go home hungry.
Greed exists and is always seeking believable excuses.
Damn! That's barely a mini fish compared to where I'm from! A large haddock (at least three times that size) chips, curry sauce and a can would be £8.50
That fish and chips looks lovely and so do the mushy peas , guess what I'm having for tea tonight 😅. Hope you and your wife and family are keeping well 👍 sending you all love and prayers 🙏 God bless, enjoy you holiday .
Oh enjoy
Sausage and mash?
Me too Diane 🐠 🍟 + mushy peas
wow £11.50 thats nearly London prices ,but again u nailed it great job done
Cheers Darren
I grew up having fish on Friday and still do. Love the cod loin as my grandad always had tail end and nothing else also love Finnan haddock with new potatoes and garden peas. When we are skint it's fishcakes lol. Great show Gareth
Yummy Di cheers
Always great to see you out and about, showing us the local landscape 👌🏻
£11.50 though!! It was like a child’s meal ..
Nah, Gareth has just got really big hands! 😂
Nice video ! Last year took my family on our last holiday together (probably), boys getting older now. Went to Cornwall and rented a cottage - so we could go out in the day, but boys could sod off in the evening if they wanted. As it happens, food was so expensive they stayed with us - I wonder why?! Went down to this fish and chip van in Charlestown. Let me just say now - the food was EPIC. Fish and chips, massive portions, cooked fresh in front of our eyes. There was also one large wine, two beers and one diet cook. £90 ! For fish and chips (and drinks!). Glad I have discovered your channel. Mark.
I love these out and about vids you do Gareth, Brilliant mate!
Cheers Nige
Our local chippy is now paying £19 for a sack of spuds, vs £15 for their last delivery and I think he said less than a tenner a couple of years ago. Utility bills must be huge too. Shwarma stall on our local market used to be very busy knocking out £3 wraps which were delicious - quiet there now £6.50 a pop and quality not as good as when it was constantly busy. And I'm not payinng £13 for a chicken Madras from our local takeway. These places will end up closing, I don't see what else can happen.
I totally agree with you there. I’ve got around a dozen takeaways where I live and honestly most of them have gone downhill in terms of produce quality, not to mention the price increases too
I live in the country where they grow spuds and can buy them direct off the farmer for £8 a large bag
@@wokeupandsmellthecoffee214 I guess that is cuttig out at least one middleman and the transport costs.
Wow 11.50, my younger self that remembers cheap fish and chips is crying.
Haha I know what you mean lol
Windermere -my favourite place. Had our honeymoon there 30 years ago. Thanks for the video.
I love fish & chips & curry sauce . dipping the chips in the curry sauce is heaven
I love this chippy, I used to get fish and chips sometimes on lunch, I worked at a car dealership just down the road called Rayrigg motors, sadly gone now
They look good, I can smell them from here! 11.50 wouldn't be bad for eating in, but is out of my budget for takeaway. Cod bites and chips are a good alternative 👌
Cheers
Wonderful Windermere fantastic part of the world, great blog , have a great weekend.
I enjoy when you're out and about Gareth. I've never been to Bowness before. I don't think it was a bad price seeing as you were at the lake district. It looked very nice even though the fish was on the small side. When I make my own mushy peas I add salt, pepper, chip shop vinegar and sugar. The sugar does make a difference. I've decided to have fish and chips for tea tonight.
Cheers Sandra
I was intending to have fish and chips for lunch, but I've only finished breakfast at 8:30, so it will too early at 12 noon for a massive meal. I like to go to the chippy as soon as they open, because then both the fish and the chips are fresh out the fryer.
I'll be honest with you, if I saw you out and about I'd feel obliged to say hello and thank you for all the entertainment you have provided. I also think it fairly safe to say that that days of a cheap meal are limited now.
Good to see you out & about Gareth. I have been to both those chippys over the years. However, i think the last time i visited, it cost around half that 😂
Thank you
They don't look like they've been cooked in beef drippin. That's why yorkshire is the best for fish and chips.. we generally use beef dripping
All depends where your from- once had some Cumberland Sausage in Yorkshire and it definitely wasn't Cumberland Sausage
I had french fries yesterday and I wasn't even in France
Really I can guarantee Yorkshire fisheries don't cook their chip's in beef dripping and considering they charge £15 in Blackpool I think I'll avoid in future
Cornwall has super Chippies as does Scotland.
That's fighting talk boy, I'm from Lancashire 🤣 (only kiddin)
Visited Bowness with my grandparents every October holidays in the 50/60s. . Things have changed a lot!! Things were so much quieter back then, not everyone had a car. Imagine that! We used to get fish and chips and eat them on the grass .No idea how much it cost but it would have been in £s shillings and pence. Finished it off on the way home with Kendal mint cake my Grandad’s favourite.
I've only just found your channel and it's great...humorous, entertaining and very helpful...Thankyou!
Thank you you're welcome 😊
It's nice to see the area again, it's been years since I've been down there. That fish, although a bit small looked really good
Cheers David yes was tasty
Sardines in batter... Looks like a plan...
Hi 👋 thanks for another great video 👍 fish and chips look nice and the lakes look lovely 😊😊
Extra points for having pickled eggs on the menu! 😋
We go to the lakes (Ullswater) every year. Love it there. Retire there if I could afford it. Usually go in March or October but this year going in July.
We tend to get fish n chips at home about once a fortnight. £18 for twice with 2 peas.
Recently I've seen the price go up and up and up. Its not a cheap meal anymore like it used to be. Quite an extravagance now.
You'll always pay more at the beach or in tourist places but I thought £11.50 still sounded a lot. It wasn't that long ago I was getting change from a tenner from what I now pay nearly £20 for.
Cheers David, it's lovely up the lakes isn't it.
Haven't been to Bowness for years. Used to frequent 'The Hole in T'Wall'. It was popular as a biker pub in those days. That fish looked nice and crispy!
Hi Gareth I have just watched this Lake District tourist video. By chance we have had home done fish and chips. ( from the freezer shop) Ours was Pangasius with 12 mm chips from macro. Delicious and not very expensive !! About a quarter the price you paid but for three of us !! Two days ago we had home farmed fish from one of our ponds, fried whole, name Talapia. Lovely white fish that is completely different if it is Wok steamed. We buy in Nile Perch sometimes and fry or steam that. Another nice white fish. I was telling my wife that many fish shops used to sell Pickled onions, or if we ate at home we had our own or pickled cabbage or beetroot. Today I had, my favourite Ginger pickle. Sorry to rabbit on, all our best wishes. Don, Phannee and the boys.
No apologies needed Donald thank you.
Looks delicious. Last week I had an extra large cod and chips, a piece of hake and small chips, and a cartoon of fruity curry. £25.50 plus £2 delivery from the Cardiff Road Fish Bar, Aberdare. It was superb.
Nice one Paul 👍
I grew up around there, and in my day the go-to cafés/chippies were Crucci's and Carpanini's. I don't think they're still going, but I have fond memories of them.
I love hake, best ever from a lovely fish and chip shop in Newlyn, Cornwall.
I haven't had a chip supper for almost 4 years but I was trying to work out why the price has skyrocketed.
Cooking Oil is at an all time high price
Energy is the same and those fryers are on for very long periods.
Transporting the food, fuel.
Still think £11.50 is astronomical
True costs went up so prices went up.
But subsequently costs have gone down so why hasn't prices gone down? Someone, not necessarily everyone, is making more profits under the inflation smokescreen.
Greed is the answer...
Welcome to the NORTH Lakes…
Definitely a north/south divide here too 😉
Pooley bridge ain’t too bad to be fair if you can find somewhere to park, and a table to sit
That batter looked (and sounded) really good but I've never seen such a small fish from a chippy.
Great vid as usual. Never been to "Bowness" in Windermere but when we lived in Bo'ness (Scotland) in the 70's we got wrong numbers for that place all the time. Where I live now, a fish supper (two large pieces of fish PLUS chips) is £8.50/£9.
The chips look really crispy and golden with those essential smaller very crispy chip bits included but the fish is very small like you said. A lot of chippies struggle to Simply cook a chip that stays crispy and is a good golden colour which is where most of the flavour comes from,it’s a bit like roasting a spud that has no crunch or colour you just wouldn’t do it.
Yes it was tasty 😋
Been eating British chips for 40 years now and I never remember them being crispy. Batter is crispy though if done right. Maybe your thinking of French fries?
A lot of roast spuds or chips now are cooked but not golden because the extra time to crisp them up costs gas for no extra profit. Hence they'll serve it up as soon as its edible. Sadly taste often comes second to profit.
used to go this chippy when i was a child always liked it .. bringing back memories of days out in school holidays i cant boleive its still there it was over 30 ago when i last went
WOW, Gareth you must be a youtube millionaire.,
£11.50 is 33% of my weekly shopping budget
Hope your well bud.! 😮🤯😵
To much money for me .I refuse to be ripped off and you have been.
You live in a lovely location. I love those picturesque places. Beautiful
Yes, thank you
I think a small Cod would have been a Goldfish! Looked delish though👍🏽
That Fish and Chips looked very nice! Lake District and Bowness looks amazing!
Cheers Edward
Great video Gareth. Nice to get out and about
cheers Liam, you bet mate.
Thanks for the fish and chip review, they did look very fresh, you have made me feel hungry 😋 😀
What a beautiful video Gaz. And the fish, chips and mushy peas look great, the prices are not too bad. Food, has gone up a lot so the days of fish and chips for £3.50 are well behind us. Thanks for your great work.
Cheers Dale
We £3.70 for mini fish and chips here in the Midlands and it's as big as the one in the vid. Some shops charge more than double that though and it's not always good and not always cod.
@@truthseeker7794 that’s pretty terrific. I live in London, and believe me, a large chips is nearly that much.
I started moaning when fish chips and mushy peas went up to £6.95 , now I'd give my right arm for those prices 😊
@TRUTHSEEKER great price that is.
I remember back in the late 80s, when I first started working in London, there was a chippy nearby run by a Greek fella. I'd get cod and chips and I can remember his voice with a strong accent saying "£1.90 please".
Yeah filming out and about can be a challenge - I always feel quite self-conscious as people stare at me talking to myself while munching a burger or whatever!! Good to get out of the comfort zone sometimes though. Fish and chips looked decent too - and not a bad price (well certainly compared to down my way in Dorset anyway)
Just subscribed to your channel keep it going bud
Yes different prices all over pal isn't it.
@@BaldFoodieGuy Just checked, and the same order you had at my local chippy would be £14.40. Not cheap that's for sure. Not long ago you'd have got a steak dinner somewhere for that!
Love the out and about footage mate,The way you do it makes it feel like your actually there along for the ride,Fish and chips looked really nice and reasonably priced,Never been to the Lake district looks like i need to add that to my list!
Cheers
When you have a normal meal at home with the family, do you automatically lift each fork-full of food to the (imaginary) camera before eating it?! 😀
Haha you been spying on me 🤣👍
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That's the place we would go to after visiting Holker Hall when holidaying in the lake district. It was always good. 🤗
How did you manage to finish it with seagulls around , looked great
I did one lol
Reasons I love England #1 being from Dublin. Thanks for the brilliant post. Made me smile. Regards, fellow baldie 😀
£11.50p too much for that size piece of fish... ive been buying the frozen bags of mushy peas but i also buy the small tins and mix half of the tin with the bagged peas, makes more and tastes the same, but cheaper than buying a half dozen tins...
Yes it's the Lake District prices are expensive.
I am an Englishman, living in Thailand for 20 years. What a comparison from 1958 in Birmingham with one shilling for cod, threepence for the chips!! That's about 6p for a sumptuous meal. I cook my own fish and chips here and though I can't easily buy cod, I buy some nice fish - cost for fish and chips for one about £1.50. Last year I went to a restaurant in Chiang Mai Northern Thailand and had real British cod and chips and mushy peas for less than equivalent £4 .
Love Bowness used to go camping to the lakes when I was a kid. used to go to bownees to hire out boats.
Great video Gaz we spent a week there and stayed in the old England hotel for a treat a great place to go and the boat trip set sail and the bar was open happy days, keep up with the great videos 👏👏👍👍
Cheers Peter
Oh crikey! I was salivating just looking at those fish and chips , I could almost smell them 😄 if I had to choose my final meal on this earth it would be fish and chips from a really good fish and chip shop that used beef dripping 👍
Your vid's are spot on, don't change a thing. I live in a tourist town and we do pay higher for fish & chips. We only have one or two in town which is a shame (BC, Canada). Best chippy in the UK from what I remember is on St. James' Street, Nottingham. Suggested it to a friend visiting and when he came back, he's like, the fish was THIS big.... ha. Love to see the country, cheers!
Great Video, I live in the lakes some places are way more expensive. You picked a quiet day, this weekend was so busy.
Love all your videos, keep up the good work Xx
Cheers Heather
I’ve recently learned how to make an absolutely moreish batter that’s perfect for fresh fish in a deep fat fryer AND it works perfectly for sweet-n-sour chicken balls (I’ve also got a s&s sauce recipe and it’s all so gawdam easy and cheap it’s unbelievable). It brings me so much joy. Takeaway food prices are just bldy scary these days.
We love the Lake District especially Ullswater,we had a friend who lived in Bowness and used to visit them on occasion,It's a nice we drive from our home in Ayr where it's only £8.50 for a fish supper with two large fish,another great video Gareth
have a great weekend, and anyone reading this have a great weekend do something for yourself and be kind to yourself. love the different video today thankyou.
Thank you, you too.
Those fish n chips look lovely, my tummy is rumbling now Haha. Really great video, thanks 👍
You're welcome
Seaside places do the best fish & chips - especially those down on the sea front! I like a piece of plaice! Keep forgetting to ask for scraps!
That's shocking. The size of the fish and portion of chips would be twice the size here in North Wales.
Fresh and made to order too.
You can tell when the cod is fresh it winkes at you😅great video
I've been to that chippy and yes agree the staff are friendly.
But I have to ask why in a car you'd go there.
I've spent this last week in Langdale.
I had a very good Fish+Chips at Wainwrights in Chapel Stile, and the best food in the whole area is the Old Dungeon Ghyll at the end of the road, I had a Hagiss+chips which was very tasty. Great beer (if not driving) and last couple of nights live music.
Catch the 516 bus from Ambleside. If you fancy a few beers the last bus from Old Dungeon Ghyll is 7.10pm and their dinner menu is 5pm-8pm.
I was backpacking camping so YMMV.
Love Bowness-on-Windermere, we go down 4 or 5 times a year for a weekend. The restaurant next to fizzy tarte, Porto, is superb. The Chinese down the road a bit is wonderful too. Will try the chippy next time!
Good tip cheers.
Lovely day. I like these out and about videos. You should do more as the weather gets better. Those fish and chips looked yummy. 😋 Cheers.
Hi there, another great video like always do enjoy your videos all the time. No see you out and about. Keep up the good work. We can’t wait to start our filming in Devon next week and have a great video from you. I did okay okay good work
I've eaten from there. I used to live there a few years ago, love bownes on windermere
I'm all up for fish & chip friday! Nice change of pace for a video and it sounds like you had a hell of an adventure. The price would be a bit of a shocker from your local chippy but you're on holiday in a beautiful part of the country so it's alright to push the boat out a bit. Great vid and a nice end to the week, Gareth!
Cheers Dom
You've got better weather than us on the East Coast. Seafarer was lovely restaurant in Romford, Essex I do think it's there anymore but I preferred the Chicken and chips.
Cheers Mick
£11.50???? Holy crap thats expensive. I can get a large cod, chips and peas for about £7..
Good price wowser
My favourite fish and chips what a great price have a good weekend
Love the lakes used to go a lot when the boys were young your fish n chips look good ❤
I helped fit a lot of carpets in lakeside mansions in my youth, a fish and chip dinner with peas was 2 shillings, the fish was much bigger but we had less chips than what we get today. Looking at the menu chips was £3 if you added them to a pie.
11.50 omg rip off! Its 7.50 at our local chippy! But the lake district is higher prices for tourist!! It looks nice though,nice to see a change of scenery Gareth great vid.👍
Yes was 9 quid for fish and chips. But expensive. But in the heart of a massive tourist place.
Lovely video fish and chips look good sound was fine take care
Yay. Love your fish and chips outings. I know it's summer now (well, nearly!)
Like these out and about videos ' good wee change now and again 👍
Cheers Brian 😋
I can remember when you could get 24 portions of fish and chips for a pound ! Fish were sixpence and chips were fourpence.
I am flabbergasted with the price of fish and chips these days, but doesn't stop me buying them
Fish & chips look lovely... my mother's part of the world born & bred in Ambleside.. 😊
Loved your vlog today.
Please don't worry.
We love you the way you are.
In our town you can get two plates of fish chips and peas for what you paid. (Ripley's, not in Yorkshire or Surrey the chippies named after our town been there since the 1950's). You have to order a large cod slice when entering the shop (it tells you that on the price list!) then you order a large chips plus whatever size peas you want. You are given a massive box of fish and chips which you take home and serve up on plates cutting the fish into two portions plus a generous serving of chips. My wife gets them and she says she pays eleven quid or so.
Cheers pal 👍
yeah, small fish, but the prices have shot up... we sometimes have fish and chip from out local chippy of a saturday night - large frish and chips for 9 quid... I've only just discovered (well, over a year ago) curry sauce with fish and chips...amazing..!
Just found your channel. What a great bloke, love the humour! With regards the price of fish and chips. My stepson thinks im tight cause I wont buy them anymore. The worst part is you will pay through the nose for them and 9 times out of 10 they are not cooked right niether the fish nor the chips! The industry needs a shake up! All the best mate!
Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you kindly
I enjoyed this outing video, as someone living overseas now I enjoy seeing places I visited many years ago in your neck of the woods.
Cheers pal
Over 40 years ago I climbed a lot in the Lake District. There was a wide spread policy of TOURIST PRICE and LOCAL PRICE even then.
Cheers Paul
I only have the odd fish and chips from my local chippie. He hasn't really raised his prices by much. But down on seafront you would easily pay £15 to £20 for a medium fish and chip take away. On the pier? You would pay a bit more. I personally love all kinds of fish, except Basa, but that is more about where it's from than the taste. I really think I could eat fish every day, with each day's fish being different and cooked differently. Your fish and chips did look good though. The chips looked to be cooked just right and although a bit on the small size the fish looked good with a nice batter. Glad to see you out and about. The beautiful views AND fish and chips? You must have been in Heaven. 👍👍😇😇.
Cheers Gerry thank you pal, all the best 👍
6d a portion of chips costs me as a kid in the late 60s, my mum would send us to the chippy at the end of our street with a plate for um, huge portion aswell. World's gone mad.
What lovely town,and them fish and chips are making me hungry ,as I can't get them where I live,hey good to see dads jacket getting some use 😂
Cheers Dean
I saw this thinking 11.50 is what I pay here in East London and then saw the portion size and cried. Can't believe they serve that
Looks delicious and I now have hunger pangs! 😅 In Scotland 🏴 chippies usually give you 2 fish in your fish 🐟 suppers; handy for families with kids, as they can stretch their meals out between them, especially with the current prices! 😬
That's smaller than our "pensioner" chippy meals we get here...which is pretty and has tourists but we don't get overwhelmed with holidaymakers.
I enjoyed seeing the locale.
That cabriolet car of yours is like mine but mines a hard top with a sunroof !!! I WISH TO !!! Fish and chips look nice 👍👍👍