Chippers

These guys are supplying a lot of the chippers.

They are in business a long time because they supply good stuff.

Find a shop that uses good product and you will get a good meal.

They probably do - will call them. Fascinated to know the difference between an Irish style and Scottish style batter.

No chippers make their own chips anymore.

Where / which area was this?

These days it doesn't make financial sense to employ people to peel spuds as opposed to ordering it in.

Most chippers are owned by the Italian community. This started around the 1950's and is mostly a closed community.

Hence the franchise system across many regions.

Sounds lovely

First day in the kitchen at the ANCO chef school in Killybegs, mid-eighties. Head chef was a real grouch.

Myself and this other guy were put on potato peeling duty - you put whole potatoes into the top of the peeling machine and they came out at the bottom into a bucket, all nicely peeled.

it was my job to take the bucket of peeled potatoes over to the oven for roasting. While I was doing that, my colleague was still throwing whole potatoes into the top. As there was no bucket at the bottom, the peeled potatoes were being thrown all over the kitchen. Head chef went mental, mostly at me rolling round the floor laughing at the situation.

I lasted one more day when an incident with some duchess potatoes threw me into fits again and the furious head chef threw me out of the kitchen, never to return. Oh, what could have been. 😝

Chippers have gone absolutely mental expensive.

To feed a family of five would set you back €60 in Dublin- easy.

€13 for a fresh cod meal!

Yeh, they've gone from the 'treat' Friday evening option to a seriously tough consideration to have one.

I don't know where the time was that the straw broke the camel's back so to speak. There was definitely a jump-the-shark moment where pricing for chippers just went out of control.

It’s €4:50 for a bag of chips in my local chipper now which is fairly outrageous.

What really annoys me is when you order two bags and they don’t ask if you want them separate- you end up with 1+1/2 bags of chips for €9!!!!

Its now almost cheaper to eat in a restaurant than it is to get a burger and chips in a takaway

3.90 for a 'regular' bag of chips in Ennis (the price list said 3.50 but they jacked the price when I went to pay)

The prices are going up so fast they can't even keep the pricelist up to date

Supermacs used to be reasonably cheap and cheerful, now it's 12 euros for a burger meal and the quality has gotten worse

Feck that