My earliest chip shop memories were getting an 11p bag of chips after Cubs as a treat.... that will age me :D
Quote from: tomtom on November 07, 2020, 04:26:50 pmMy earliest chip shop memories were getting an 11p bag of chips after Cubs as a treat.... that will age me :DI think 30p was the going rate when I was a young'un. The cheapest option was a scallop for 10p (a battered potato cake, not a shellfish) - one of those with "scraps" and lots of salt and vinegar fuelled many a lunchbreak at the arcade - feeding the rest of my dinner money into Golden Axe or Shinobi.
Quote from: moose on November 07, 2020, 05:39:06 pmQuote from: tomtom on November 07, 2020, 04:26:50 pmMy earliest chip shop memories were getting an 11p bag of chips after Cubs as a treat.... that will age me :DI think 30p was the going rate when I was a young'un. The cheapest option was a scallop for 10p (a battered potato cake, not a shellfish) - one of those with "scraps" and lots of salt and vinegar fuelled many a lunchbreak at the arcade - feeding the rest of my dinner money into Golden Axe or Shinobi."scraps" haven't heard that for years
Quote from: Andy W on November 07, 2020, 07:29:51 pmQuote from: moose on November 07, 2020, 05:39:06 pmQuote from: tomtom on November 07, 2020, 04:26:50 pmMy earliest chip shop memories were getting an 11p bag of chips after Cubs as a treat.... that will age me :DI think 30p was the going rate when I was a young'un. The cheapest option was a scallop for 10p (a battered potato cake, not a shellfish) - one of those with "scraps" and lots of salt and vinegar fuelled many a lunchbreak at the arcade - feeding the rest of my dinner money into Golden Axe or Shinobi."scraps" haven't heard that for years I think Westies call them "bits" but they also refer to breadcakes / rolls as "teacakes" (which are glazed and contain currents in civilised parts), so their opinions clearly count for nothing.
Quote from: moose on November 07, 2020, 07:38:55 pmQuote from: Andy W on November 07, 2020, 07:29:51 pmQuote from: moose on November 07, 2020, 05:39:06 pmQuote from: tomtom on November 07, 2020, 04:26:50 pmMy earliest chip shop memories were getting an 11p bag of chips after Cubs as a treat.... that will age me :DI think 30p was the going rate when I was a young'un. The cheapest option was a scallop for 10p (a battered potato cake, not a shellfish) - one of those with "scraps" and lots of salt and vinegar fuelled many a lunchbreak at the arcade - feeding the rest of my dinner money into Golden Axe or Shinobi."scraps" haven't heard that for years I think Westies call them "bits" but they also refer to breadcakes / rolls as "teacakes" (which are glazed and contain currents in civilised parts), so their opinions clearly count for nothing.Some of my fellow Cubs would ask for a “ bag of scraps” which was mainly bits of batter with a few chips thrown in.
Firstly - Frites - with frite sauce (Mayo) are amazing in Belgium. Somehow better than the same combo elsewhere in Europe.
There used to be a chippy in Widnes that sold fish, chips, peas, and curry sauce - nothing else (maybe you could buy a pickled egg?). They opened for an hour or two at lunchtime Mon-Fri, and the same Friday teatime. Not at the weekend at all. There was always a queue and when you got inside the door you had to shout out your fish order or there'd be no fish for you. It was a chippy distilled to the most basic elements and very, very good. I think it was open for decades but closed maybe ten years ago when the elderly married couple who ran it retired.
How much Ben? Regular cod and chips? The place up the road from us in Didsbury is £7:40 (😱) and around the corner from my house is £4.55 (£2.75 mon - weds)Anyone else? I’m always interested in the geographical spread of cost of things like this!
Another great LRB piece by John Lanchester on Sam Bankman Fried and EA, FTX etc.https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n21/john-lanchester/he-said-they-said
More about? Yes, me too. Although if you scroll back up this thread there are a couple of his other great articles on Cryptocurrency, one called “What is money?” (I think).