Chippy tea is now ‘a luxury’ due to rising potato prices

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c03l2z4y43ko

by Tartan_Samurai

8 comments

  1. It was always a bit of a luxury when I was growing up in the 80/ 90s tbh.

    Sounds a bit weird to me that it wasn’t

  2. For some reason, the BBC can’t stop writing articles about the price of fish and chips:

    [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-61733085](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-61733085)

    [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/business-60762921](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/business-60762921)

    [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-65203997](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-65203997)

    [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-62650572](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-62650572)

    [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1d449gmex2o](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1d449gmex2o)

    [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-64307628](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-64307628)

    [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-62744054](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-62744054)

    [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-60955305](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-60955305)

    There’s plenty more, but you get the idea.

  3. I ordered a banquet from my local Chinese takeaway just after lockdown in 2021 for £19.00 and I still have the receipt in my work. I was going to order one midweek and the same banquet is £39.00. A sausage dinner at the end of 2022 was £4.50 but now it is £7.50. I remember in my younger days it really was “cheap as chips”

  4. Potatoes are…a weird thing to focus on here.

    Price of fish, oil, or labour – sure. Potatoes? They’re pretty cheap, even after a 22% cost increase as the story implies.

  5. I didn’t grow up poor but takeaway food was always a luxury. Once a month and family members birthdays.

  7. With some degree of knowledge due to my in-laws owning a chippy.

    It’s a combination of a few things.

    Rising cost of food – fish especially but also now potatoes

    Rising energy prices – keeping the range on became really expensive – to the point that they were better off closing and hour early than keeping it on.

    Rising competition – so many more options now for takeaway, business has reduced massively.

  8. I feel like the value proposition of most takeaways has just fallen away completely. Was always pricier than doing it yourself sure, but used to be cheap enough that you could justify it to be lazy once in a while. These days I can’t order a takeaway without feeling like I’ve been ripped off.

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