Fish cakes or potatoe cakes, can also be reffered to as patties.
Fish cake probably
When I first moved to Leeds and saw *cake and chips* all I could imagine was a heap of chips and a slice of Black Forest Gateau.
Whenever I’ve seen this, it means chips with a bread cake aka the local name for a bread roll.
£1 in 1976 is the equivalent of £6.59 today. A fifth of that is £1.10. A fish and chips then was 16 times CHEAPER than today!!!
Had it easy?!
Tripping out your face thinking that.
Fish cake – two large slices of potato with a thin slice of fish in between, battered & deep fried.
Not like the ones you get from supermarkets these days, which are ‘minced’ & breadcrumbed.
The fish and chips should cost £1.38 in today’s money. I pay £12 at my local chippy.
Yeah but a tenner was probably your daily wage…
Chill, their pay was probably £1 weekly too
Fish Cake
Must be a northern chippy
A three day bender may be significantly more expensive today but I’d much rather have today’s choice of drinks, air bnbs and clean venues.
Can’t imagine how grim a 3 day bender would have been in the 1970s, covered in coal dust, drinking cheap beer in a smoke filled pub and having to get a cold bath outdoors on a hangover. Fuck that.
How have you not heard of a fish cake? You live in the rural south or somethin?
i remember arguing with a boomer who said we have it so much easier because back in 1970-something she “only” had £200-£300 quid left at the end of the month for “Luxuries” lol. I don’t even have 1/10th of that NOW.
Dis We deep fry cake in Scotland in the 1970s? We deep fry everything else.
The problem was everything was uphill back then, both ways!
Yeah life was great when there was a lot less people. More people means more demand, tends to lead to higher prices. World population in 1971 was just over 3.7 billion. Today it’s 8.1 billion. In the UK the population was 55.5 million in 1971, today it’s over 69 million.
Cake and chips sounds incredible
Fishcake. If the photo wa tekken in Yorkshire, it’s the offcuts of fish Inbetween 2 potater scallops, battered an fried. Reyt tasty! 🤤
21p for fish and chips they were living
I assume it’s a bread cake. Which everyone knows is really a bap
For context £10 back then is £65.92 today
I used to go out with £20 and come back with change. Drinks, dirty burger and taxi home. Good times.
Mind that 10 quid in 76 is about 66 now of days
I can appreciate this but also remember it’s not as bad as people make it out to be due to minimum wages going up.
Back in those days they had to walk 10 miles to school, and wore an onion on their belt, which was the style at the time
Yep. The generation who sold everything off, living off great pensions, bought their houses for tuppence and yet they still complain.
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Bread cakes perhaps?
It’s something I’ve heard over in Sheffield.
Fish cakes maybe?
Trouble was the time it took you to earn £10 🙁
It’s a chip butty in Lancashire isn’t it?
Fish cakes or potatoe cakes, can also be reffered to as patties.
Fish cake probably
When I first moved to Leeds and saw *cake and chips* all I could imagine was a heap of chips and a slice of Black Forest Gateau.
Whenever I’ve seen this, it means chips with a bread cake aka the local name for a bread roll.
£1 in 1976 is the equivalent of £6.59 today. A fifth of that is £1.10. A fish and chips then was 16 times CHEAPER than today!!!
Had it easy?!
Tripping out your face thinking that.
Fish cake – two large slices of potato with a thin slice of fish in between, battered & deep fried.
Not like the ones you get from supermarkets these days, which are ‘minced’ & breadcrumbed.
The fish and chips should cost £1.38 in today’s money. I pay £12 at my local chippy.
Yeah but a tenner was probably your daily wage…
Chill, their pay was probably £1 weekly too
Fish Cake
Must be a northern chippy
A three day bender may be significantly more expensive today but I’d much rather have today’s choice of drinks, air bnbs and clean venues.
Can’t imagine how grim a 3 day bender would have been in the 1970s, covered in coal dust, drinking cheap beer in a smoke filled pub and having to get a cold bath outdoors on a hangover. Fuck that.
How have you not heard of a fish cake? You live in the rural south or somethin?
i remember arguing with a boomer who said we have it so much easier because back in 1970-something she “only” had £200-£300 quid left at the end of the month for “Luxuries” lol. I don’t even have 1/10th of that NOW.
Dis We deep fry cake in Scotland in the 1970s? We deep fry everything else.
The problem was everything was uphill back then, both ways!
Yeah life was great when there was a lot less people. More people means more demand, tends to lead to higher prices. World population in 1971 was just over 3.7 billion. Today it’s 8.1 billion. In the UK the population was 55.5 million in 1971, today it’s over 69 million.
Cake and chips sounds incredible
Fishcake. If the photo wa tekken in Yorkshire, it’s the offcuts of fish Inbetween 2 potater scallops, battered an fried. Reyt tasty! 🤤
21p for fish and chips they were living
I assume it’s a bread cake. Which everyone knows is really a bap
For context £10 back then is £65.92 today
I used to go out with £20 and come back with change. Drinks, dirty burger and taxi home. Good times.
Mind that 10 quid in 76 is about 66 now of days
I can appreciate this but also remember it’s not as bad as people make it out to be due to minimum wages going up.
Back in those days they had to walk 10 miles to school, and wore an onion on their belt, which was the style at the time
Yep. The generation who sold everything off, living off great pensions, bought their houses for tuppence and yet they still complain.
fish cake? CLEARLY
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