{"id":700835,"date":"2026-01-16T22:54:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/700835\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T22:54:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:54:22","slug":"price-of-cod-on-par-with-sirloin-steak-says-chippy-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/700835\/","title":{"rendered":"Price of cod on par with sirloin steak, says chippy owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Friday, 16 January 2026 06:20\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/264027-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Picture credit: New Cod on the Block<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Onchan chip shop speaks out on the cost of much-loved whitefish\n        <\/p>\n<p>If you regularly treat yourself to a chippy tea it won&#8217;t have escaped your notice that the price of fish has risen steeply in recent times.<\/p>\n<p>Cod in particular has become more of a luxury than a family staple.<\/p>\n<p>Johnny McDowell, owner of the New Cod on the Block chippy in Onchan says the much loved whitefish is now as expensive as sirloin steak.<\/p>\n<p>And the reason for the price rise is not just shortages because of overfishing:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, 16 January 2026 06:20 Picture credit: New Cod on the Block Onchan chip shop speaks out on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[77,9458,105,7910,28157,42452,269,12,6226,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-700835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-fun","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-isle-of-man","12":"tag-manx","13":"tag-manx-news","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-presenters","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115907242647676013","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}