Are potatoes a rare commodity in 2020?
And or do fish and chip stores think they are like truffles?
When ever I buy chips seems like a small would cost a minimum of $5 for a handful and $10 would give you enough for 2 chip buttys.
https://i.imgur.com/LAAbFIM.jpg
This is what $10 gets you now.
Tell em about.
We can also add new age hipster burger joints to this list. They try and charge $15-20 for a burger that is usually average at best.
$5 at my local will get you enough to feed a small nation.
Your getting ripped off.
Time to find a new local
Time to find a new local
So, move house?
Absolutely.
Which nation?
@[Deactivated]: The mighty nation of Hutt River
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Hutt_River
The prince of Hutt river wouldn’t have a bar of expensive chips
Chicken Chef in Blair Athol has too many chips! It's impossible for me to eat them all so I chuck in air fryer next day.
Go to the Middle Eastern areas in Sydney and the Chips is only like $3 for a small. Never buy chips at a restaurant. Bloody rip off
10 bucks for that?! That is a bloody outrage! Name and shame the bastards
1kg frozen chips at Coles then cook them on the engine block while watching sunset at the beach
The fish and chip shop I moved away from recently that does really awesome handcut chips gives about that many for $4. While it was much smaller than others in the area, they were so good that it was worth it. Where I live now there are two fish and chip shops next to each other that sort of compete, so 2 x that of good enough cooked frozen chips is $4.
That is not what $10 gets me.
Aren't they all just crappy frozen chips anyway? Where can you get some decent ones made from freshly cut potatoes? Never seen them in any Melbourne chippy.
My local $5.50 is wayyy to much for a family of 4. For $12 you get a portion that would feed 10 people. Shop elsewhere
A guy in Melbourne made this:
https://www.instagram.com/minimumchipsmelbourne
He documents what "minimum chips" looks like as there is no regulation on it!
Who cares what "minimum chips" is? All of those examples could be vastly different prices. What is important is the unit cost (how much per $).
I used to work near a cafe which had the monopoly on the area, there was nothing else unless you were willing to walk 15mins. They would charge $5 for hot chips in one of those standard takeaway shop paper cups. This was ok, however, if you asked for a 'large' they would charge $10 and it would be a similar serve to OPs picture, which would not actually be anymore chips than would have fit in the cup…
Also, if you dined in and ordered a softdrink they would pour it from a 600ml bottle into a glass with ice, only giving you half the bottle and giving someone else the rest. Of course, for something ridiculous like $4.50 a glass too.
Also, if you dined in and ordered a softdrink they would pour it from a 600ml bottle into a glass with ice
Did you actually see them do this?
This doesn't make sense because for some strange reason coca cola charge more for the 600ml bottle compared to the 1.25L bottle at wholesale prices, at least they did 10 years ago when I worked in hospitality.
Yep. I saw them do it. I ordered at the bar and that's how they poured and served my drink. I wasn't paying, it was work drinks paid by work and on a tab, otherwise I would have kicked a stink. Don't know what the logic was behind it, perhaps they had run out of the 1.25L bottles or maybe it was something they always did. I don't know. I never bought anything from there again. That, for me, was the final straw.
OP obviously hasn't bought fish n chips much from that kind of post.
Nothing to do with cost of spuds mate or fish n chips. Just your pretty $#!-y looking local.
You obviously do not want to go back to that fish and chips shop. That is about 1/2 to 1/3 of what I get for $5 of chips around here and looks to be about 2 buckets of chips.
You had a chance to complain when you picked them up and demand your money back as that would have felt very light rather than making a post on a forum so just do not go back to them!
This! ^^^ OP you obviously are not happy with the service/product you got for the amount you paid, nothing on OZB will change it. You were already upset (assumed) by the quantity and that was never going to change with a post.
We pay like $4 for more than that at our local.
No Frills Supermarket have frozen shoestring fries for $1.48/kg at the mo. Just 4 stores in Tas.
May need one of these.
Labour,
hand cut
boil, then fridge for 24 hours, then fry once 30 min
then fry again 30 min
Lol why buy something you know it's a rip. You're pretty much just supporting them of ripping you off when you purchase from them.
Local still sells fish and chips here for about $6.90
Must be a fancy place or a pub with that cardboard tray.
A proper minimum chips should be dropped onto a small sheet of baking paper wrapped in a couple of unprinted newspaper sheets
Just a local fish and chip shop nothing fancy what so ever.
Anything that involves any amount of labour is expensive in this country.
My local easily gives me more chips for 2x smalls at $2.80 than a medium at $6. I find that strange.
i know what you mean, some places like to charge more than the main meal for their chips its crazy, i just stopped buying 7 dollar chips thats not even good kind its all soggy and soft full of oil.
We were at a pub around Xmas, and my mum ordered a side of chips, and they brought out this tiny basket of chips. When the bill came, we were certain we'd been charged twice for the chips, but no, it was $12 for less chips than you got OP (we didn't look at the price, because it was a side of chips!).
But as others have mentioned, you can still get a decent deal if you seek out your local. The first time we went to our local, we ordered a medium between my wife and I (as we were conditioned to a medium being pretty small). The lady behind the counter looks at us funny, and goes "just for you two? I'd recommend the small". So we went the small and ended up getting enough chips to feed an entire family for $5, way too much for us to eat.
Labour is expensive matey.
I sure as hell can't make old school $2 worth of chips for $2 modern day money.
If it bothers you, why don't you buy some potatoes and make your own?
You're basically paying for convenience of not making your own.
The shop you buy them from still needs to pay wages, rent, power, tax, etc.
I was happy paying $25 for less. But I was paying for location.
What place in Tas served you that for $10? Looks like a rip off but can't say I'm that surprised either.
Devonport Fresh off the boat.
Yeah… don't go there again. It's not normal for that.
Gotta go to the places that wrap the chips up in paper, those places you get your money's worth.
I find places named chippery serve piddly portions and don't like to offer value/family packs. Same goes for the shops near a beach/pier.
Gotta head out to the poorer areas for a decent feed.
My local shop 8.50 so many chip you can not eat them fish is 8.00 but as big
come to woordige there is place 10$ u can also sleep over with breakfast included (free wifi)
Kiss the Barista - Sanoni Ave, Sydney, Australia 2219 had a daily special $30 for fish & chips? Like wtf
Talk about bullshit. I will not be going there for my fish & chips.
Wow, that's measly for $10. For 11.90, my local fish and chip place does a bag of chips so large that it feeds 2 adults and 3 kids, usually with leftovers that could feed another adult.
I'd expect to pay no more than 5 or 6 bucks for what you've pictured (they don't even look nice!), unless I was at an event, where rorting is to be expected.
I miss the $1.40 minimum of chips so much.
This thread reminds me of these guys:
Considering the corrugated tray would be 50c, you can see why. Best bang for buck is newsprint with greaseproof liner. If stores are using corrugated Trays, you are getting ripped off.
Depends where you go, if the bag has papper expect lots of chips, if in a box pray you got chips.
Things to note about amazing chips, if there's no seagulls around you getting ripped off externally and internally.
$17 at my local (Melb suburbs) gets us a piece of snapper, a 2 person decent serve of chips, 2 potato cakes (plus the usual one extra), a dimmy and a crab stick.
Something doesn’t seem right here.
There is no place that would charge $10 for that amount of chips.
So either op or the shop made a mistake.
I just will not believe that a shop would give that as $10 chips.
"The Great Australian rip-off"
I think it depends where you are shopping, you can get easily more than that for a tenner.
Yeah, my local charges the same amount for the exact same amount of chips… they even charge you extra for sauce and cheese.
Don't even get me started on them potato sticks you get at carnivals…
everything seems to be getting smaller, lower cost = more profit
I bought $6 of chips (there was a Med. $4 or Lge. $6) boxes on the counter top and it was readily twice the amount you got and asked for them to be well cooked (takes a longer effort).
Don't ever go back to that shop!
My local does a pack 2 dim sims,2 potato cakes/scollops and chips for $5.00 and I get nearly that many chips in the pack
Terrible, $4 gets more chips than 2 people can or should eat at my local.
Can't believe you didnt even get salt! Was that another $10