National Fish & Chip Day Wednesday May 28th

Scottie99

Is this real fish or rectangle fish?
Is there a "best chip shop" award in Ireland?

L1011

Scottie99 wrote: »

Is there a "best chip shop" award in Ireland?

Last time I remember there being one, it was on Gay Byrne's Radio 1 show - so not recently!

rubadub

Deep Thought wrote: »

He said people go mad for it on this one day.

He showed me his Menu and he does the same thing every Tuesday and nothing...

Its all hype and cheaper deals to be had throughout the week

Sounds like he just needs better advertising. I find all my local chippers are pretty poor at advertising, many have amazing deals but they are often not on the menu they stick in the door. Even when its on the menu it can go un-noticed. They seem to keep quiet about it in chippers too, i.e. someone orders XY&Z but they do not say "did you know about this deal, its similar to what you ordered" -but they might value the higher sale more -e.g. in a chipper near me its sometimes cheaper to get a deal even if you are going to bin the can of coke you get with it. This happens in my local chinese too, many overpay simply because they trot out their order in such a way that they do not get a "meal price".

Scottie99 wrote: »

Is this real fish or rectangle fish?

Depends on the chipper, I didn't hear of any who partook who did not do it for the "fresh cod", many did the cheaper "cod portion" too.

mbradso2003

Romayo’s Take Away Balally Shopping Centre, Sandyford Dublin 18 has best chips in area!

mooseknunkle

AdMMM wrote: »

Most places will end up doing it. You'll find that on the week the media will give coverage to National Fish and Chip day, so that guilts most chippers into doing the offer.

The Marian will be the only place doing it a lot of chippers in Waterford do a mid week deal anyway from Monday to Thursday and this is falling on a Wednesday so i doubt any will be pressured into doing it.

vicwatson

Borza in Sandymount. Oh my word !

Dr. Bre

very few in Dublin city centre! would fancy some chips for lunch!

wretcheddomain

smellmepower wrote: »

Burdocks in Christchurch are doing their own half price fish and chip day event on the 28th to celebrate their 100th birthday.

http://www.leoburdock.com/about/events/index.html

Can't believe I was labouring under the illusion it was 2014.

AlanS181824

racso1975 wrote: »

None in Carlow

I noticed this as well..

I'll just get my usual Tonys Special then..,

kingshankly

Roma in Dundalk not on the list but usually does it
Queue out the door every day so you can guess what it's like when it's half price mental

keithclancy

Sam Mac wrote: »

Pretty disappointing for us Cork people - only two and none in the city!! Disgraceful

We have Lennoxs and KC's to make up for it

cruhoortwunk

Jesus, 2 weeks notice for a chipper deal. Hungry b**tards

Red Silurian

Beer Baron wrote: »

Assumed the Macaris in Limerick was on it. Sadly disappointed to find out it's actually a Mc'Aris. Great Fish n Chips but sadly not half price.

There's a macaris in Limerick?

Guffy

Thought it was today god dammit. None in galway anyway so doesn't matter either way I guess

MarkR

cruhoortwunk wrote: »

Jesus, 2 weeks notice for a chipper deal. Hungry b**tards

FFS! I thought it was today!

ted1

Guys lets get the deal right.

This is for ITICA chippers, not just a bargain for all chippers. ITICA have core core rules which separates them from the rest of the chippers.

Our Core Values
Freshly cut chips are the only chips we serve
Our customers will be treated courteously and efficiently
All meals will be prepared to the highest food safety standard
Our shops will be maintained to the highest standard
Our shops remain a safe and welcoming environment
We will support ITICA promotional activities


The part in black rules out all the manky country chippers that use frozen chips.

so if your chipper uses frozen chips, then don't bother mentioning them in this thread,

Kenny Logins

MarkR wrote: »

FFS! I thought it was today!

Ha! Same. Have to have them now.

saucyleopard

My wife loves this day. She's big into her fish and chips. There's one in Arklow but I can't think of the name off the top of my head.

vicwatson

ted1 wrote: »

Guys lets get the deal right.

This is for ITICA chippers, not just a bargain for all chippers. ITICA have core core rules which separates them from the rest of the chippers.

Our Core Values
Freshly cut chips are the only chips we serve
Our customers will be treated courteously and efficiently
All meals will be prepared to the highest food safety standard
Our shops will be maintained to the highest standard
Our shops remain a safe and welcoming environment
We will support ITICA promotional activities


The part in black rules out all the manky country chippers that use frozen chips.

so if your chipper uses frozen chips, then don't bother mentioning them in this thread,

Plus we already know what towns have and ITICA and those that don't - there was a link to their website already posted everyone !!!

Stheno

Glebee wrote: »

There does be carnage at my local chippy. You would swear people had never tasted fish and chips before.. It does be mental...

My local chipper is mental on that day too, up until about 10pm, I never go there on that day!

rubadub

gufc21 wrote: »

Thought it was today god dammit. None in galway anyway so doesn't matter either way I guess

You should have a look in your local chippers. I have found many have started doing deals in the past year or so, years ago it was rare enough to find a genuine deal in chippers. Many started doing lunch deals, and some have done special day deals on off peak days, or deal of the month. Years ago many "meals" in chippers were just the same price as buying the drink, chips & burger all separately, or a mere 20c saving.

This goes for chinese & indian takeaways too, many chinese places now offer "snack boxes" with a few bits of everything and a scoop of chips and a small sauce and a can.

Europa chipper in deansgrange (near bakers corner) dublin does a fish & chips on wednesday for €5.50 (not the square cod portion). They do a 2 piece chicken snack box for €4 on thursday.

ted1 wrote: »

Guys lets get the deal right.

This is for ITICA chippers, not just a bargain for all chippers.

There are possibly more non-ITICA chippers taking part than there are ITICA members though. You can check previous years threads to search for your local.

ted1 wrote: »

so if your chipper uses frozen chips, then don't bother mentioning them in this thread,

And I am talking about real chippers -to me, a place that uses frozen chips is by definition not a chipper. Like abras or mcdonalds, I would call them takeaways, or fast food places.

the groutch

bump for Wednesday

patrickc

none in Carlow anymore :mad:

IrishHomer

My local Roma in Clara, Co. Offaly have a big sign on their window advertising they are doing it yet they are not listed on the OP webpage flier. They also did it the past few years too

greasepalm

Davie89 wrote: »

Can someone recommend where would be best to go for someone new to Dub? Living in Terenure but working in Sandyford/Stillorglin so either of these two areas ( or in between)

:D:D:D:D

Aprile is in stillorgan:D

L1011

patrickc wrote: »

none in Carlow anymore :mad:

Somewhere will still do it though. Huge number of non-members jump on the bandwagon; mainly because a lot of them do the same deal or damn close one day every week anyway.

patrickc

its today :0 and l've discovered Florinios in Carlow are doing it

Gumbo

patrickc wrote: »

its today :0 and l've discovered Florinios in Carlow are doing it

Starting to que outside my local,now.

fleet_admiral

Kiith wrote: »

Burdocks used get insanely busy between 5pm-8pm. Be prepared for a 20-30 minute queue at peak times.

Apparently Leo Burdocks aren't on the list. Nm.

burdocks is the heineken of chippers, everyone thinks its lovely but there is much better available

No Pants

I haven't had a takeaway all year. Will be sorely tempted tonight.