Just can’t get a decent bag of chips lately, what’s happened?.Do chippers not cut their own spuds any more, buy the chips in cut mass production?. Throw out more than I eat now
Not Dublin anyway!
Nope! midlands. Prices are creeping up though.
Well I haven’t been there in a couple of years so I’m not sure what the prices are these days but it certainly wasn’t OTT back in the day
Granted they sell or did sell monkfish gougons (yum yum) which would be more expensive anyway than cod or haddock - but the chips served would have done nearly 3 people no less two
Id rather eat there every two weeks than eat in an Italian chipper every week
They’re not bad at all - my nearest one is about a 10 mile drive so don’t visit too often - maybe a couple of times a year - batter tends to be light- not too greasy
Threatened to get one many times but know a few people who have one and the smell and grease build up is what’s stopping me - id only use it for deep frying fish in batter - I’ve compromised and stuck to frying small pieces of fish in a wok with a little oil and watching it closely - still delicious - anyone with an air fryer here do homemade “fried fish”? I don’t mean reheating frozen fish I mean making your own batter covering raw fish and then using the air fryer? I’d doubt it works well at all - I think you need the oils of pre fried food to get a decent result from an air fryer
Regarding the price of chippers :
In Cork, the price of fish and chips (from a chipper) was around €8.50, pre covid. During lock down, when takeaways were in big demand, it went up to about €13. Subsequently, we've had big cost increases to businesses. It isn't coming down.
But prices hadn't really changed much at all in the sector for years. Then it made a big jump. Now that's the new normal.
That's my observation, anyway.
Chips are absolute dirt out of an airfryer though.
What I'd say is get a couple of bags of chips in the chipper and use the airfryer for the fish or burgers.
North East Kildare
€7.50 for 2 sausage and chips.
That is absolutely insane.
Maris pipers, put in wet at 170. Dry/Steam for 10 minutes. Take out, place in bowl with few drops of veg oil and lots of rock salt. Back in at 205 for about 20 minutes. Amazing chips.
Price of cooking oil for takeaways doubled in the last few years. It’s one of the main reasons prices are extortionate
Maybe they should go for reasonable pricing rather than extortionate pricing.
Look though Irish people will continue to pay it while the times are good.
A good recession wouldn't go amiss at this stage. Back to 5 euro snack boxes and a family of 4 fed for €15.
In a world where an ice pop is €3.50 and a can of coke almost 2 no it's not.
Yes it is. And it's insane to be paying that for a coke or ice cream.
Back in the 90s I peeled spuds with a machine, in Beshoffs, in about 30 seconds. 😂
When you get to a certain age, you can't understand why everything isn't the same price it was 20 years ago. I'm guilty of thinking like that at times.
Eg, the price of a pint has been beyond the reach of the normal man and getting worse ever since a price was put on a pint!
What price do you think these items should be, and why?
Perhaps you should open a shop or chipper. No doubt you'd make an absolute killing undercutting all the other shops and chippers. Seriously, if you believe all these businesses are overcharging, why not compete. If your suspicions are right, you'd make a fortune!
Ive an air fryer at home gathering dust.
Are they any good or what?
I've no clue mate.
They can charge what they like. But it's my choice to keep my money in my pocket. I'm also entitled to hold the opinion that 2 sausage and chips @ €7.50 isn't value for money and that Ice cream or coke at those prices is too expensive.
I'm not the only one who thinks that.
Ok so follow the money.
If these business can’t charge less or they close, then it must be the stage before the shops that supply the stock making obscene profits.
If it’s not them then it’s the company's or farmers that provide the raw materials or that make the stock to be sold.
If it’s not that then maybe it’s people who are speculating on the unit price of raw materials/products.
Whatever the answer is- someone somewhere is making an absolute killing.
A bit of one from every column I'm going to go for.
Marios on the corner of high Street ia the best quality I have gotten in ages.
It must be down to the potatoes because all chips are gone to the dogs...
Sure that poster has ruining after hours for months and months with their nonsense. Hypocrite
But it's not a reasoned opinion. Just because you, and others, "feel", or "think" that these prices are too high, doesn't make it so. The market will determine if prices are "too high". If they are too high,not enough people will spend, if they are too low, they won't make money and will fail.
You either purchase or you don't. Your opinions (and mine) on what's the right price are of no value. If people enough people are willing to spend and a business profits , the price is correct.
The only irrefutable thing you've said is that you are entitled to not purchase.
That's fine.
I'm still very much entitled to that opinion as a customer.
So if you think food you purchase such as bread or potatoes is too high- you just don’t purchase is it? Starve?
I'm sorry but you don't know any of this to be true. Why do you think someone must be "making obscene profits"?
Just because you "feel" something is too expensive, doesn't mean that anyone is "making an absolute killing" somewhere in the chain. You just don't know this. The chain can be long and expensive. Wage costs are huge as are energy and rent.
Anyway what is obscene profit? What is reasonable profit.
What is making a killing?
How much is someone owning a business allowed to make before they are deemed to be "gouging". What's the scale of reasonableness here? Are there guidelines as to what is considered fair?
Do you know someone/ some companies isn’t/ aren’t making obscene profit?
It's a matter of taste.
Well, currently we do not have government controlled food prices. We have a fairly free open market where prices find their own level due to costs and competition.
If I found bread to be too expensive (in my opinion), I guess, I'd purchase a food stuff that I thought was better value. I quite like bread but I will only pay so much for it. Likewise with potatoes. If the price of potatoes doubled or tripled, I'd probably rarely purchase them.
If I, and many others, cannot afford to eat, then the whole model has broken down and needs intervention or redesigning. This is not what we are talking about here. We are talking about person with strong beliefs that the cost of a bag of chips is "too expensive".
If you want to make an argument for state controlled food prices (from everything from chippers to bread to cans of coke), then make that argument,stating how it might work in our society and market. I'm very open to ideas of how we might do things differently. I'm not absolutely wedded to the free market economy but it is what we have, currently. Previously, controlling the price of dairy, meat, wine and other agricultural products didn't work out very well and was abandoned.
I'm genuinely curious as to what ecenomic model allows for the controlling of the price of a bag of chips. A form of socialism, perhaps? I'm not, necessarily against that.
Do please explain.
Ok so a bag of chips pre vivid cost no more than €3.
A bag of chips now cost €4.50.
That’s a 50% increase.
Has the cost of producing a bag of chips gone up (and stayed up) by 50%?
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