Originally Posted by Trentster (Post 444285)

We used to get a portion of chips and 2 small sausages for our youngest 2 ....now we have to buy a portion each ........... and not because the kids are getting bigger either :eek:

Originally Posted by Royboy39 (Post 444289)

Salt & vinegar 50p to cover inflation, growing rents and rates.

Originally Posted by entwisi (Post 444291)

You wrote this in jest but our canteen/resturant at work actually charges 6p for a sachet of vinegar! Salt is currently free......

Originally Posted by grego (Post 444310)

Many moons ago when we had a chippy (70's/80's) my mum used to give about 3 scoops per portion, now your lucky if you get a scoop.

Originally Posted by lindsay ormerod (Post 444370)

Don't bother with Burnley Rd Mani,unless you bring an angle grinder to get into the pies !

Originally Posted by mani (Post 444426)

grego

there was an option for a large but that was 1.50/2

and for a quid i did expect more than just a handful. which in all honesty thats what they were - a handful - and i've got small square hands

Originally Posted by spud (Post 444446)

The biggest bloody tax fiddle around! How often do you see a chippy using a till and ringing it in?...not very often!

And while I'm on a rant, a few years ago all chippys put their prices up(on chips) by at least 30%, they blamed it on the poor harvest. The next year when every farmer this side of mongolia was growing spuds, low and behold there was a glut, the prices plummeted!, did we get a reduction in price? did we hellers like.

Aswell as the chips, what about the peas 40p and 80p, gravey the same, don't even start me on curry sauce,dill hall lane charge £1, yes one bloody pound for a poly carton or ladel of the powdered, just add water rubbish.

It's a rip off and most of the time, I begrudge paying it.

then again, SEA BREEZE moscow mill street give mammouth portions!

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 444484)

Don't forget with take-aways, as opposed to eating in, you aren't paying VAT @17.5% either.

Originally Posted by Royboy39 (Post 444493)

Oh yes they are if the food is sold hot.

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 444506)

4.4 What about freshly cooked products?

If you sell freshly cooked products for consumption while they are still hot they are standard-rated, 4.5.
Some of these products are, however, bought to eat later, either cold or after re-heating. Examples include pies, pasties, sausage rolls and similar savoury products, cooked chickens or joints of meat, bread products and croissants. The liability will depend, therefore, on how you sell them.

http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsP...yType=document


I know it doesn't apply to fish and chips, but it does to some other types of take-aways.

Originally Posted by lancsdave (Post 444509)

So if I ask for cold chips they should be cheaper ? :)

Originally Posted by lancsdave (Post 444509)

So if I ask for cold chips they should be cheaper ? :)

Originally Posted by mani (Post 444617)

moor end - thats the one i usually go to

but i think it was garinda who made a thread about htier chips being cooked in that oil

so i thought give it a try

SO ONCE AGAIN

ITS ALL GARINDA'S FAULT!!

just like the iraq war, just like zebrugge, just like the titanic and just like steve guttenbergs career - all garinda's fault...