Cheap as chips.......

[Nicos]

Funny enough I have no memoires about how much chips cost when I was a kid

Normally I'm rubbish about the cost of things waaaaay back too!

BUT- for some weird ( OCD perhaps???) reason I seem to recall a family bag of chips 6d, dinner money at 2/6 ( 5 x 6d) per week, and my mom used to have £6 housekeeping for the week ( I used to play 'shops' in our kitchen with her during school hols and 'had' her weekly allowance of £6 to spend.....toy money of course!)

All the 6's!!!!

Oh - and my OH has just reminded me...the lovely smell of damp newspaper when the chips had sweated inside...mmmmmmm

Darn- I just fancy chip shop chips now..with mushy peas and curry sauce! Typical!

[Currysniffa]

Darn- I just fancy chip shop chips now..with mushy peas and curry sauce! Typical!

I had a tray of chips and curry on Monday night, on the way back from sons swimming class, lovely

[Bigmallly]

Reading your post Nic reminded me of this:

Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen - YouTube

[Nicos]

My mom has a local chippy nearby with quite a nice caff behind it- think we'll take her out for a 'slap up' when we go over next!
..with a plate of thick bread and butter and a mug of tea....cooorrr!

[The Large One]

just had F+C for lunch in the car, sat in the sun
£5.30
i seem to remember paying over £8 for Mr Steins F+C in Padstein last year

[Mikey]

Reading your post Nic reminded me of this:

Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen - YouTube

When I started to read this thread, the yorkshireman sketch also came to my mind. Chips, you's was lucky to have chips, we were so poor we couldn't afford chips, we were lucky if we got to lick the grease of the used newspapers.

[cardiffsteve]

"Used Newspaper?"
"You were lucky!, all we could lick was the grease from the drain!"

[Newton]

Drain.......you were lucky....we only had open sewers and the grease floated past with the recycled newspapers used for other things as well........

[Potstubsdustbins]

1/2penny for chips, 1 penny for a pea mix all with batter bits and for you youngens them was real pennies 240 to the pound.

When I first went to the chippee the menu was cod/haddock steak/steak and kidney pie, fish cake plus chips and peas. We were lucky our chippees did do gravy.

As an aside a friend was in a old fashioned village pub in the mid 50s when a stranger came in and asked for a packet of nuts to go with his beer. The landlords reply "What do you thing this is mate a bladdy restaurant?"

Now feeling very old Colin