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A Funeral for Fish & Chips
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this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2023
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It'd be interesting to see the number of other fast food closures.
Purely anecdotal, but no chippies have closed in my town but numerous pizza and kebab places have opened, plus chains like pizza express and wagamamas.
I wonder if it's just dietary changes?
I think it’s more complex for chippies. Fish and chips was meant to be a cheap treat, that’s why it has such a strong working class heritage behind it. So the price rise makes it untenable in a way that may not affect other takeaways. Like, if I’m going to pay £20 for some fish and chips, I might as well have a Chinese. It’s a cultural thing.
That's from a time of plenty, overfishing has decimated fish stocks and trawling is destroying the sea bed.
I'm not going to mourn the loss of that 'industry', we can make sustainable protein, and high prices help to attract investment