Why do Fish & Chip shops All Shut on a Sunday evening ?

This thread is making me feel queasy.

I should stop looking at it.

So, Moonbeam, have you still not had any supper?

went to the shell fish stall today hes been there 60yrs not much trade in the eastend these days its all cheap chicken shops.we still have a pie mash shop tho

i miss pie and mash

Yes Diva

I opted for a cheap nasty McDonalds drive through in the end , never again though

but Thanks for asking!

I've never heard of a pie and mash shop.

Is that all they sell?

they do tea

Bito, there is a great pie and mash shop in Tooting called Harringtons, it really is the dogs. Next time you pass that way pop in, you will not be disappointed.

my one as been there for 120yrs kellys they started to do apple pie and rhubarb pie aswel and bangers and mash

"I opted for a cheap nasty McDonalds drive through in the end , never again though "

You say that, Moonbeam, but I bet you do buy a McDonalds again.

Hey, a drive through! At least there's less chance of you getting into fight that way, not having to get out the car

will do slippy

Bito, Are you telling me there's no pie and mash shops where you live?

I take it you're north of Watford?

i live in essex treble,the one in our town closed

Do they stick 4 x sausages all vertically in the mash like a dodgy construction site and say 'there ya go mucker'

"I've never heard of a pie and mash shop."



Honestly, I ask you.

I live close to one the best in London. This is one of my regular dinners:

7pound and 20p for 2 pies and mash

I sometimes wonder if we actually live in the same country

Them are ... Pies ...

Oh my God! Treble! I'm going to puke up!

£7.20! Does your local pie shop owner wear a mask and striped jumper?

Maximum should be about £3 for pie, mash and liquor.

"Do they stick 4 x sausages all vertically in the mash like a dodgy construction site and say 'there ya go mucker'"

PMSL!

That looks good to me treble. Sorry M_D, was not having a pop, you know me by now. We just live in different places

Diva, have you ever actually eaten it?

Pie, mash and liquor?!!

This thread is a real education for me!

you aint lived if you aint had stewed eels liquor and mash

Slippy used to go there once a month when vising the ole grand parents who lived in Blakenham Rd

No treble, but the pies look like they've been run over and is that parsley sauce on the mash?

its a feast for the gods ,and the serving times 15 seconds

The North/South divide alive and well on chit chat.

2 top tips for pie and mash shops:

1) Any decent pie and mash shop should give you free liquor if you have at least 12 forzen pies. Take an empty 4 pint of milk and thye should fill it.

2) Always ask for burnt pies. The burnt crust is feckin beautiful with a coating of liquor and chilli vinegar.

"Sorry M_D, was not having a pop"

Didn't think you were, slippy.

This is the funniest thread in ages.

no treble thats how much it is at kellys in roman rd market

It never ceases to amaze me that once you talk to someone North of St.Albans you could be talking a completely different language to them.

Yes , but do they open on Sundays

never have frozen pies not for me

my local cafe (turkish) has pie and mash on the menu

i'm considering suing them under the trades description act

I know Kelly's well. My nan and grandad used to live by the market square up the road from Roman Road. near Bonner Street.

That is a scandalous amount. I would rather go to Maureens in Crisp street market. Much better and cheaper. Lovely staff as well.

There's a posh one in Greenwich called Goddards that doesn't even charge anywhere near that.

no only 2pound chicken and chips shops and pizza shops got a very nice west indian food shop with some great jerk chicken rice and peas

What pies do you get for indoors then Dr. Fresh pies that are cooked and left to cool.

All we need now is kenny man to come on here say he had bread and dripping for his tea (dinner to the rest of us) and we've got the full set.

treble the london chest hospital right near there a great hospital

always eat them in shop cant stand to warm it up

I've heard it's good, but i've never been there. The London'd near there as well. Grandad died there

we still have the beigal shop in brick lane salt beef please

"Grandad died there"

Aww, Treble

treble a very good hospital the best sorry about your grandad

11kv, I know Blakenham Road, my niece lives nearby. You need a good amount of dosh to buy a decent place around there now.

we should have a naked forum hug in my bedsit next saturday,around 7PM.

i'll supply the liquer

Where's Squeeze 

i've got something you can all squeeze

the londons a p1ss hole hospital my mum had cancer went to the toilet and fell they took 2hrs to find her had 8 people i know gone in that hospital none have come out alive

Very expensive Slippy,Aunt and Uncle lived in Cowick Rd sold up and moved to Cornwall live like a King and Queen on the back of that .....

Erm I'm busy Saturday night bito but good luck with that project

All that area, Tooting, Balham, Colliers Wood used to be practically no go areas when I was younger, especially Tooting. Completely different places noe 11kv. My mate has got a house in Brixton and a million would not come even close to buying it. How South London has changed.

I love that bagel shop. When they bring out the freshly cooked salt beef, I start dribbling.

How did this thread go from the question of why fish and chips are shut sunday night's to where our relatives died

just for mc moonbeam the bagel shop is 24hrs 7days

Treble, gamblers by definition have been there and have exprienced life that others will never have seen I have always found. We digress, we ramble on at times about stuff but in general the people on here have more intelligence than your average Joe Public will ever have.

Havent been there for 7 or 8 yrs but I know they were glad to leave after living there for 60 yrs.......

No fresh fish on a sunday

Why do Fish & Chip shops All Shut on a Sunday evening ?

because they're lazy/thick feckers who don't understand why they're now getting overtaken by ethnic offers

No wonder you can all afford £12 fish n chips

There should be no shops open on a sunday you wa;;;; badger

I have a feeling the reason they didn't used to open was Sunday trading laws in Britain.
Of course, those laws have mostly been abolished now - but perhaps the tradition has remained?

The best Fish & Chip shop in the UK is located in Anstruther. Fact.

PS, all chip shops around here are open on a Sunday night. Must be an English thing?

Could be Mac - or perhaps I'm mistaken anyway? I just seem to remember asking my dad in the seventies why we couldn't have any  chips from the fish and chippers on a Sunday and I'm sure he said it was a bylaw.
Mind you, knowing my dad he'd tell me anything to shut me up!

It looks like he was right:

Sunday Trading

"It was illegal for a British traditional fish and chip shop to open on a Sunday but not for a Chinese take away, and they could sell fish and chips."

http://www.squidoo.com/strange-english-laws

I guess it must be a bylaw Tommy or at least half of them would open around here imo , especially as busy as it seemed tonight , lots of people out & about drinking etc

Chip Shops have always been open up here on Sundays tommy, so there could be a lot in what your dad said.

Until relatively recent years it was illegal to sell almost anything on a Sunday with the clear exception of carrots. Car showrooms, DIY and furniture warehouses that wished to open their stores on a Sunday began selling carrots for thousands of pounds each, but you got a free car, kitchen or whatever the store sold.

Here you go - straight from Hansard in 1968:

"There is one other matter which I mention now and which causes difficulty. It is the question of fish-and-chip shops. This is what the Committee said on this subject in paragraph 156: Paragraph 1(b) of Schedule 5 allows almost complete freedom for the sale of meals or refreshments for on-consumption; the only exception is that fried fish and chips cannot be consumed at a fried fish-and-chip shop. That is a little odd, when fried fish and chips can be sold in a restaurant. In an attempt to get round the law (because I think I am right in saying that it is not quite certain whether this is legal) many people now attach a small café to the fish-and-chip shop itself for Sunday, so that it becomes a café or a restaurant where fish and chips may be sold. I am not sure whether that point has ever been settled. This is the nonsense of the present Act."

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1968/mar/28/shops-sunday-trading-no-2-bill-hl

Who can forget staggeringly dreary Sundays?

More should have died.  And then some.

I don't want to make you jealous moonbeam

but there is one that opens Sunday night near me

I remember them Bodil

Sundays are one thing that have improved

we can have a bet for a start

I got 1100 to 200 that UK would introduce Sunday racing a few months before first meeting

I played cricket in Hereford on quite a few Sundays Bodil.

Why can't fast food [ or butcher's ] sell home made ****s in the South East and London ?

http://britishfood.about.com/od/eorecipes/r/****s.htm

frozen supermarket ****s are rubbishy slush.

Nice bit of info on Wiki about the history of fish and chip shops:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_and_chips

The greatest invention ever

Unless your at the seaside, how many people want fish and chips on a Sunday night ?  I've had a Chip Shop in the past and closing on Sundays was the only day off, but it was hardly ever a complete day off because there was always something to do - cleaning or some prep work or doing the books.

I'm a bit worried about this North/South divide malarkey. Got to go to a stagger in Leeds in a couple of weeks. Real journey in to the unknown. Which jabs and shots should I have beforehand? Do they speak the lingo up there? Will I have to eat whippet on toast? Are there any toilets? What about the women - are they all confirmed mentalists like that Mel B from T'Spice Girls? I think I now know how it felt to the lads in the trenches who knew they were about to go over the top.

Leeds is the London of the north, which the north never wanted. If that North Korean leader fancies trying out his nuclear weapons, then Leeds wouldn't be a bad target. If he's not accurate, hitting Bradford, Wakefield or Dewsbury wouldn't be a bad 2nd prize.

Your Questions have been answered

Good to see HRH The Lager Khan back.

Cubanpete, our very own kenny mann lives in Bradford and Huggy lives in Leeds, leave Bradford and Leeds alone. How about somewhere like Rotherham or Castleford, I don't think any chit chatterers live in either of those places so nuke them instead.

Mc Moonbeam 05 May 13 23:18 Joined: 22 Sep 05 | Topic/replies: 11,582 | Blogger: Mc Moonbeam's blog
the chinese takeaways are all owner operated too rick

plus most people don't even buy fish from the chip shop , more pies ,  doner/chicken meat , kebabs , sausages etc


It's not a proper chippy if it sells kebabs and other shíte
In fact any "chip shop" that doesn't stick to the traditional menu should be bombed

Don't you mean their owner should be battered?

Thank you Slippy. Most kind.

Battered sausage & chips is top munch for me , they don't sell that in Lidl , even the salt n vinegar tastes better

I've got your best interests at heart kenny mann, you know that.

Hope you're ok lately too Slippy !

elvis?

Not normally a fan of old threads being revived but found this thread very entertaining. I came across it purely by chance when googling "Why aren't fish and chips shops open on Sundays". This was the second link displayed. I felt a certain sense of pride that font of all knowledge was in front of my very eyes!

That would do nicely Cooperman.

".....and for a monday it used to be the left overs from the cold meat joint"

Our left overs from the Sunday roast would last about 3 days ! Monday would be something like cold meat and chips, Tuesday would be a stew or something, Wednesday would be a pasty or Cottage Pie...... and then the dog would get the bone !!

Best Fish n Chips I have had was in Scheveningen in Holland..
http://www.worldwinder.com/2013/01/21/sidetrips-from-amsterdam-beer/
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g668848-d4420516-Reviews-Simonis_Aan_Zee-Scheveningen_The_Hague_South_Holland_Province.html

Glad you enjoyed it GoOnThen

so crags next time you're bumping my old threads just respect that I'm now an International Google Superstar

Chance for the owner to get to a boat and catch some fish for the week.