[Vella Gonzaga]

Fish and Chips​

Ah, Fish and Chips - our favourite Friday night treat. That greasy smell wafting through the air, the crispy batter and fluffy chips, all wrapped up in newspaper - it’s enough to make anyone’s mouth water! Who could forget that distinctive newspaper wrapping? Sure, it wasn’t the most hygienic, but it added to the charm of the whole experience. We might have fancy boxes and trendy packaging today, but there’s something special about the old-school Fish and Chips we grew up with. It’s a taste of the past that will always have a place in our hearts (and stomachs!). Do you have any fond memories of this classic snack? Share them with us in the comments below!

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[Dennis]

Fish and Chips​

Ah, Fish and Chips - our favourite Friday night treat. That greasy smell wafting through the air, the crispy batter and fluffy chips, all wrapped up in newspaper - it’s enough to make anyone’s mouth water! Who could forget that distinctive newspaper wrapping? Sure, it wasn’t the most hygienic, but it added to the charm of the whole experience. We might have fancy boxes and trendy packaging today, but there’s something special about the old-school Fish and Chips we grew up with. It’s a taste of the past that will always have a place in our hearts (and stomachs!). Do you have any fond memories of this classic snack? Share them with us in the comments below!

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An incident which happened with fish and chips in newspaper still sticks in my memory 75 years later, this happened whilst doing National Service, at the time my regiment the Sherwood Foresters was in camp at Strensall in Yorkshire and a party of us were sent to Retford Nottingshire to do potato picking on a farm, my home was in Nottingham so I was able to get home for the week end, my girl friend and I went to the pictures on the Saturday night and when we came out we decided to take some fish and chips home, as I was wearing my greatcoat I put them in my pocket and when we arrived home when taking them out my pocket to my horror found out the grease had soaked into my webbing belt and I spent most of the Sunday scrubbing it out, fortunately I had some Blanco at home and the belt was ready for parade before going to the farm to pick the potato crop, we got a shilling a day extra for an hard days work, hope I have not bored you, Dennis R.

 

[John58]

I remember when mum gave me 20 cents for lunch, 10 cents to buy the chips and 10 cents for two games of pinball at the fish and chip shop. You got enough chips to fill you and most times to share with your friend.

 

[Pink lion]

I miss the simplicity (AND THE PORTION SIZES) of fish and chips spritzed with vinegar.

I miss going to the old pavilion in Freemantle W.A and ordering.

They had a giant sign above a huge counter that stated we could ask that they throw it, so we could say that we caught it. Yep (sigh) it's the little things.

 

[Gunpark]

If you are ever in the Gunnedah area visit our CHIP-INN in the centre of town for fish with OLD STYLE CHIPS. They cut their own chips and that is the way to go.

 

[Mars]

When I was going to State school My friend and I would walk home and spend our bus money on chips to eat on the way home. After I was married, and my Children were about 5 I cooked chips for them and wrapped them in newspaper with lunch wrap between the chips and newspaper. They loved it like that.

 

[Mikeyboy2012]

Chips at the bus stop after school (high school) was a regular, yummy occurrence.

 

[Ricci]

I remember when I was young we would go to the fish and chip shop for 6d worth of chips and a bag of scraps please. The scraps were the drippings of the fish batter that had fallen into the fryer and cooked. To be honest I don't know which I preferred, the chips or the scraps!

 

[Barbara V]

Fish and Chips​

Ah, Fish and Chips - our favourite Friday night treat. That greasy smell wafting through the air, the crispy batter and fluffy chips, all wrapped up in newspaper - it’s enough to make anyone’s mouth water! Who could forget that distinctive newspaper wrapping? Sure, it wasn’t the most hygienic, but it added to the charm of the whole experience. We might have fancy boxes and trendy packaging today, but there’s something special about the old-school Fish and Chips we grew up with. It’s a taste of the past that will always have a place in our hearts (and stomachs!). Do you have any fond memories of this classic snack? Share them with us in the comments below!

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[Nancyjoy]

In the summer months there was a carnival in Mordialloc near the creek and on the way we passed the fish chop which had running water in the window and we were allowed to get a "piece of flake and 6 of chips" which cost us 1/6d.

 

[Reet]

Fish and Chips​

Ah, Fish and Chips - our favourite Friday night treat. That greasy smell wafting through the air, the crispy batter and fluffy chips, all wrapped up in newspaper - it’s enough to make anyone’s mouth water! Who could forget that distinctive newspaper wrapping? Sure, it wasn’t the most hygienic, but it added to the charm of the whole experience. We might have fancy boxes and trendy packaging today, but there’s something special about the old-school Fish and Chips we grew up with. It’s a taste of the past that will always have a place in our hearts (and stomachs!). Do you have any fond memories of this classic snack? Share them with us in the comments below!

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My brother and I used to go for bike rides with friends in the evening of Friday night and would end up at the chip shop each buying three-pen'orth of chips with salt and vinegar wrapped in newspaper to keep them hot. The amount of chips we got was very large and I can still remember the taste as if it was yesterday. This was some 65 years ago.

 

[Wandiwa]

..... and how is everyone's cholesterol levels now ?

 

[Gsr]

Always loved fish and chips. Never had it from a shop until I was in high school, we had to walk from the high school to the primary school, about half an hours walk, once a week for home science, (cooking and sewing). The high school was fairly new and had been on the same site as the primary school, the home science rooms were still at the primary school at that stage. The primary school was right opposite the fish and chip shop so we saved up our little bit of pocket money and bought a potato scallop, we could only afford one, or sixpence worth of chips for our lunch before we started class again. Sometimes a few of us pooled our money and bought one piece of fish which we shared. The owners were really lovely and would throw in an extra scallop, extra chips and sometimes a fish bite. Amazingly almost thirty years after I left school and my husband and I moved to a new town the son of the fish and chip shop owners was a close neighbour of ours. When I worked in aged care one older lady, in her nineties, loved fish and chips wrapped in paper so much her son bought it for her for lunch every Friday and they had lunch together. They did this up until she passed away. She would get so excited waiting for him to arrive on fridays.

 

[mylittletibbies]

I too remember the piece of flake and chips 1/6d. It doesn't taste the same these days, I think because it was cooked in dripping in those days, and oil now. Nowhere near as nice, even if it wasn't as healthy.
Too expensive these days, recently bought some and the fish was $12 to $15 for a very small piece of fish and the smallest chips you could get was $5 and they were definitely small.

 

[Pink lion]

I too remember the piece of flake and chips 1/6d. It doesn't taste the same these days, I think because it was cooked in dripping in those days, and oil now. Nowhere near as nice, even if it wasn't as healthy.
Too expensive these days, recently bought some and the fish was $12 to $15 for a very small piece of fish and the smallest chips you could get was $5 and they were definitely small.

Yes, people that get Fish and Chip Portions even these days have no idea of what we all just took for granted at the time. In the future I guess people may sit somewhere, with a hologram view and an A.I Robo-waitress will roll up to their table scan them for credit and if approved, project a holographic image of a cooked fish with Sensurround, as people eat their mock vinegar spritzed air-fried mini-chip portions, none the wiser, as to what we all had. And they will call it the future.

I miss so many things that bused to be normal, Like drive movies, petrol 65c a gallon etc..

 

[starrysnan]

Loved walking home from the cinema in England as a child and getting hot chips to eat on the way. They were wrapped in paper and newspaper to keep them warm. Best chips ever!

 

[Sally from Seymour]

Summers at the Northcote Baths and spending your "locker refund" on hot chips on the way home.
Also, waiting in line on Friday nights for my "piece of flake, 3 potato cakes and 6d chips, with vinegar from the pickled onion jar.
A total of 2/- for a life time memory.