Is this expensive or not

hattikins


Joined: 17/02/2008
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Message Posted:
11/11/2009 12:54

Had a busy day yesterday having the kitchen refitted so didn't feel like cooking last night, hubby suggested fish and chips so off he went to Rivada.

We had fish and chips twice, I was amazed when he told me that it had cost 30TL, around £12 at todays exchange rate, £6 per portion , won't be going there again that's for sure.

Tinkie


Joined: 16/03/2009
Posts: 1256

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 13:05

Its the going rate here, Cod Baba charge about the same.

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 13:07

9tl T COD BABA between 12 and 4 pm !!

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 13:11

Have you seen what Fish and Chips costs in the UK I was amazed when I was there in January, that is cheap believe me

Snaefell



Joined: 07/06/2009
Posts: 266

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 13:16

It cost £5 or £6 for fish and chips in the Isle of Man!!

the butler


Joined: 22/06/2007
Posts: 1958

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 13:18

They cost £9.00 in London







The butlers wife

minertor



Joined: 14/02/2009
Posts: 1238

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 13:21

msg 4, where you been eating Sheila, Yorkshire coast top prices are only £4 for Haddock and Chips.

That's takeaway price, I assume that's what hat got. Only been to Rivada once, earlier this year when daughter and kids were visiting. She wanted fish and chips for tea, Rivada had just had a plug in Cyprus Today so off we went. I'm glad she paid for them, and not me. The only impressive thing about them was the wait for them doing. Not bad for here though.



Tony

hattikins


Joined: 17/02/2008
Posts: 2793

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 13:50

Yes it was takeaway, and in the UK we never had to pay that much, £ 3.50 at our local chippy, in my opinion £6 for a fish supper is a rip off and we won't be going there again.

Woodspeckie


Joined: 25/01/2009
Posts: 2263

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 14:01

Our village in the UK £5 the cheapest but the best around.

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 14:07

I remember when you could go out on a Saturday night with ten bob in your pocket have a gallon of ale and a fish supper and still have change for 10 woodbine,

Paul.

newlad



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Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 14:10

Fish and chips on the harbour wall at Brid eh Tony you cant whack it,

Paul.

Geoff


Joined: 25/06/2008
Posts: 1370

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 14:57

£2.75 for large portion of F&C in Scarborough, N.Yorks, so my family tell me. But I don't care, no intention of visiting UK ever again as long as the KKTC exists, whatever the price here. Incidentally at the British St. Nicholas base on thr GC side, just over the breen line from Famagusta area, the F & C shop there charges 1.50 Euros for LARGE portion of chips, $.60 Euros for a LARGE Cod or Haddock in english-type batter. We often pop over there to partake now the crossing point opened in 2004.

Geoff

minertor



Joined: 14/02/2009
Posts: 1238

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 14:58

You must have some good mates, Newlad, when I was drinking, legally, in '62, 'n you were still at school a pint of Tetleys in Leeds was about 1s 6p. About the same price for fish 'n chips or (not and) 10 woodbines. Gotta stop cos I'm coughing just thinking of the bloody things. Ergo 8 pints + fish 'n chips + 10 woodbines comes to 15 bob. (bloody calculator don't do shillings so may be wrong) You must owe your mates an efes or two, no wonder you wear the tints.

Tony

ps come to Leeds 'n get your pic took wi' a real soccer hero, not that Bobby wasn't.

boglefan



Joined: 07/06/2009
Posts: 511

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 15:05

Local chippy in Scotland £5.00 for battered fish supper and £5.70 for special fish supper (breadcrumbed).

Wetherspoons for large Efes £1.89. Special fish is the size of a small whale.

No1Doyen


Joined: 04/07/2008
Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 15:09

Paul Message 10. I remember the old days. You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt. )

the butler


Joined: 22/06/2007
Posts: 1958

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 16:02

Oh! Bill that really made me laugh and brought back so many childhood memories. Scraping ice off the inside of the bedroom windows. One tiny fire to heat the whole house, the outside lavvy with newspaper on a nail.

Cold lino which you tried to jump over in order to get in to bed. We don't know we are born these days but you know what, we never said we were bored as kids. We always could find something to do, playing tops and whips, bowling a tyre around the streets, playing checks with four stones or hop scotch with a tin. No computers in them days or ipods, gameboys etc. Have we all moved on to much, there is the start of another discussion?





The butlers wife

kaiserphil


Joined: 14/12/2008
Posts: 1096

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 16:25

Bill, you were lucky! We were so poor that the mice used to bring us food parcels. And that was when were still livin' in an 'ole int'road!

exnavalperson


Joined: 22/07/2009
Posts: 224

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 17:19

Newlad, you are sure showing your age. Unfortunately I know you are right.

paddywack


Joined: 04/05/2009
Posts: 959

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 17:25

Msg 10

Is that what your dad told you?

come_on_aylin


Joined: 14/06/2008
Posts: 908

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 17:31

Could it be you were eating a fish that has not come from the Med? Where do they get the fish from and how much does it cost to transport it? Perhaps that is a factor in the cost.

everon


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 956

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 17:51

best fish n chips, Ravine, pickled onions & gerkins yummy x

barnaclebill


Joined: 12/12/2008
Posts: 303

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 17:53

Msg 16

I remember them days outside lavvy across the road ,candle in a hole in the wall and newspaper on a string.Six of us in a bed used to hate it when it was nightshift or first shift as we didnt have the family coats on the bed (Grandas Dads Uncles) it was bloody freezing.Good thing about the snow was on the way to school you could break of the cream from the milk bottles on the doorsteps.Wore sandals to shool in the winter and wellies in the summer .They were cheaper to buy out of season.Times not to be forgotten eh.

Denise


Joined: 14/03/2009
Posts: 590

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 18:46

fish n chips may be 9tl in cod baba between a certain time but its not cod it's hake which is a lot cheaper to buy.if you want cod it will be at about 18tl i think not quite sure. in the other direction in Çatalköy Flippers is good value, the last time i was there it was 11tl for cod and chips which they call standard size but was ample and the chips were fresh potatoes not like cod babas frozen ones.

fatosh


Joined: 24/07/2008
Posts: 5

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 19:53

dear Denise we dont serve frozen chips .And the fish and chips in Cod Baba cost 14.50 tl not 18 tl.

greylag


Joined: 08/04/2009
Posts: 1110

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 20:38

These prices all seem a bit fishy to me,

Grey.

everon


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 956

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 20:43

the chippies are taking a battering x

LaptaMike


Joined: 07/10/2009
Posts: 1679

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 20:57

always been fresh chips in Cod Baba. Still best chippy in NC in my opinion. NEVER been dissapointed.

Woodspeckie


Joined: 25/01/2009
Posts: 2263

Message Posted:
11/11/2009 21:20

There was a fight in our chippie the other day, 2 fish got battered!

TinLondon


Joined: 20/07/2009
Posts: 171

Message Posted:
12/11/2009 03:43

Denise (Msg 23),

I'm glad you mentioned the chips in Cod Baba, I was there in the summer and the chips just didn't have that same taste as back at home, they lacked flavour which made me think they were frozen too. I didn't know about the cod substitute... Thanks for point it out. This topic really has got my taste buds going.... My mouth is watering just thinking about my vinegar soaked chips

newscoop


Joined: 23/12/2007
Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
12/11/2009 06:36

Had massive take away cod and chips from Lambros (Dhekalia) yesterday. 6 Euros. Large Keo 1.80 Euro.



Superb.