Fast Food

[poliphilo]

 Few weeks back I jibbed at paying £17.50 for a couple of portions of curry and chips in Crowborough. Yesterday I paid £11.00 for the same thing here in Eastbourne. 

Curry and chips used to be a cheap snack. Ain't that any more. But £11.00 is a whole lot better than £17.50.

What does constitute a cheap snack these days? Not much. Nearest thing is probably a Big Mac only I don't eat meat....

I used to like a Big Mac. Won't pretend otherwise. The grandkids still think a trip to Macky D's (as they call it) is a treat.....

I didn't grow up eating fast food. We were Middle class and the chip shop was Working Class. Not for our kind. I don't think I crossed the threshold of one until I was 18 and away from home. Guy I was with had to tell me what to order. That was in Sheffield. Never looked back.....

Comments

[cmcmck]

I grew up with the chippie but then I wasn't originally middle class whatever I may be now.

That's social mobility for you! :o)

[poliphilo]

The class divide was pretty rigid in my neck of the woods

[cmcmck]

It was most places I fear!

[mtbc]

My parents were fairly middle class in culture even if working class in wages but thank goodness it didn't stop them occasionally visiting Chau's Fish & Chips in Urmston, Manchester. (The establishment still runs, passed on to the kids.)

I am blessed with R. who cooks well and is outraged at what some external food costs so I get the homecooked versions of some things but of course fish and chips often remains best outsourced.

[poliphilo]

Living as we do by the coast we have lots of fish and chip shops to choose from....