(1441) Afternoon all.
22. This follows on from n16 about tipping in restaurants
These below are more real for those in Britain:
During 50s and into the 60s, by and large, a family did not even think of eating out, except for diners and drive-ins in the States and chippies here, also Wimpy from the 50s. Chippies were exempt from rationing by the way.
I have a largish fillet of Scottish salmon here for tomorrow evening, trad fish n chips night, the chips are here ready to oven fry, the side of concasse is ready. How much does it cost me? Fillet £3.05, chips about £0.90, concasse … phew, who knows? Max £1.50 for that portion. Add herbs and bits … I’d say £5.60 the lot … and I’m buying premium and getting it delivered. And a full plate after all that. And cooked exactly right.
Now to Everywoman, Jen, litmus test of Britain imho:
Quite. When I was about 16, I was working in a chippy in the summer, doing the burgers, staff were plentiful, people knew of us, drove for miles … it cost the owner more, also so many people’s wages but there was a definite buzz to the place.
Following year, I remember his name … Gerlach … he’d bought the shop and now started the economies … inc. staff. Business fell away. I resigned, others did too. Insane.
21. Posted this earlier on X
20. Gordo yet again
19. Moo corner
18. Ghost of Gordo?
17. Old article, have LEDs apologised yet for their behaviour?
16. For a start, Brits and Americans have different approaches to tipping
In Britain, we used to tip if the service was good … mine ranged from 10% if not fab to 25% if it was very good. No tip if shocking, maybe more if the girl was assiduous BUT only if I could be sure it went to her, not to some group pool. I say ‘used to’ as I’ve not eaten out in Britain since maybe 1994.
In America, I realise the corporate greed game pays waiting staff pathetically, making it imperative they pick up tips no matter how the service is. This below though is well out of order … I simply would not enter that place, end of. Besides, I can cook better than medium level places at home.
Becca’s right here. Attitude is everything … attitude of all parties involved. I’d vastly prefer to invite her to my place, serve maybe tournedos rossini as the main, who knows about the starters, soup and dessert, cheeseboard. Then take her out to a concert, whatever, top of a tower for drinks. Still restaurant price that evening, but on things that are enjoyable.
No 21. Did the owner of the rubber boat make a complaint about his/her boat being ‘slashed’?
Did Tommo actually slash the boat? Where is the boat? Is it in Police custody?
Questions, questions, questions. A headache for the CPS.
22. Fish and chips! When I was a child, I remember my mother being totally shocked to find that fish and chips had gone up to sixpence, because she could remember when it was only thruppence.
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Its the shrinking of the measure used to define “value” not the ever changing price on the labe that is the issue. Money is the worst measure yet invented because unlike every other measure invented by man its not a fixed value.
Still doesn’t really matter as every government operates in bankruptcy to varying degrees.
True value has no measure.
22. I remember as a kid going to the local chippy for a Penn’orth of chips.
Do you remember the bag of scraps?
That was a later thing – didn’t happen at out chippy. Grown ups asking for fish’n’chips were asked if they wanted extra crispy bits on their order.
All of the chippies round where I lived, four of them possibly five, often gave the scraps away for free in those little greaseproof bags they used to load the potato scallops in. Kids and adults got them if they asked for them.
If one was buying fish and chips or indeed anything and chips one could ask for a scoop of scraps to be thrown in.
Happy days, long gone.
Awwww…nice memories for y’all. Catching up here.
Bill, I remember those bags over here too! I would like to have them now. Were they waxed?
Yes waxed paper. We called it greaseproof.