Is the local take away shop being consigned to history?

Question

When I moved into my suburb 20 years ago we had 2 Fish and Chip/Hamburger shops. Last week the final one closed. Last year I visited the place where I spent most of my childhood and teenage years and no local fish and chip shop.

Is the days of going to your suburban local where they know exactly how you like your Fish and Chips/Hamburger/Battered Sav or a milk shake going the way of 2 lollies for 1 cents?

Answer 1

When i lived in West End, Brisbane, there was an excellent independent fish shop (fresh & takeaway) at Dutton Park; now i've moved to north Queensland, we have an excellent one here in Kuranda. Barra or Mackeral & chips. Grilled or crumbed. Yum. You've made me think of that for lunch now.



I know of F&C joints in Cairns & Mareeba too. The "consignment to history" is probably limited to cities where there are all the fast food chains. They live on in rural areas.

Answer 2

I can't remember the last time I had decent fish and chips. I think the take away grease shops in small seaside towns will survive as long as they're run by westerners, but all the others are on the way out. For take away food I'd rather get a kebab or felafel roll, something with a bit of salad.





Edit to add: There's a great fish and chippy in Clovelly, Sydney. Last decade it was run by a French couple, dunno if it still is, and it was so cheerful. They made beautiful salads, mushy peas and whole rounds of crumbed deep-fried camembert cheese! They were special foodies, not overpriced, and very popular. Maybe they still are.



The drab 1970's looking fish and chip place run by Chinese down at Coogee Beach is still there and is still serving up awful soggy chips and frozen seafood. But the worst I ever had was in Kiama last year, at some big Fish and Chip institution for tourists that was packed and you had to get a ticket. Their battered flathead was mostly greasy batter, bones and fins, absolutely vile. These places only stay open because of their beachside tourist trade.

Answer 3

There isn't a single decent fish and chip shop in my area. However, in my area, there are plenty of take away places, but they're all kebab shops. Also there's at least 3 or 4 very, very busy Lebanese Charcoal Chicken places. No Italian pizza places round here either. It's all middle eastern pizza, which is not real pizza in my view. We don't even have a decent Chinese take away any more.



We do have the usual suspects in terms of appalling junk food take aways, maccas, Kentucky fried dog etc.



I don't eat much take away at all, just the very occasional kebab. I would really love to be able to buy some nice fish and chips though. I have to drive halfway into the Sydney CBD if I want to do that, and it's a massive deterrent. I can't remember the last time I had fish and chips.

Answer 4

Read a funny story in the paper years ago. Here are the main points



Bloke buys a fish & chip business after sampling the product for a few weeks before he made to offer on the business, He didn't care much for either the fish or the chips and reckoned it would be easy to improve them.



So he buys a better quality of fish and changes the oil pretty frequently.



The customers complain



I used to work near the corner of Long Street and Oxley Road in Graceville, Brisbane. About three doors from the corner was a hamburger / fish & chip shop. I don't know where they got their hamburger patties from, or whether they made them themselves, but they had a fair bit of bacon in the mince and the hamburgers were delicious. I have not been to Maccas for years but I have been to Hungry Jacks twice recently and their burgers don't seem to taste of anything much at all.



Of course it's on the way out. Mass market, low quality, low wage, low price always pushes quality out.

Answer 5

Toni, I really hope not, I really liked the hamburger from a little Greek place I used to go to across from the beach. r the old style fish and chip place on Parramatta Road, is it Annandale, near the turnoff to the RPAH. Where I could pick my piece of flat head and they would batter it and fry it. Or the place at Camden where a young couple had café, an they made the best meat pies ever, just like that cake shop in Bowral I used to like going to.



I really do hope Toni, these places are not driven out by the multi national unhealthy fast food joints.

Answer 6

There is too much competition from other take-away food shops. If people continued to patronise the fish and chip shops they would continue in business but there is probably too much choice. The shops that have survived have done so through their reputation and the loyalty of their customers. When you find a fish and chippery these days you can be reasonably sure the quality will be good and if it is, use it again and tell your friends.

Answer 7

Take Away Shops Near Me

Answer 8

I had the best fish n chips last night....crumbed red emperor, and they even through in slices of fresh lemon... from a little place in Baffle Creek, (half way between Bundy and Gladstone ) The Wreck Rock Cafe.

Answer 9

The problem is that the population is too bogan to distinguish between fish n chip shops and chicken takeaway places.



Look at all the charcoal chicken places that are around the joint nowadays. They serve fish and chips.



The fish n chip shop has merely transformed into a different takeaway. I'm not sure why fish n chip shops still even exist anymore.



Also, the big factor was the chips not the fish. People can get these at KFC and Mcdonalds which we know are Aussie favourites!

Answer 10

not many left now BUT it happens i went to one a couple of hours ago got fish/chips for the misses & a nice steak sanwich for myself

a nice feed can still be got on beaudesert rd moorooka across from the state-school



Brigalow Bloke the one in oxley rd gracevill is buggered now taken over by asians who know nothing about how fish/chips should taste

Answer 11

People still like a feed of fish and chips but now combine that with other options - the cheap Italian or Indian restaurant in the next suburb, the hipster pub, Macca's, KFC, etc. Now they are happy to drive somewhere nice for their fish and chips - in Melbourne there are gourmet F&Cs at places like St Kilda, Williamstown and South Melbourne; the grungy local places just don't cut it anymore.

Answer 12

They have been destroyed thanks to big business, Maccas,Kentucky fried chicken , etc you will find the odd one here and there, but very few and far between, so you want some good fish and chips you make it yourself these days, they serve rubbish from these major chains, and if you are used to the good stuff, then eating maccas and others will not be good enough

Answer 13

My guess is that Drive Thru takeaways are the main factor here.





Obese people hate to walk. Whenever I go past a certain Blubber Burger franchise in town the Drive Thru section is flat out.



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Answer 14

Lol....feeling quite smug in my choice of location now........I can think of 5 fish n chip shops that serve an excellent product...all within 3km of where I live......none of them are owned by Asians, a few are owned by Kiwis and none are showing any sign of going out of business.

Answer 15

I know what you are saying ...... without the intellectual stimulation of watching a battered sav bubble & spurt in a vat of boiling rancid oil , how can we generate intellectuals such as Pauline Hanson. Where else can they have such idle time to ferment such hatred and ignorance



Well , as long as there are intellectually lazy people, they will be someone to come along and make money out of the poor dumb suckers .... Alan Jones , Andrew Bolt etc etc have made millions pretending to be on the side of the suckers on struggle street.

Answer 16

It will be soon. Corporate giants are destroying small business, and both are destroying the Australian worker.

Answer 17

Good