People on the street: Fish and chip-flation

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Fish and chips is a cultural staple across the UK, but the cost of a chippy tea has risen exponentially over the last five years, making it harder for families to treat themselves.  We’ve asked people on the street their view on the price increase.

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00:00Hi I'm Theo and today I'm out on the streets of Manchester asking people about fish and chips

00:04and there's a very simple reason for that. Fish and chips is one of the things that has gone up

00:08most over the course of the last five years it's risen by 50% and that's massively impacted

00:12people's ability to go out and have a cheeky chippy tea. I want to know whether people find

00:17themselves impacted by it often or whether it's not a massive deal for them and whether they

00:21think that it's a good situation or a bad one. We do get it every now and then I mean I love fish

00:25and chips but like it is just extortionate prices especially down south because I've lived in

00:32Bristol and it's like £13 sometimes like here in Manchester you can still get one for like

00:39you know £7, £6. It's not enough to notice the change I'm also just notice the change in the

00:44sense that like everything has gotten more expensive I've never really factored it down to

00:51specifically the fish and chips inflation. For me it was like

00:55almost every Friday we'd get like fish and chips but not at all anymore.

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