The very survival of fish and chips in UK is threatened even as the dish continues to dominate the foreign food headlines in Thailand. According to the internet site Chippy Chat, many of the UK’s 10,000 or so chippies are even contemplating closure as the portion price zooms past 10 GPB (430 baht) thanks to the war in the Ukraine, shortage of fresh fish from the Russian Arctic and domestic inflationary pressures for wages, gas and electricity. “Fish and chips in Britain have traditionally been cheap as well as popular, but with costs rising weekly, we will be hitting 15 GPB per portion by the end of the year,” according to the owner of Haddock Paddock near Manchester. Who is going to pay that he wonders?
By contrast, fish and chips have never been so popular in Thailand. There are now said to be over a…
