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Apparently the fish and chips picture was actually taken in the Commons dining room but then somebody photoshopped the picture to hide the fact that it was taken in the commons. So presumably it is a meal that has been heavily subsidised by the taxpayer.

Its not a common sense meal it a meal on commons expenses.

I had lunch in the Commons member's restaurant once. Sole Veronique. All the more delicious as someone else was paying.

davidjay wrote: ↑Fri May 16, 2025 9:57 pm

Boiler wrote: ↑Fri May 16, 2025 9:32 pm

davidjay wrote: ↑Fri May 16, 2025 7:01 pm And that looks a bloody expensive meal. You're talking the best part of £25 in dat dere London.

I'm pleased to say that Paul's Plaice by Hanger Lane tube wouldn't charge that much (and it'd be absolutely delicious too), neither would the Golden Plaice in Borehamwood.

Round here a large cod and large chips is £16.

A long, long way from my "sixpence of chips" I enjoyed as a small child in the early 70s...

It looked like she was in a pub or, to quote Alan Partridge, a modest restaurant. £16 for a takeaway chippy is scandalous; round here it's usually a few shillings either side of £10.

It's not great, is it...? Mind you, given the size of the bit of fish you get - on more than one occasion it's had to come in its own wrapper. I think it's also where I live - it's seen as an affluent area so no doubt it's what the market will stand.

Why does he talk like he’s living in the 1950s.

The guy worked in CAB at one point, this just seems like an act.

Lidls and Asda have plentiful vegan food offerings, the idea that non meat eating is a middle class hippy fad is as tin eared as 'metropolitan latte drinkers.' A Greggs in Ashfield district does a brisk trade on lattes (don't have any evidence of this but real life common sense experience of walking high streets tells me it's very likely to be true).

It's just their clumsy attempt at carefully-coded racism and appealing to the xenophobes. White people's food and none of that nonsense for student girls who would happily take a length off a laddo in tight, white trousers.

Surely avocado on toast is either eaten for breakfast or as a snack eaten between meals whilst fish and chips is a proper meal so not really a direct comparison. The post would work so much better if she was actually eating a full cooked breakfast.

mattomac wrote: ↑Sun May 18, 2025 7:14 pm Why does he talk like he’s living in the 1950s.

The guy worked in CAB at one point, this just seems like an act.

Of course it's an act. If his constituency suddenly gained an influx of eco-warriors he'd join the Greens.

Avocado's far cheaper than fish and chips and healthier.

Dalem Lake wrote: ↑Mon May 19, 2025 2:55 am Avocado's far cheaper than fish and chips and healthier.

Healthy food's for metropolitan elites. My dad lived on lard and fags. It didn't do him any harm.

At the Citizen's Advice Bureau:

"Depressed? That'll be because o' them forriners. Pull thaself together, lad. Go for a walk, eat a greasy breakfast, sorted. Next!"
"Nowt in't cupboard? That'll be because o' them forriners. Get some pasta... Next!"
"Your flat's got black mould and the gas has run out? That'll be because o' them forriners. Here's a ticket to see Nigel. Next!"

davidjay wrote: ↑Mon May 19, 2025 8:30 am My dad lived on lard and fags.

Till the day he died. At 38.

Killer Whale wrote: ↑Mon May 19, 2025 10:22 am

davidjay wrote: ↑Mon May 19, 2025 8:30 am My dad lived on lard and fags.

Till the day he died. At 38.

Surrounded by his great-grandkids.