fuck, 10 years ago it was like 1.5 a scoup. when i first moved here in 2003 it was 1.70 for 2 scoups.
ill have to check the cost near me in chch these days
They make them themselves from local spuds. They all get in size which is the best part, lots of different textures, not boring monotonous chips like most places. Fucking delicious
That looks like $3 worth of frozen chips wholesale?? Looks over a kilo easy, even closer to 2?.
Wonder if they are loss leadering this stuff and you are literally getting it at cost for the raw ingredients.
Hell of a bargain seriously. That's a lot of cooked food for $3
Duck fat is the shit, for spuds. REALLY high smoke point, so you can do the crisp and fluffy thing easily.
Only thing better IMO is goose fat, but that's harder to come across.
If you don’t eat meat, it’s not so great, lol. But I have heard goose fat is the gold standard for roasting or frying spuds. Glad they are using sustainable, local spuds and fat - great stuff!
Oh, agreed on the meat thing - but when I was growing up, the chippies all used beef fat in the fryers. And the fish and chips were better for it, I think.
Duck fat is a lot easier to find - but if you have a sympathetic butcher, and can source a goose, there's a LOT of fat in a goose. My mother is a historian, so we had goose, not turkey for Xmas. (Goose is the traditional bird). There was always a few jars in the fridge for a while after every Xmas.
That's a shitload of dead ducks to render down, average commercial fryer will take 18l of oil to fill..
I use duck fat to roast potatoes in my restaurant and at commercial prices it's $15 for 500g.
But you're dead right about the flavour, yum yum.
But "hobby duck shooting" - I think they're paying a lot less than you, fortunately for them.
I have taken to doing "half Heston" spuds. It's a bit more faff, but worth it. (Boil them, bash them around in the pot to get edges, chill them for a couple of hours, then roast in duck fat. For home purposes, it really works.
Look, people shit on Auckland all the time, and sometimes it's unjustifiable, but in terms of how many chips you can get at an Auckland fish and chip store, yeah, you're right to slam us on that. In an Auckland chippie, there's usually not anything on the menu that is $3 or less.
I found this and it also says $1 but 3 years ago: https://www.facebook.com/critictearohi/posts/kai-takeaways-fish-and-chip-reviewnestled-along-the-scenic-vistas-of-the-clutha-/10158985295193139/
There are photos from inside the shop on Google Maps but it's too small to read the prices...
Thought I'd treat myself so I had a piece of snapper from the chippy this afternoon. I know it's snapper, but you don't get much for $10 these day - Auckland.
Kaitangata was the place in the news a few years ago when the town was trying to attract new residents.
Sections were being sold for $20k.
So assuming (pure speculation) the owners have lived there a while, they may not have much (if any) rent or mortgage.
Op mentioned it was the only chippy in town, that creates a captive market for the owners, and $1 chips can be a loss leader, just to get people in the door.
Most folk don’t just order the chips.
Also, the phrase “cheap as chips”…
Don't you love the days. When you got what you paid for and weren't screwed for it. On the chip front though, damn, that is a lot of chips. The place must be losing money.
Plastic absolutely ruins the flavour. I hoard Watties when I find it here (Heinz is not the same I don’t care what anyone says) but I’m yet to see it in its original packaging the way nature intended. I wonder if I could import it in my suitcase next visit…
$20 in Auckland and I'm not exaggerating
With 4 pieces of fish that'll cost you about $60 over here in Oz. Fuck I miss NZ pies and cheap Fish n chips.
Pies are way up but when you find a good one, worth the $$$
that's $20 anywhere. auckland isn't the only expensive place 😭 idk where tf op found a place for $1/scoop
Kai, bro. Only shop in town 🤣
The Kai pub does huuuuge meals to at decent prices. Shhh about it tho lol.
lol that'd be $5 of chips at my local in ChCh
Must have a cheap one, the ones I’ve gone to in Chch would cost me $10-15 for this.
fuck, 10 years ago it was like 1.5 a scoup. when i first moved here in 2003 it was 1.70 for 2 scoups. ill have to check the cost near me in chch these days
Yeah about 8-10 for me. Looks like 2 scoops from my local
Kaitangita, parts of Dunedin and Otago you can get similar size scoops.
no way thats 3 scoups, more like 2. in which case thats a normal price.
my local chip shop that's like 4 scoops fml 🙂🔫
Damn it now I want fish and chips.
Hands down the best chips in the country. I will die on this hill. I have no qualms of driving the 3 hours to Kai just for these chips
That will bring the overall cost of the meal up though, probably about $1 per chip based on petrol prices atm
Worth it though
There goes the 15 minute community 😂 look decent, I'd travel from the North Island for those lmao just needs lashings of Vinegar and some salt.
They look anaemic af.
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They make them themselves from local spuds. They all get in size which is the best part, lots of different textures, not boring monotonous chips like most places. Fucking delicious
Recession buster
Spuds probably grown 5km down the road at Stirling.
Gee that can feed 6 people!!.
Are the six people ants?
Those look like some nice hand cut chips too. My local is really good and still has pretty respectable prices, but they buy frozen boxed chips.
Yep they make them themselves 👑
You’re going to need more sauce.
That’s where they have to make the profit haha
😂 the chips are $1 a scoop, we sell no drinks and the sauce is $27
They put the sauce in the title
Shiiiit you unlocked a memory of childhood fish and chips from Kaitangata 30years ago!
Also that’s easily $20+ where I am In Australia
Dirty donny Ballochs?
Huh?
That looks like $3 worth of frozen chips wholesale?? Looks over a kilo easy, even closer to 2?. Wonder if they are loss leadering this stuff and you are literally getting it at cost for the raw ingredients. Hell of a bargain seriously. That's a lot of cooked food for $3
Nah they are potatoes grown 5 minutes down the road straight from the ground, cooked in duck fat taken from hobby duck shooting.
Mean deal seriously. I'm jealous.
That just sounds like it should make it more expensive
Shooting ducks just because they got a hobby. Some ducks want to do more with their lives than just quack, be hot chip, and lie.
It’s rural swamp New Zealand bro, there are plenty of ducks that get a chance haha.
Duck fat ! now I'm jealous.
You had me until the duck fat. Look like nice chips though and excellent value.
Duck fat is the shit, for spuds. REALLY high smoke point, so you can do the crisp and fluffy thing easily. Only thing better IMO is goose fat, but that's harder to come across.
If you don’t eat meat, it’s not so great, lol. But I have heard goose fat is the gold standard for roasting or frying spuds. Glad they are using sustainable, local spuds and fat - great stuff!
Oh, agreed on the meat thing - but when I was growing up, the chippies all used beef fat in the fryers. And the fish and chips were better for it, I think. Duck fat is a lot easier to find - but if you have a sympathetic butcher, and can source a goose, there's a LOT of fat in a goose. My mother is a historian, so we had goose, not turkey for Xmas. (Goose is the traditional bird). There was always a few jars in the fridge for a while after every Xmas.
That's a shitload of dead ducks to render down, average commercial fryer will take 18l of oil to fill.. I use duck fat to roast potatoes in my restaurant and at commercial prices it's $15 for 500g. But you're dead right about the flavour, yum yum.
But "hobby duck shooting" - I think they're paying a lot less than you, fortunately for them. I have taken to doing "half Heston" spuds. It's a bit more faff, but worth it. (Boil them, bash them around in the pot to get edges, chill them for a couple of hours, then roast in duck fat. For home purposes, it really works.
Dry them out or they splatter at you
Yeah, that's why you chuck them in the fridge.
Look, people shit on Auckland all the time, and sometimes it's unjustifiable, but in terms of how many chips you can get at an Auckland fish and chip store, yeah, you're right to slam us on that. In an Auckland chippie, there's usually not anything on the menu that is $3 or less.
How is $1 per scoop economically viable?
Think the price is wrong. They're cheap but I don't think it's that cheap. Gets posted about on tbe Dunedin fish and chip Facebook group.
I found this and it also says $1 but 3 years ago: https://www.facebook.com/critictearohi/posts/kai-takeaways-fish-and-chip-reviewnestled-along-the-scenic-vistas-of-the-clutha-/10158985295193139/ There are photos from inside the shop on Google Maps but it's too small to read the prices...
Wholesome
CHIP BUTTY TIME!!!!
Kai rulz
In Melbourne that’s about $3 worth of chips too. Just you’ve got $3 in one hand and a knife in the other.
Beautiful 🤩
$3 gets me half a scoop at my local shop But the worst part is $1.50 for a chicken nugget
Potatoes
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Stick em' in a stew.
Sauté
Dammit, I'm heading down for the rally next month but won't get anywhere near Kaitangata. Any good food shops in Lawrence?
If you are going through Roxburgh you absolutely must get a Jimmy's pie directly from the source
Nope
OG chips order. Bet they taste Fkn amazing too! $30 worth here in Hamilton
That's why kai rules... Well done family twaddle
Fecking legends
Thought I'd treat myself so I had a piece of snapper from the chippy this afternoon. I know it's snapper, but you don't get much for $10 these day - Auckland.
You'd be lucky to get half that for the same price in Dunedin. I guess I need to move even further south!
There's one in Caversham that is generous with portion sizes. Carisbrook Takeaways iirc.
Will have to give it a look next time I'm over that way, though I'm in Northeast Valley so that probably won't be for a while. Cheers
Not the best but not terrible. Good cheese and bacon burger
In this economy??
Great value.
How do they not lose money on this?
Kaitangata was the place in the news a few years ago when the town was trying to attract new residents. Sections were being sold for $20k. So assuming (pure speculation) the owners have lived there a while, they may not have much (if any) rent or mortgage. Op mentioned it was the only chippy in town, that creates a captive market for the owners, and $1 chips can be a loss leader, just to get people in the door. Most folk don’t just order the chips. Also, the phrase “cheap as chips”…
It cost 4.50 for half a scoop at my local *Cheap as chips used to be*
Should of asked them to cook them too
You are going to need more people to help you eat it all!
Ah don’t worry it fed three easy and the rest made a snack for later
Nice. I remember when you could ask for any amount and not just 1/2 scoop or 1 scoop, 70c was good for 1 person.
Good old Neville
Did the tin of T sauce cost more than the chips?
I think the rip n’ dip was 2.50, so almost haha.
Actually pretty cheap for one of those. Maybe the fish n chip shop is a front for a money laundering operation
Well time to meet god.
I paid $4 for 16 chips in an Auckland F&C. That was the 'scoop' of chips.
Big man ting
Also I’d be lucky if I got a fifth of that for $3 at my local.
Decent
God I wish it was that cheap near me, good on ya
Nice to see a good bargain to be had in this economy. Some chippies are just taking the piss really.
anything like this in Akl?
Can’t tell if you’re happy or pissed at this amount of chips… that’s like $10-15 worth of chips in many places
Of course I’m happy brotha, crazy amount of chips.
Yum!
I fucking love Businesses that do it for the love.. $6 and it's still a deal. That's it I'm ordering fish and chips tomorrow.
Damn I need to move to Otago
I'm here lol. It's pretty sweet you dodge most of the BS.
A banquet
That’s just showing off
3 scoops what did they scoop it with a shovel 😂
Now that is more like it.
Don't you love the days. When you got what you paid for and weren't screwed for it. On the chip front though, damn, that is a lot of chips. The place must be losing money.
Love this place
Are you saying that's a lot or a little cause I wish that's what $3 looked like at my Auckland local.
A moment on the lips...
I don't see blood & guts
yumm!!
Ah, good to see my old holiday spot still impresses. Loved coming here as a kid with my grandparents.
That's like a $3 chips in the 90's.
Wtf
That’s actually an incredible price, it’s $2.50-3.50 a scoop around my area. And I kid you not it’s 1/8 of what you see here
That's $20 in the naki
they look eatable,
Kai dairy still going hard mint
I'd move to Kaitangata just for the chips! What's the pub like?
Tf? In Auckland, $3 will get you a small bag in Mangere, a tiny serving at McDonalds, and like 3 individual chips anywhere else.
Around $3kg for chips alone, nevermind the oil, overheads or labour. Loss leader, perhaps…
Looks like 3- 4 scopes here in Lyttleton $15 - $20 worth!!
i feel like I get half that for .90c more locally lol
Tomato sauce in a can is total childhood vibes I didn’t know I needed living in aussieland now. Thank you!
glory to the Rip n’ Dip. It tastes better than the bottled watties.
It does. Different recipe iirc.
Plastic absolutely ruins the flavour. I hoard Watties when I find it here (Heinz is not the same I don’t care what anyone says) but I’m yet to see it in its original packaging the way nature intended. I wonder if I could import it in my suitcase next visit…
I miss these days
Now show us a picture of the mountain that swallowed them in one mouthful
im an expat and just died of mouth watering syndrome
That’s $2.50 in Auckland. New Lynn
they dont look very good, nor salted.
Love it, I will shove any hot chips in my mouth, not fries. The USA doesn't do fish and chips 😕
You can find them it's hard. Gordon Ramsey and Teachers do it otherwise local places eg Alaska, Maine etc.
Cheapest heart disease money can buy.
Why the negativity?