| Comment | If by 'up here' you mean Scotland, I would say that generally Scottish chippies are very good - it's Glasgow that's the outlier. Head to the east coast (e.g. Fife or Aberdeenshire) and you'll find plenty of chippies that are among the best in the UK.
A large part these days though is cost - the price of both fish and oil has increased massively in the past 5-10 years or so, as well as energy costs more recently making running a chippy hugely more expensive. If you're somewhere affluent, like London, then a chippy will keep up the quality, keep buying haddock/cod, and up its prices. In Glasgow, far fewer people can afford £12-15 a supper, so instead they now buy the cheapest generic white fish and turn down the oil temperatures (hence flabby batter and pallid chips) to keep the price down to what people are willing to pay. |
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