What does that have to do with the price of fish?

Now here's a retail mystery that is hard to understand but easy to solve - if there's the will to do so.

I stopped on Thursday night for a fish and chip tea on my way to Aberdeen.

The menu offered for £8.15 small haddock with chips + pot of tea + buttered roll + ice cream.

I ordered but said I didn't want the roll or the ice cream.

Went to pay and was charged £7.55 for the fish and chips, and £1.20 for the tea - total of £8.75.

I said I had had haddock and chips (three hads in a row:)) tea.

No I hadn't had the ice cream or roll - but if I took them now I could have the cheaper price.

So I have to eat more calories to get it cheaper, huh?

Or I take the roll and ice cream, but leave them on the table, and get the cheaper price.

Or I don't take them at all, and pay 60 pence more for less food.

Now how does that work?

I reasoned reasonably, persuaded persuasively, charmed charmingly, looked pained painfully, and eventually was charged for the fish tea at £8.15

That was at the Bridge of Allan chip shop - and let me say, the fish and chips were superb. So not knocking this fine establishment, (which I've patronised for years and will again), just asking them to not create the kind of offers that either waste food or waste waists!

Fish Supper Haiku

Light, crisply battered,

deep fried piscean banquet,

served with chips, and tea.

 

Buttered roll, ice cream?

Superfluous additions

to a perfect meal.

 

Fish Supper Fibonacci

Fish.

Chips.

Enough.

Fish and chips!

Forget the ice cream!

Battered haddock, not buttered roll.

Calories, cholesterol and saturated fat

are all fine in moderation, so choose your vice carefully and stick with fish and chips!

 

 

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I frequently encounter the same situation whenever I order a McDonald's combo meal. A typical combo meal consists of a sandwich + fries + softdrink. I don't want the softdrink but if I order the sandwich and fries separately, it costs more.

So what I end up doing is ordering the combo meal while asking the attendant not to give me the coke ("No coke please... yes really, I don't want the softdrink. No, don't fill up the glass, I really don't want it, thanks.")

This ends up taking more time and sometimes results in confused looks from the service crew, but it's worth it.

By the way, fish, chips, and pot of tea sound great! We don't get that here in the Philippines :)