We all enjoy a nice greasy bag of chips from time to time, but thanks to a miserable summer, the price of a single is set to rise.
Your local chipper probably charges roughly €2.50 for a bag of chips. Well those prices will more than likely hit the €3.00 mark (and more) in the coming months as chippers deal with increasing potato prices.
According to a report in the Irish Independent, the average 25kg bag of spuds cost chippers around €8 last October, but now they’ve doubled to €16 a bag, and the 2000 chippers around Ireland are currently taking a battering because of it – sorry.
It’s all thanks to a wet and miserable summer that saw potato yields at the lowest they’ve been for years. Some chippers are even being forced to import spuds from the UK, but their spud crisis is just as bad as over here. Fish prices are also on the rise as cod becomes scarce thanks to ‘overfishing’.
The fact that chippers only use certain ‘white’ potatoes, like Maris Pipers or Markies, isn’t helping either. However, we have a feeling that an extra 50c isn’t going to dampen our love for a single of chips. What do you think?
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