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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Zoe Wood

REVEALED: Shops will close soaring cost of potatoes batters british chippies | Vintage Vibes

The traditional fish and chip seaside takeaway.
The traditional fish and chip seaside takeaway. Photograph: creacart/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Whether it’s fried, baked or mashed, potatoes have traditionally been a low-cost staple food in the UK – but not any more.

A surge in costs is clobbering high street chippies, while in the supermarket, oven chips and the once humble baking potato are casualties of soaring grocery prices.

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