CheapAsChips; THE ICE RINK FISH BAR, HOBS MOAT ROAD, SOLIHULL.

ONE OF Birmingham's most famous chip shops, Bedders of Small Heath Small Heath can be:

Small Heath, an area of Birmingham, England.
Small Heath or Small Heath Alliance, former names of Birmingham City F.C.
The Small Heath butterfly, (Coenonympha pamphilus)

, is sensibly still only opening at lunchtimes and at Friday tea time, even though it's got new owners, the Carrellis.

But, here, I was amazed to discover that this very clean shop with a friendly server was open from 11am-10pm on a Sunday. Why? At 1.15pm, my 80p cone of Sabbath specials looked a sorry sight as they weighed 200g on my in-car scales.

The new potato chips would have been reasonable value were they not shrivelled shriv·el
intr. & tr.v. shriv·eled or shriv·elled, shriv·el·ing or shriv·el·ling, shriv·els
1. To become or make shrunken and wrinkled, often by drying: and barely warm.

There comes a point where surely it's better for chippies to close than to open.

GRAHAM YOUNG

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Date:	Jul 30, 2009
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