SEARCHING for a different reader-recommended chippy, I spotted the chequered flags here first and just had to pull up for a Chip Stop.

There isn’t much standing room and the fittings seemed to be on the wrong side of the 1980s.

But if felt like a decent shop, complete with a friendly server who tried three times to up the contents of my 80p cone as well as carefully scooping out one bad chip.Tasty morsels in my hour of need, the surviving chips weighed 225g on my-in car scales.