'Britain's cheapest chippy' is selling entire meals for just 1p in 'bonkers' deal

The Island House, successful Shard End, Birmingham, is selling 200 meals, including food and chips, chickenhearted and kebab nutrient for a penny arsenic lawsuit queue to get their hands connected it

A newly-opened chippy is selling meals for the bargain terms of a penny arsenic portion of a “bonkers” promotion.

The Island House, successful Shard End, Birmingham, is offering the woody for 4 days, with respective items connected the menu being slashed to a wallet-friendly 1p. Included successful the promotion are food and chips, chickenhearted and chips, kebab nutrient and chips arsenic good arsenic sausage and chips.

Customers began queuing up from 11am yesterday to get their hands connected the cut-price meals which usually outgo betwixt £3.25-£6.95. Theo Kyriacou, co-owner of The Island House, said: "We evidently suffer wealth but it's astir letting radical cognize we're present and what we're each about.

"Hopefully they similar the nutrient and travel back. We've seen places connection akin earlier connected food and chips - but we're doing it with fish, kebab meat, chickenhearted and sausage and chips. We're selling 50 portions of each astatine a penny truthful 200 successful full and past it volition beryllium £1 for chickenhearted and sausage oregon £1.50 for nutrient and fish.

"Again, erstwhile chippy's person done this antecedently it's usually for 1 time - but we're doing this for 4 days straight. I'm not definite if we're the archetypal to bash thing similar this but we whitethorn good beryllium the lone ones idiotic capable to bash so.

"We're getting geared up and we're acceptable to invited our caller customers. This is our 10th subdivision and we're looking astatine opening 4 much adjacent year."

Hairdresser Michelle Growcott, 65, of Shard End, was archetypal successful enactment with her member Mick, 64, and thought the connection was a gag astatine first. She said: "I had seen it connected Facebook but thought determination indispensable beryllium immoderate benignant of catch.

"I was taking a parcel backmost to the Post Office and I sent my member Mick implicit to spot if it was true. I thought it was £1 which would person been inexpensive capable but I couldn't judge it erstwhile the antheral down the antagonistic said it was a penny. I thought helium was joking.

"We some had food and chips and it was truly beauteous - the food was caller and the chips were truly crispy. I don't deliberation food and chips was adjacent a penny erstwhile I was a young girl. I'll decidedly beryllium backmost and springiness it 10/10."

The spot store volition beryllium selling 50 portions of each repast astatine 1p and past £1 for the remainder of the day. The aforesaid connection past resets the adjacent time and runs until Saturday (9/11).

Fellow lawsuit Jay Brennan, 22, added: "Fish and chips for a penny is conscionable bonkers. I had to get down present to effort it. I thought the prime mightiness endure due to the fact that of the terms but it was the other and a truly bully standard.

"I've seen these stunts pulled earlier but they ne'er past longer than a time oregon until the archetypal 50 are sold oregon something. But this spot is selling 200 portions regular for 1p - for 4 days. That's got to marque them the cheapest chippy successful the state surely."