Food from Every Stall on Norwich Market (2025 Edition) – Week 3 and Ron’s Chips
And here we are in week three of my second time working around all of the food stalls at Norwich Market, with my friend James nobly assisting. Here’s my post from when we visited in 2023 when I enjoyed my sausage and chips.
It’s their stall and they can put up what they like, but personally I’m not entirely sure Norwich market is really the place for political statements about the Government introducing a digital currency to control the British population. I’m not sure they could competently do that even if they wanted to, but I digress. However, I respected that the stall preferred to be paid in cash and I did that, although they do also take cards for those who want to.
The stall was established in 1953 and is run by the third generation of the same family, so there’s some considerable heritage here. It’s not a fancy set-up, but it’s not designed to be, instead it’s a traditional British chip stand offering value and quality to refuel the workers of Norwich.
The prices are low and some of the cheapest on the market. It was £2.90 for two battered sausages and chips in 2023 and it’s now £3.40, so it’s a relatively small increase. I did try and order cod and medium chips to have something different, but they didn’t have any immediately available and I didn’t want to wait whilst James saw his chips going cold. Which meant I had a battered sausage and small chips, deliberately not wanting anything too filling otherwise I’d need a nap in the afternoon. The cold drinks are evidently reasonably priced and the cost of the cod is very much towards the lower end of the scale (there’s a pun there that I won’t labour).
The battered sausage and small chips. The amount of the batter was generous and the sausage would have felt well protected if it needed to go into battle, although I think it had been left in the hot hold for a while as it was going a little hard, but there was a depth of taste to it (the sausage, not the hot hold). It isn’t a butcher’s sausage, but it tasted fine and it was all at the appropriate hot temperature. The chips are thinner than those at Lucy’s (I like how there’s evidently a whole philosophy going on about potato cutting sizes) and they tasted as expected, with the portion size being generous for small chips.
James was busy capturing beauty with his framing of the photo, whilst I was engaged in trying to fend off a squadron of seagulls who clearly hadn’t eaten since breakfast five minutes ago and viewed his chips as their birthright. I think he was pleased and how I protected his food (and I had nearly finished mine). On the matter of the food, James was suitably impressed and he said something along the lines of:
“This seemingly pedestrian offering, comprising a sausage enrobed in crisp batter accompanied by fried potato parallelepipeds, ascended, quite astonishingly, to a veritable apotheosis of savoury delight.”
Fine praise indeed. The value offered here is excellent, it’s an affordable lunchtime snack although I will definitely have to have the fish when we do this for a third time in future years. So, all in all, it’s was all rather lovely.
