date:Sep 12, 2018
Its shaping up to be quite a bad year for potato lovers. The record-breaking heatwave and lack of rain across Europe has hurt potato crops, with prices tripling in the UK in August from a year earlier.
Thats forced fish and chip shops to charge more for a portion of fries. Further price hikes loom, said Andrew Crook, president of the federation representing more than 10,000 fish and chip shops across the country: Its going to be a disaster for us this year. Ive never seen prices of potatoes be