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Adam W
I reckon it's something to do with the more appealing, more valuable item first - the chips are the side dish to fill you up and are as cheap as, well, chips but what goes with them (eg the fish, ham & egg, pie etc) defines the dish.Someone once told me that when pairs of food items were listed, e.g. Fish & Chips, Ham & Eggs, Steak & Chips, etc., it was always the item with the most protien that was listed first; never the other way around. I've yet to find an example that breaks this rule! I wonder if there is the same logic operating with "Testing & Inspection" - it's because the testing is the 'bigger' job it gets listed first.
In the same way anyone can have a look at an installation but you need an expensive tester and sufficient knowlege of how to work the thing to do the tests.
Nobody wants to pay just to have somebody to have a quick look at something - they want figures, certificates, intelligent sounding beeps etc.
That said when I worked in a pub I'd get chavs coming in and asking if we did chips.
Then if we had "anything to go with the chips".
Thinking they meant salt & vinegar, ketchup, even cheese (which we charged extra for) I'd say yes.
Turns out they wanted their chips garnished with something more like a steak or some scampi.
I suspect this may have been more to do with trying to play down the 'main event' to influence the price.
Bloody chavs.
