Customer asks Belfast fish and chip shop to deliver medicine as part of takeaway order - and gets it

The request for medicine from a fish and chip shop customer in Belfast
The request for medicine from a fish and chip shop customer in Belfast Credit: Feeley's Fish and Chip Shop/Facebook

Some ask for more chips or extra salt and vinegar when ordering a takeaway online from the local chippy

But one customer used the comments section to say what he really wanted: a side of medicine.

The unusual request was posted on Facebook by the Belfast restaurant, Feeley's Fish and Chip Shop.

"Will you please stop in spar on the way and get me benylin cold and flu tablets and I'll give you the money, only ordering food so I can get the tablets. I'm dying sick xx," Fiona Cuffe asked.  

Feeley's said it was "good to see my customers making use of the 'add comments' section!"

It later posted a picture of the requested medicine, saying: "Only the best service here at Feeley's. PS get well soon."

The chip shop also asked the customer on Facebook to let them know when she's feeling better and they would deliver her a free meal.

"Yous are wee angels, will do," she replied. 

News of the request has gone viral on social media since it was posted on Friday.

The picture has been shared more than 2,200 times on Facebook and has drawn more than 1,300 comments of praise.

"That's what keeps your customers and earns you more," Jay Piasecki wrote. "Well played. I just leave love notes on the added comments never thought of actually making a real use off it."

Customers are finding increasingly creative ways to order food online.

In April last year, a hungry rail passenger travelling from Glasgow to Sheffield successfully ordered a Domino’s pizza to his carriage when the train pulled up to the platform at Darlington.

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