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Yorkshire people, is it bits or scraps?

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GetThatHelmetOn · 09/08/2020 19:17

If you are from Yorkshire, where are you from and what do you call the crumbs that fall off fried fish?

Asking for a friend...

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GetThatHelmetOn · 09/08/2020 20:40

Although someone in Sunderland asked me if I wanted batter the other week!!!

BATTER?!?!? you must be joking! Honestly... what’s wrong with some people?

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GetThatHelmetOn · 09/08/2020 20:41

Can you have a scrap butty? How does that work? Plain, with curry sauce?

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overwork · 09/08/2020 20:42

Bits (and teacakes) here too. Wakefield. Caused no end of trouble when I moved down south and asked for haddock, skinned, and a tea cake. I was given a fish cake. What kind of person wants fish and chips and a fish cake?!?

Penguin34 · 09/08/2020 20:43

I never even knew there was a name for the bits off fish!

RunningNinja79 · 09/08/2020 20:43

From York and we called them Scraps.

Now live near Darlington and I have no idea up here TBH. Do love a fish and chips tea though

ladymuck111 · 09/08/2020 20:43

@GetThatHelmetOn

Can you have a scrap butty? How does that work? Plain, with curry sauce?
A scrap butty is scraps in a buttered bread cake!
FloreanFortescue · 09/08/2020 20:52

Also York - scraps!

optimisticpessimist01 · 09/08/2020 20:54

I live in S Yorks and have family in N Yorks- universally scraps

Marmite27 · 09/08/2020 20:55

Scraps!

MeMyselfAye · 09/08/2020 20:55

My dp from Yorkshire says scraps, we don’t have them where I’m from, bloody amazing though!

Marmite27 · 09/08/2020 20:56

And Pontefract - definitely West Yorkshire Grin now Leeds. All scraps. Sorry.

Marmite27 · 09/08/2020 20:57

This is a scallop!

Marmite27 · 09/08/2020 20:58

@InDubiousBattle

Scraps, I'm in West Yorkshire (Bradford). My friend in Halifax says 'bits' though. What do you call two pieces of potato with a thin layer of fish in the middle (then battered)? This seems to cause more arguments among my Friends!
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Overcovid · 09/08/2020 21:01

Scrumps in Lincolnshire

SadSongsAndWaltzes · 09/08/2020 21:02

From Bradford and definitely scraps, and fish cake.
But sorry op...what's a kitchen nappy?!

Thecatisboss · 09/08/2020 21:11

Southern lived in South Yorkshire for 20 years becer heard of them before moving here - definitely scraps!

Feelingpoorlysick · 09/08/2020 21:11

Scraps sounds awful. It's scrumps here in Lincolnshire.

Mommabear20 · 09/08/2020 21:14

Scraps! York, North Yorkshire

Needingsupportplease · 09/08/2020 21:23

Eh I'm w.yorkshire and say bits! The chippies ask if you want bits too..

H1978 · 09/08/2020 21:25

I think they’re called bits but I don’t like them so never ask for them. 😳

ArtieFufkinPolymerRecords · 09/08/2020 21:30

Scraps -North Yorkshire.

Pudding51 · 09/08/2020 21:32

Scraps .....Yorkshire lass.

Thesearmsofmine · 09/08/2020 21:35

Scraps in Wakefield, bits in Dewshury

EvieFryer · 09/08/2020 21:36

Scraps! Teesside

YorkieTheRabbit · 09/08/2020 21:42

Holmfirth calling - Bits! Op you are right Smile
Fish cake - my polish friend was appalled when told her daughter had been given a fish cake for lunch at nursery, I did explain what it was 😂
Scallop is a slice of potato cooked in batter

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