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Yorkshire people, is it bits or scraps?

226 replies

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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MummytoCSJH · 09/08/2020 21:42

Scraps in East Yorkshire (where I'm from) and West Yorkshire (where I live now)... love them Smile

MooseBeTimeForSummer · 09/08/2020 21:42

Scraps. Waves to all the East Yorkshire/Humberside gang.

Chips and scraps from Bob Carvers - either at the market or Hull Fair!

olivesandpecans · 09/08/2020 21:43

Scraps here (County Durham and dh from Sunderland)

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 09/08/2020 21:45

Scraps in N Yorkshire and dad from Sheffield also says scraps.

olivo · 09/08/2020 21:45

Scraps, north Yorks. Oh, I miss chips nscraps...Sad

Esbm2015 · 09/08/2020 21:47

Definitely scraps (grew up in Sheffield)

Redhair23 · 09/08/2020 21:48

Just outside Leeds and it’s scraps.

drigon · 09/08/2020 21:50

Brought up bear Halifax, West Yorks and, yes, definitely scraps!
Now in South Wales and the bread product called a teacake is a bap. Teacakes, on the other hand, are spicy bready things, similar to a hot cross bun.

LuluJakey1 · 09/08/2020 21:51

DH is from Keighley and he calls them scraps. I'm from Newcastle and we call them batter.

drigon · 09/08/2020 21:51

" near" Halifax.

katmunchkin · 09/08/2020 21:52

Fish bits - North Notts!

LuluJakey1 · 09/08/2020 21:56

My mam made scallops - sliced potatoes cooked in batter in a chip pan.

A tea-cake is a fruited bread bun - like a hot cross bun without the cross

A stottie is a large, flat shaped and quite dense structured bread bun with a slight dint in the middle of the top

A fadge is like a stottie in shape but lighter, more aerated in texture.

LuluJakey1 · 09/08/2020 21:57

A bap is smaller than a stottie and not flat-topped, textured like a fadge

ladymuck111 · 09/08/2020 21:58

Hello fellow East Yorkshire/ Hull folk

thirstyformore · 09/08/2020 21:59

From hudds/Halifax, now living in East Yorkshire. I call them bits, my Hull reared DH calls them scraps.

Patties were a whole new revelation when I moved here 20 years ago!

ladymuck111 · 09/08/2020 21:59

@thirstyformore

From hudds/Halifax, now living in East Yorkshire. I call them bits, my Hull reared DH calls them scraps.

Patties were a whole new revelation when I moved here 20 years ago!

Patties are definitely a Hull thing as is chip spice
Amymone · 09/08/2020 22:01

Scraps - west yorks

thirstyformore · 09/08/2020 22:05

@ladymuck111 patty and chips, aka fried potato with, errr, some more fried potato!

tinseltitsandlittlegits · 09/08/2020 22:07

Wakefield and definitely scraps 😋

WillBillHal · 09/08/2020 22:07

Bits! (I'm from Huddersfield!)

Wincarnis · 09/08/2020 22:11

bits (Halifax)

thewalrus · 09/08/2020 22:15

Scraps. Leeds. I miss Yorkshire.

ladymuck111 · 09/08/2020 22:18

[quote thirstyformore]@ladymuck111 patty and chips, aka fried potato with, errr, some more fried potato! [/quote]

Errr no fried potato with herbs in it 😂

PrincessHoneysuckle · 09/08/2020 22:19

South Yorkshire here.Scraps.

ImFree2doasiwant · 09/08/2020 22:28

Scraps - Sheffield.

@InDubiousBattle its a fishcake. Used to love eating one straight out of the paper. I was horrified to go into a chippy in Norfolk ask for a fishcake, and got a small breadcrumbs thing, with mashed up fish and potato inside. That's a rissole!