What was this from the chippy?

[Toddlerteaplease]

Ordered Scollops . Expecting actual fishy things. Instead I got potato deep fried in batter. WTF? What are they? Had already got home so couldn't question it.

That's what a scollop is!

Yeah scallops would be fried potato slices at my chippy too!

Potato scallops. If you walked into any chippy round me (s.Wales) and asked for scallops that’s what you’d get. Lovely!

www.foodleclub.com/scalloped-potatoes-in-batter/

Chip shop scalloped potatoes, yum. Surely the price was a hint that you weren't getting the expensive shellfish?

That's exactly what it should be from chippy- potato scallops (but where I'm from we call then fritters makes more sense to me)

It's a potato scallop. Lovely things

Exactly what it is. Potato scallop. Love them

I wish I could get one of those scollops here - I loved them when I was a kid in the Midlands. Battered potato slices! Now I live by the sea so if I ordered scollops I would get the fish, they don't seem to do potato scollops around here.

It's not a sea creature scallop at the chippy. Just flat, battered potato

I love chippy scallops but have only had them in Brum

Yeah! Love potato scallops. Haven't seen them since I was a kid!

I can understand the confusion! Our chippy (we live on the coast) does a scallops in garlic butter dish which is the fishy type!

Oh I've never ordered them as I don't like seafood and assumed that's what it is!!

In Scotland we call them fritters. Highlight of my childhood was when mum found a dead slug in hers. Yum.

Were you expecting scallops from a chipper?

It was a bit cheap, but I have never heard of a potato scallop! (East Midlands)

I really fancied sea creature scollops!

I always thought that they were a Southeast thing, I sometimes had them as a kid, visiting relatives there.

I don't recall them here in the Northeast.

Scollop ≠ scallop when it comes to the chippy

No, we have them in West Yorkshire, scollops here, rather than scallop but same thing. It was my job to make them when I worked in the chippy, after a while you would be promoted to cake maker if you were good enough!

Potato scallop, battered thick slice of potato.
Our local one does a variation on fish cake too which is two thinner slices of potato with some cod in the middle, then battered.

@Montague22
Yes, that's a cake. As opposed to a fishcake, which is the birds eye version!

Scollops are 50p in our local chippy, can't imagine anyone thinking they're getting any seafood for that

When I was growing up a scallop was a piece of fish between two slices of potato but now it seems to just be a potato scallop.
Rarely see the fish version anymore. I used to love them but when I have managed to find one they've been dripping in oil inside and the fish but was terrible.

In South Yorkshire and a scallop would be a friend and battered potato slices.
We definitely don't have the seafood scallops in any of our local chip shops!

@spanieleyes 🤣I never worked in a chippy. Lots of bar work instead!

Found a recipe though
www.nigella.com/recipes/members/chocolate-nemesiss-yorkshire