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.

Because its cheap and filling. A lot of food was basically invented to be cheap and filling i.e. Yorkshire Puddings which you had before your roast dinner rather than with your roast dinner in order to fill you up so you only needed a small amount of the more expensive meat.

Potato Scallops basically exist so you could have them instead of battered fish as it was cheaper.

For those who think you can't get the fishy ones in chip shops. You can round here. And they are delicious. We have a chain that claim to be the best chip shop in the country. And have trophies to prove it. I wasn't near a beach or would have gone there.

I suspect they are actually called a critter round here. And the franchise of a national chain hasn't got the local
Name right.

Well aren't you a delight!

You might have them instead of chips. They're also not compulsory and are popular in areas where people traditionally have been very poor, so might not have been able to afford fish and chips, but could afford a couple of scallops, or they were used to stretch fish and chips to feed a few people.

Why would deep fry anything in batter? Because it tastes good!

Cross posted with @Hellocatshome

Having googled The Cods Scallops, I might be near them every once in a while so might try them out.

A branch of that chain opened up in Harborne, a rather expensive suburb of Brum. While I appreciate that their fish is good, they are nothing like the local chipshops.

Head towards Oldbury way and get some orange chips. Yum. www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/how-make-your-black-country-18039073

Thinks deep fried potato is grim but thinks a land locked chippy is top level 😂😂 ok.

Didn’t your mother tell you “we don’t yuk other peoples yum” … they’re not grim, you just don’t like them, or think you’re better than them. Which given the snotty overtones of your post is the most likely. I’m guessing the one your go to is in Harbs?

It's amazing how much food, and the language used to describe it, varies across a relatively small country.

Trying to order food in the West Midlands when you're from Yorkshire is far more difficult than you might expect. I had no idea about the battered chips, or that you don't know what a chip butty is, or that you refuse to allow people to buy sandwiches made using bread cakes (I could see them behind the counter, but they weren't for sandwiches apparently ), if the surreal experience I had in a branch of Greggs some years ago is anything to go by.

Huh? How is a deep fried potato slice grim, but chips aren't?

Did you even try it?
And why is it grim?

I did eat them. But didn't enjoy it at all. Though I did t have any ketchup, that might have helped!

Please tell me you at least had loads of salt and vinegar on them..

I used to get a scallop to eat on the way home from the chippy. They were 10p.

You must live near me.

Doesn't mean they're grim though does it?
Just because you didn't like them 🤷🏼‍♀️

@NewBootsAndRanty I only have vinegar on chips, and thinking it was fish, didn't put vinegar on the fritters.

Francisca459
actually cheapest thing in a chippy is scaps because they are free!

I remember hanging out with friends and getting hungry so we'd pop to the chippy and pick up a bag of scraps with lots of salt and vinegar 😛

Yeah sorry OP you are coming across as pretentious and very up yourself, and yeah also lolled at the best chippy statement 🤣

Patties are the best too, I always get patty and chips when I go back home.

Well if you think you're too good for potato scallops send them to me! Yum!

Not Hull but Liverpool. The wiki link says "It is commonly sold in the British port towns of Hartlepool, Kingston upon Hull, Wirral, Liverpool, North Tyneside, Kirkwall and Thurso". A cheap "fish" cake, I suppose. I love Paxo, wonder if I could make one with that and mash ?

Rookie error!

Instead of chips?

As a smaller cheaper snack type offering from the chippy, maybe with some mushy peas or sauce?

And indeed, as well as chips along side fish or whatever. You don't really go to a normal chip shop for a healthy meal ime - you are going to get double or triple carbs where almost everything has been deep fried. And sometimes that is just what hits the spot!

We used to buy one scollop if we passed through town on the way home from school. Cheap and lush.

I don't think I'm
Too good for potato scollops. They just weren't what I was expecting. I'd have had a plain sausage if I'd realised it wasn't fish. I genuinely had never ever heard of potato scollops. I'm really not stuck up!