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What was this from the chippy?

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Toddlerteaplease · 01/01/2023 13:53

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.

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Seeingadistance · 01/01/2023 18:37

Nightynightnight · 01/01/2023 13:59

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

That highlight is what the “making memories” people fail to appreciate! Memories make themselves and many involve someone else’s misfortune. One of mine is the time the cat had diarrhoea on the doormat then my DM stepped in it with bare feet!

And yes to fritters! Ideally slug-free!

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Toddlerteaplease · 01/01/2023 18:38

I'm also not really not keen on batter either!

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FurAndFeathers · 01/01/2023 18:40

Toddlerteaplease · 01/01/2023 16:32

Could someone please explain why on earth you would deep fry and batter a Slice of potato, when you already have chips. It's just grim!

It’s very cheap and calorific way of making spuds a bit ‘special’ when you’re skint and grafting a manual labour job for long hours.

so yeah. Probably pretty ‘grim’ for you 🙄

SinnerBoy · 01/01/2023 18:41

HaddawayAndShite · Today 16:50

Didn’t your mother tell you “we don’t yuk other peoples yum”

Normally, I wouldn't but that was until I had sea slug, in Indonesia. Burned rubber, sulphur and farts, with added heartburn just about describes it!

FurAndFeathers · 01/01/2023 18:41

Toddlerteaplease · 01/01/2023 16:36

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.

And are they the same price as your potato scallop ?

Eightypercent · 01/01/2023 18:54

@Toddlerteaplease Scallops are shellfish, escallops are thin slices of meat, fish or vegetables.

BrownEyedGhoul · 01/01/2023 19:18

Toddlerteaplease · 01/01/2023 16:36

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 don't believe you. Because you don't know that they aren't fish, and you don't know that they would cost ten times what a potato scallop costs!

Plus you would never order a singular scallop, so either you ordered at least 3 more like six "scallops" or you're fibbing.

iklboo · 01/01/2023 19:21

Ooooh I bloody love them with gallons of vinegar on them. When my nana won at bingo she'd call in the chippy on the way home & get a large portion of chips and scallops for us all. I'd be got out of bed (I was about 5) to join in the supper.

Flidina · 01/01/2023 19:23

Love potato scallops, 2 potato scallops with fish in the middle and the whole thing battered is called a patty round here.

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Toddlerteaplease · 01/01/2023 19:47

I really have no idea how much scollops actually cost. Having never eaten them except from a hideously expensive chippy that I only go to for a treat. Typical Mumsnet, people get really arsey about something light hearted!

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BrownEyedGhoul · 01/01/2023 20:03

SCALLOPS, ffs.

Gingerlygreen · 01/01/2023 20:08

Mmmmmm scallops, I'm less than a day into my new diet and would kill for a big, fat, greasy scallop from the chippy.

Roe is another thing that you can't get in every chippy, I'm in the Midlands but whenever I go to the Cornwall or the Lake District I get a blank look if I ask for tinned roe.

FurAndFeathers · 01/01/2023 20:11

Toddlerteaplease · 01/01/2023 19:47

I really have no idea how much scollops actually cost. Having never eaten them except from a hideously expensive chippy that I only go to for a treat. Typical Mumsnet, people get really arsey about something light hearted!

Apologies OP - hadn’t realised that you describing food that many of us enjoy and eat for both pleasure and economic reasons as ‘grim’ was actually ‘lighthearted’

what was the lighthearted aspect again?

Libre55 · 01/01/2023 20:52

Potato scallops are £3.50 a portion in SE London!

BlueThursday · 01/01/2023 21:37

Could totally go a roll and fritter right now drowned in vinegar

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Toddlerteaplease · 01/01/2023 21:37

@FurAndFeathers the fact that I had absolutely know idea what I had ordered? Has every one had a sense of humour bypass? It's not about wether they are a cheap meal at all. And I it's also ok not to like something.

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Toddlerteaplease · 01/01/2023 21:38

If I'd realised what it was I'd have had sausage in stead!

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FunnysInLaJardin · 01/01/2023 21:41

we had these home made tonight, also known as potato collops. Things of beauty

FunnysInLaJardin · 01/01/2023 21:46

and nothing at all like scallops which are also a thing of beauty!

pictoosh · 01/01/2023 21:47

They were called tattie fritters when I was a kid (Scotland). I know they are widely referred to as scallops as well.

LuluBlakey1 · 01/01/2023 21:48

Delicious- definitely a thing in the north-east. My granny and mam used to make them.

YouWithoutEnd · 01/01/2023 21:51

Love a chippy scallop on a white cob with loads of ketchup! Yum!

user58202018484482910ugog19293843910 · 01/01/2023 22:04

How is a scallop a fritter?

user58202018484482910ugog19293843910 · 01/01/2023 22:05

@YouWithoutEnd what is a cob?

YouWithoutEnd · 01/01/2023 22:08

user58202018484482910ugog19293843910 · 01/01/2023 22:05

@YouWithoutEnd what is a cob?

Jesus Christ, I’m not getting into that particular wasps nest. You’ll have to Google it.