to wish chippies here gave you scraps

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god I love scraps, with salt and vinegar on them

we used to get them on holiday in England, bloody loved them

I can't eat fish and chips without batter. Chip shops chips are bland unless they are covered in salt, vinegar and batter. Yum!

No decent chippies where I am

I have only just been moaning to DH about the lack of scraps in this part of the country (am a northerner but defected down south). Oh how I miss them.

We call.them batter bits here. They are food of the gods 😊

Grew up near Reading and never heard of them til I went north for uni. Was too scared to ask for them for months Also spent a long time wondering what the fuck a chip barm was.

I'm from Leeds, now living in Wiltshire. My nearest fish shop does decent chips and pretty good fish but you have to order in advance for mushy peas (i think they come from a tin) and scraps are unheard of by anybody round here.

Oh bollocksed my brackets up.

Our shop does them. Not advertised as few people want them but if you ask, he will give them to you for free.

When I say ‘our’ I mean my OH shop. I work in an office, it is his shop (in Hertfordshire)

And he calls them scrumps but knows what people mean when they say scraps. He throws away a potato sack full of them after a Friday night so it makes no difference to him if you want them.

I’m from the SE and we always had scraps. Also pea fritters, not sure if it was just a local thing though as no one where I am now has ever heard of them. Beautiful they were.

@yolandi And mushy peas always come in a tin, and they are not pre mushed. They have to be mushed by the shop. He has to take a potato masher to them each day when he prepares to open shop. Strange that you have to order yours.

I can’t stand them, even with the optional mint sauce

My youngest calls them scraggies

You either get tinned mushy peas or steepy peas here soaked in salty water then cooked

Mushy peas do not come from a tin up here. Tinned mushy peas and those made from dried peas are totally different and no chip shop worth its salt and vinegar would dream of serving tinned mushy peas ever. Shudders at the thought of such a travesty.

@BarbaraofSevillle
Yes to proper fishcakes! Needs to be a slice of potato, piece of fish, slice of potato, all in batter.

I used to get a chip butty special for 99p. It was a chip butty with a scallop in and a pour over (curry/mushy peas/beans).. Delicious!

I'm from Leeds and would say bread bun and scraps.

Oh and the chippys (chippies?) round here put mint sauce on your mushy peas.

I think it's a Glasgow thing OP

When I moved down to Glasgow from the Frozen North I confused a selection of chippies with my scraps requests.

The best ones in my experience come from Dav's Tak Awa (also called DaLis, after the owners Dave and Linda ) in Fife

Far NW here and they're scraps.

I suspect any chippy that got their mushy peas from a tin here would be ostracised from local society. Same with the gravy. Chippies are serious business here, no room for amateurs!

I've lived in the North East, Midlands and Yorkshire and they've been called scraps in all those places. My Lancastrian parents call them scraps too.

I got some battered fish in M&S last week which turned out to come with a little packet of surprisingly authentic scraps.

His chippy is a serious one. Not an amateur at all.

The awards are proof.

I am always astonished about the loyalty that chip shops inspire in their customers which is lovely.

South east and definitely have scraps here. Not a regional thing. Some chippies do it, some don’t. I love them but they’re 3,000,000 additional calories so I avoid.

I’m from West Yorkshire and it’s either scraps or bits, depending on where abouts in West Yorkshire the chip shop is.

The bread used to make a chip butty is a white tea cake, or bread roll.

Scraps prevalent in Cumbria. But you can't get a potato scallop for love or money. Weird "patty " things instead which seem to be some kind of fried sandwich.

Teesside / north Yorkshire always have scraps

They're scranchems where I came from in the NE.

Where in the far NW can I get scraps cos I had a job even finding an open chippy up there! And I realise "up there" is a vague geographical region. My family come from a place that used to mine coal but now does a great line in trainers and radium. I tried to get DD a fish and chip Saturday tea to no avail, Chippies shut after lunch. If my relatives have been hiding scraps from me for years I'm striking them off the Christmas card list.

My mum had to explain to DD what a teacake was. I'm still confused, I think they're like a hot cross bun but less sticky.