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

Born and bred in Hull and I bloody love scraps. Salt and vinegar on, me and my mates used to to get a massive bag of scraps to share with our fish and chip dinners.

Ahhhh those where the days

We call them batter bits, they are free, and a chip barm

We had them in London when I was growing up.

In Bolton they were scraps, and they were free. My best mate used to ask for pea wet which is just the pea juice. Boak. We were poor, still at school and our Saturday jobs didn't pay much. I used to order a chip curry barm with scraps (that's a bread roll)

When I visited my mate in Coventry at Uni they called it a chip batch.

Also there is the whole wrapped and open debate.

I like my fish wrapped separately if I am taking it home. I hate it when chips stick to it

What are scraps?

Clearly not Northern, then! Yorkshire here. Scraps are the bits of leftover batter.

"Would you like scraps with that?"

They're always free of charge.

Sounds rank!

I take it you're not a batter fan then and have your fish unbattered? As that's what scraps is. Bits of batter.

How do you eat them? Scooping up with fingers, or with a spoon?

Spoon?! Nooo. You either eat them with your fingers, or sprinkle them liberally over your chips/ in your chip butty!

We used to get a bag of scraps with salt and vinegar on the way home from Brownies. Aah. The memory is positively Proustian. Cold night air, steam rising off the scraps, the smell of vinegar tickling your nose ...

Ha; misread that title for a second or two. In this part of down under, a chippy is a carpenter (sparky is an electrician, etc.) and I thought for a moment you were looking for scraps of wood.

Same here, goldopals, which made me think I'd been in the wide brown land for some time.:o

Now I think of it, the last time I had a chippy doing work here, I insisted the off-cuts were left behind, prime bits of Tassie oak, very good for burning.

As for chip shop scraps, they were very much a part of my northern childhood.

I thought this was going to be about joiners and leftover bits of wood

Scraps in my area too. all the chippies do them, you just have to ask. No charge for them. My favourite chippy uses beef dripping for frying. Yum!

Bits for me, but I haven't had any for years. It's 6am and I now really want chips and peas with bits and lots of vinegar.

And I feel guilty about this, but I don't really like proper Yorkshire fishcakes, and prefer the sort where the fish are mashed up with potatoes.

Scraps
Chip butty
Scallop (battered mash potato) in a bun
Hull patty (herby mash potato / fishless fish cake?)
And finally haddock not cod

Ah, yet another thread where English people think they own the North and South.

Scrumps where I am in the South. Of Wales.

Scraps - plenty in Yorkshire. Love them. But it's made me remember how long it's been since I had fish and chips - months !

I like them best when the fish and chips is cooked in dripping.

There were scraps to be has in Essex 40 yeas ago.
I remember being impressed by the idea of free food, but not actually liking them.

I've been known to say that I don't want my fish and chips if the shop hasn't got any batters (or 'batter bits' as they are known where I live now - move 20 miles and you have to change your vocabulary or no-one understands you...) They make the meal complete, and my DIL from London has now been completely converted - she is also absolutely hooked on scallops, which she'd never heard of before she came to the Black Country... Yum..!!!

Scrumps or scraps here in Somerset.
Mouth watering at the thought.
Potato scallops are delicious and in a tightly defined geographical area of South Wales you can get rissoles which are huge, crumbed, balls of corned beef and potato, like a giant scotch egg to look at.

@RedBullBlood Scranchems literally haven't heard that phrase for years!! I was brought up in Sunderland and it was scranchems or batter there. X

Love love love scratchings!

I have never tried a Hull patty but wonder if its similar to the Belfast pastie? This is/was made with left over fish and chips (sometimes sausage ) with added mixed spice and then battered.

The best our chippy can offer is a home-made fish cake which is the mashed potato with tiny scraps of fish inside and then battered type. I cant stand the breadcrumby rissole type.

Ive heard of pea wet but refuse to accept that its a real thing.

I think the thing others call a fishcake is what we call a fish slice. Don't really see them much in chippies up here. Fish between potato slices???

A fishcake here is flaked fish, mashed potato and seasoning made into a pattie, battered and deep fried.

Then a cheese or corned beef pattie which is cheese or corned beef mixed with mashed potato and seasoning, battered and deep fried.

Then there are cheesie chips which I think is a Makem (sunderland) thing Geordies pinched.

I think we called them scratchings when I was growing up in London (not just a northern thing), not to be confused with pork scratchings. Now, does anyone want a wally?!

It’s not a proper chippy dinner without scraps. Proper annoying when they run out . East anliga here. I pour the bag of scraps over my chips then add salt and vinegar to everything and eat with fingers. The chips make perfect scrap spoons

Fish and chips without scraps is such a disappointment! Like chippys that only have malt vinegar and soggy flat batter... I live near the north east coast though so am spoilt with lush proper fish and chips on my doorstep hmmmm