To ask if you've heard of a potato scallop

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When I was a teenager I'd quite often buy a potato scallop for 20p from the chippy on the walk home from swimming. It was a slice of battered potato and was delicious. Where I live now no one has heard of them. Have you and if yes where do you live? :)

Yes we had them in the North East too.
I have never tasted fish and chips like the ones back home 🙁
Here in the Midlands we have only found greasy imitations.

We called them dabs when I was younger, no one even nearby seems to call them dabs.

Yes, West Midlands 😋

Yes. They still sell them where my parents live - Leicestershire and they're just delicious. Never seen them where I live though - South East.

They weren't a thing down south when I was a girl. Our heart clogger of choice was a free paper bag of batter (the bits left floating in the oil).

I love potato scallops - a traditional delicacy in this neck of the woods - the North West.

My mum made them when I was a child in N Ireland, they are yum

God you just took me back almost 20 years my geordie grandad made the best scallops ever. Not had them since he passed 18 years ago. We in east midlands and always scallops, I think I was mid 20s before I knew there was any other scallops out there!!!

Yes, I remember them .

Oh memememum scratchings here blooming gorgeous

Used to have a scallop buttie as a kid all the time they we're glorious

Ahhh Tottie Fritters. Love them! Used to pay 10p each in the Dundee Chipper about 20yrs ago. It’s about £1 a bag of 5 in my local chippy now (I’m further south now but still Salt n Soss land)

It’s all about the Pattie butty here in hull - mashed potato and sage shaped into a disc and covered in batter. Served with tons of salt and vinegar!

That’s Hull with a capital H - drooling too much to type properly

what you don’t see nowadays is a rissole, a ball of mushed up corned beef coated in bright orange breadcrumbs and fried Yum

I love scallops! My grandma made them and called them specials then all the chippys called them ‘smacks’. Im in the north west and had one a few weeks ago and it was delicious!!

Scallop butties in the north - yum
Never seen them in the south

I know them as Specials too but not had one or heard of them since moving down south - sad times

Never heard of them!! I'm an Essex girl

My mum used to make them when we were kids, in deepest darkest Suffolk. They sell them in the supermarket now, they’re called crispy potato slices.

Yorkshire here, love a scallop no idea what they cost tho

Oh ffs. Try again. here

My Dad ( a Black Country lad) called them Klondikes. They were scallops in Staffs where I grew up. Unheard of where I live now, amongst southern nancies

I really really fancy one now though. Is it worth a 2 hour drive...

mrsadorable not the same. These are thick large slices of potato in the same batter you use for fish.

From West Yorkshire - the home of the best fish and chips in the world. Always scallops - although my grandma called them scollops. Now living near Oldham where they are called specials. Very confusing as a special in Yorks is a really big fish (haddock obviously)
I will forgo my vegetarian principles when I am on my death bed and I shall have Ossett fish and chips, thin bread and butter and a bottle of champagne.