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? :)

Am I the only one that calls them “smacks” 😂

I'm Australian and never heard of them before coming to Britain. I really don't think it's an Australian thing. Australian fish n chips shops sell some weird stuff like pineapple calamari but scallops are a type of shellfish.

I always thought my gran called them "snacks" but maybe I misheard her and she was actually saying "smacks"...

scallop butty was my lunch everyday throughout my teenage school years. Delicious and cheap enough so I could save the rest of my lunch money for Friday in the pub! West Yorkshire here.

Growing up In stoke-on-Trent they were always called smacks!

Not sure that everyone called them that it might have been an old fashioned term.

My Dad used to love asking us if we wanted a smack

Mmmmmmm! We call them Dabs

Dabs here in east Lancashire

yes beautiful marvelous creations. I always have them in a barm with a fat dollop of mayo

Haven't thought about these in years! Delicious. I'm from Yorkshire and this thread has just single handedly explained to me why I pronounce scallops as 'scollops'

Yes!!! Childhood favourite in Birmingham. Now live in East riding and everyone thinks a scallop is some fish thing...

I ordered some from the chippy last night. They are called fritters here.

I’m from teeside/North Yorkshire and we called them fritters. My mum still makes them.

Yes yes and yes and all those little bits of fried batter that are skimmed off and left at the end they are yours if you ask for them. Can’t get them in Kent but our local chippy does do pea fritters. Ashton under Lyne here I come

Yes, they have them here in Liverpool. When I moved here and heard people talking about scallops in a chippy, I was pretty confused . They're kind of delicious, although they don't beat actual scallops! Wonder how they got the name?

Storminateapot they’re battered potato slices. Same thing. They’re quite tasty too.

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pineapple calamari??!!!! Whoever dreamt that up?!

They have them in the black country, I'd never heard of them until I moved here in 2004, ive lived in a few places although mainly southern England

I'm from Brum and live in Northants. I miss them

Fellow Brummie here! Yep they’re in pretty much every chippy in Brum aren’t they. Have been seen I was a kid. People who don’t have them are missing out. Everyone here loves a cheeky scallop.

Haven’t had one in ages actually, you’ve just made me crave one!

10p round herr. Please try of salt please nom nom

I've never seen them in London. Sounds like I'm missing out!

Wow that has taken me back about 30 odd years My granny use to make them quite often here in Derry n. Ireland

They sound amazing. Now I have heard of them I will find them...

@Kirta you still in north lincs? I'm sure I've seen spam fritters recently. I wish we got pea fritters here. I tried one down south, it was delicious but the next year when we went again there were none to be found.

To me a special is a smaller and cheaper version of a chip shop meal, roughly a cone of chips with your choice of extras. Our chippy does sausage, fishcake or fish special and you get peas, beans, curry or gravy included. All priced between £2.50 and £3.50 depending on what you get. Bargain.

MaryLouTrelawney you are so right.
Exiled in darkest Midlandshire these long years,visits back to God's Own County have to include proper fish and chips. Haddock as standard and cooked in dripping. Not the cod and oil served locally.

I haven't had scallops for years though, but I want one now. With scraps.