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? :)

They still sell them in all my ,local chippys. Delicious in a teacake with loads of salt and vinegar!

Now I understand. Never seen one, never tasted one. It sounds like I'm missing something! At first, I thought you were talking about a Yorkshire Fishcake, OP. Two slices of potato, a little bit of fish in the middle, cooked in batter, served hot with salt and vinegar. Now we're talking!!! Absolute bliss.

Tato fritters here in Staffordshire. Yes we can still get them xxx

Scallops. Exactly as described by Op. I'm in Cheshire. Not had them since I was a child many hundreds of years ago - I remember my grandma used to make them.

My mind is blown jar theubsrenr standard chippy food country wide, and that people buy them individually. I've only ever bought them in portions.

Every fish and chip shop in Australia has them. Called either a potato scallop or a potato cake depending on where you are in the country.

My Fish & Chip order grilled flake, minimum of chips and 2 potato cakes.

Never had them from a shop but my mum used to make them at home as a child (this was Bristol area).

Yummmmmm...scallops....brings back childhood memories

We used to have them in Lancashire but sadly have not seen them in a long time. Deep fried hash browns are quite similar if you can be bothered/ if you get desperate.

The chip shop over the road from my childhood home in Brum sold scallops for 2p each (we're going back to the 70s).

My dh loves these, but they are not found in the south, he loves heading North knowing he can get one!

I still want one...

I had one tonight after reading this thread

I’ve never had one because I don’t see the point in a potato scallop when I’m having a load of chips. It’s just more potato with a lot of other potatoes.

They were a staple part of my diet as a teenager! Still sell them, too (West Cheshire).

Clearly I'm going to have to get one tonight!

Yes of course I've heard of them. From the Black Country where they are also known as Klondikes (sp?)

Can't get them in Essex where I live now. Fish and chip ships are so limited in the extras they sell down south in my experience.

Yes, very high in saturated fat bur very very yummy. Aldi do ready made ones.

Food of the gods when I was a kid in a certain North Warwickshire industrial town.
No sign of them down here in Cambridgeshire though.

My DP offered to bring home a scallop.

I wanted seafood and he brought back a double cooked hash brown.

So if potato dipped in batter and fried is called a scallop, what do you call pineapple or spam dipped in batter and fried?!

Yorkshire scallop fan here

So good! They’re called a smack in Wigan.

A pineapple dipped in batter and fried is called a pineapple fritter here. Sold in all fish and chip and takeaway shops.

I have never heard of spam dipped in batter and deep fried. I never want to try this.

I grew up in the south-east and had never heard of them until I moved to Liverpool for uni. There they were our post night out snack of choice - (with scraps of course!).