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? :)

Oh god yes! With mushy peas in a cob!

We called them Scallops - North West manchester.

when i was younger my mum used to get me and my sister a scallop barm for our dinner if we were in town presumably because they were cheap as chips! (or scallops!) with loads of salt and vinegar...ohh so nice! but so unhealthy 😊

Theyre called fritters in scotland

Yes! Used to love them! Covered in vinegar & salt. Can't get them where I live now.

Fritters here. Though my gran calls them "snacks".

Fried and battered potato slice - still able to get them from our local chip shops (Sheffield)

It always feels strange when you go to one elsewhere and they seem to not stock half the stuff you're used to seeing, or they are different.

For example, a fishcake in Sheffield is different to one in Doncaster.
And when we go to one down south with friends there is no option of mushy peas, bean, curry sauce or gravy.

South Wales here and they were called potato fritters, 30p on an evening when I was a teen nearly 20 years ago!

Yes GorgeousJaws they must be the same thing. This thread is seriously damaging my intention to have salad for tea!!

A great delicacy in Manchester. My Sussex born dh was bowled over by them.

Yes you can get scallops here! They're 40p. I too didn't know there was another scallop until a lot later.

scallop and pickled onion is one of my faves. also fish bites (4 for £1).

Dh made some a few weeks ago. God they were delicious 😋

does anyone else have those pineapple slices in batter in the fish and chip shop too?

Never heard of them - and lived in the midlands, Cambridge, northeast and London. Sound nice though!

I grew up in London/ Essex and had never heard of them until 2 years ago when my bf (who is from the W Mids) introduced me to them....amazing! I'd never had onion vinegar until then either, that is also now a favourite

flowers lemonade - yes! I remember them from my childhood. Not seen them for years.

Having read through the thread, I am surprised at the number of posters who only find out that scallops are a type of shellfish as an adult!

Yorks too. But mum made them without batter, chippy with.
What about scallops with corn beef or spam fritters? You did need a family size packet of Rennies mind.

Used to get them in Lincolnshire but have never seen any in Cambridgeshire.

Yes we get scraps and pea wet boxy i live in greater Manchester at primary school we got something called scallops but they were just like big round chips they weren't deep fried or battered

Yes, im from cheshire

South Eastern Australia here too. We call them potato cakes or potato scallops equally, where we live. Yummy, but only doable with a young digestive system and no care for heartburn or artery-clogging, I figure.

I’ve always thought it interesting that it’s pronounced ‘scollops’ for the seafood (on a halfshell) version, but ‘scallops’ for the potato ones.

Interested if this thread can untangle the origins of them, always assumed they were a weird colonial invention before now!

Yea we used to buy scallops too and I loved them. Fish cakes were fish and potatoes mashed up together, battered and deep fried. Fish turnovers were a layer of fish, a thick slice of potato and another layer of potato battered and deep fried.

Does anyone still get scraps from the chippy?

Yes! I do!.

They're the best bit of a fish lot.

When I was a bairn we used to take old newspapers to the chip shop and would be given a bag of batter (scraps) in exchange. Bliddy lovely!

Actually they may have been deep fried but certainly not battered