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? :)

Potato scallop lover here. Merseyside/NorthWest.
Team "Never knew about any other scallops till I was grown up".
Never have confused mushy peas for guacamole ...

New Zealand, 1980s, after school, Potato Fritters 20 cents. A week's worth of salt and fat in five fabulous minutes, followed by a game of Pac-Man

Ahhh scraps - bloody love them, especially with a few splashes of vinegar.

DH looked at me like I was mad when I asked for them on my chips when back in the northeast.

Yes, an ex Brummie here who remembers them . We also used to buy a cone of the batter bits called scratchings.

I had one as a child when visiting my grandmother up north. I remember being surprised that it was potato rather than an actual scallop!

I remember sitting around the kitchen table when I was small child and my Grandmother would fry batches of these while we wolfed them down with bread and butter! My grandmother was from the North.
Brings back memories! ❤️

My grandad used to make them with home grown potatoes (in Scotland) They were delicious, and he always made enough for the neighbours too ❤️

Never heard of them. Have lived in London, Home Counties and now in the NW but never even heard them mentioned.

Of course, but I live in West Yorkshire, where the Fish and Chip shops are the best in the country. Beef dripping, scraps, scallops, the potato kind and proper fishcakes, none of that mash potato nonsense.

OP, they sell something similar in M&S Food Hall of all places

www.marksandspencerfoodhall.co.uk/product/crispy-potato-slices--bbeba577-fa16-48f3-ae1b-cbfeac9b4c76

I love chippy chips, so never bought them, but my mates did (70/80's) and my DH would get them, I'm in Liverpool. I also knew of the fish type.

Like these?

www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/277884433

Ha! I'm glad it's not just me who realised embarrassingly late in life that there was more than one type of scallop. Bloody love them.

Potato Fritter here! (Glasgow) best served in a crispy roll with lashings of butter and tomato ketchup!

I grew up in Brisbane. No better hangover cure than two potato scallops and a can of coke.

Yes definitely a scallop - loved a scallop special on the way home from school, which was a breadcake, scallop and mushy peas with LOADS of vinegar.

I'm in Yorkshire if that helps!

Grew up in Southend (Essex) and the chippies definitely had them in the 80s/early 90s round there! Never had one though.

Been living up north for 20 years and... still never had one. Maybe it’s time...

When I was 16 a Friday night would mean going to the off licence with my friend and buying a 4 pack of cider and 10 consulate then popping in to the chippy for a scallop with the change from £5

Yes in the town where I am from they are known in chippies as 'specials'.

Not had one for ages but they are so nice!

I was unaware that there was any other type of scallop than the potato ones until I was a teenager! Went for dinner at a friend's house, said oo yes I love scallops when offered them and was very surprised at what arrived on my plate

I grew up in Yorkshire, not sure if they're more of a regional thing? They might be as not all chippies in Lancashire do them ime.

I've never seen them in a chippie, but my stepdad would make them at home (yorkshire born and bread). They're yummy, I;d forgotten about them until now. Fish, scallops and peas for dinner tonight now, you;ve set me craving! haha.

Love, love, love them with gallons of vinegar & loads of salt. I wonder if I can persuade DH to bring me several one in on his way home from work tonight.

*bred

Sorry - we live in a Manchester suburb. The chippy near my folks in Salford does them too.

Still get them here in Yorkshire and fish scallops 😆

I love them with loads of salt and vinegar and a refined mushy pea dipping sauce. I'm bloody starving now.