To ask if you've heard of a potato scallop

[greathat]

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? :)

I have heard of scalloped potatoes as in this photo, but not a potato scallop from a fish and chip shop. I have only lived in London and East Sussex.

It's a fritter where I'm from.

It's a fritter where I'm from

Same here, East mids.

Yes available in Yorkshire and 50p in my local chippy, called potato scallop or potato fritters, they are lovely!

llangennith, yes Scallops are literally a round slice of potato, dipped in batter and fried. I've only ever had them from chippies in my younger days.
I love seeing where food is popular and other areas never heard of.

Ah! I've looked into this now and the Scalloped Potatoes are as the photo above.
The single potato in batter is called Potato Scallop.
Wonder what scallop means? It sounds like some sort of olde worlde word.

It might mean to do with this

one of a series of curves along an edge, esp an edge of cloth - the curves along the edge of the dish made by the round potatoes maybe?

So you get them in Somerset and you get the from the midlands up...but not in between...where I live...typical. I just assumed you didn’t get them in the UK.

I lived in NZ for quite a few years. Potato Fritters were a staple...and yes, with chips 😂. But they’re so different they didn’t seems like chips x2. Craving NZ Potato Fritters at the beach now 🙁

It was a potato fritter where I grew up but where we are now it's a scallop. And it's by far the best, most lovely thing to shove down your neck on the drive home from the chippy!

Ah - that's interesting. Here in the NE a scallop is a fritter, and a dab is a flatfish.

The only scallop I knew before coming to England was the shellfish variety. Then I learned the potato shape as per the picture. Still haven't come across the battered variety. Want one! sound bloody lovely.

ooh yes miss them the yorkies dont make them like the brummie chippies do

Like this... just looking at pic is making me hungry. Hope it works

You're going to the wrong places possumgoddess!
Also in Devon but our local chip shop sells them and they have a mobile chip van which also sells them.

iklboo! You could be right! There's a scalloped edge in sewing.
So scallop could be the round shape.

We're going to be experts in all thing scallop soon.

I could go off you @greathat

Now I really want scallops for supper!!

We have them here in Yorkshire, but l'd never heard of them before l moved here from Northumberland. They're lovely in 'chip' butties - l can never eat a whole one, but l can manage a scallop one.
lt's weird how chippies in different areas do/don't have things. Back home we could get 'cheese cakes' - not the dessert, but mashed potato, cheese and onions deep fried in batter - they don't have those here, and l miss them!

Just sent husband to chippy for a scallop and mushy pea cob! Told him it was a pregnancy craving... just really fancied it after this thread!

mmm
I might go adventurous and try making some of the sophisticated ones, like with the stuffing or corned beef slice.
I'm so hungry now looking at the pictures.
I could start a whole new thread about barmcakes versus muffins.

my dad used to cook them for us.

Yep, here in Liverpool, cant stand them tbh.

Hey as a lancashire lass I will dispute the best chippys are in Yorkshire

Just made them with fishcakes for tea, thanks OP

I`m a Londoner and when we were kids we always had these on a Friday with chips and Rock Eel, bloody lovely and always from the chippie which was run by a Greek family. I now live in the East Midlands and they do them here but have no idea what Rock Eel is and only sell Haddock or Cod !!

A scone here.