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? :)

wetwang it's called Huss or rock salmon elsewhere. It's various small shark species, but I think legally chip shops are supposed to label it as what actually is i.e. dogfish or bull Huss, so they don't often sell it because customer's don't like the name!

I loved them as a kid. I was in the midlands and have moved away. Haven’t seen them for years.

I love chips in batter, but the place that did them closed and if I ask elsewhere they look at me like I’m not all there.

Heaven in the mouth. And so cheap. I get one to eat in the chippy while everything else is being packed up. Nom nom.

It's a dab where I live in lancs and I love them!

Yep - grew up in Warrington, used to love a scallop. They're called Smacks in Wigan as I discovered when walking to the chippy with a friend and he asked 'Do you wanta smack?' which I took to be a threat of violence.....

Ye see now I want want covered in vinegar and lots of salt until it sticks to the paper!

Can't remember the last one I had one .... will check the local chippy

They call them fritters in Glasgow.

I’m in South Cheshire and they are called Smacks here.

It’s made for interesting conversations with colleagues on ocassional Friday lunchtime chippy trips.

It seems to be a very localised term though - even friends elsewhere in Cheshire just call them scallops for example. And I could demolish one now.

When I was a child many years ago in London , the chippy did rock & chips or scallops my dad always used to make them as well.

My mum used to make potato scallops, her family are Northerners.

Oh yes. I grew up in Coventry.

I'm from the West Midlands, all my local chippies sell scallops (used to be called Klondikes in one particular chippy).
I also miss pineapple fritters and banana fritters from the chippy, some chinese takeaways still sell banana fritters but they just aren't the same as the chipshop ones.

I'm in Lancashire I call them a dab. They're delicious I often get a small portion of chips so I can have a dab too.

Ooh, yes, pineapple fritters, I'd forgotten about those! And different types of gravy (mushroom or onion) and curry sauce (fruity or chinese) I miss Northern chippies.

And batter bits are called gribbles down here - no idea why (and I don't like them anyway - but each to her own).

I've heard of it but couldn't have told you what it was. Home counties.

Potato scallops... my dirty secret... in Cheshire... never heard of smacks though...

Yip fritters here. Most chippy still do them. South West Scotland.

Yes, I'm from Cheshire. They are a typical example of success on a money diet (only used to cost 10p), versus lack of success on a food diet.

Yes - my old dad was fond of scallops. I don't think I've ever seen them in a chippy Dad was a Lancashire lad.

East Midlands here and that's a potato fritter at our chippy. Mum used to slice and deep fry potatoes and call them scallops

Yep, would often get a scallop from the chippy. I'm a Brummie.

yes i'm from Lincolnshire & they are still sold here! Scallop in a bun was a firm favourite amongst my school friends 20+ years ago!

Yep! Chippy across the road from my school in West Yorkshire did them, they were 20p. An utter bargain!