To think he should ask for scraps?,

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DH called into our local chippy after work tonight, kindly bought me a bag of chips... yet no scraps (batter!).

He NEVER asks for scraps or claims they never have any...i mean is it even worth having chips without scraps on the top??

Aibu to LTB?

So as not to dripfeed... DH does not have scraps, salt nor vinegar on his chips...

I'm in London by the way snd I don't think it's a thing! Only experience is ex P who was from Yorkshire. But I do have to have lashings of salt and vinegar - non brewed condiment -like they have in the pie and mash shops snd seafood stalls.
I Recently found out that Morrison's sell it, I'm delighted as it's a third of the price than in the fish and chip shop! It's called 'chip shop vinegar' if anyone wants some

@GreenFingersWouldBeHandy Shall we start a "Scraps for Poo Tin campaign? Might cheer the miserable fucker up?

I've previously bought a bottle of vinegar from the chippy! My fave is chip barmcake, scraps all the salt and vinegar, half a fish that I share with the dogs . Then mushy peas and mint sauce (Leeds area)

@LocalHobo they don't do gravy?????

Chips from the chippy without scraps or bits as we call them is like toast without butter. Possible but massively inferior.

I bet your DH doesn’t ask.

As a northerner my preferred dinner is fish, chips with scraps tonnes of salt and vinegar, ketchup on the fish side of the plate and curry sauce on the chips and scraps.

Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it.

No to the scraps, but I had to explain what a saveloy was to a chippie in Crewe. He hadn't heard of them(!) and neither did they do battered mushrooms, which I consider the crime of the century.

Never heard of scraps.I'm in Scotland.Chips come with salt and sauce in my part of the country.

@timestheyarechanging

I'm in London by the way snd I don't think it's a thing! Only experience is ex P who was from Yorkshire. But I do have to have lashings of salt and vinegar - non brewed condiment -like they have in the pie and mash shops snd seafood stalls. I Recently found out that Morrison's sell it, I'm delighted as it's a third of the price than in the fish and chip shop! It's called 'chip shop vinegar' if anyone wants some

@timestheyarechanging thank you! love chip shop non-brewed condiment.

@COL1N

No scraps, no salt, no vinegar- whats the point!!

Indeed. Grounds for divorce I say 😱

@Caesious

I’m in the westcountry and we call them Gribbles!

That’s a brilliant word for them. I’m going to start using it 🤣

@Riapia

They’re called scrumps where I come from.

Another great word for them 🤣

@JoshLymanIsHotterThanSam

I miss scraps so much…it was always chips and scraps for me when I lived in Lincolnshire, I’m in Birmingham now and haven’t been to a chippy that offers them.

The Jolly Fryer in Weoley Castle. Bit rough but they give you free scraps (though they’re called batter bits here) 🤣

@JasmineTeacup

They used to be called scrantions up in our bit of NE England. Not had any for year and years though

Starting to feel like you’re all having me on with these names 🤣

@GreenFingersWouldBeHandy

Russia is about to cause WW3, but you don’t have scrappy bits of leftover batter?

People are allowed to talk about other things.

Think the southerners don't understand the chip shop gravy isn't like the gravy you'd have on a roast. It's very thick and rich and it comes in a tub. My chippy people travel from miles around just to get tubs of the gravy to have with their tea!

@RosesAndHellebores

DH is a northerner and has never mentioned these.

Sometimes I am so glad to be a southerner.

If you want batter, why don't you just order a piece of fish? Honest question.

They’re either free or very, very cheap. You wouldn’t spend however much a piece of fish is these days just for the batter. That would be too much batter anyway, you generally don’t have that big a portion of scraps plus they’re the very edges of the batter, the really crispy end bits.

I'd just like to add that I'm from the east end of London, I'm in my 50's and I know what scraps are, since at least the 70's our local chippy there used to do them.
I don't live there now but I used to love them. Not sure if my local here does them as I don't eat fish anymore.

@GreenFingersWouldBeHandy

Russia is about to cause WW3, but you don’t have scrappy bits of leftover batter?

Oh do shut up. Bet you’re first on everyone’s party invite list 🙄

Scratchings we call them here in the Midlands.

Our chippy doesn't do scraps either, but I had chips last week and a rogue scrap made it in. It was the best day

My Partner owns a fish and chips shop in the South (so stop with all the insults). It has won many many awards and he is very conscientious and proud of it.
He does curry sauce (3 different varieties) and he does gravy, proper thick gravy
He does scraps/scrumps or whatever, for free. They are the bits of batter that come away from the fish when it is being fried, it is scooped up and put in a scrumps box unless someone asks for them when they are put in a bag for them.
I cannot believe any proper fish and chips doesn’t know what they are as everyone we know in the trade does know exactly what they are. Just ask for them.

My very first LTB. Northern girl here, no point going to the chippy if you aren't going to ask for scraps!!

@nearlyspringyay

Spends where you are, they're not a thing here but we're when I lived in Scotland

Scottish here. Never heard of them. Sounds, and from OPs photo, looks vile. & we batter everything in Scotland.

Also how can he not have salt and vinegar?! He doesn't call it vinegar and salt does he?