Pronunciation of Scallops

[TheShellBeach]

Just that, really.
Do you say "scallops" or "scollops"?

I say Scallops- I'm an Englisher living in Scotland where, incidententally, we also used to scuba dive for clams, aka scallops/scollops. Clearly a regional thing.

But I'm on firm ground with potato scallops; slices of potato dipped in batter, served with chips and scraps from the chippy. Fab after-pub food or a cheap dinner date!

maybe where you come from it is!

FWIW people who say scollop drive me nuts!! So 😝

I use Scallop for the fish, the edging and if I ever heard of the potato things I’d call them scallops too.

Jeez this thread is making me irrationally irate!

have you never heard of regional variations in dialect and pronunciation??

and to other posters trying to say that the difference in pronunciation refers to different things- IT DOESN’T!!!! THAT IS JUST NONSENSE YOU HAVE MADE UP IN YOUR HEAD! 🤯🤯

All you fellow Scots saying the chippy thing is called a fritter - in our chippy, it’s a pasta fritter rather than potato.

It was me! I can sew, but I've read 'scallop' so many times on this thread I can't remember how I usually say it now!

From the midlands here.

Scallops always used to come in scallop shells not scollop shells.

Scollops were always the mashed potato fritters from the chip shop. Written as scollops on the board.

Same here. My df was a fisherman and they were always pronounced scallops.
Now I just want some fried with some smoked bacon roasted tomatoes and mushrooms plus wheaten bread. From across the water from Scotland.

'Scollops' here (for both the fishy ones and the potato ones...north west 👍)

Scollops (or St Jacques) for the shellfish.

A scallop is a frilly edge.

Not sure who typed the original but, again , where I am in Scotland , we go to the chipper for a chipper supper. No ‘chippy’ near me😁

I'm in Ireland and we have chippers here too not chippys.

In the history of Mumsnet no one has ever said chipper instead of chippy - I think you've just invented this!

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what a brilliant thread!!!

Scallop-Gate

I say “scollops” for all three

seafood
potato (although it sounds like this needs a sub thread because we can’t even agree what scalloped potatoes are!!)
edging (I.e. “that dress/pair of curtains has a lovely scalloped edge!”

I will just chuck in this question:

do you think there is a difference between scalloped-potatoes and potato scallops????!!!

Nope - always been chippers in Ireland!

I would always call it a chippy but our local one calls itself "(area-name) Chipper". (East coast Scotland).

Scallop - slice of potato dipped in the same batter as the fish in the chippy and deep fried to perfection

Scollop - those tasty little sea creatures that are delicious pan fried with some butter (not available in a proper fish and chip shop…)

Scollops

And in North Eastern Scotland.

I’m Scottish and say scallop. However I live in NZ and they say scollop, which I hadn’t heard before.

Thsnks to this thread I realize I now hedge my bets and say something more like scullop, in between both pronunciations. So perhaps my new way is the solution 😂

(this is all in relation to the seafood. I don’t think I’ve ever used the word in potato or edging context here)

Has anyone ever tried to edge material with the fish kind of scallop?
Or, indeed, with the potato version?

I think this is aimed at me as I said chipper early on in the thread. I'm actually quite insulted by this.... not everyone on MN lives in the same English bubble. I'm in Ireland, and chipper is the word that's used & I see I'm not the only one.

Just googled and discovered that what I thought was a scalloped potato is, in fact, a duchesse potato!!! <over invested>

Scalloped potatoes are like dauphinois without the cheese. I thought this was called a gratin, but I stand corrected by BBC Good Food.

I have until now (and I’m quite old), never heard of the chippy-scallop!

and I’m now left musing that we really should bring back scallops in fashion…

And I’m now left musing that we really should bring back scallops in fashion…

They still are in fashion.
We've just had some for tea!

I meant the fabric ones! Literally in fashion!

More posh pronunciation from New England is "scollops" for fish and "scolloped potatoes" which are always cream sauce based and named for the circular layering of the potatoes. Now "scalloped" potatoes have caught on across the US and it just means cheesy or au gratin. I don't think an american would eat them without the cheese!😂😘

Just browsing cookbooks for menu ideas for the weekend and what should I see in a Mary Berry book! Tempted to do them after this thread.