Chip shop vocab help please

Scraps

its just fat basically. eurgh

I think eurgh too.

Scraps isn't what I was thinking of but it will do. I thought it was something like 'nobbles'

It's bits I think. At least it is round these parts (Birmingham)

Scratchings?

Is that the stuff they have in a pile where they keep the fish, sausage etc? In Dudley they call it scraps.

It's scraps in Sheffield - yum!

We call them toenails and I'm not far from you KJB. However, I think if you went into a chippy and asked for toenails they might look at you a bit funny!

We used to call them scrumps

In the South-West we called them scribblings

It looks like there are lots of variations. I think scraps covers it best but I think scribblings is the one I had heard before, that I was trying to remember.

fancy calling them bits. <childish snigger>

i remember going to college in leicester and going to a chippy, and getting a very funny look at both scraps and breadcake. ?

My family are Northern but I've lived down south all my life, and my husband is a Southerner. I took him to a chippy in Manchester when we were up visiting my Grandad, and they shouted "Barm?" at you when you ordered you food. Poor thing looked totally bewildered as she shouted it at him again when he looked confused ?

Its called Batter in the north east.

<even more childish sniggering> ?

My OH is only from Darlington but he's totally baffled by chippy-speak since we moved back to Yorkshire. When I asked for twice with scraps and a breadcake he looked at me like I was speaking French to the chippy woman ?

I'm so happy to be back up north and to be able to get scraps again.

The covering of the fish may also vary with bread-crumbs available alongside the traditional flour-based batter. In the United Kingdom batter comes as the standard coating, with breadcrumb-coated fish unavailable in many outlets.

Fish-and-chip suppliers in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland often include scraps of batter that fall into the fat and get fried (also known as batter, scratchins, scrumps, scraps,scrobblings, gribblings, bits, fishbits, crimps, fishcrimps, crispy bits, or batters) free on request. In theUnited States of America, some fish-and-chips aficionados refer to these as "cracklin's" (distinct from fried pork-rind cracklins).

Hmm, that means the north east actually use the correct term, and the rest of the UK are wrong. (wheres the smug icon gone?)

I hadn't got a clue what that was. Luckily h used to work in a chippy in knaresborough and translated for me.

Having lived his entire life in Birmingham, H was stared at like he was a lunatic when he asked a Reading chippy lady for a scallop. ?

You don't get them down here - for southerners like me who didn't know what they were, it's battered mashed potato.

Scraps in Scarborough. I don't have them because I find it too greasy but all the chippy's here expect you to say yes when they ask "D'ya want scraps wi that love?"

You can get them in Swindon chip shops.

Didn't know they even had a name - but I aint half hungry after reading this thread !

Kieren you'll love this...when I used to get them when I was younger you asked for batter bits ?

I'd go along with that, as a Sunderland girl...

This thread was instumental in us having fish and chips for Dinner. I really should avoid the take-away threads!

Snap! I didn't realise your were a mackem. Do you still live in Sunderland?

I'm from West Yorkshire and there's a chippy near me called wi'bits! Cos you'd ask for fish and chips wi'bits!

Waah, I had completely forgotten about scallops ? I lived near Brum until I was 20. Up here (in Hull) they're called patties.

Breadcakes is just silly, Kieren. It's either bread, or a cake. Bread, or a cake. Simple, yes?

Clearly, it's bap ?

Yeah I'm still living in Sunderland. I live on the edge of Sunderland, pretty close to Newbottle actually. In fact I often visit the Sun Inn in the village.

In Washington we call them scrumpchions (sp).

Bettyb that's brilliant- small world! I still go up there to visit as my brother lives in Hetton. Nice to see another Mackem around.