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Important regional fish and chips question

Issac Hunt (Elite) posted this on Sunday, 22nd December 2002, 16:38

If you ask for some with your chips, what do you call those little bits of stray batter that have parted company with the fish and are piled up in a corner next to the fish. Around Newcastle it`s "Batter", somewhere in County Durham and into Yorkshire it becomes "Scraps" and it Derbyshire it`s "Bits". So what do you call them round your way? We need to know!

PS: "Thanks Chuck", "Och eye, Hen", "Watcha Cock", etc. Why are familiar generic names poultry related?

RE: Important regional fish and chips question

Rob_B (Competent) posted this on Sunday, 22nd December 2002, 16:52

We dont really have a word for them ,we just call them `bits of batter` :-p

RE: Important regional fish and chips question

Saxton (Elite) posted this on Sunday, 22nd December 2002, 18:34

scraps here old cock!

aye, good ol` fish `n` chips!

Hirsty
*HUNGRY*
mmmmm!

RE: Important regional fish and chips question

RichardH (Elite) posted this on Sunday, 22nd December 2002, 21:19

Well, in Birmingham it was scraps when I were a lad.

RE: Important regional fish and chips question

flyingmonkey (Elite) posted this on Monday, 23rd December 2002, 11:52

Scraps here in Sheffield.

Nick

RE: Important regional fish and chips question

HD462 (Elite) posted this on Monday, 23rd December 2002, 20:45

Scraps in Teesside.

Mark.

RE: Important regional fish and chips question

Wad (Elite) posted this on Monday, 23rd December 2002, 20:47

Scraps in Bradford. I lived in Devon for a bit though, where they were called Gribbles I think.

RE: Important regional fish and chips question

MicoMan (Elite) posted this on Monday, 23rd December 2002, 21:48

On the chip shop theme, due to the shortage of cod in these waters my local chippy is selling cod from Russia!!

It was big and very nice though! Looks like our fishermen out of a job!

RE: Important regional fish and chips question

Axel40 (Competent) posted this on Monday, 23rd December 2002, 22:47

Down here (London) It`s sometimes called crackling.

Not a fan of it meself but gimme a nice piece a cod, hmmm :)


Axel

RE: Important regional fish and chips question

cfgte3 (Elite) posted this on Tuesday, 24th December 2002, 00:50

Think its been called bits here in Essex

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