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What was better in the old days than a cone of Chips with crackling or whatever you called them on top ....
Last edited by arthurDALEY; 19th January 2016 at 13:41.
Scraps
What ^^^ he ^^^ said, on top of chips and curry sauce or chips and onion gravy!
Yep, scraps with the following being crackling.
Yes must of been a Southern thing calling it crackling..Originally Posted by senwar
Yep, scraps with the following being crackling.
Down here we called them browsals.
As a kid the best part was they were free
We called them "bits".
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
Haha yes they were free
as were broken cornets off the ice cream van that came round...
You're all weird. It's batter.
Mmm, Patty and chips, with scraps.
Definitely scraps.
best bit was when you used to get some bits of potato in them, so sort of tiny scallops
Any reason you dont get these anymore ? .. obviously not a healthy option but what "fast food" is nowdays, mind you they would"nt be free today if they did still have them
I'm from down south and it's always been bits or scraps. Crackling is the whole pigs skin thing.
Well the plot thickens, mind you i am London overspill to Hampshire maybe it was a London saying ..?
Jamaican Patty? Mmmmmm Wicked.
Scraps for me, both in the SE and NE of the country. Though i've heard them called scrumps in Lincolncestershire
Brighty
Scraps around here too, my local fish and chip shop always offers them to me and they're always surprised when I say no!
+1 with chips and mushy peas
Scraps.
No, a Hull Patty, its still wicked but in the wrong way.
Theres a whole generation here that have only ever eaten beige food.
scraps, bits or fish bits.
They have played a part in making me the man I am today.
Brought up 8 miles from you and they were always scraps.
Mid Kent in 70’s/80’s and they were crackling.
Scratchings .
Used to be able to get them with gravy and they were both free !
We called them 'batter-bits' when I was growing up in the 70s in Northampton. I used to shake my head when my mates asked for some to be mixed with gravy and spooned over their chips but then the 70s seemed to be the era of high calorie food, a prime example being spam fritters.
"Batter on top?" was the shout in the NE chippies (Sunderland), "scraps" being seen as a southern saying (well, south of Middlesbrough anyway)
+1 for scratchings, in Eastern Gloucestershire.
Definitely scraps, born and raised in Humberside/Yorkshire.
Fish Bits - Manchester
When I was a student in the 70s in Exeter they were gribbles.
Scraps on my patty butty any day, maybe a bit of chip spice if I want to be fancy.
Batter in the north east.
Although being from Glasgow "the heart attack capital of Europe" even I was stunned when offered these in Newcastle. It's the stuff we put in the bin back home!!
In Sheffield they seem to be called "scraps". In Wakefield they were "bits"
Aye 'scraps' up 'ere in Yorkshire. Not heard them as bits.
It's batter....because that's what it's made of.
Scraps, still get them in my chippy in Barrow in Furness!
Scraps in Teesside...
You'd get a funny look if you attempted to order these by any name in the New Forest where I'm from!
I'm from up North, and totally agree with this
Scraps!
I'm sure my local authority banned these citing health n safety........
"Bits" where I came from in W Yorks.
We used to call em Scrumps when I was a kid in Wiltshire, great after you had been swimming training.
I actually had a spam fritter a while back.
It was nowhere near as nice as I remembered it from my childhood.
In fact it was pretty disgusting if I'm honest.
I mean, what even is spam?
(Probably best you don't answer that...)
Oh, and it's scraps.
They should now be called Morbid obesity and heart attack.
Scraps (when I was a lad) 5p of chips and scraps after scouts (1973).
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Scramptions up here in Northumberland, but scraps seems to be taking over.
Feck me, it's like watching Kes in here!
Must admit, I have never seen nor heard of a chipper/chippy up here giving such delights either as a freebie or otherwise, then again we have our houseboy Raoul go fetch so I wouldn't really know
Only those who live here know the joys.....and crackling is crunchy pig bits.
ktmog6uk
marchingontogether!
Scraps for me too, although it's a long time since I had them
Scratchings in Leicester.
Probably translates to 'dog bits' here.
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