Divorced Dad Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 2 hours ago, Jonny Vegas said: Thinking about the old chippy on Nickson Road in Coventry reminded me of something I've never seen or heard of other than there. For 50p they used to do a portion of "scrappies" which was a few scoops of the little scrap fried pieces of batter that had obviously broken off of anything in the fryer. Probably equally suited to the #eatclean thread but they were excellent. The chippy in the village I grew up in used to do them all the time. Mum would ask for a bag of 'crispy bits' and me and siblings would share them with our kids meals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted February 17, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted February 17, 2020 What people call the little bits of batter is as varied as what people call bread rolls/buns/insert name here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted February 17, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted February 17, 2020 We don’t have that problem in the south. Chip bits/scraps just get tossed in the bin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator Frankie Crisp Posted February 17, 2020 Awards Moderator Share Posted February 17, 2020 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said: What people call the little bits of batter is as varied as what people call bread rolls/buns/insert name here. All great with gravy. Edited February 17, 2020 by Frankie Crisp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted February 17, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted February 17, 2020 40 minutes ago, Frankie Crisp said: Where's the other half of the pie? That's how Greenhalgh pies are shaped! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator Frankie Crisp Posted February 17, 2020 Awards Moderator Share Posted February 17, 2020 Just now, Devon Malcolm said: That's how Greenhalgh pies are shaped! Load of shite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Thunderplex Posted February 17, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted February 17, 2020 Charging for scraps? Â Mingey bastards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Arch Stanton Posted February 17, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted February 17, 2020 Are scraps a thing everywhere then? I've only ever seen them in Yorkshire chippies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted February 17, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted February 17, 2020 Scrumps are a thing around here Arch, but they don't charge for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Kaz Hayashi Posted February 17, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted February 17, 2020 15 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said: Are scraps a thing everywhere then? I've only ever seen them in Yorkshire chippies. They were the protein portion of your dinner up here. We called them scrapings. They were obviously free and every once in a while you’d strike gold with the odd rogue fish bite that made its way in. A portion of those with chips was lunch sorted for a quid while at school, and then go halves with your mate on a box of tabs with remaining dinner money. It’s no wonder I frequent the health & fitness thread for tips every week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Arch Stanton Posted February 18, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted February 18, 2020 Yeah, they don't charge for them round here, either. At least not my local. They're just a little bonus topping for your chips. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator Onyx2 Posted February 18, 2020 Author Awards Moderator Share Posted February 18, 2020 Chippy Tea celebrates it's Forum Award win by circling the discussion back around to scraps. Amazing. Let's go back to chip spice chat, I liked that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members FLips Posted February 18, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted February 18, 2020 You get dirty looks here if you refuse scraps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobra_gordo Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 My kids go mental if I forget to ask for scraps on the chips when we have a chippy tea. A friend of ours once had to venture out of Yorkshire for her job, swung by a chippy and asked for scraps as part of her order and ended up being looked at like she was a full-blown weirdo as they genuinely thought she wanted bin scrapings with her meal. There needs to be a geographically arranged list of names folk call them to save further embarrassment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted February 19, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted February 19, 2020 On 2/17/2020 at 10:47 PM, Hannibal Scorch said: We don’t have that problem in the south. Chip bits/scraps just get tossed in the bin. another reason why nowhere south of Sheffield can do chips properly.  Probably told the story earlier in the thread, but my family had lived in Jersey for years, and I'd never found a decent chippy. I'm sure the fish was great, but the chips were always rubbish. We moved to a new place, that happened to be round the corner from a chip shop we hadn't been to yet, and it was the only one I've found that did chips I actually like, and we got chippy tea from there quite often. Several years later, my brother, his wife, and their kids are over, and my dad goes round to the chippy to get everyone's food. He comes back with honestly the biggest grin on his face that I have ever seen, because after some 15 years of living here, he'd found a chip shop that did scraps. It might have been the happiest day of his life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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