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What is your name for these?

(83 Posts)
JamesandJon33 Sat 27-Sept-25 17:57:59

We had fish and chips for supper today. Not a regular occurrence. DH tried to remember the name for the bags of batter pieces one used to be able to buy.
He said scraps but I am sure when I lived in South Wales there was a different name. Perhaps scrumps ?
Do you have any others?

Charleygirl5 Sat 27-Sept-25 23:04:13

I have never heard of them. I lived in Scotland and now London.

Beechnut Sat 27-Sept-25 23:35:39

Scrumps….and free 😃

Greyduster Sun 28-Sept-25 07:25:06

A penn’orth of scraps here in South Yorkshire.

BlueBelle Sun 28-Sept-25 07:46:06

I ve never paid for scraps You’re all being done

jusnoneed Sun 28-Sept-25 08:23:55

We never paid for them either, just had a portion of chips with scrumps on top. From one of the best chippies in the country, they've won multiple awards over many years.

Babs03 Sun 28-Sept-25 09:54:43

We never paid for scratchings, but find that here in the SE they don’t give you any, when I first asked a chip shop worker he just stared at me blankly and is the same when I have asked others. In my home town in Lancs they would they would ask ‘scratchings?’ and when I nodded they would be added free of charge.

boheminan Sun 28-Sept-25 09:59:27

London...crackling

Kate1949 Sun 28-Sept-25 12:08:44

Another Brummie here. Scratchings.

Sara1954 Sun 28-Sept-25 12:10:37

Another one for scrumps, south west

MollyNew Sun 28-Sept-25 12:19:02

I'm from the Black Country (Dudley, Walsall, Sandwell area). We always called them Batter Bits.

Scratchings are pork rinds, crunchy and sometimes seasoned with salt and pepper.

Trisha99 Sun 28-Sept-25 12:43:49

boheminan

London...crackling

Lived in and around London most of my life and I know them as scraps, crackling is the fat on a pork joint.

boheminan Sun 28-Sept-25 12:56:51

Just checked it out with my Big Brother and he remembers them as being crackling as well. Maybe it was a localised name. I know crackling is also the roasted skin of pork...I'm just remarking as to how I remember the batter bits were called in my little area of (South) London

Shelflife Sun 28-Sept-25 13:10:17

Scraps

Oreo Sun 28-Sept-25 13:12:49

Trisha99

boheminan

London...crackling

Lived in and around London most of my life and I know them as scraps, crackling is the fat on a pork joint.

Agree, I’m a Londoner and we called them scraps.

Nanato3 Sun 28-Sept-25 13:20:22

BlueBelle

I ve never paid for scraps You’re all being done

They are only the batter that's come off of the fish.
I wouldn't pay for them either. They're just all fat.

Judy54 Sun 28-Sept-25 14:44:02

I remember as a child visiting the North East that they were referred to as scramptions.

Scribbles Sun 28-Sept-25 14:49:42

My dad was from the Furness area of Lancashire and he always called them scollops. Mom, from Birmingham, called them scraps.

4allweknow Sun 28-Sept-25 15:15:02

Scratchings NE Scotland

DamaskRose Sun 28-Sept-25 15:37:27

I’d never heard of them till I came to England from Ireland.

DollyRocker Sun 28-Sept-25 15:42:37

Scraps, crackling or batter bits.

sharon103 Sun 28-Sept-25 17:15:19

Chips and a few batter bits from out chip shop years ago.

keepingquiet Sun 28-Sept-25 17:19:06

We called them fishbits- sometimes you got lucky and found bits of fish inside!

I aslo remember bacon dip with fried bread- yummmy!

Hunros Sun 28-Sept-25 17:23:09

When I lived in Tamworth Scratchings were the bits of crackling from roasted pork fat

lixy Sun 28-Sept-25 17:35:25

Scraps in Sussex

Welshy Mon 29-Sept-25 14:06:35

Scrumps