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What is your name for these?

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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?

SueDoku Mon 29-Sept-25 15:22:49

Scribbles

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

Scallops are slices of potato, battered and fried. I'm from the Black Country and we love them here - along with what I always knew as 'batters' - but in Worcestershire, where I live now, they're called 'batter bits'.
My London DIL had never heard of scallops - but now adores them, and has one or two every time she visits me...😁

MagSt Mon 29-Sept-25 15:21:27

Screeds in cornwall

knspol Mon 29-Sept-25 15:19:08

Scraps in East Yorkshire, 3 old pence for a bag.

Mirren Mon 29-Sept-25 15:16:19

My family, in Co Durham, always calls these Scranchings but I think that was probably their own version of scratchings

Gogo84 Mon 29-Sept-25 14:31:47

I'm a Devon exile. I remember them as gribbles in Exeter. I'll check with my sister.

Lupatria Mon 29-Sept-25 14:23:44

we called them scribbles in devon and i still call them that.

LindaPat Mon 29-Sept-25 14:14:49

Agree with OldnProud, it's 'bits' here in West Yorkshire. I remember asking for 'a bag of chips with bits on please'
xx

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

Scrumps

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

Scraps in Sussex

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

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

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!

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

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

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

Scraps, crackling or batter bits.

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

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

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

Scratchings NE Scotland

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Scraps

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

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.

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.

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

Another one for scrumps, south west

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

Another Brummie here. Scratchings.