How to order from the chippy

[kenkew]

Six people want a 'fish' supper.

Total order is: 5 fish, 2 scones, 3 lots of chips, 4 mushy peas and a bag of scraps.
How do you place your order?

[kenkew]

[Hyacinth]

Tell the person behind the counter who's serving? :-\

[kenkew]

Erm, well, yes. Maybe ordering as that is written would work in certain parts, but certainly in the North people would order each portion as a made-up meal....example;
Fish&chips twice with mushy peas. Fish and scraps. One scone. Fish scone and peas, Scone scraps and mushy peas.

But the mix must be as varied as lottery numbers........ :D

...or is it purely a Northern thing?

[Lauren S]

To me a scone is what you have with a cream tea...scones with jam and clotted cream...But to YOU...what do you mean by a scone?

It has to be a Northern thang  ;D

[davyw1]

Fish and Chips 3 times, 2 Scones, 4 Cartons of Mushy Peas and a bag of Scrapings

[Hyacinth]

Ah right, thort it woz a joke :-[ ::)

First time I went to a Black Country pub, coming from Birmingham,  and ordered at the bar I asked for "a pint, and a half of mild."

In Birmingham I would have been given a pint of bitter and a half of mild (cos it's bitter country and anyway, where I come from they understand punctuation  ;))....but the Black Country is mild country...

[kenkew]

Heck, H. That's a whole new ball game, and your right.....where the norm is the norm, people do take you at what they think you mean.

[Hyacinth]

Anyway I want to know too..what's a scone, please?

[SMP1704]

and scraps..........and if they are scraps - do you pay for them??? :o

Being from London, I would ask for cod/haddock and chips.  We don't do mushy peas :-X ;D

Is a scone a soft roll/bun/barmcake thingy?

We need to know.............

[kenkew]

By 'eck. What's a scone? It's two thickish slices off a large potato (not new spuds-they're not big enough) with a slice of fish between and fried like fish....scummy.

Oh! and scraps? Well, that's the bits of batter that fall off into the pan....and they're freeee! Yippeeee.

[tonybloke]

'scraps' =  little bits of batter (fried)

[tonybloke]

'scummy' ? does that mean something else oop north? ;)

[pippy]

Ken - What you call a "scone" is what I've always called a Yorkshire Fish cake!  And very nice they are too form a good Chippy! ;D

[Trevor_D]

Is "scummy" related to the Australian expression "scrummy"?

Whenever my Aussie sister-in-law has a meal with us she calls it "really scrummy".

[hippydave]

a scone where i come from is called a yorkshire fishcake and just the potato battered and deep fried is a scallop.

[kenkew]

Ken - What you call a "scone" is what I've always called a Yorkshire Fish cake!  And very nice they are too form a good Chippy! ;D

Yes, I've heard it called a fish cake too, but it usually comes out as fish Kike....which gives an idea of it's infiltrated origins... :)

[kenkew]

'scummy' ? does that mean something else oop north? ;)

Ta! T. I missed the 'R'.

....and I think Scrummy pre-dates Aussie lingo.

[Trevor_D]

Thought it might. The old-fashioned word "scrumptious" is trying to get out there, isn't it? Haven't heard that since the days of Billy Bunter.

[kenkew]

a scone where i come from is called a yorkshire fishcake and just the potato battered and deep fried is a scallop.

Yup, Hippy. Scallops, so far as I remember came in around 1970'''ish. Another goody, like the Lancashire scooped out loaf filled with chips. Don't remember the name of that one tho;.

[kenkew]

Thought it might. The old-fashioned word "scrumptious" is trying to get out there, isn't it? Haven't heard that since the days of Billy Bunter.

A cheap Sunday supper...A bag of scallops (or a scone) and the family sat round a table listening to Dick Barton while dipping into the bowl of mushy peas.
Times are hard today, eh!.... :-X