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?
Tell the person behind the counter who's serving? :-\
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?
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
Fish and Chips 3 times, 2 Scones, 4 Cartons of Mushy Peas and a bag of Scrapings
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...
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.
Anyway I want to know too..what's a scone, please?
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.............
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.
'scraps' = little bits of batter (fried)
'scummy' ? does that mean something else oop north? ;)
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
Is "scummy" related to the Australian expression "scrummy"?
Whenever my Aussie sister-in-law has a meal with us she calls it "really scrummy".
a scone where i come from is called a yorkshire fishcake and just the potato battered and deep fried is a scallop.
Quote from: pippy on February 11, 2009, 20:18:43
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... :)
Quote from: tonybloke on February 11, 2009, 20:16:44
'scummy' ? does that mean something else oop north? ;)
Ta! T. I missed the 'R'.
....and I think Scrummy pre-dates Aussie lingo.
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.
Quote from: hippydave on February 11, 2009, 20:22:14
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;.
Quote from: Trevor_D on February 11, 2009, 20:28:18
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
I was always told that in certain parts of Yorkshire if you wanted a "soft roll" with your chips you had to ask for a "teacake bar currants" ! ;D
Fish or scone in a current tea-cake was quite normal. Even now I like fish in one. And don't forget bacon in a current tea-cake....Cor, 'eck!
never heard of a scone-fish type thing ???
scallops are the tato thing..babie's yead is a suet steak pudding, according to my son in law's father (lancashire)..you lot are making me hungry ;D
My step-daughter works in North Wales and over there if you want a Cornish Pastie you have to ask for an Oggy :)
Quote from: pippy on February 11, 2009, 20:55:01
My step-daughter works in North Wales and over there if you want a Cornish Pastie you have to ask for an Oggy :)
YESSSS! N. Wales speciality, that. 8)
The OH is from the North East and she's never heard of a fishy type thingy called a scone, she calls them fish patties, and the rolls are called balm cakes. ??? :-\ :P ;D ;D ;D
Being a veggie, my favourite is a pea fritter. I think they are southern as I first had them when I lived in Bath and the only place I can get them from round here is the Mermaid in Horncastle.
Quote from: redclanger on February 11, 2009, 22:28:47
Being a veggie, my favourite is a pea fritter. I think they are southern as I first had them when I lived in Bath and the only place I can get them from round here is the Mermaid in Horncastle.
sounds interesting....how do you make them?
If you ordered a scone where I lived you would be offered butter, strawberry jam and cream to go with it. ;D
Up here we called the bits of fried batter crumblies and the scone without the fish were fritters.
Where I come from scraps are batter bits and when we were kids they sometimes had bits of fish in. ;D
where I come from in Devon
scone is what you have jam and cream on
scraps, fried bits of batter we call squiggles
Battered slice of potato is a scollup
Had to laugh soft bread roll, my mate from Leeds used to call it a bread cake!
Funny thread this one..... ;D
If you want a hot pork pie in a chippy around the Berwick area, they put it in a wire basket and dunk it in the hot fat!
hot pork pie! OMG this is so wrong!
Should never re-heat pork, to re-cook is ok but not warm up.
Give yas a bad belly!
Twas a long time ago....might have been beef. Mind you, in that part of the world it might have been the leg off a haggis.
Yes your wrong Ken. It was a Scotch pie made with mutton and cold crust pastry. Mutton not used now but minced lamb/beef.
Rolls up here are Rolls. ::) Scones are what I have most days with butter and jam.
Not had a fish supper in 40 yrs. ::)
Quote from: jesssands on February 12, 2009, 13:34:06
[hot pork pie! OMG this is so wrong!
Should never re-heat pork, to re-cook is ok but not warm up.
Give yas a bad belly!]
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mine go back in the oven for 15 mins till the fat runs down mi chin.
never had a bad belly yet.
working in newcastle once whent to the chippy for a steak and kindney pie,
got back to the digs and opend it,it was deep fried in batter.
rael nice though.
Well pity me I arrived in Scotland 20 something years ago from NZ where you ask for a particular type of fish e.g snapper and so many scoops of chips....then they get a fillet and batter it for you and it's all cooked fresh while you wait. If you don't chose the fish and say fish and a scoop you get shark and chips.
Scotland you have to ask for a fish supper (you usually get haddock) you have other exciting choices e.g. deep fried haggis; deep fried pie even deep fried mars bars!
I get down to Cambridgeshire and had to learn a new system yet again, first time getting home with a lot more chips than I needed! Now I hardly ever buy them because i oven cook them at home.
So we all speak English as a common language!!!
Quote from: Hyacinth on February 11, 2009, 23:25:57
Quote from: redclanger on February 11, 2009, 22:28:47
Being a veggie, my favourite is a pea fritter. I think they are southern as I first had them when I lived in Bath and the only place I can get them from round here is the Mermaid in Horncastle.
sounds interesting....how do you make them?
They are just mushy peas deep fried in batter - don't know how they make them but I think maybe they freeze patties of peas, dip them in batter and then fry them.
Scone no no no its a Pattie round here, and no never ever pay for scraps.
Davy has had a drink so i am going away from what the origanal whatinfact was.
But visualise this,
Going back a lot of years where i live every one new every one and the chippy stayed open till after the pub closed.
This night a few off us went into the chippy and ordered chips, fish and chips etc, Vince looked at his bag and chips and said, " You should have done to these chips what you have done to me " The fryer said " Whats that Vince " Vince said " Take their effing eyes out " and threw them back over the counter