Poll Please: Scallop or Fritter?

[West]

Does seem to be a north south divide here

Any chance of a mod sticking a Poll on?

 

[mac1st3]

Ermm, anything over a chip-shop, really. The typical local takeaways are generally serving majorly fatty crap that's not doing anyone any good, just appealing to the base human hunger for fat, sugar, salt etc... and by avoiding the chip-shop, I'll be leading it for longer than most!

Jack Daniels, a McDonald's cheeseburger and a ring donut. I can't talk.

pot calling a kettle black

 

[gumbald]

We don't have fritters in Hull. Instead, our patties are deep fried mashed potato rather than fish patties. Nom nom.

 

[taliesyn]

From a chip shop, a scallop and a fritter should be the same thing. When I worked in a chippy many years ago we called them Potato Fritters but a lot of customers called them Scallops. This was in South Wales. They are a thick slice of potato fried in batter.

Yes, scallops are also a shellfish which can be eaten, but you don't generally find them for sale in a chip shop.

I would call them Potato fritters myself.

They're called scollops up here, not scallops. Might explain the confusion

 

[PMKeates]

pot calling a kettle black

No, it's a case of not fooling myself in to thinking it tastes nice or is good for you

 

[mac1st3]

hehe fair enough though when I'm sucking on a battered sausage (ohhh matron) the alst thing on my mind is "this is so healthy for me"

 

[PMKeates]

hehe fair enough though when I'm sucking on a battered sausage (ohhh matron) the alst thing on my mind is "this is so healthy for me"

Last time I was sucking on a sausage, it was the last thing on my mind too!

 

[arc@css]

Surely one would chew it, not suck it.

 

[mac1st3]

Surely one would chew it, not suck it.

depends on how much juice you want out of it

 

[arc@css]

lol ooo matron

 

[V4NT0M]

All I'm missing out on by avoiding takeaway kebabs and Chinese slop is a heart attack.

I guess if you don't like it then you don't like it, but seriously, you eat nothing but 100% nutrients?

 

[DanTheMan]

Scallop. Never even heard them called a fritter until now.

Scallops + English curry sauce = divine.

 

[Kennysevenfold]

Fritter of course

 

[PMKeates]

I guess if you don't like it then you don't like it, but seriously, you eat nothing but 100% nutrients?

Of course not, but, while I'm not the epitome of healthy eating.. the average takeaway in a town, whether it be kebabs or Chinese or whatever, is generally pretty awful for you.

 

[DRZ]

Scallop. Never even heard them called a fritter until now.

Only heard of pineapple, banana, spam etc, never heard someone call it a potato fritter until now!

 

[danza]

Only heard of pineapple, banana, spam etc, never heard someone call it a potato fritter until now!

Pineapple fritters are awesome. Iused to get one whenever I went to the chippy when I was a teenager. I haven't had one in years though, must try one again soon. Om nom nom.

 

[JBuk]

Of course not, but, while I'm not the epitome of healthy eating.. the average takeaway in a town, whether it be kebabs or Chinese or whatever, is generally pretty awful for you.

What's awful about a takeaway?

 

[jellybeard999]

Scallop

Is that breaded meat, if so I'd say thats a breaded escalope.

When I was a kid (grew up in south Yorkshire) chippies sold scallops which were a couple of slices of spud with a slice of fish between them and deep fried.

Lies, that's a fish patty

I've never seen a fish shop sell a potato fritter or potato scallop, but I'd know what both were tbh.

I'd associate a potato scallop more as slices of potato shallow fried in a drizzle of oil, not battered though personally.

 

[PMKeates]

What's awful about a takeaway?

There's nothing wrong with a "takeaway" per the dictionary definition, but you don't think that the food from most of the local Chinese takeaways is good for you, or actually tastes of anything much, do you?

 

[Glaucus]

or actually tastes of anything much, do you?

If you go to a decent takeaway it tastes great.