View Full Version : Has the World gone mad?
tactcom7
31-10-08, 10:34 AM
O.k so this is a quick rant.
Was in Blackpool yesterday to see the illuminations with my g/f and her 2yr old daughter, went to a chippy and asked for chips with scraps, this is how it went...
'Hi can I get chips with scraps please?'
'We don't do scraps'
'Why not?'
'Health and Safety reasons...'
'Are you kidding me?'
'Nope, sorry..'
Cue me walking out flabbergasted. What has the World come to?
rant over, thanks.
he was probably thinking about your health! you should be thanking him!!!
Alpinestarhero
31-10-08, 10:41 AM
whats in the scraps?
I would imagine its the bits of batter that fall off the fish etc.
Luckypants
31-10-08, 10:49 AM
'Health and Safety reasons...'
The answer for everything, when there is no real answer.
Kate Moss
31-10-08, 11:20 AM
Scraps?
the_lone_wolf
31-10-08, 11:23 AM
whats in the scraps?
"you can't spell 'scraps' without...
"you can't spell 'scraps' without...
:D
I used to get scraps when I was younger , probably almost twenty years ago now mind! I think one day I realised that they are just pretty much pure fat and stopped asking for them.
Pretty ridiculous that they won't give you any if you ask though :mad:
Biker Biggles
31-10-08, 11:30 AM
Shop probably thought you were asking foe a fight.
Drew Carey
31-10-08, 11:31 AM
The problem is that in this time when obese kids is becomeing front page news someone has obviously seen it fit to not allow people to buy scraps of fatty batter that have been sat in oil frying away for the last 3 hours. lol.
I'm proud to say I had scraps on me fish buttie yesterday.
*burp*
Drew Carey
31-10-08, 11:37 AM
The best scraps are the ones that are crispy and crunch when bitten but you still get that trickle of oil round your mouth as you do......yummy.
The best scraps are the ones that are crispy and crunch when bitten but you still get that trickle of oil round your mouth as you do......yummy.
i thought i'd seen the last of my breakfast. it seems i was wrong.....
Drew Carey
31-10-08, 11:45 AM
Or better still, dunk them in curry sauce..... phoarrrrrrrrrrrrr. Sorry, I'll get my (extra large) coat.
The best scraps are the ones that are crispy and crunch when bitten but you still get that trickle of oil round your mouth as you do......yummy.
Or better still, dunk them in curry sauce..... phoarrrrrrrrrrrrr. Sorry, I'll get my (extra large) coat.
now i understand why you just asked if we can have chips for tea tonight!
That is nasty Drew very nasty!
Drew Carey
31-10-08, 11:52 AM
I haven't had it since meeting you.....but, last time was in Blackpool on a Uni Rugby trip, was drunk as anything and was probably the best alchohol infused snack I have ever had.....No Hangover!!!!!
I haven't had it since meeting you.....A bit of a revalation there Drew me old fruit!
timwilky
31-10-08, 12:25 PM
the health and safety lot have hit my local chippies. they want them to replace all the salt shakers with ones that have less holes to stop people getting a salt overdose with their chips.
Best chippy Blackpool way is the cottage at Marton. (http://www.whelansfishandchips.co.uk/cottage.htm)
Ceri JC
31-10-08, 12:49 PM
In my South Wallian patois, they're refered to as, "scrumps". I used to have them all the time, till I threw up after eating too many one night and have since not asked for them. :)
Biker Biker
31-10-08, 01:20 PM
So you were speachless about scraps........
I'm a Southerner and the other half is a Northerner. In his efforts to make me fall in love with the Noth and understand their strange ways we went to Whitby Bay for Fish n Chips. After finding the 3rd chippy it became apparent that Northerners do not 'do' gherkins. How can it be a proper chippy if it doesn't stock GHERKINS FFS!
So you were speachless about scraps........
I'm a Southerner and the other half is a Northerner. In his efforts to make me fall in love with the Noth and understand their strange ways we went to Whitby Bay for Fish n Chips. After finding the 3rd chippy it became apparent that Northerners do not 'do' gherkins. How can it be a proper chippy if it doesn't stock GHERKINS FFS!
You cant have nowt green with ya fish bait....green things tend to be healthy, we will be having non of that up north. Unless it comes from a green can (see avatar). Good luck to your other half in there efforts to covert you :D
454697819
31-10-08, 03:31 PM
I moved to leeds from suffolk and got the strangest look when I asked for savaloy and chips....
that was me told...
and the northern way of asking for them makes me smile. the future ex mrs keithd is from leeds, we went into a chippie and she said "twice please". i asked if the assistant was a frickin mind reader. twice what? once and a fish. whats that? just random words thrown together
Luckypants
31-10-08, 05:14 PM
Nah, the correct term is one of each, or two of each etc.
tactcom7
03-11-08, 07:24 PM
I totally agree with the "twice please" method, plus no you can't have gherkins in a chippy!
Now not having gravy, that is a criminal offence. Plus down south you get the strangest looks when asking for a chip butty, and things go from bad to worse when you explain it's just chips between a breadcake!
Dangerous Dave
03-11-08, 07:28 PM
Shop probably thought you were asking foe a fight.
or begging....
See if they was a proper chippy they would of done them.
Can't beat a battered sausage from local chippy, can feel the damage its doing as you eat it!
can you get scraps down south?
used to get them up north all the time
That's means you must have moved down here from up't north! No one I know in Basingstoke knows what "scraps" are! I only know cos family is from up't north!
I feel this is very appropriate.............
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kG1wJT4aA78
Gene genie
03-11-08, 09:07 PM
brother in law lived in crawley for a while, and whenever i went down the chippies wouldnt do meat pie and chips. they'd do meat pie muffins but not meat pie and chips. WHY?
brother in law lived in crawley for a while, and whenever i went down the chippies wouldnt do meat pie and chips. they'd do meat pie muffins but not meat pie and chips. WHY?
You mean chip barm? ;)
missyburd
03-11-08, 09:51 PM
Scraps?
In my South Wallian patois, they're refered to as, "scrumps". I used to have them all the time, till I threw up after eating too many one night and have since not asked for them. :)
I'm always having arguments with folk about what the name is for these, apparently there's loads? Bits and scraps is what I'm used to but I think scraps is more southern?
Tis like different households having different names for the remote control. In my house its called a diggy, in others I've heard it referred to as a plonker and zapper :smt104 Of course there are those with no imagination who just call 'em remotes :rolleyes: :p
It was scraps when I were a kid in Norfolk, also a sausage in batter was known as a "battered chap" (think about it.............)
Quiff Wichard
03-11-08, 10:20 PM
I went in the chippy today and said fish and chips twice.
the guy said .. " I heard you the first time" !!!:D
tactcom7
06-11-08, 07:25 PM
That's means you must have moved down here from up't north! No one I know in Basingstoke knows what "scraps" are! I only know cos family is from up't north!
Yup originally from Leeds, moved down here about 6 years ago, working at Odiham. It's pants.
Yup originally from Leeds, moved down here about 6 years ago, working at Odiham. It's pants.
I remember people ordering 'scraps' in basingstoke, not me though:pukel:
by the way is the 'lord derby' still a good meet out in odiham?
tactcom7
07-11-08, 08:51 PM
I remember people ordering 'scraps' in basingstoke, not me though:pukel:
by the way is the 'lord derby' still a good meet out in odiham?
Can't say i've ever been myself but it always seem packed whenever i'm down that way. Usually end up at the cafe by Alton train station, thats always a goof laugh. Until you get a puncture after 5 mintues and have to wait 5 hours to be towed back the 6 miles to work and end up being late......
I don't like Chips, am I in the minority?:pukel:
tactcom7
07-11-08, 08:59 PM
I don't like Chips, am I in the minority?:pukel:
yyyyes, yes you are :)
Can't say i've ever been myself but it always seem packed whenever i'm down that way. Usually end up at the cafe by Alton train station, thats always a goof laugh. Until you get a puncture after 5 mintues and have to wait 5 hours to be towed back the 6 miles to work and end up being late......
the alton road from basingstoke can be a hoot to ride:cool: then the ride over to odiham, just need some dry roads and I'll have a blast out that way soon
tactcom7
07-11-08, 09:03 PM
you'll have to give me a bell next time your down that way n i'll come for a ride out, if you don't mind. :)
yyyyes, yes you are :)
Oh.:rolleyes: I'll get me coat then.
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