Fish Shop Batter

[keith lockey]

Okay folks, we all remember going to the fish shop and getting fish and chips and the free leftover batter. But what was the leftover batter called?

 

I remember it being called something like sratchings or scranchings!!! But according to Wikipedia it is indigenous to the north east and it was called SCRAPS!!!!

 

Not down our way it wasn't. So what was it called where you lived?

[tonyg]

we used to call them scranchums from  Don Patties fish shop at Bedlinton stn

[Vic Patterson]

Scramchuns as I remember!

[Brian Cross]

Scamchuns or Scratchings all the same delicious when you a hungry kid ................

[Malcolm Robinson]

Scranchums..

[keith lockey]

Cheers everyone, Scranchums gets my vote.

[paul mann]

Divvent knah hoo ye spelt it but te mah lug hole it soonded like: "Scramshuns."l

[threegee]

I will go with Keith's scranchings, or maybe without the g.

 

Aren't they illegal under EU law by now?  Think I'm joking see http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-22579896.  You can pretty much guarantee that the med countries will ignore this, but it will be enforced by the gestapo in the northern parts of the Fourth Reich!

 

But - could set up schranching speakeasies!  The roaring twenties will be around again quite soon. 

 

[Tonyp]

Best saying it as you remember it! Be careful though canny lass might give you a quote on accent or dialect.????

It's all phonology to me nice everyday word.....

[Canny lass]

It's an industrial injury, Tonyp. Personally i Always said scranchuns - pure dialect. Not a bit of accent involved.

[Tonyp]

Lol