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gardener wrote:AKA Yorkshire fishcakes? http://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/517551

When I was a kid we there was a local chippy called Dirty Dora´s. Dora and her sister (both elderly ladies with humped backs and proper pinnies, did not serve any fish. They just did chips and scollaps (battered potato slices) and batter scraps. Bet Dora would have made pattie but too upmarket for the area probably!

Yep thats them!
Jo

Scollaps! that is what they are round here

mikleed wrote:I always thought Pate' was French ? ?

Mike.

I thought you meant pate ( as in french pate) too!
Thought perhaps you were being posh having pate and chips!
Expat

expat66 wrote:

mikleed wrote:I always thought Pate' was French ? ?

Mike.

I thought you meant pate ( as in french pate) too!
Thought perhaps you were being posh having pate and chips!
Expat

You wouldn't think we're all speaking the same language!!!!

Posh me?
It might be patty? Lovely mind!

Northern Lass » Sat Feb 26, 2011 1:21 pm

Scollaps! that is what they are round here

at first thought you were talking shell fish!

Language eh?

Jo

grangers14 wrote:Posh me?
It might be patty? Lovely mind!

Northern Lass » Sat Feb 26, 2011 1:21 pm

Scollaps! that is what they are round here

at first thought you were talking shell fish!

Language eh?

Jo

It's bad enough when we're all from the same country! I mean how many different names are there for the humble sandwich? I know a few (butty, sarnie, snap?, etc) but I bet there's more!

There's a weird slang going round here, and not having teenage kids probably doesn't help understanding it. If someone asks a question and you don't know the answer you say "fish" - how silly is that?

snoopysue wrote:

grangers14 wrote:Posh me?
It might be patty? Lovely mind!

Northern Lass » Sat Feb 26, 2011 1:21 pm

Scollaps! that is what they are round here

at first thought you were talking shell fish!

Language eh?

Jo

It's bad enough when we're all from the same country! I mean how many different names are there for the humble sandwich? I know a few (butty, sarnie, snap?, etc) but I bet there's more!

There's a weird slang going round here, and not having teenage kids probably doesn't help understanding it. If someone asks a question and you don't know the answer you say "fish" - how silly is that?

Bit Like "sick" and "wicked" when something is very good

I think the worst slang I've heard is when the youngsters have reversed the meaning of an existing slang to mean the exact opposite of what the adults mean. The danes have a slang "bear favour" which means that it's really not a good favour that's being done, so negative - the kids say it to mean something positive.
I don't know if it's a concious changing of the meaning, but it does cause misunderstandings, especially if the you don't know about the reversal of the meaning!

I've been doing that for years !! Saying the opposite to what you mean!!
What do you think of my rock cakes? Does my bum look big in this?
Rock cakes are cakes by the way not some slang !!

Rob wrote:I've been doing that for years !! Saying the opposite to what you mean!!
What do you think of my rock cakes? Does my bum look big in this?
Rock cakes are cakes by the way not some slang !!

Hope your misses isn't reading this