SCRAP MAP 2.0 – I made a linguistic map of alternative terms for the free ‘scraps’ you get from a chippy (leftover pieces of fried batter). I’m posting it here so people can make corrections / suggestions.

11 comments

1. Damn, batter is really that local to me? I don’t know why I thought it spread further, at least the general north east

2. I’m not sure if the person from Northumberland was pulling your leg, but I’ve only ever heard them called bits/batter/scraps up here, depending on who’s asking.

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   Also, hello to all the tabloid press, rubbing their hands in glee that they’ll get more column inches – google “names of batter scraps” and you’ll find dozens of tabloid stories discussing us discussing this last time this was asked

3. South Devon – always known them as Squiggles.

4. Mid Wales always called them batter bits

5. Tracing my family tree movements:

   – Grandparents both sides ‘scraps’,
   – parents met in the ‘batter bits & scratchings’ area,
   – before moving to ‘usually no scraps’ when I was born.

6. Don’t understand how places have no scraps, how are they frying their battered items and not getting any bits coming off?

7. We had a fish and chip shop in central Wiltshire (which is strangely empty on this map) and we definitely called them scraps.

8. In Northumberland always referred to them as scraps and never had them not know what I meant

9. AFAIK in South Wales we’ve always called them scrumps.

10. Fucking London and Sussex wankers think their too good for scraps? (I say this as someone from London.)

11. AFAIK, Cardiff and South Wales in general have always called them Scrumps – Crispies are those really small chips that are super fried to the point there’s no soft potato left, just crunch