I Wondered why the "Scallops" were so cheap!?!!

[Hvr]

What a flaky conversation this has turned into :!:

It'll last awhile longer because it has mussels.

 

[samh004]

I've run into the scallop issue before... wasn't sure why they were such a hit... and didn't look like what I'd usually think a scallop to look like

 

[JohnK]

Have been called potato scallops (funnily enough pronounced scolleps by most) since at least 1972 in Sydney.

They taste great but the cost these days is outrageous.

Fish and chips with potato scallops. Yummy....

 

[straitman]

Have been called potato scallops (funnily enough pronounced scolleps by most) since at least 1972 in Sydney.

They taste great but the cost these days is outrageous.

Fish and chips with potato scallops. Yummy....

The price of chips is so stupid these days so we don't even bother with the chips and just order fish, potato scallops* and real scallops.

* .. or what ever you want to call them.

 

[Julesmac]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

I remember doing something similar, also a heap of chips wrapped in newspaper for 3d

Did anyone remember saving newspapers and selling the rolls, tied neatly with string, to the butcher or fish & chip shop?

Does anyone order anything but 'minimum chips'?

 

[straitman]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Did anyone remember saving newspapers and selling the rolls, tied neatly with string, to the butcher or fish & chip shop?

Does anyone order anything but 'minimum chips'?

Yes & Yes*

* See post #34.

 

[juddles]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

I'm from Tasmania ( yes i know that explains a lot )
a scallop is demoting that is white and orange and dredged from the sea
Not made from Potato !!

Boody Tasmanians!! They always hold the rest of Australia back. How hard is it to ¨get¨ two very different concepts. Of course a ¨scallop´ is a sort of seafood. And of course a ¨potato scallop¨ is a a delicious slab of potato encrusted with batter, perfect with vinegar and salt. How hard is this stuff??

Bloody Tasmanians.......Throw them two ideas and they lose it...........

 

[Major]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Did anyone remember saving newspapers and selling the rolls, tied neatly with string, to the butcher or fish & chip shop?

Does anyone order anything but 'minimum chips'?

Now that you mention it I do remember, but the stack had to be neat

 

[DC3]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

This is what scallops look like, grilled and ready to eat. Yum. . No potato in sight.

 

[OATEK]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

This is what scallops look like, grilled and ready to eat. Yum. . No potato in sight.

That's why they are not called "Potato Scallops"!

 

[DC3]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Yes, no potato in that picture. Only scallops.

 

[medhead]

In fact as a child we called those things sea scallops. Sea scallop, potato scallop. It's not that hard.

The only time I've ever heard of a potato scallop being called just a scallop is that news paper story. Perhaps someone has made a mistake.

 

[irv]

From NSW born in 1958;

School Case was port or your bag

Potato Scallops were just that, Scallops

Long leg swimmers were togs, speedo's were scungies

 

[DC3]

Is the "potato scallop" a NSW thing then? I had never heard of them when I lived in South Aust and Qld.

I remember coming to Sydney and going into a Fish & Chip shop with a friend who ordered something that I thought was going to be (sea)scallops. I didn't really hear the whole order but I remember " ........... scallops". I though "wow, scallops". What a disappointment when they turned out to just be potato cakes.

 

[medhead]

I grew up in Queensland talking about potato scallops. But never just "scallop" to describe a deep fried potato product. Scallop alone always referred to the animal.

I think the author has made a mistake.

 

[amaroo]

I grew up in Queensland talking about potato scallops. But never just "scallop" to describe a deep fried potato product. Scallop alone always referred to the animal.

I think the author has made a mistake.

+ 1 for this QLD'er

 

[tuapekastar]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

My grandma is a queenslander and always used togs...

Wouldn't have been a good look if she didn't!

 

[mandja]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Growing up in Victoria

The round potato things were (and are) - potato cakes
The fishy molluscs - scallops
Speaking of fried goodies, are dimmies (dim sims) called that elsewhere?
Swimming costume- bathers, but now budgies.
The rubber sandals - thongs - other places I think flip flops or jangles(?)

Speaking as were of Goolwa, I was there a few years ago and went to the café on the Murray....best EVER burgers !!

 

[mandja]

Incidentally, I suspect that some of you call Potato Cakes "scallops" because they are shaped like the shell of the mollusc.

 

[JohnK]

Is the "potato scallop" a NSW thing then? I had never heard of them when I lived in South Aust and Qld.

"Scallops" was all you needed to say.