They sound rank but the taste better than they sound



Depends where in the North you are, to me a patty is two slices of potato with some fish in between battered and deep fried.

Rightly or wrongly, we used to call that a scallop when I was a lad.

They're called scallops in Hull too. I've seen them variously described as fritters or "fish specials", although there's buggerall special about the fish inside them. Usually it's just a way of using belly-flaps that would simply get chucked otherwise and the reason you don't see them so much now is because most chippies couldn't fillet a fish for their lives

I tried a chicken one at an away game at Griffin Park.
It was oblong and a bit wobbly.
I bit off the corner and drank the contents.
Bloody awful ... but needs must when you're absolutely ravenous.

I'm aware of that but it is no recommendation or excuse.
It merely serves to reinforce the view that, apart from Rugby League, there is no reason to visit Leigh unless you really, really have to.

Rightly.

EDIT
No, I need to change that to "wrongly".
A scallop is a slice of potato (no fish), battered and fried.
Or fried without even the batter.

What you describe is a fishcake.

The fact that there are chip shops out there seeking and often achieving, on a heroically daily basis, the pinnacle of batter success in producing a light, deep golden, crunchy and crispy batter ... that philistines then want made into a soggy mess by curry or gravy is, to a man of my delicate sensibilities, sadly dispiriting.

Puddings seem to be Northern, I can't get any down here, chips without pudding is just disgraceful, it's just as big a scandal as no gravy.

I had one at a City game a couple of years ago: never again.

This!

Oh, and scallops are potato in batter - nowt else.

Of pies...Morrisons have a counter with loads of flavours. Garlic Chicken pies mmmmmmm

This really is becoming intolerable, firstly you embarrass yourself and insult us regarding a dish of immense historical value to us Leythers, the pie barm (only equalled by Lobby, the epitome of haut cuisine). You then go on to make a sarcastic remark that that our rugby team is worth watching when we know and you know it is not the case.
The dishes pie barm, chips n gravy and lobby can be found in Leythrousse Gastronomique

Do I get extra Northern points if I note that I do make a mean meat and potato pie. With homemade pastry – using lard?

Of course.
But then there's the inverse, the West-of-Pennines potato and meat pie.
And the no-meat-at-all version that I had in Preston, known as a butter pie which I sadly confess was nowhere near as bad as I expected.

100% and it said i was somewhere from near Newcastle. !!!

Sorry ... in my kindness there lurked heinous cruelty.


I understand that the latest edition of said hefty tome has now been updated to include puddings moistened with green water in which peas have previously been boiled.

Ha! Very good, no doubt a fine and noble tome.

I remember as a kid and playing against North West Counties at some god forsaken place in Sintellins, after they had absolutely annihilated us were were served some sort of vague stew with a piece of edible card board, the Lancashire lads were lapping it up, it was very strange and I have no idea what it was.

Whatever you do DO NOT go on the Leigh messageboard and ask how Lobby is made.... You'll start WWIII!!!

I did get told off once when I blogged about Lancashire hot pot – my recipe uses lamb's kidney and I was told that the dish never uses it. In fact, the recipe came from a book of Lancashire cookery by a Lancastrian: the point with many of these dishes is that there are probably as many versions as there are people who've ever cooked it.

I don't put kidneys in anything, can't stand them



One thing I do miss in the chippy since moving to Carlisle is steak pudding. Nowhere (chippies that is) north of the original Lancashire border seems to sell them.

Nope, what he was describing is a fish scallop. A fishcake is the potato and fish mixed together and deep fried

Or shallow fried.

You are correct my friend.

^^THIS^^

Quite how anyone could bring themselves to eat an organ that a sheep or pig has used to strain p[iI[/iss is totally beyond me

Yet are happy to eat bottom feeders who eat all the in the sea !