Slices of potato dipped in batter and deep fried.
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Scallop: And all other words are nothing more than Satan’s trickery.
and it’s a scOllop not a scAllop! (lol)
As a child they were potato cakes, my adult life has been in northern NSW and I now call them potato scallops
Aa a kid in Broken hill we called the scallops since moving to Melbourne I call them potato cakes
Being raised Jewish, I’ve only encountered these in a Jewish context, so I would call them by the Jewish English term “latke“. However, if I was trying to describe them to a non-Jewish person, I would say “potato pancake”
Context dependent. At a takeaway I’d order scallops, at a fresh/cooked fish shop I’d need to specify.
hash brown. But only because I ate them first at Maccas.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen these served in my part of Australia.
I said scallop growing up, now I would only say potato cake (don’t even think scallop)
I say potato cake because that’s what it was growing up in Victoria.
I started using potato scallop when I moved to Sydney
I was surprised to learn that a scallop was a marine animal. I thought they were only potatoes.
I’ve learnt to say differently when in Victoria
If I was in a shop also selling Tasmanian scallops I would say ‘potato scallop“.
If the potato was mixed with other things into a patty, I would call it a potato cake, but just slices I don’t have a word for.
if they were sold anywhere, I have been I have not noticed
In Queensland they say potato scallop
More likely to use potato cake but use potato fritter when talking to my dad and my QLD family.
not an Adelaide thing when I was a kid!
Only because I first saw these in Melbourne
Partner from NSW calls it potato scallop
Potato cake in Vic
potato cakes are where it has been mashed up first and I will fight anyone who disagrees
Potato scallop is only used when speaking with NSW family.
Potato Scallops as a kid
Scallop in WA, cake in Vic
Scallop until moving to Melbourne
Scollop
That’s what the shops called them, so that’s what I call them. I would never use the word “scallop” without the word “potato” when making an order, though, because I’m a vegetarian, and I don’t want to risk get a seafood scallop when travelling interstate.
Things got confusing when I moved to Victoria! Here a ‘scallop’ refers to what we called a ‘Tasmanian scallop’ in Sydney. These days I call it a ‘potato cake’.
This causes much discussion between my Victorian born parents and us NSW kids!
usually scallop, sometimes with ‘potato’ if it needs to be differentiated from the shellfish
Varies between states
When I grew up, they were scallops or potato scallops, in Victoria they’re potato cakes.
When I was a kid growing up in Victoria near the border of NSW, we called the potato scallops however living in Melbourne I now call them potato cakes
Whichever is written in the Fish’n’chips shop
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