Fish And Chips And ??????

[pusskin]

While reading my book (Josephine kennedy)

I keep coming across the word "Fish and chips with a DAB.

What on earth does dab mean to you up Norff???

[anneasquith]

a cigarette ?

[mallyh]

dandelion and burdock?

[jd_1984]

Mushy peas

[wiltsman]

I'm a softie Southerner, but in Geordie land I think it's like a fish cake but with a layer of potato included in it.

[hc4361]

It's called a scallop in the West Midlands. A thick, round, battered slice of potato.
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g668290-i74392343-Todmorden_West_Yorkshire_England.html

[pusskin]

LOL Fish and chips WITH a dab!

[Captain2]

Found this:
When I was a lad in Geordie-land you could get 'dab & chips' from the local chippie. The dab was like a fishcake but it had a layer of potato in the middle - it tasted delicious! Down south in East Anglia you just get met with a blank stare when you ask for such. Do any of you wonderful folk have a local chippy that offers such delights?

(We used to call them (potato) scallops)

[hc4361]

Here's the proof - look in the box on the right headed 'chips and fritters'.

http://www.hollytreefishandchips.co.uk/menu.html

[B00]

Can still get scallops here in Lancs :-)

[jno]

DAB
noun
any of several flatfishes of the genus Limanda, especially the European flatfish, L. limanda.

[pusskin]

Wow, they sound very tasty. Why not have them here down souff?

Must look that one when next at the chippie.

[hc4361]

Jno, dab is a fish but rarely (if ever) sold in fish shops.

[shaneystar2]

We call them scallops here .....in East Anglia,and they have them at our local chippy.
A dab to me is a flat fish and very delicious they are too.

[jno]

the name might have carried across, though, hc4361. Especially if eaten with potatofish.

[craft1948]

We call them scallops here in York, never been offered a dab, so as to speak.

[bloomwood]

2 thin slices of potato, fish in the middle, dipped in batter then deep fried, kids up here love them, our local chippy sells loads of them, £1.20 I think they are.

[anneasquith]

oh heck..........................informal name for a cigarette. TAB

[B00]

There's no fish in ours, just potato, wrapped lovingly in heart clogging gorgeous batter.

[mikey4444]

Listening to the radio while you are having your dinner perhaps ?

[aelmpvw]

it it's either potato or fish why would you have it with fish and chips?