[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

The term scallops and dabs seems interchangeable.
Incidentally, years ago we used to go to the chippy for something that was called a fishcake......it wasn't like the fish cakes that you get now...it was two slices of potato with a thin sliver of fish between them, battered and fried...you could also get something similar with a slice of corned beef in the middle...that was a John Bull.

Scallops in our chippy, when I were a young un was onion rings sandwiched between two potato slices, dipped in batter & fried.