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Gosh yes, I remember asking for the bits of batter in the chip shop, we called them 'scraps' in Stalybridge, where I was brought up, and I have never forgotten the chippie proprietor's daughter Joan, who was terribly sophisticated at 11 years old ,having migrated from the big city of Manchester, and who introduced me to sex. (It involved doing a lot of innocent peering at each other, and marvelling at the difference!) I suppose in those days you went to the chip shop if you were skint and couldn't afford better, but have you been for a takeaway fish supper lately? Even in our part of Cornwall, where it tends to be cheaper to live, it would be about 7 or 8 quid for 2 people. Sorry, this has nothing to do with my original query, but all your most interesting reminiscences got me going. Perhaps you all might have more to add? ......Greenrook