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scallop
noun a thin slice of potato dipped in batter and deep-fried. Compare potato cake, potato fritter, potato scallop.
Contributor's comments: In Victoria, a scallop is a shellfish dipped in batter and deep-fried.
Contributor's comments: In Tasmania, a scallop is definitely a shellfish, also the meat from same fish, may be eaten raw, marinated, deep fried and even curried.
Contributor's comments: Certainly when I was growing up in Geelong in the 1950s, the word "scallop" was what we used at the local fish & chip shop run by Greeks. It is my recollection that this seemed to be changed to "potato cake" when Tasmanian scallops (the real seafood ones) began to be more commonly sold.
Contributor's comments: In Newcastle NSW, a scallop is basically what is known in S.A. as a potato cake or a potato fritter. A thin slice of potato dipped in batter and deep fried.
Contributor's comments: Scallop in this usage is as in scalloped potatos. These are not potato cakes.
Contributor's comments: I've been to most parts of NSW, where a scallop is usually a battered potato slice, and which is spelt correctly on the menu of a take-away about 50 % of the time. It can also be a mollusc, but I think they have other names.
Contributor's comments: A shellfish delicacy in Tasmania; a potato cake in some other parts of the country: "A dozen scallops and a couple of dollars worth of chips, please."
Contributor's comments: As a Brisbanite who moved to Melbourne in the mid 1970's. I fell into the trap of ordering a scallop at the local fish and chip shop, when I really should have asked for a potato cake according to the local lingo.
Contributor's comments: Scallops in the Hunter are definitely slices of potato dipped in batter and deep fried.
Contributor's comments: The term scallop was used in Wagga to describe a thin deep fried potato wafer dipped in batter. We also called the Tassi mollusc as a Tasmanian Scallop.
Contributor's comments: I knew "scallops" as battered potato slices (SE QLD 50's & 60's) but learned to ask for potato cakes in Victoria in the 70s (or I'd get sea scallops) & later in NSW they were "potato scallops" not just scallops.
Contributor's comments: Used in Broken Hill in the 1960s, but not in Adelaide.
Contributor's comments: Quite confusing when I moved from SE Qld to Victoria. In the 60's and 70's in SE. QLD a scallop was a battered and fried slice of potato, and a potato cake was bubble and squeak, a fried pattie of mixed vegetable mash.
Contributor's comments: In Melbourne in the sixties, we used "scallop" for potato scallop. You had to ask for "Tasmanian scallops" to get the seafood.
Contributor's comments: I was born in Victoria where a Potato Cake was the term to describe these. When we moved to Nth Qld (Cairns) as kids, we quickly learned that a) the term 'potato cake' was not recognised and b) scallops were indeed the same thing up here.