Ah yes. Fish and chips "with scraps" as they say in Leeds or "with bits" as Huddersfield folk say. In fact it's pronounced "wi'bits" and there used to be a fish and chip shop called Wi'Bits near the Huddersfield ground. [Just checksd - it's still there!] For those not ITK, scraps or bits are the crunchy pieces of cooked batter that come off the frying fish. They will throw a handful of scraps in with your food for no extra charge if you ask for it.
I'm sure I've heard Yorkshire described as Cod's County many a time.
When I were a lad, on the long walk home from town after a session, my mate and I used to stop off at a chippy in Beaconsfield Road, known as 'Dennis the Greek'. My mate asked him if huss was dogfish? He answered with 'no, it's huss'. I've always remembered that.
That was my grandmother's normal order until about 5 years ago, when covid and her dying meant she stopped getting fish and chips.
Agree with this and would say an awful lot of people including myself could not tell the difference in a blind taste test. A real shame when considering how tasty some other species are that we are so over reliant on these two.
Nothing annoys me more than two small fish given as a large, I don't want batter I want fish .... arrrrgggghhh
