There are 2 types of Pattie in most Cumbrian chippies. The first one is a layer of potato, then onion, then sage, onion and potato again and deep fried. The second one is a meat Pattie where a layer of mince replaces the sage in the first one. The one with cheese is not a Pattie but is a rounder - you can get a cheese rounder or a meat rounder which are spherical whereas the Pattie is a flatter disc shape.

On the subject of chippies I'll never forget the look I got when, after ordering fish and chips somewhere in Essex, I asked for scrapings on it. They had absolutely no idea what I was on about and looked at me like I was mental.

The ones in Carlise are spherical but they still call the patties

Aye well, that's city folk for you......

90% Northerner and hated by the Daily Wail

Cottom's Hot Pot.

I'll ponder that while I'm sorting out the five bass and one English Channel squid (over 2' in length), that I caught today.

Meanwhile you can ponder the physiology of animals, especially which parts have the greatest concentration of toxins.

Most cooking will not kill toxins and certainly won't do anything to minimise the effects of pollution, that's what organs like liver & kidneys do

What sort of toxins you expecting to pick up from a hill breed Welsh sheep?

And if you o fancy a bit of offal, rlhere are a couple of recipesrl.

Yet it was you who started the posts about Kidneys filtering urine and why you would not eat them?

I enjoyed my wild venison today but i do like some nice sea bass

Yes because the only offal ever sold comes fron hill-bred Welsh sheep

Long before the CJD or BSE problems surfaced, I made a conscious decision to eliminate offal from my diet. I wasn't impressed with the amount of chemicals and pharmaceuticals that were being used in rearing animals for consumption and figured that such additives would likely concentrate in vital organs. As for kidneys, I'd never eaten them knowingly, if kidneys are being cooked, all I can smell is urine.

As for fish, I tend mostly to eat only what I've caught myself, especially in the case of cod. I don't eat much tuna (high mercury levels) and never knowingly eat farmed salmon (intensively farmed and packed with antibiotucs and other chemicals). Some fish and seafood can contain undesirable elements but they are naturally ocurring and not been deliberately introduced to increase yield or profit

That is also a fishcake, granted.
However, what you call a fish scallop is nonetheless (correctly, round here) called a fishcake.

I may have mentioned this before but hey-ho ... There used to be a corner shop at Hollingworth Lake (Littleborough area) that had an A-board outside proclaiming "Last black peas before M62".