What are these called?

[Eighteeteewhy]

When I was young we used to travel up to north Wales to see family. I always looks forward to going to the local swimming baths because of this snack they used to sell.

They were a crunchy snack served warm in a paper bag. They looked a bit like pork scratchings and similar texture. I don't think they were a meat product though.

The name I remember is 'grits' but googling that just brings up a nasty American looking gloop.



Anyone know or remember these?



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[sherman]

Sounds like bits of batter. Its the excess dribbles of batter that drip off just before you place your battered item in the deep fat fryer. They go all crispy as they are only skimmed off every so often during the day/ night.

[dienamic]

A bit like a warm quaver in a paper bag?? Our local swimming baths used to do them too, can't remember the name though

[Gaffer]

Scraps.

Basically bits of fried batter, when I was a kid my chippy in Wigan used to drop batter in for us kids and we paid 10p for a massive bag of them, cover in salt and vinegar and go sit by the railway tracks to watch the trains go past..

Claire

[Eighteeteewhy]

dienamic said:

A bit like a warm quaver in a paper bag?? Our local swimming baths used to do them too, can't remember the name though

Yep, that's them

They were in a heated glass cabinet, with a brand name on, a but like a popcorn machine.


Not scraps from a chippy.

[Tanguero]

General Custers Grits it would seem...

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201...

Still in business in Northampton by the look of it.

GENERAL CUSTER GRITS
104 Bunting Rd
Northampton
NN2 6EE

Edited by Tanguero on Monday 25th February 13:50

[dienamic]

That's them, I even found a photo...

[Eighteeteewhy]

dienamic said:

That's them, I even found a photo...

Love it.

That's pretty close though.

[Eighteeteewhy]

Tanguero said:

General Custers Grits it would seem...

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201...

Still in business in Northampton by the look of it.

GENERAL CUSTER GRITS
104 Bunting Rd
Northampton
NN2 6EE

Edited by Tanguero on Monday 25th February 13:50

Maybe not.

https://www.duedil.com/company/03093180/general-cu...

[SwanJack]

IIRC you could also get a homebaking/diy version. A quick google suggests they might have been called Magic Puffs. Remember them as opaque, thin, 2inch by half inch hard uncooked pasta type product that you placed in hot oil, and that turned them quaver-esqe.

[jackh707]

SwanJack said:

IIRC you could also get a homebaking/diy version. A quick google suggests they might have been called Magic Puffs. Remember them as opaque, thin, 2inch by half inch hard uncooked pasta type product that you placed in hot oil, and that turned them quaver-esqe.

Some kind of rudimentary prawn cracker by the sound of that?

[Mr Gearchange]

SwanJack said:

IIRC you could also get a homebaking/diy version. A quick google suggests they might have been called Magic Puffs. Remember them as opaque, thin, 2inch by half inch hard uncooked pasta type product that you placed in hot oil, and that turned them quaver-esqe.

You used to get those things with Vesta chow mein

[Bonefish Blues]

Used to hang around stalls at dog/agricultural shows that sold these for domestic frying when I was little. There were samples every 5 mins or so.

[Badvok]

Mr Gearchange said:

You used to get those things with Vesta chow mein

best part of the meal!

I remember my mother serving us this adventurous foreign cuisine in the 70's

[chris333]

My local tesco used to sell these which are the same type of thing: pop them in hot oil and they blow up like prawn crackers in a few seconds. Very yummy!




(As the packet in the photo is best before 2010, its clearly a while since I bought any, so no idea if they still do them!)