Fishcakes should be round, covered in breadcrumbs and fried. Love them.

  • PDJ replied to this.

    Along_the_Wire Exactly, which is why I was a bit taken aback when I was handed it - thought they’d got the order wrong. I pointed to what I always had known as a fishcake in the display and was then informed that’s what they call a rissole.

    I’m not from Yorkshire originally but have spent about 8 years living in it at some point or other and can confirm it’s part of the regional dialect. All the chippys I’ve been to in the county use these terminologies.

    Long story short, if you want a fishcake in Yorkshire ask for a rissole instead.

        PDJ Rissole is (obviously) a French term, which means pretty much the same thing, though it need not be fish.

        • PDJ replied to this.

            bosstrabs That’s true, I’ve never seen the word used on a menu in a Fish & Chip shop outside of Yorkshire though.

            It would be slightly less confusing if the menu stated “Yorkshire Fishcake” and “Fish Rissole” but I imagine that it’d still baffle most people from outside of the region who don’t know the local dialect. It’s by the by anyway - most menus just plainly state Fishcake and Rissole.

              Millsy I’ll tell you that for owt!

              ‘for nowt’ (I’ll tell you that for nothing)

                  I’ll tell you that for owt means ’I’ll tell you that for something’ which doesn’t make as much sense and is less likely to be said (although may be said mistakenly)

                    It that slop reviewer guy a known internet personality round ya’lls parts?

                      Christ no.

                      I couldn’t imagine him in Locanda Locatelli for example.

                        bosstrabs I’ve picked this up from my Derby in laws. Sweet people but not the brightest candles, so I will now be pulling them up on it at every family occasion in my best home counties accent.

                          Whenever one of these is posted I am compelled to watch the entire thing. I’ve been going around all day exclaiming “ooh look at this!” at everything I see. That burger he builds is an absolute poem. Two beef patties, grilled chicken, nachos, salad, mashed potatoes, gravy…. I lost count!

                          • Heno replied to this.

                            zackster yeah I watched about 3 of them today in work, an hour well wasted

                              Heno watched this one earlier. A stone cold classic of the genre. Just some bloke eating a fry up from an elderly woman selling cooked breakfasts from her house, on his own fold up table and chair, on a terraced street. Standard.

                                  I imagine he’d be fucking hell to wait on. “Where’s me apple pie??” in the doorway with no mask on.

                                  Millsy elderly woman selling cooked breakfasts from her house

                                  That can’t be legal