Re: truly a north-south thing?
"* scraps, aka bits: The bits of batter that falls off the fish in the fryer."
AKA batter, bits, batterbits and, according my late father, scramptions, although I never heard anyone but him call it by that name. BTW, this is Tyneside, north of Yorkshire, and every chippy will ask if you want it with your chips, no extra charge because basically it's "waste".