A Hedge End fish and chip shop manager has amassed more than two million views on social media after posting a video of ‘batter scraps’.

Never has there been a more highly debated topic among the chippy lovers and staff-a-like than this - what do you call the tiny bits of batter left in the heated display cabinet?

Manager of JHenry’s Fish and Chips on Upper Northam Road, Sonny Lee, took to Facebook and TikTok to find out the most popular names for the chip shop tradition, often known as asking for a ‘bag of scraps’.

Sonny Lee, 29Sonny Lee, 29 (Image: Submitted) In less than 24 hours after posting the video to the LeeFishandChips Facebook page, Sonny had racked up more than a million views.

Sonny said: “We posted the video on Facebook and in about 20 minutes it had reached 10,000 views – I thought blimey, that’s gone down well.

“It quickly grew to 100,000 and by the time I went to bed that day it had hit 200,000 – it was just going up so fast I could barely believe it.

“At one time it had another 50,000 views every time I refreshed the page.”

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The video has now totalled up more than 1.6 million views on Facebook and 700,000 views on TikTok.  

@leefishandchips What do you call them?? 🤷‍♂️ #viraltiktok #viral_video #viral #tik_tok #fyp #fypp #chipsgottalent #chips #chippy #fish #scraps ♬ original sound - The Lee Group

 

The Sonny and the Lee family at JHenry’s Fish & Chips, Hedge End, has been experimenting with social media in a bid to increase the chippy’s online presence.

Back in May, Sonny gained an impressive 1.2 million views across Facebook and TikTok after battering a steak bake from Greggs – a record he has now broken.

He added: “I’ve loved hearing all the names and they definitely vary based on where you liver in the country.

“The top responses have been scraps – which seems to be more common in the south and in London.

“Scribbles was another funny one; people in Devon seem to call them scribbles; and batter bits were also a good one.

“Its so strange, people have come into the shop from Portsmouth and Bournemouth and said: “you’re the guy from the scraps video” – it's been great.”