I was involuntarily listening to two old ladies talking loudly to each other the other day.
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I was involuntarily listening to two old ladies talking loudly to each other the other day. One, to the astonishment of the other, said she had never had a chip butty.
Being a true man of the world, I have had many chip butties in my time.
FYI, if needed, a chip butty is chips (ie french fries, NOT crisps) sandwiched between bread slices or in a bap/bun. Arguably it should be buttered, but we will ignore that for the purposes of the following poll:
Q. HAVE YOU EVER EATEN A CHIP BUTTY?
@Nickiquote I can’t believe no one has mentioned that it’s big fat chip shop chips, not skinny little fries. It’s big, it’s messy, the chips are fat and squishy not crunchy, and the bread has to be the cheapest white breadcake (roll, bap, bun) smeared with margarine out of a big square tub that will later be recycled as a receptacle for rock cakes. It can have salt and vinegar on if you’re fancy. (Image from Reddit UKfood) My local chippy has them for £3.20.
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I was involuntarily listening to two old ladies talking loudly to each other the other day. One, to the astonishment of the other, said she had never had a chip butty.
Being a true man of the world, I have had many chip butties in my time.
FYI, if needed, a chip butty is chips (ie french fries, NOT crisps) sandwiched between bread slices or in a bap/bun. Arguably it should be buttered, but we will ignore that for the purposes of the following poll:
Q. HAVE YOU EVER EATEN A CHIP BUTTY?
@Nickiquote French fries?
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@Nickiquote answered no/UK as I've lived in the UK for 20 years... but now wonder if that should have been no/RoW as maybe this is a thing people do as children rather than adults. Do you eat such a thing as an adult?
I've heard of the concept of course, not sure if I have ever seen anyone do it.
@yvan Can confirm that adults do eat chip butties.
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@yvan Can confirm that adults do eat chip butties.
@Nickiquote I concur. @yvan
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@Nickiquote does it count if it’s mashed potatoes instead?
@jqmcd Sorry, no.
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@Nickiquote I haven't, but I have had a bacon butty! Visiting family in the UK, we were on a highway and saw banners advertising them for something ridiculous like £1 at the next rest area. Nothing in the name suggested food to our American ears
Our driver felt this ignorance had to be rectified, and so we ended up with a sack of bacon butties and everybody got one and we ate them standing up outside the car, butter dripping down our hands. One of the most decadent things I've ever eaten.@sbourne I worked for a law firm once that tried to get everyone to come in early for a breakfast meeting and to do so they got the catering staff to make a platter of bacon butties.
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I was involuntarily listening to two old ladies talking loudly to each other the other day. One, to the astonishment of the other, said she had never had a chip butty.
Being a true man of the world, I have had many chip butties in my time.
FYI, if needed, a chip butty is chips (ie french fries, NOT crisps) sandwiched between bread slices or in a bap/bun. Arguably it should be buttered, but we will ignore that for the purposes of the following poll:
Q. HAVE YOU EVER EATEN A CHIP BUTTY?
@Nickiquote Yes, but my dad was a Yorkshire lad, and taught me the joys of a chip butty
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I was involuntarily listening to two old ladies talking loudly to each other the other day. One, to the astonishment of the other, said she had never had a chip butty.
Being a true man of the world, I have had many chip butties in my time.
FYI, if needed, a chip butty is chips (ie french fries, NOT crisps) sandwiched between bread slices or in a bap/bun. Arguably it should be buttered, but we will ignore that for the purposes of the following poll:
Q. HAVE YOU EVER EATEN A CHIP BUTTY?
@Nickiquote A popular nutritional supplement where I grew up. Along with Sunday Tea of winkles on brown bread with vinegar.
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@Nickiquote Yes, but my dad was a Yorkshire lad, and taught me the joys of a chip butty
@Nickiquote my only quibble with your description is it should not be "French fries" (which are so far from pommes pont neuf it's not funny), but good double fried, thick cut, chips/fries.
The kind of chips you get from a fish & chip shop
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@Sarahw @Son_of_a_George Basically because it’s cheap and filling. But also! Tasty.
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@Nickiquote
Non-UK folks may see references to names for bread that may need explaining. There are many local / regional names for a bead roll and many styles too, these can include, but are not limited to: rolls, buns, baps, barms, barm cakes, cobs, batch and stotties. Any can be used for a chip butty. Anything from two slices of mass produced white sliced loaf, fancy artisan sourdough, soft flour dusted bap or crusty bread roll. Chips, between two bits of buttered bread equals a chip butty.@bodluricon @Nickiquote Let me make a claim that my childhood favourite - end of a baguette, hollowed out, internally buttered, seasoned with salt and vinegar, stuffed with chips - also constitutes a chip butty despite only (conceptually) being one "slice" of bread. -
I was involuntarily listening to two old ladies talking loudly to each other the other day. One, to the astonishment of the other, said she had never had a chip butty.
Being a true man of the world, I have had many chip butties in my time.
FYI, if needed, a chip butty is chips (ie french fries, NOT crisps) sandwiched between bread slices or in a bap/bun. Arguably it should be buttered, but we will ignore that for the purposes of the following poll:
Q. HAVE YOU EVER EATEN A CHIP BUTTY?
@Nickiquote in my hiking days the café at the bottom of Grindsbrook, a common starting point for Kinder Scout and the Pennine Way, did the most amazing chip butties. Bottom half of a buttered bap in a bowl, cover with chips until you can't see the bread then balance the top of the bap on top.
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@Nickiquote When I get fish and chips I like to bring more beige to the party by indulging in a chip buttie
@lukeharby @Nickiquote and yet you post from infosec.exchange. curious
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I was involuntarily listening to two old ladies talking loudly to each other the other day. One, to the astonishment of the other, said she had never had a chip butty.
Being a true man of the world, I have had many chip butties in my time.
FYI, if needed, a chip butty is chips (ie french fries, NOT crisps) sandwiched between bread slices or in a bap/bun. Arguably it should be buttered, but we will ignore that for the purposes of the following poll:
Q. HAVE YOU EVER EATEN A CHIP BUTTY?
@Nickiquote buy a small round loaf (price not remembered), and get the baker to cut it in half, split it with a mate and buy a cone of chips (10p) pull the inner bread out and eat, fill remaining crust with chips and scoff the lot. Often accompanied by a frozen ‘jublie’ (also 10p, I think) which is a plastic carton of e-numbers and water purporting to be a child’s drink (think capri-sun with more sugar and e-numbers).
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I was involuntarily listening to two old ladies talking loudly to each other the other day. One, to the astonishment of the other, said she had never had a chip butty.
Being a true man of the world, I have had many chip butties in my time.
FYI, if needed, a chip butty is chips (ie french fries, NOT crisps) sandwiched between bread slices or in a bap/bun. Arguably it should be buttered, but we will ignore that for the purposes of the following poll:
Q. HAVE YOU EVER EATEN A CHIP BUTTY?
@Nickiquote
Some 55 years ago, a university department in a northern city put on a social evening for new students, in a pub. "Do you do food?" "Yes we'll put on a spread for you".
The food arrived, white sliced bread, margarine and a mountain of chips, with 'sauces' of course. Chip butties!
It freaked the southerners a bit. -
@Nickiquote
Non-UK folks may see references to names for bread that may need explaining. There are many local / regional names for a bead roll and many styles too, these can include, but are not limited to: rolls, buns, baps, barms, barm cakes, cobs, batch and stotties. Any can be used for a chip butty. Anything from two slices of mass produced white sliced loaf, fancy artisan sourdough, soft flour dusted bap or crusty bread roll. Chips, between two bits of buttered bread equals a chip butty.@bodluricon @Nickiquote
North Manchester: muffins.
South Manchester: barm cakes
Probably the Mercia/Northumbria border.
Boundary a bit blurred these days. -
Would recommend, but it's possible that a lot of that is nostalgia
@bigvimto @ambientspace @Nickiquote I had one a month or so ago. Air-fried frozen chips so most definitely a bit rubbish. I may try for a Totnes baked artisan sourdough with home made sweet potato fries in the summer to claim some middle class credentials and wax lyrically about how the original was less appreciated but tasted better because in those days we couldn’t appreciate quality home cooked food, probably as a result of it being the early eighties and everyone was skint.
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@Nickiquote not like that but we in Belgium have the "mitraillette" which is half a baguette filled with your choice of friterie meat (think weird sausage, kebab, pitta meat, hamburger meat, ...) and fries, topped of course with your choice of sauce.
@Verovitry @Nickiquote
And those are real chips, not silly 'French fries'! -
I was involuntarily listening to two old ladies talking loudly to each other the other day. One, to the astonishment of the other, said she had never had a chip butty.
Being a true man of the world, I have had many chip butties in my time.
FYI, if needed, a chip butty is chips (ie french fries, NOT crisps) sandwiched between bread slices or in a bap/bun. Arguably it should be buttered, but we will ignore that for the purposes of the following poll:
Q. HAVE YOU EVER EATEN A CHIP BUTTY?
@Nickiquote yes and, here it's a gatsby. but the chip gatsby is for the end of the month. beginning of the month is for the marsala steak gatsby
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I was involuntarily listening to two old ladies talking loudly to each other the other day. One, to the astonishment of the other, said she had never had a chip butty.
Being a true man of the world, I have had many chip butties in my time.
FYI, if needed, a chip butty is chips (ie french fries, NOT crisps) sandwiched between bread slices or in a bap/bun. Arguably it should be buttered, but we will ignore that for the purposes of the following poll:
Q. HAVE YOU EVER EATEN A CHIP BUTTY?
@Nickiquote I've had many a chip butty, but never from the chip shop.
Chip shop chips, salt and vinegar, buttered white bread, no sauce, prepared at home.
This is the only circumstance where I eat white sliced bread (well, alongside brethren mashed potato sandwich and pot noodle sandwich).
If you've never tried a pot noodle sandwich, you should give it a try. Messy heaven.
(a large forkful of noodles is sufficient)
