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
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@Nickiquote On the one hand, this is why people mock British cuisine. And I can feel my arteries hardening at just the thought of eating one. Yet, on the other… so good.
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@Nickiquote I have not (continental North-Western Europe), but I probably should try it at some point.
@Nickiquote What I *have* eaten, quite often as a child, is leftover 'boerenkoolstamppot' (mashed potatoes and kale), fried to heat it back up, preferably forming a crispy crust, served on buttered sliced bread.
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@swisslet @sdarlington We can’t start talking about scraps, it’ll break the internet.
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@bobthomson70 In the north of Ireland, supper is either a fish supper, sausage supper etc, or a plate of buttered biscuits at bedtime.
@Nickiquote buttered biscuits before bed, class. We were talking the other day about how tea and toast was super common 21:00 snack before bedtime when we were tweens and teens.
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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?
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@Nickiquote What I *have* eaten, quite often as a child, is leftover 'boerenkoolstamppot' (mashed potatoes and kale), fried to heat it back up, preferably forming a crispy crust, served on buttered sliced bread.
@wynke Ah, so in British terminology that would be a bubble-and-squeak butty.
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@BenCotterill @Nickiquote Only three options? Your poll is going to need to go to a dozen or more to cater for all the regional ways to describe a small soft spherical(ish) item of bread.
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@Nickiquote buttered biscuits before bed, class. We were talking the other day about how tea and toast was super common 21:00 snack before bedtime when we were tweens and teens.
@Nickiquote buttered McVities digestives now on my mind.
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@BenCotterill @Nickiquote Only three options? Your poll is going to need to go to a dozen or more to cater for all the regional ways to describe a small soft spherical(ish) item of bread.
@BenCotterill @Nickiquote It also reminds me of one of my favourite anecdotes centred around a misunderstanding of the meaning of "baps", but for legal reasons I'm unable to repeat that in public on Sundays.
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But butty is the thing you make with the bap?? These are different things
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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'm a "Yes (rest of world)" but to be fair I only ever had chip butties in the UK.
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But butty is the thing you make with the bap?? These are different things
@PetraPhoenix @Nickiquote Depends where you’re from
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@wynke Ah, so in British terminology that would be a bubble-and-squeak butty.
@Nickiquote I suppose so, though I understand that kale isn't/wasn't used as much in the UK? (In the Netherlands it's quite a classic, though I'm not sure how classic the 'serve leftovers on bread' is.)
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@Nickiquote I suppose so, though I understand that kale isn't/wasn't used as much in the UK? (In the Netherlands it's quite a classic, though I'm not sure how classic the 'serve leftovers on bread' is.)
@wynke It would be your basic cabbage here, typically.
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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 (South Africa), but I've never heard it referred to as such.
P.S. We don't know what "crisps" are. Nor "french fries". The ones of which you speak, and the ones that come in a bag and are commonly eaten as snacks, are called chips, so you have to figure out from the context which one the speaker means. Which is generally not difficult... but yeah, in the case of your post, I think the clarification was necessary.
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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 the chip butty is one of the pinnacles of cuisine in these islands.
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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?
Yes - rest of world (Australia) - but then mum's English and dad's family are Scottish, so possibly not entirely unexpected.
(And echoing the sentiment of others, butter is not negotiable - has to be there.)
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@wynke It would be your basic cabbage here, typically.
@Nickiquote Yeah. That would probably be in the 'similar yet very different' category in terms of taste and texture.
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Just as an aside, in Scotland when you sit in at a chip shop you can order a “fish tea”. This is fish, chips, a pot of tea and buttered bread, essentially inviting you to make chip butties.
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@Nickiquote as a 56yr old Scotsman living in exile in London I've had my fair share of chip butties and fish teas.
Since marriage moved me to Englandshire they've been few and far between.
As an aside I haven't had butteries (Aberdeenshire rolls or "rowies") in over a decade either. I miss those too.
