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 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).
1982 or thereabouts, in a South Wales steel town. -
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)
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@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
@mensrea I’d never heard of that, how excellent.
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@mensrea I’d never heard of that, how excellent.
@Nickiquote i'll just leave this here ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk_x9snjz3o
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@Nickiquote I did give a 70 year old English man his first chip butty recently. I was shocked.
@Mick @Nickiquote I am shocked at the very essence of chip butty. And I'm from Eastern Europe.
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@jqmcd Sorry, no.
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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?
This sounds like a cousin of the Bronx favorite "butter roll" which is kind of like a buttered roll, but more of a butter sandwich. A deli roll untoasted slathered with butter and cut like a sandwich. Cheapest item on the menu.
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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 answered yes/UK although I'm not UK based anymore. I'll still eat chip butties, even if they have to be explained every time to looks of horror and amusement
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This sounds like a cousin of the Bronx favorite "butter roll" which is kind of like a buttered roll, but more of a butter sandwich. A deli roll untoasted slathered with butter and cut like a sandwich. Cheapest item on the menu.
OMG a butter roll now costs 1 dollar. It was always 30 cents for years then they went to 50 cents and it was like that last year.
But now you need a whole dollar for a butter sandwich.
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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 standard after work snack on the way up the road after a supermarket evening shift, Milngavie chippy, roll ‘n’ chips
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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 haven't, in the traditional sense of the term, but this is choice, rather than some mysterious absence in my life. I've never wanted to, it's not a flavour and texture profile that appeals to me. I've also never had the classic crisp sandwich with white bread, margarine, ordinary crisps.
I have, however, enjoyed many sandwiches that contain chips (and crisps, though not at the same time) alongside other things.
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@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.
@spanghero @bigvimto @Nickiquote "Baguette de frites de patate douce avec feta."
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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 Absolute requirement of having fish and chips is some kind of buttered bread for the buttie! Even better if you sneak some mushy peas in there. -
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?
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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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 have not (continental North-Western Europe), but I probably should try it at some point.
