The chip butty, according to wikipedia, is a sandwich made with bread and french fries, often with some sort of sauce such as tomato sauce (ie ketchup) or brown sauce. It was originally considered a working-class meal and was served in pubs.
The chip butty, according to me, is a sandwich made with one folded slice of white bread (slightly grainy is acceptable if the only dairy dictates it), buttered (or margarined), loaded to the brim with hot chips from a fish and chip shop near a beach, slathered in tomato sauce. They are particularly enjoyable at about 5pm, if hungover, washed down with some sort of soft drink, as a precursor to a night on the gins, beers, Cranium (where the girls beat the boys) and 500, by a fire with a ramshackle group of friends on the Sunday night of a long weekend.
Sounds like a dreamy long weekend. 500! Lucky! I've been longing to get the chance to play it again, having learned it over the summer, but it's no fun with just two people.
ReplyDeleteIf given the choice, I like my chip butties in a white bread roll, and never ever margarined, but that's just me :)
A chip bitty must be in white bread, cheaper the better with far too much butter and sauce of choice. I even had lard on the butter as a kid but don't tell the food police.
ReplyDeleteMmmm Chip butties are the best. White fluffy bread, butter that melts from the hot chips, watties tomato sauce... YUM.
ReplyDeleteIt's also good with a tangy mayonnaise and cottage cheese, but sometimes you just can't beat the original!