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yeah but they're not SUPPOSED to be healthy! It's what you do with left over chips from fish/pie and chip friday evenings - chips butter (ketchup of your choice) and bread YUM laugh


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Originally Posted By: bexter
a type of processed filler of "meat" that comes in squares the same size as bagged bread! (no offense intended!)


That's about it. It's just a name for a class of food-like substances. You can certainly make sandwiches without "sandwich meat". You can take a turkey carcase, slice off some breast meat, and put it between a couple of slices of bread along with whatever else you want in there. You can do a lot of things.

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Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8
chip butties???? Sounds really good !


I could murder one right now wink

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OK, I'll bite, what is it???


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Originally Posted By: Candy
I could murder one right now wink

grin You can't be that hungry!

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re: chip butties

Jo, one of our early Members, writes to me today:

A word in daily use!

The clue is in the diminutive, it's a pared down sandwich with just the essentials. It especially applies to a bacon butty or buttie. In Manchester the chip butty (fries not what we call crisps) rules supreme.

A butty is a thin sandwich with/without butter and tomato ketchup. It's a breakfast or a snack at lunchtime or later, say after the pub.

A clever American-style sandwich, like a BLT with layers and posh ingredients like mayonnaise is definitely not a butty!

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Chip butty? Bread with French fries? nohhhh!

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they are definately NOT fries...no siree, no mini skinny 'chips' for us! we have proper chips over here!
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and they are YUMMY!!!


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In Québec, prior to the 1960s and the revolution against the church, people used to eat a thing called a guedille on Fridays. It was a hotdog bun without the sausage, stuffed with french-fries and all the trimming usually eaten with a hotdog. That was because the Catholic church did not allow them to eat meat on Fridays.

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Yes Bex, I'd like to order the upper meal, just fish and chips. Wonderful.
But suffocating good chips between two layers of dry bread? Criminal. shocked

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