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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   
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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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chip butties???? Sounds really good ! I could murder one right now      |  |  |  
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OK, I'll bite, what is it??? 
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I could murder one right now       You can't be that hungry! |  |  |  
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re: chip butties
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 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!  (    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.     |  |  |  
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Yup.  You need to smother them in mayonaise. 
 Or if they are of the soft greasy variety, then a ton of salt and vinegar.  Mmmmmmmmm.
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So which is the chip butty??? 
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Yup.  You need to smother them in mayonaise.  Ah, but if you use posh ingredients like mayo it's not a butty. |  |  |  
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Bex you ought to be shot for putting those pictures up. It's got me thinking - get yourself some fish n chips [then a butty] today. I think a butty should come before the fish n chips. That way the chips don't get stale. Jackie, food thread alert!!! I didn't start it. Bex did!  Eta: okay no mayo.
 
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Butty meaning bread with or without butter, choose the obvious best: a single fish and chips today, just like me and Avy. No mayo. |  |  |  
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 OK, I'll bite, what is it???   chips butter (ketchup of your choice) and bread
 
 The one I saw consisted of thick fries (what we'd call steak fries) on a bun.
 
 Yeah, Avy, I know.  But right now I'll glom onto saying we're trying to define butty...
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A chip or bacon butty (butte)tastes so much better with real butter oozing out. And I have tomato sauce in mine. I've stopped adding salt to the chips....at least that way I think its a bit healthier      Have you tried one yet Luke? |  |  |  
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you might as well call a chip butty a carb butty - 'twould blow anyone's diet to smithereens. |  |  |  
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A chip or bacon butty (butte)tastes so much better with real butter oozing out. And I have tomato sauce in mine. I've stopped adding salt to the chips....at least that way I think its a bit healthier      Have you tried one yet Luke? Thanks to you and Jackie (above one post) for defining the thing.  I can't even imagine one, much less find a place where they are served.  But from the discussion here it looks like a relatively common thing.   I know they don't exist on any menu hereabouts.  And no I don't really think I'd try one.  Fries (potatoes) and catchup are good enough without making a sandwich out of them.  Very curious  combination. 
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To stay on the foodline, Yeh!! I got the little pretty cake. Thanks Jackie, I know how long it takes to bake it.     |  |  |  
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Looks very much like a Birthday Cake to me, Bran Hope you had a good one     |  |  |  
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Thank you. Which provider still sets his employees on sending birthday cards to its clients ? (no advertising meant) (Luke, here's your sheep  )    Link |  |  |  
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And a right fine looking fellow he is too. Thanks for sharing it with me. The Little Prince
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one of my readers sent this:
 
 There is a good chance that if you are having a butty it will be on a bap.
 
 I have never found a reasonable explanation where the word 'bap' came from but it is defined as a soft roll and the word has been in use since the 16th century from what little I can find about its origins.
 
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Thank you. Which provider still sets his employees on sending birthday cards to its clients ? (no advertising meant) (Luke, here's your sheep  )    LinkBY THE WAYHAPPY BIRTHDAY BRAN 
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