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Hard liquor and soft drugs aside, the chip butty is the most reliable way we have to mentally shut out this harsh world and, momentarily, transport ourselves to a happier, more innocent place
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- Title
- How to eat: chip butties
- Authors
- Tony Naylor
- Published
- Aug 7 2020
- Word count
- 1673 words
Leave it to the British to have extremely strong opinions about the correct way to make and eat a sandwich comprised of two slices of white bread and french fries.
No no, one slice of bread, buttered and folded in half, like the world's blandest potato taco.
I don't want to fall for any bait but I feel the need to point out how different french fries and chips (chunky british ones not crisps) are when it comes to putting them it in bread. The extra weight and texture differences change it a lot.
British chips just seem like would I would call steak fries.
Yeah, the ones in the pictures of the linked article look nearly identical to the ones Red Robin serves.
Definitely not intended as bait - as someone from the US I tend to think of anything in that ballpark as "fries".
Thanks for the clarification, I love learning about subtle regional food differences like this, which is why I found the article so interesting in the first place. I've gone down quite a few Wikipedia rabbit holes on this subject (might I recommend the Garbage Plate as a jumping off point?)
I guess being from the UK means I'm a little too enthusiastic when it comes to chips whether that's with fish or curry sauce or cheese and gravy.
That garbage plate looks like the sort of thing that doesn't sound too great when you hear of it but probably tastes lovely when you actually order it.
Neither of these is true. What sort of chippy does he go to that his chips tumble out. That's bad construction he should find a better chippy, preferably one run by a northerner. I say this as someone with coeliacs, there is no such thing as too much bread, especially bread soaked in chip fat and vinegar.
Chip barm and gravy is food of the gods.
Man, of course the British would make a fuss over what sounds like the blandest fast food ever. I've never looked at a plate of steak fries and thought "You know what would improve this? Adding zero flavor whatsoever by tossing these on buttered white bread!"
I'll stick to my area's green chile cheese fries, at least we know how to add flavor to them. ;) You haven't had fries as they should be until you've had a plate of fries that are soaked in brown-green spicy, pork-filled, cheesy goodness.
Chip butties are horrible to me, and probably something I'll never understand. I struggle to think of a good reason to butter the bread of a sandwich. There are probably a handful of fillings it would work with, but not most stuff. You have to ask for a dry roll here, or they butter it by default! Why?? They slather it on and it covers whatever taste the filling has!
Looking back, it's lucky I even enjoy chips as much as I do now, because most places I've found in Britain cover them with a thick, oily carapace that causes nausea before you can finish them.
My go-to when I was at the lowest point in my life was fried chicken. I'd leave the box out on my desk and it'd be grey by the morning.
Why, Britain? Why?!?