America has just discovered the chip butty and Brits aren't happy

[Soph0571]

This all came about after the American media outlet Insider shared a video from a restaurant in Istanbul which made a more traditional version of the sandwich named a Patso burger.

British Twitter users have taken exception to America claiming the sandwich as their own.

[link:https://www.indy100.com/article/chip-butty-sandwich-britain-america-twitter-viral-fast-food-fries-funny-8294486|

Oh so wrong but oh so right......

[T_i_B]

1. The food of the Sheffield United supporter

Fortunately for me, I'm a Wednesdayite so I get to eat nice food instead of greasy chip butties!

[packman]

2. Fries with cider vinegar or beef gravy or even mayo

but as the sole ingredient in a sandwich????? Then again, I am a Pittsburgh area guy and we had the Primanti brothers sandwich - fries, slaws and meat stacked up

[House of Roberts]

3. Starch stuffed into more starch?

That finds me perplexed as to why?

[T_i_B]

4. Drinking food

Fills up your stomach and soaks up all the beer you've consumed on a night out.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Calories. If you haven't eaten all day, a chip butty can be just the thing to break your fast with

You can eat chips a lot faster in a chip butty than with your fingers.

[Denzil_DC]

12. Next you'll be telling me you've never had a tinned spaghetti butty.

For a proper chip butty, the bread's got to be buttered well, slathered on, so it makes a sort of sauce and lubricates the starch on the way down. Add salt and maybe vinegar (ketchup if you're feeling fancy), and with decent chips (US fries, though UK crisps - US chips - work, too for a low-cal option), it can be a real treat (I haven't had one in years, but my tummy's rumbling now).

Used to occasionally get a takeaway lunch in Dumbarton quite a few years ago. This cafe on the high street had a queue of schoolkids out the door. Their specialty was a "hauf V 'n' chips" - half a well-fired Vienna loaf, split lengthways, buttered and filled with chips. By gum, it took some eating.

[House of Roberts]

13. On Keeping Up Appearances, Onslow once asked Daisy for a bacon butty.

That would at least add some protein.

[left-of-center2012]

5. OK -- I had to google it

A chip butty is a sandwich made with chips (i.e., French fried potatoes) on buttered white bread or a bread roll, often with an added condiment such as ketchup, brown sauce, mayonnaise, or malt vinegar.

The chip butty can be found in fish and chip shops and other casual dining establishments in the United Kingdom.
It is also less commonly known as a chip sandwich, chip batch, chip roll, chip muffin, piece and chips, chip piece, or chip sarnie.

One variation is the chip bap or chip barm, which uses a floury bap or barm cake instead of sliced white bread.
In the East Midlands a chip butty made with a bread roll is referred to as a chip cob.

A chip butty can be vegetarian if the chips are not fried in lard or dripping.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_butty

[T_i_B]

6. Now you are getting into the breadcake argument....

Where I'm from they are breadcakes. To people in Derby & Nottingham they are cobs, in West Yorkshire they are teacakes (teacakes are something very different in my book), Southerners call them rolls, and they are also known in other parts of the country as barmcakes, baps, stotties and a number of other terms.

People will get on their high horses about this as well, so you can get people who insist that they are teacakes or rolls and get very annoyed by all the other regional terms for breadcakes!

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. I must admit the pie butty (aka Wigan kebab) is a new one on me (nt)

[marble falls]

9. The English seem to have trouble agreeing on the name of this abomination.

[geardaddy]

10. I discovered it when I lived in Wales.

I'm actually partial to chips with mushy peas on top or a bacon butty.

[geardaddy]

11. Crisp butties are also lush.