Chip butty

This article is about the sandwich made using chips. For the sandwich made using crisps, see Crisp sandwich.

Chip butty with tomato sauce

A chip sandwich, chip barm, chip roll, chip butty, chip muffin, piece-n-chips (in Scottish English) or hot chip sandwich (in Australian English) is a sandwich made with bread or bread roll (usually white and buttered) and hot chips (i.e. French fries), often with some sort of sauce such as tomato sauce (i.e. ketchup) or brown sauce.^[1] It was originally considered a working-class meal and was served in pubs. The chip butty is a vegetarian-friendly dish, except when the chips are fried in lard or dripping, as used to be traditional in a British chip shop.

The word butty is a contraction of 'bread and butter', that came from northern England, perhaps Yorkshire or Liverpool.^[2]

A football chant (sung to "Annie's Song" by John Denver) called "The Greasy Chip Butty Song" is popular with the supporters of Sheffield United Football Club.

Variants include chip bap or barm, using a floury bap or barm cake instead of white sliced.

Another variation in the North is the Scollop Butty where the chips are battered before frying.

See also

• Bacon sandwich
• Sausage sandwich
• Crisp sandwich
• List of sandwiches

References

1. ^ "Mindbender: Which food is sausage-free?". Discovery Channel Canada. Archived from the original on 2006-09-28. http://web.archive.org/web/20060928081925/http://www.exn.ca/mindbender/default.asp?id=35. Retrieved 2007-02-05. 
2. ^ http://www.inmamaskitchen.com/FOOD_IS_ART_II/food_history_and_facts/Sandwiches.html