What is a "buttie"?

[Deleted User]

As I type this, I'm preparing some egg sandwiches, for lunch at work tomorrow, and it has reminded me of a discussion I had recently, with a work colleague.

I make my sandwiches from two slices of bread, buttered, and with the filling between them.

When I referred to one of my sandwiches as an egg buttie, he argued that I was wrong, because, according to him, a buttie (singular) consists of a single slice of bread, folded in half, and mine, since it contained two slices of bread, was in fact 2 butties (plural), even though I had not cut it in two.

Thought anyone?

JustAnotherSaver

My thought is your friend is overcomplicating things.

You made a buttie. If he chooses to use only 1 slice instead of 2 then that's his call but it's still a buttie.

A buttie to me is filling between a top & bottom covering of bread, whether that's 2 individual slices or 1 slice folded.

Nick_C

A buttie should contain chips or bacon. Anything else is a sarnie.

[Deleted User]

A butty (not buttie) can be made from one, two, three etc. slices of bread. They can be folded in half, or be one slice placed on top of another. They can also contain any topping / filling.

However, it has to be sliced bread. Any other type of bread - roll, barmcake, bap, baguette, cob etc. do not make buttys.

Out of curiosity the word is Northern slang (I am Northern) so I am wondering where everyone else has picked up from word from especially the spelling buttie :eek: and if the idea of what makes a butty changes from place to place.

Faith76

As far as I know any kind of sandwich is referred to as a Buttie. Be it any type ham, cheese, chicken etc ...

[Deleted User]

Nick_C wrote: »

A buttie should contain chips or bacon.

How about sausages?

unforeseen

Faith76 wrote: »

As far as I know any kind of sandwich is referred to as a Buttie. Be it any type ham, cheese, chicken etc ...

It's a fried egg it's a banjo.

Nick_C

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

How about sausages?

Sausage sarnie. Alliteration demands it.

[Deleted User]

I`m from Liverpool where the buttie was invented, often jam butties then, after school or a posh ham buttie for tea. A sandwich, just a plain sandwich then. If it had lettuce on it was posh. We children had jam butties in a paper bag when we went out for the day

C_J

Ken Dodd and the Diddymen. Didn't they work in the Jam Butty Mines?

I think maybe they are called a Butty because they are buttered. This is urgent and key with the butty - it has to be cheap plasticky supermarket sliced white bread, thickly buttered, then filled with appropriate filling (chips = number one choice) and smooshed down so the butter starts to melt and drips out all down your chin.

C_J

We should probably have an official poll to determine the best sauce for a butty. I am very fond of brown sauce on a sausage sarnie or bacon butty, but for me a chip butty has to have mayonnaise.