What is a "buttie"?

caronc

C_J wrote: »

but for me a chip butty has to have mayonnaise.

Nope has to be salad cream on a chip butty.... :rotfl::rotfl:(or a sliced egg & tomato one).

nannywindow

Hi BB
My understanding of Butty is that it referred to a "mate/ friend " in the coal mines of Wales. So I believe that a butty ( buttie ) should consist of at least two slices of bread, one slice, with another on top, it's "mate ". A lot of people still greet their friends/ acquaintances with " Hiya Butt " around here and Porthcawl, a seaside town, is known as "Hiya Butt Bay" by the locals.

Need2bthrifty

Now, now, behave its -

Mayo on a fried egg butty
Ketchup on a chip butty
Brown sauce on a bacon butty
but a Sausage butty could have a combo of mayo & brown or mayo & ketchup depends on the sausage

Shropshirelass

These are all modern complications. A butty is made of any kind of bread. Him Indoors and I agree there was no sliced bread before about 1955 (in Lancashire anyway). Made with jam or marmalade on good days. If Mum was out and we made our own, tomato sauce..... mmmm...

beautiful_ravens

My dad was from Lancashire, he always said 'chip butty' and it was bread, butter and chips. Sometimes bacon butty. Never 'banana butty'.
It would be folded bread no matter how many slices in total, not 2 slices cut.
My mum always called them sarnies.

So to me, now - its a butty if its folded, its a sandwich if its cut. If its warm stuff it might be a butty, if its cold, its a sandwich/sarnie.

C_J

So temperature adds a further complicating factor now, eh?

If I don't have any chips and/or I am feeling lazy, I have been known to make a butty from buttered white bread filled with cheese and onion crisps. Carb overload, but oh so nice.

Need2bthrifty

C_J wrote: »

So temperature adds a further complicating factor now, eh?

If I don't have any chips and/or I am feeling lazy, I have been known to make a butty from buttered white bread filled with cheese and onion crisps. Carb overload, but oh so nice.

Oh my goodness forgot about crisp buttys - now they always had salad cream

elsien

Mayo on butties is the work of the devil.

Are fish fingers permissible in a buttie? Fish finger sarnie doesn't sound right.

pollypenny

In South Wales a butty is a mate. When I moved to North Wales I found it was a sandwich - of any sort.

luxor4t

nannywindow wrote: »

Hi BB
My understanding of Butty is that it referred to a "mate/ friend " in the coal mines of Wales. ........

Not to mention, "Butty bach" (literal translation 'little friend') - and now the name of a pale ale.