What is a "buttie"?

caronc

Crisp buttie fantastic- ideally has to be prawn cocktail crisps with a scrape of salad cream on thickly butter "plain" sliced bread ( https://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Mothers-Pride-Scottish-Plain-Medium-Cut/290157011):D

C_J

My family is from South Wales so I have no regard for this North Walian madness of calling all types of sandwich a butty. This is clearly WRONG and just confirms that they are dilettantes in the butty world.

Mee

OED entry:

north. dial.
A slice of bread and butter.

1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South II. xi. 142 He's always mithering me for ‘daddy’ and ‘butty’; and I ha' no butties to give him, and daddy's away.
1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 121 Buttie, general in North for a piece of bread and butter (together with jam-buttie).
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 162 Spread it on the butty nice and thick.
1965 Oxf. Mail 17 Nov. 11/5 The biggest jam butty in the world.

C_J

So does that mean that the butty didn't exist before 1855?

C_J

And more importantly, was it invented by Elizabeth Gaskell?

C_J

I mean, Cranford was written in 1853 and I don't remember there being any mention of a butty in that. Miss Matty certainly never spoke of such things.

Doveling

Sugar butty. An after school treat in the sixties!

In Cheshire!

Linda32

I think you would have a chip butty which would be one round of bread folded over.

A sandwich is two slices of bread with a filling, sliced into two.

Just to complicate things if you had a crisp sandwich then you would butter two slices of bread. Lay crisps on one half and fold over the slice. You wouldn't cut that in half.

Need2bthrifty

Doveling wrote: »

Sugar butty. An after school treat in the sixties!

In Cheshire!

In Aberdeenshire too - no surprise there!!

caronc

My Mum's favourite - condensed milk butty. This was her treat if my Dad was on backshift on a Saturday evening. (And no she wasn't sharing.....)