What is a "buttie"?

C_J

We didn't have sugar butties but I do remember Fairy Bread - a slice of buttered white bread covered in hundreds and thousands. Not folded though.

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Shropshirelass wrote: »

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...

A slice of bread can still be cut from a loaf it does not necessarily have to come from a package as we buy from the shops today.

As you seem to be from Lancashire would you still call something on a barmcake a butty, e.g. a cheese butty, or a cheese barm? Me and my husband are both from around that region and we would have called it a cheese barm hence me saying that a butty has to be on a slice of bread.

JustAnotherSaver

Spider_In_The_Bath wrote: »

barmcake,

I literally went to a bakery in another town only 5 miles down the road & experienced this "barmcake".

Told the lady what i wanted, called it a bun, she said oh you mean a "barmcake".

I looked at her for a second thinking is this lady taking the piddle out of me or what. No i mean a bun. She maintained, "barmcake".

Ok then, whatever makes you feel better, i'll have it

Had never heard of it before ever & this town is only 5 miles away. I've only ever heard of it used in that town too.

VJsmum

So what about a buppy?

We used to have those. It's a piece of bread and butter
And we had buppy jam...

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unforeseen wrote: »

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

Isn't an egg banjo made with a Barm/Bap?

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C_J wrote: »

but for me a chip butty has to have mayonnaise.

Nope, tomato ketchup. :cool:

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nannywindow wrote: »

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 ".

That's my understanding too.

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Linda32 wrote: »

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

But what if (which is the case with my lunch) it isn't cut in two?

Is it still a sandwich/butty, or is it, as my colleague argues, two sandwiches/butties?

Linda32

A butty is a slice of bread with the fillìng in the middle and the slice folder over. A sandwich is two slices of bread with filling in the middle which is normally cut in two but could be left intact and would still be a sanwich.

If the filling is chips or crisps then it is a butty.

If it makes a difference, I am East Midland, Leicester

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Isn't an egg banjo made with a Barm/Bap?

No, because they're likely to prevent the banjo part of the name from happening.

And they are Egg & Bacon Banjos.


Once you get to such delicacies as Egg, Bacon and Sausage or Black Pudding (plus ketchup, HP, chilli and English Mustard - and maybe onions) in a lump of French stick, you're then eating a Roadkill.