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Snadger · #1 (**permalink**) 29-09-2008, 08:35 PM

How to get this tip onto a gardening forum??????? Ah yes, I know! Our allotments are close to a chip shop and the smell of Fish and chips pervades the area!
I am very poor (all say ahhhh) so can only ever afford a chip buttie!

I commented that the tight gits were putting less chips in the butties! One of the blokes sez "Order a portion of chips, then after she's wrapped them say oh yes , and a breadbun"

I tried this today and it works............twice as many chips (with some spare to give to the chooks) and the same price as a chip butty!

Can't believe it's taken me my whole life to find this out, proving there's truth in the old adage 'You're never to auld to learn'

rustylady · #2 (**permalink**) 29-09-2008, 08:49 PM

Snadger I'm ashamed of you, conning the poor chip shop owners out of their colossal profit!! And what are you doing buying chip butties when you have all that healthy home-grown veg to eat??
Seriously though, there's something about the smell from a chip shop that makes you really want to buy something. Not sure whether it's the stale oil/fat or the vinegar.

Snadger · #3 (**permalink**) 29-09-2008, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by rustylady

Snadger I'm ashamed of you, conning the poor chip shop owners out of their colossal profit!! And what are you doing buying chip butties when you have all that healthy home-grown veg to eat??
Seriously though, there's something about the smell from a chip shop that makes you really want to buy something. Not sure whether it's the stale oil/fat or the vinegar.

Mmmmmm..........stale oil/fat and vinegar (said in my best Homer Simpson voice) Doh!!!

lynda66 · #4 (**permalink**) 29-09-2008, 09:14 PM

talking of crap food, i'm watching bbc3, its about the crap they put in your food, i'm never eating cheese or chicken ever again ...... our chippy does massive portions of chips, enough for 3 chip butties, and works out loads cheaper.

Jay Bee · #5 (**permalink**) 29-09-2008, 11:32 PM

Well Snadger it sort of worked for me! Being too tired to cook yet again sent son out for chicken/fish and chips tonight.

Ok no butties but thanks anyway

BrideXIII · #6 (**permalink**) 29-09-2008, 11:47 PM

well my boys do something similar at the local chippie, they have figured out they get less chips if they ask for them to be wrapped to eat at home, so always ask for them 'open' that way the staff can't be stingy with the portion cos it looks bad to all the other customers ordering theirs

Stacey Steve · #7 (**permalink**) 30-09-2008, 07:46 AM

Many moons ago when I was at school we used to go to the bakers and buy a small bloomer, break it in half and eat the inside on the way to the chippy, then buy a portin of chips and load up the bread crust, sprinkling salt and vinegar as we loaded.

No butter but it was great on a cold day, better than school dinners

Snadger · #8 (**permalink**) 30-09-2008, 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by BrideXIII

well my boys do something similar at the local chippie, they have figured out they get less chips if they ask for them to be wrapped to eat at home, so always ask for them 'open' that way the staff can't be stingy with the portion cos it looks bad to all the other customers ordering theirs

There's another avenue to explore!

HayleyB · #9 (**permalink**) 30-09-2008, 12:50 PM

I love, chip butties, home made ones are best, deef fried with loads'a salt an vinegar and dripping butter outa the bread, yummy

BrideXIII · #10 (**permalink**) 30-09-2008, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Stacey Steve

Many moons ago when I was at school we used to go to the bakers and buy a small bloomer, break it in half and eat the inside on the way to the chippy, then buy a portin of chips and load up the bread crust, sprinkling salt and vinegar as we loaded.

No butter but it was great on a cold day, better than school dinners

ooohh did you go to my school?

we used to do that on a friday, weren't allowed off grounds rest of the week, but come friday, split a portion of chips, buy a crusty roll each scoop out the inside and stuff with heavily vinegared chips!

butty heaven

burnie · #11 (**permalink**) 30-09-2008, 06:52 PM

As an alternative,now it's well and truely bonfire season,throw a freshly dug tattie in the embers and have it with you favourite herbs(unhealthy option would be a lump of butter as well)

piskieinboots · #12 (**permalink**) 30-09-2008, 11:05 PM

life without chips smelling of vinegar and sprinkled with salt is a life devoid of luxury

smallblueplanet · #13 (**permalink**) 01-10-2008, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Snadger

There's another avenue to explore!

Got to disagree here, you always get more scoops full of chips if you have them wrapped than if you have them to eat now....dunno must be to do with not being able to guestimate how much chips make a 'bundle'. Oh if only I could nip down the Durham Ox chippy now, but its in Derby and I'm in Wiltshire.

BrideXIII · #14 (**permalink**) 01-10-2008, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by smallblueplanet

Got to disagree here, you always get more scoops full of chips if you have them wrapped than if you have them to eat now....dunno must be to do with not being able to guestimate how much chips make a 'bundle'. Oh if only I could nip down the Durham Ox chippy now, but its in Derby and I'm in Wiltshire.

sadly not at our chippy, mind you we are down south, profit-mongers the lot of 'em.

when wrapped dinner has demonstrably less chips.

Marthaclematis · #15 (**permalink**) 02-10-2008, 02:51 PM

Oh stop it will you, I am stuck in the office and now drooling over the thought of a chip butty. And I've started a new health and fitness regime too. I'm going upstairs now to get me a packet of salt and vinegar crisps, the only substitute I can get right now and its all your fault!

HayleyB · #16 (**permalink**) 02-10-2008, 02:55 PM

I got home late yesterday so we all had fish 'n' chips for dinner, a rare treat

maytreefrannie · #17 (**permalink**) 05-10-2008, 12:06 AM

Am fantasising here as I read - too late tonight for me to have chips on account of I'm not so young as I was and have more hips than I used to.

But, having read and slavered over this thread, I've promised myself chips tomorrow - the whole works, vinegar, salt and the butter melting over the side of the bun.

Gwyndy · #18 (**permalink**) 05-10-2008, 12:31 AM

Chips must be liberally coated with Heinz tomato ketchup for the perfect chip buttie!!

marigold007 · #19 (**permalink**) 05-10-2008, 12:56 AM

Hm. I've never had a chip butty before. After just watching The Supersizers Wartime show, I'd imagine that the bread and potato with butter combination as a meal was probably invented then. Starch on top of starch with a slathering of saturated fat. Where do I sign up? At least they had nutrient enriched bread back then!

Flummery · #20 (**permalink**) 05-10-2008, 01:44 PM

If the chip butty is made from home grown spuds and home made bread - you wouldn't call the King your uncle!

BrideXIII · #21 (**permalink**) 05-10-2008, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Gwyndy

Chips must be liberally coated with Heinz tomato ketchup for the perfect chip buttie!!

noooooo, thats for bacon butties.

Brown sauce for chip butties

Stacey Steve · #22 (**permalink**) 05-10-2008, 02:32 PM

Tomato Ketchup??? Phillistines, of course it has to be HP Sauce or a poor substitute Daddy's

Snadger · #23 (**permalink**) 05-10-2008, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by marigold007

Hm. I've never had a chip butty before................................

Oh, what a sheltered life you've lived marigold! Lol

Funnily enough, I was eating a Donna kebab the other day when a colleague says " Oh, whats that you're eating???" ..............You're joking says I, with chilly sauce running down my chin!

She'd never seen a kebab!