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    Chip buttie!

    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'
    Last edited by Snadger; 29-09-2008, 06:35 PM.
    My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
    to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

    Diversify & prosper


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    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.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by rustylady View Post
      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!!!
      My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
      to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

      Diversify & prosper


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      • #4
        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.

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        • #5
          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

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          • #6
            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
            Vive Le Revolution!!!
            'Lets just stick it in, and see what happens?'
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            • #7
              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
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              • #8
                Originally posted by BrideXIII View Post
                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!
                My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                Diversify & prosper


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                • #9
                  I love, chip butties, home made ones are best, deef fried with loads'a salt an vinegar and dripping butter outa the bread, yummy
                  Hayley B

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Stacey Steve View Post
                    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
                    Last edited by BrideXIII; 30-09-2008, 01:09 PM.
                    Vive Le Revolution!!!
                    'Lets just stick it in, and see what happens?'
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                    • #11
                      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)

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                      • #12
                        life without chips smelling of vinegar and sprinkled with salt is a life devoid of luxury
                        aka
                        Suzie

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                        • #13
                          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.
                          To see a world in a grain of sand
                          And a heaven in a wild flower

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by smallblueplanet View Post
                            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.
                            Vive Le Revolution!!!
                            'Lets just stick it in, and see what happens?'
                            Cigarette FREE since 07-01-09

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                            • #15
                              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!

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