quote:

Originally posted by RAMIUS:

quote:

Originally posted by PASig:

quote:

Originally posted by RAMIUS:
Butty is one piece of bread, rather than two pieces.

it's a roll.

Or a piece of bread folded.

CO-rect, a piece of bread folded can also be described as a butty for poor folks who have only one piece of bread.

tac

quote:

Originally posted by tacfoley:

quote:

Originally posted by ersatzknarf:
May I have a Bacon Butty, please ?

And THAT's my lunch-time snack! You guys are watching me, right>

tac

Well, actually . . .

hehehehehe !



(back during my British motorbike magazine addiction phase, learnt of the Bacon Butty and that Bacon is the main gateway for vegetarians to return to our fold)

quote:

Originally posted by tacfoley:

quote:

Originally posted by RAMIUS:Butty originally became a thing because knives were in short supply due to the knife bans and fear of sharp things used to cut bread. So instead of two pieces making the sandwich, one large piece of bread was used, due to the inability to cut.

Total bollocks.

tac

Nope. True. No knives, had to fold.

quote:

Originally posted by RAMIUS:

quote:

Originally posted by tacfoley:

quote:

Originally posted by RAMIUS:Butty originally became a thing because knives were in short supply due to the knife bans and fear of sharp things used to cut bread. So instead of two pieces making the sandwich, one large piece of bread was used, due to the inability to cut.

Total bollocks.

tac

Nope. True. No knives, had to fold.

I reiterate my comment and ask you - what knife bans?

Remember, although I may have mentioned one or two [thousand times], I live here.

tac

quote:

Originally posted by tacfoley:

Remember, although I may have mentioned one or two [thousand times], I live here.

I live here too. Wait . . . where is "here?"

quote:

Originally posted by RAMIUS:
Nope. True. No knives, had to fold.

Ramius, you don't want to be the guy who interjected politics into this thread. You just don't want that. Trust me.

Let's move on, shall we?

There you go. That's a good lad. Pip pip. Cheerio, eh wot?

quote:

Originally posted by V-Tail:

quote:

Originally posted by tacfoley:

Remember, although I may have mentioned one or two [thousand times], I live here.

I live here too. Wait . . . where is "here?"

Sigh..........at the bottom of my last 8802 posts.....


Posts: 8802 | Location: UK, OR, ONT | Registered: July 10, 2003

Gottit now?

tac

tac, they're just pulling your leg.

quote:

Originally posted by tacfoley:

quote:

Originally posted by V-Tail:

quote:

Originally posted by tacfoley:

Remember, although I may have mentioned one or two [thousand times], I live here.

I live here too. Wait . . . where is "here?"

Sigh..........at the bottom of my last 8802 posts.....

Posts: 8802 | Location: UK, OR, ONT | Registered: July 10, 2003

Gottit now?

tac

Huh? Am I actually supposed to believe that "here" depends on your signature line? No, I'm not buying that. "Here" is here. Right here, where I am. It has always been that way and I expect that it always will be.

quote:

Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:

quote:

Originally posted by mbinky:
Ok, anything with fries is an automatic win in my book. <snip>

Then you’d probably like the “California Burrito”. Primos, my nearby taco shop, has ‘em, with carne asada.

“My hometown of San Diego isn’t particularly well known for its culinary bona fides. But thanks to the Mexican border, there is one thing the city reliably does well: Mexican American food. San Diego’s contribution to the field is undeniable, even though it boils down to two items: the fried fish taco, imported more or less intact from Baja California, and the french-fry-laden burrito, a gloriously American invention with a fittingly arrogant name.”

www.theringer.com/platform/amp...od-week-3740b14023b5

Don’t forget the fish burrito, found at places like Porkyland, maybe Robertos, and a deli on 5th Ave. A huge tortilla, light white fish fried in some sort of yoghurt based batter, cabbage, white sauce, cheese. These have to be held in both hands. Huge!

I’ve not been to Porkyland in many years, but the one in La Jolla was a go to place when we officed there.

quote:

Originally posted by tacfoley:

quote:

Originally posted by flashguy:
I'm assuming the potato in the chip butty is in the traditional British form--rounds--as opposed to the format of French Fries? flashguy

Rounds? Where id that come from? British chips - fries to you - are the same shape as most fries elsewhere.

You take a potato, cut it into four, then slice it up into chips. The thought of standing there whittling them into rounds is ludicrous in the extreme.

tac

Tac, you have to remember when we Yanks hear "chip", we automatically think of this:


NOT this:

Bendable’s “Arby’s” thread brought this to mind…

I’ve been thinking that I’ll go to McDonald’s, buy an order of fries, and two naked burger buns. Then I could make my first two two chip butty sandwiches.

quote:

Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
Bendable’s “Arby’s” thread brought this to mind…

I’ve been thinking that I’ll go to McDonald’s, buy an order of fries, and two naked burger buns. Then I could make my first two two chip butty sandwiches butties.

FIFY.

tac

sure hope PS was pulling your leg, friend.

that or his memory is not what it was

Not sure what you mean, but the reason I wrote “chip butty sandwiches” (again) was that I wasn’t sure of the correct plural form of “butty”, so avoided the dilemma.

Often wondered where the notion of adding a load of small fried diced potato aka Potato Olés® to burritos and such at Taco John's came from. Now I know...

As an aside Taco John's is a Midwest chain that blows the doors off off outfits like Taco Bell. Still its fast food... it is what it is.
https://www.tacojohns.com/menu/

quote:

Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
Not sure what you mean, but the reason I wrote “chip butty sandwiches” (again) was that I wasn’t sure of the correct plural form of “butty”, so avoided the dilemma.

Dummy/dummies.

Penny/pennies

Butty/butties.

'seasy.

tac

quote:

Originally posted by tacfoley:

quote:

Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
Not sure what you mean, but the reason I wrote “chip butty sandwiches” (again) was that I wasn’t sure of the correct plural form of “butty”, so avoided the dilemma.

Dummy/dummies.

Penny/pennies

Butty/butties.

'seasy.

tac

No so easy.....



According to comedian Shelly Berman:

"I just want to say just a few words about stewardii. They have... (he is interrupted by crowd shreik of laughter) Stewardii is plural for Stewardess. Uh...I think there are many incongruities in the English language as far as plurals are concerned. For example, it seems to me that the plural for Yo-yo should be Yo-yi. How about, one sheriff; several sheriffim. Um...one goof; a group of geef; uh...one Kleenex, several Kleenices; one Blouse, two Blice ........Two Jackii."

And then of course George Carlin had his observations:

"We’ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,
But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes;
One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese;
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,
Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn’t the plural of pan be called pen?
If I speak of my foot and show you my feet,
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn’t the plural of booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that, & three would be those,
Yet hat in the plural would never be hose;
And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother & also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his & him,
But imagine the feminine: she, shis & shim!

Let’s face it: English is a crazy language.

If a vegetarian eats vegetables,
What does a humanitarian eat?
We ship by truck but send cargo by ship …
We have noses that run & feet that smell;
We park in a driveway & drive in a parkway.
And how can a slim chance & a fat chance be the same,
While a wise man & a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language
In which you fill in a form by filling it out,
& in which an alarm goes off by going on.

And in closing ….
If Father is Pop ….
How come Mother’s not Mop?"

quote:

Originally posted by IndyRob:
Um, I'd take a Primanti's sandwich over this anyday.

There you go. A "chip butty" with meat!