Who Invented Chip Butty?
We're Told That the English Chip Butty Was Invented in Northern England by People Who Apparently Had Only Four Ingredients to Work With. It's a Triple-Decker...
We're told that the English Chip Butty was invented in Northern England by people who apparently had only four ingredients to work with. It's a triple-decker sandwich, buttered bread, and a pile of fries (french or freedom, up to you), and is traditionally a late-night-so-drunk-you'll-eat-anything kind of a food.
When was the chip butty invented?
Unimaginative and/or outraged traditionalists will harrumph that the chip butty originated in 1860s Oldham as a chip barm, but we are not tied to that format, in the same way we no longer employ kids as chimney sweeps and women have the vote.
Where does the word chip butty come from?
The word "butty", after all, originates from Yorkshire (as slang for "butter"), and aside from Buttery's insistence that “kids were fed them every day at school”, Yorkshire's deep-rooted adoration for chip butties is prevalent in popular culture.
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