WIBU to ask for more chips?

[KatyaZamolodchikova]

We were supposed to be having salad tonight for tea but I —accidentally— ate most of the baby plum tomatoes this morning, so my penance was to pick up a chippy tea on the way home. It wasn’t busy, only one person in being detected when I got there. I ordered a fish butty for DP and a chip butty for me (no kids). I paid £6 all together (live in Yorkshire) and this is all I got!!

The chippy is local, and usually much more generous than this.

Was I being unreasonable to drive back to the chippy, via the bloody temporary traffic lights to ask where the rest of my chips were?

Ah, that was the mistake. In Yorkshire, the default sandwich comes in a breadcake.

it's only really supermarkets etc where you get sliced bread sandwiches, so a ham/bacon/tuna/egg sandwich comes in a breadcake as standard.

I'm not sure if independent sandwich shops usually even have sliced bread in, and if they do, they'll only use it for toast, they don't make sandwiches with it.

Won't be in a tourist area, but my accent obviously marks me out as not Scottish. Definitely going to try get fish and chips or something similar for lunch either tomorrow or Friday as I've already decided I'm going for tapas tomorrow evening as there's a great looking restaurant not far from where I'm staying and it's too long since I've had decent calamari.

I had to have a chip butty after reading this thread, purely for research purposes

£1.90 from my local chippy - had to dig out the bottom half of the bun/roll/cob/whatever you call it.

AnExcellentUsername Wed 08-Aug-18 16:02:50
If this thread has taught me anything it's that a breadcake is a roll, so... you want a roll sandwich??

Just what I was going to say

Deepfriedpizza We went to Sandwich once and asked for a sausage supper and they looked at us as if we were aliens then I asked for a sausage and it had no batter on it!!!

A sausage is a sausage and if you want batter on it you have to ask for a sausage-in-batter.

I went to Manchester once and they didn't know what a sausage-in-batter was!!! Looked at me like I was mad.

I need to leave this thread. I'm on a strict, specific diet, and I live by the coast so there's loads of lovely chip shops round here. It's all getting too tempting!

Crikey! I spend the day at work & look what happens!

@PixieN. THANK YOU. This is a chip butty.

To clear a few things up:

Chip butty costs chips plus bread.

I have been going to this particular chippy since moving into this house in 2011, this is the first time a chip butty has had so few chips (1/3 of what I usually get, as a guess) I genuinely thought it was a mistake, not a conscious decision.

I am very sorry for starting the bread fight again, this was never my intention

She usually puts scraps on & doesn’t ask. I realised there were none, but I wasn’t prepared to add it to my initial complaint.

Yes the chips are pale & soggy. She was getting them out when I went in & someone was waiting, so I think she rushed them.

Bottom line is, we’ll be finding a new chippy. I am quite looking forward to trying some of the other to decide on which is best, I feel in-depth research will be needed.

Chip spice is great, I put it on pretty much anything savory. I'm in West Yorkshire, and it's an option in all the chip shops in my town (must be an anomaly). You can buy it from Asda and Morrisons.

Sorry, I'm obsessed with the stuff .

Fish supper is usually chips with 2 bits of fish. If you just want fish or sausage (no chips) you ask for a single fish or a single sausage etc you usually get 2 fish or 2 sausage.

2 pieces of fish?! That's an insane amount of food. The cod round here is about the length of my forearm!

I can get a medium portion of chips for £2.10 and enough for two. The chippy within walking distance charges £1.70 for the same sized portion but they have recently changed hands and their chips are shite. Previously they were delicious and now I have to drive to the next village.

DH and I usually share a fish supper and get a roll each

Aren’t proper chippy chips fried in beef dripping?

They should be, but then fat/dripping was added to "the naughty list".

Blists Hill do chips fried in beef bripping (I don't know the price/s though & I also have no connection with the place either).

That looks about a thousand calories! Yikes!

Sausage roll is a links sausage wrapped in pastry.
A roll and sausage is a sausage butty
and a Hotdog is a shite American attempt at a butty.

Hope that clarifies it?

I made a bacon butty for my Irish farmer pal a couple of weeks ago when he popped round to do a small job on our farm gate. He’d never heard of a bacon butty!!! 😱

Oooooo I'm at a posh hotel, where tonight I'm having a posh 3 course dinner and now what I really just want is a chippy tea!! OP you've ruined me!!

BarbaraofSeville thanks for repeating the word breadcake twice in your post. Eliza9917 I rest my case.

And DeepfriedPizza you have answered one query - I've just come back from Scotland and heard the request "a single fish". I was baffled, as I couldn't think what the alternative was - our fish are so massive that I couldn't imagine anyone would order two as an option. So if you have a "fish supper", then that is two smaller pieces of fish - not for example two whole haddocks (I'm being a bit mischievous here as I'm hoping the next debate will be what constitutes a fish - is it cod or haddock?)

Looks fine for size of roll

In my part of Scotland a single fish is just a piece of haddock, no chips. A fish supper is one piece of haddock with chips. A large fish supper is two pieces of haddock with a bigger portion of chips. (We won't mention the chip shop that gives you one and a half pieces of haddock when you ask for a large supper.)

Oh, and a special fish is haddock coated in breadcrumbs rather than batter.

I have reported this thread as it’s too fucking cruel to those of us on diets

I live in Scotland and this would be an affront. I would expect a 75:25 ratio on chips to butty.

@MrsGrindah my first report!! I did not expect half as many replies as I got, so would like to offer my sincere apologies for every diet I’ve ruined & every pregnancy craving induced

RaspberryRipple1963
What, absolutely every chip shop in Scotland gives measly portions of fish and chips?
Christ, you must’ve been there a long time to have tried them all!

It's a CHIP BUTTY. Not a whole portion of chips. I'm sorry but I think YABU. You're not going to get a full portion of chips for a chip butty. That is a decent amount, IMO.

You really think we got to be one of thr fattest nations on earth with shitey chippy portions??

I’m supposed to be on a diet/healthy eating mission - big fail today. I blame this thread entirely.

Just out of interest, are potato fritters a regional thing? I had a craving for one when I was in Wales and couldn’t get one anywhere.

They do in some places in Cardiff.