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?

That's a chip batch here and we get at least another scoop of chips.

Sod the chips. That is an awesome user name Katya

DD and I are a bit obsessed with her!

portions in England always seem much more generous that what we get in Scotland. Scraps are not a thing, at least not round our way.
Fish and chips is a fish supper.

Can we just clarify if you’re all talking about the same type of bread roll type thing? I’m fascinated!

Just showed my OH this thread and he confirmed that a chip butty is substantially cheaper than a portion of chips because you get less chips to fit in the roll.

And he warned to watch out that the potato crop has officially failed this year so the price of potatoes will rocket in about 6 months. Apparently Walkers and McCains are going round buying what stock there is leaving chips shops to go without (can’t store them like the big companies can)

Standard chips are £1.80, child’s portion is £1.40 and a chip butty is £1.20.
But you can buy a portion of chips and a roll separately

@SeaViewBliss thank you! She is by far my favourite!

The ‘Chippy Tea’ situation. I am a Yorkshire Lass, it is a chippy tea here. Fair enough if it’s not where you are, but you’d get short thrift calling it anything else in these parts! I did realise there might be a bun/barm/teacake/breadroll fight, but thought I’d be on safe ground with a chippy tea!

Additionally I agree it’s not a proper chippy tea, just being a couple of butties, but on the basis we were supposed to be having salad it seemed like the right choice!

Yes MadMags, known as a roll, barm, cob, muffin, bap... I've heard them described as all those but it's the same type in each chippy I've been in.

I visited Bradford for work once and the office we were visiting took us to the local council building canteen for lunch and we had fish chips and mushy peas smothered in parsley sauce. I can still remember how good it was. I dont know if it's regional but I think it's the only time I've had parsley sauce.

Thanks, Army!

I’m thinking it’s the same as a blaa here. A round, soft, white roll.

Parsley sauce on fish, chips & mushy peas? yuck.

Where is the chip spice? Very worrying .

Yep it's a blaa MadMags

I had tasty chips for my tea, bloody gorgeous

@QuitMoaning the failed potato crop seems like the best explanation I’m going to get. Thank you for this.

If the chip butty was cheaper - especially £1.20 - I’d be less upset, but it was definitely more than that, and there isn’t a price for a butty, it’s just a portion of chips + 50p for bread (I daren’t specify what the bread is called 😂).

Cheers, Ellen! Dyin for a chip sambo now!

I'd normally say you need more chips, but they look a bit dried out.

Now, I've never had a chip butty but even here in the Home Counties that would be considered a stingy amount of chips in a portion! In my local (excellent) fish and chip shop, even a standard portion is more than you can possibly eat in one go.

The chippy near work does massive chip barms, so many chips you can't finish all of them. What was served to you is a pathetic piss take.

£3 for a cob and chips is expensive.

When I was in high school, going into the village for lunch and getting a cob and chips was very popular. Only in this variation, you got half a cob and a portion of chips then you would scoop out the bread and jam the chips into the crust. However, so many pupils would drop the discard bread on the floor, which caused problems with birds and vermin. So cob and chips were actually BANNED.

That's just mean. I blame brexit. 😳

doublenegativepanda i can go one better than a pie on a roll however macaroni pie on a roll is bloody lovely. However a chicago town pizza on a roll is absolutely amazing

@DoubleNegativePanda any really but ones with gravy in are best IMO - steak is my favourite with lashings of butter

Buying a breadcake and chips wrapped separately wouldn’t work, part of the gorgeousness of a chip butty is the bread that’s soaked up all the fat and vinegar.

YESSS!!!!

I love this thread and am reading the replies in my head in the regional accents (the ones I can work out due to what you call a bread roll!)

Incidentally where on earth do you live if you call it a blaa?

Where is the chip spice?

That's a Hull custom. They can keep it!

The bread debate is brilliant. I'm in s.yorks and call it a breadcake, DB lives in n.lincs and calls it a bread bap. Poor DS obviously lives with me in s.yorks and goes to school in Nottingham, they call it a cob in Nottingham so DS doesn't know what to call bread 😂
He came home from school a few weeks back and told me he'd had a 'bacon cob'. I told him to watch his language, it's a bacon butty and always will be!