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?

Where do you live to call it a bread roll? I don't know anyone except on here who talks about 'rolls' , although according to this image, the 'rolls' people are southerners?

I’m a roll person - yes a southerner!
That to me looks fine, you can’t get more chips than that in the roll if you wanted a portion of chips, you should have asked for it.
And dinner for just over £2 is a total steal!
I’ve never had a chip roll though, I can’t imagine they taste good at all. So much chewy blandness - a mouthful of chips and bread sounds so claggy so I’m going to say YABU based on all those points

I think the cruicial point is the price.

If the chip butty is cheaper or the same price as a bag of chips, you can reasonably expect fewer chips.

But if you pay for a bag of chips and an extra 50 pence or whatever for a breadcake, then you should be given a full portion of chips plus the breadcake.

A blaa is an Irish thing! Originally from Waterford but I’m in Kilkenny

Interesting to note that both Morrisons (Bradford based) & ASDA (Leeds) call them bread rolls in store and on-line.

I say roll, and I’m on the Sussex coast.

BTW- here’s a photo I took in our local Co-op a little while ago of a helpful translation from Northern to Southern that might amuse some of you.

Be that as it may failed, but living equidistant between Leeds and Bradford, I guarantee that anyone local using their shops, writes 'breadcakes' on their shopping list and will think 'breadcakes' on seeing said item.

I think YABU for calling it a chip butty. It's a chip barm.

@barbara I'm half am hour or so from Glasgow and they're rolls here.

Not bread rolls though, just rolls. Never heard bread rolls...

My dearly departed gp once kept a fish tea and took it back to the shop the next evening on the grounds that it was inedible. I think they got given their money back...probably by a very surprised server.

BarbaraofSevillle I can figure out what a bap, cob, barm and bun is, but would be slightly disappointed if offered a breadcake, only to be handed a roll - I'd expect something a bit more cakey.

This is the kind of roll I mean btw, they're a decent size and soft and floury so they're not like wee dinner rolls or anything.

I've lived a sheltered life, I had no idea you could buy a chip butty I thought you had to make them at home. Chip shop chips in two slices of buttered sliced white, sauce of your choice. Is this a regional thing?

YABVVU not to have asked for scraps on your chip butty!!! By eck this is Yorkshire lass! Scraps on everything 😂

@BarbaraofSevillle I am also equidistant between Leeds and Bradford. Are you my next door neighbour? If so will you pick me up some bread cakes on your way home? 😂

East of Scotland here and we’d say roll for general shape, and morning roll if specifying a soft and floury one. Baps are different, as are butteries, and crusty ones.

ifailed . It's just another name for the same thing. Some places call them muffins, which could also imply cakiness?

Question for the roll people, how do you distinguish from a sausage roll (pastry) and a sausage roll (sausages in bread)?

A sausage roll is a pastry delight. And, paraphrasing Terry Pratchett (who knew EVERYTHING) the other thing is a 'sausage inna bun' as sold by Throat Dibbler.

A sausage roll is a sausage roll, sausages on a roll are something I've ever ordered because slice is far superior and that's just gonna open a whole new can of worms...

A sausage in a roll is a hot dog, Shirley?

No, a hot dog is a hot dog.

I'd think that a reasonable portion in our chippy (south Wales) as a chip butty, as they charge for it as a snack (same price as a kids cone of chips, if I recall correctly).

If they've charged for a portion of chips plus a bap/cob/barmcake/oven bottom muffin/breadcake/roll/whatever though, then the portion is unacceptable. A single portion of chips from our local place, along with four pies or fishcakes, fills plates for the whole family with enough for second helpings. Actual fish fills a plate on its own!

In future, order a portion of chips, wait till they've wrapped them, then ask for a buttered bread thing as a side.

Similarly, in cafeteria-type situations always ask for your main item with "just chips" then, once the plate's full of chips, ask for beans/peas/ whatever as well, as if you've changed your mind. Happy to help!

I don't get this.

A chip butty won't have the same amount as a portion of chips.

If OP wants a portion of chips AND a roll, then why not order a portion of chips and make a sandwich at home?

A chip butty I assume is cheaper than a portion of chips? Which is why there aren't a lot there.

You can tell the people who've never had anything like this from the chippy. It's just not the same.