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?

Well no I missed it! Thanks for the information though. I can see why she's unhappy about the serving!

The shop should simply sell "Chips" in portions for a set price with the option of buying a roll for 50p if you want to.

Weird of them!

YABU for calling it a chip butty when what you have is clearly a chip barm!

@FrangipaniBlue Tue 07-Aug-18 19:38:50
@DoubleNegativePanda a pie sandwich (yes, this is a thing where I live!) would absolutely blow your mind

Try a hot (pastry) sausage roll in a buttered bread roll. Someone I worked with once introduced them to the office. I didn't have one but got curious one Christmas when we had a tray of cocktail sausage rolls. It wasn't that nice.

@ChopChipCookies Tue 07-Aug-18 21:05:32
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.

Parsley sauce is basically liquor and you can get it in pie & mash shops.

Chips on a milk roll is good too. Can eat about 4 sandwiches of that. Not a chip butty, obviously, but alright.

Re. Parsley sauce on chippy dinner.

Sorry, I just don't believe this. At all. Didn't happen.

AnExcellentUsername Wed 08-Aug-18 09:44:12
Not bread rolls though, just rolls. Never heard bread rolls...

Bread rolls are what are served with dinner.
Rolls are any old rolls - can be soft or crusty, round or square.
Cobs are crusty oblong things.
Subs are soft oblong things.
A teacake is a cake with raisins in.
A bap is a large soft roll.
A bun is what you put burgers in, usually has sesame seeds on top.
A muffin is a cake or a flat roll for toasting.

Why would anyone pretend to have had parsley sauce on fish and chips?

What an odd thing to disbelieve

@Eliza let's just call them all rolls and stop any confusion 😁

MaxPepsi you’re right about the “chippy tea”. I find it a term used by middle class people who are trying to demonstrate how down to earth they are.

And who on earth called scraps “battered bits”?

OP is right, those chips are pitiful. There would be a riot at my chippy if they tried to foist that portion on a paying customer.

Eliza9917 I don’t see breadcake in that supposedly comprehensive list.

I love this thread and all it's regional variations! I'm from Liverpool (chip butty/barm) but have lived in Newcastle (chip bap with scraps) but am now in Warwickshire (chip batch/roll). But NOTHING makes me salivate more than the idea of a good old Scottish Chippy Tea of battered jumbo sausage, chips with salt and sauce. YUM (never tried a deep fried mars bar though)

@MrsFezziwig That's because a breadcake does not exist. You either have bread, or you have cake.

Never mind all this dialect nonsense, I'm ragin' with OP because I bought ingredients for a very healthy veg stir fry tonight and now I'm craving chips. (I'm in NI so I'd order "a chip", fyi!)

Woah woah, hang on Peachgreen, if you’d have ordered ‘a chip’ you’d have expected what???...

That's clearly a roll and chips

Thanks OP, tonight I am having a sausage supper, curry sauce and a roll

(west of scotland we call them suppers. None of your cod and chips or sausage and chips shite. Fish supper, sausage supper, pie supper, mars bar supper)

@CakeNinja A portion of chips - sorry, I didn't mean a chip butty, just the chips that I fancy!

Pizza what do you ask for at lunchtime?

I'm in Scotland tomorrow and Friday and will have 2 lunches and an evening meal to buy so am now wondering if I may break my 'never eat fish and chips outside Yorkshire' rule for one of these meals, but I'm not sure what to ask for and don't want a repeat of the time I tried to buy a sandwich in Birmingham where they won't do you a breadcake sandwich even if they have the breadcakes there on the counter. I don't want to be asking for fish and chips if it will lead to confusion.

If this thread has taught me anything it's that a breadcake is a roll, so... you want a roll sandwich??

And if you want fish and chips, just ask for a fish supper. X supper - c with chips.

Or... just ask for fish and chips. I'm sure they'll work it out.

x with chips*

mars bar supper

^

Awesome

Also, @deepfriedpizza isn't just a username, it's also very very delicious.

@BarbaraofSevillle It depends where you go. in more tourist areas you'd be fine. You'd still get fish and chips wherever you are though if you're a forriner you'd get away with it.

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.

If you want ham or cheese on a bread roll made up in a shop then you ask for a roll and ham/cheese etc. If you want a sandwich with bread you ask for a sandwich (simple)

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!!!

@AnExcellentUsername that'd be just a pizza supper
or if you want battered pizza which I highly recommend it would be a pizza crunch.

I am no stranger to a pizza crunch. With gravy. And salt and vinegar.

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