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Not to make BF this food anymore - Bacon

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olympicsrock · 16/10/2022 03:05

My best friend loves to eat bacon sandwiches as do i and my family. The issue is that she always calls them ‘bacon butties’ and says this with great relish. “Ooh bacon butty!” She calls other sandwiches “sandwiches”.
I was brought up being told that people who said Butty rather than sandwich were incredibly common. Whenever she says this , it really irritates me. I haven’t said anything.
Am in being unreasonable just to not serve this when she comes over to minimise the irritation . Or do I tell her how much this bothers me and serve her something she loves.
Do others hate this too?

DOI grumpy old woman with Perimenopausal grump.
As a side Issue , it’s tomato ketchup not tomato sauce!

OP posts:
FurryDandelionSeekingMissile · 16/10/2022 05:12

Ranchup sounds like an onomatopoeic slang term for vomiting.

There might be a good reason for that.

Panauchocolat25 · 16/10/2022 05:13

You can't be serious. Bacon butty is a standard saying where I'm from in the north. You can also have chip butties. We certainly aren't "common" and you sound extremely judgemental. I really hope this is a troll not an actual person that thinks this way. I'm going to get up now and make myself a bacon butty for brekkie.

pinkfondu · 16/10/2022 05:13

I understand op, my son has start started say 'cuppa' with gusto rather than cup of tea. Is it an over reaction to throw him out?

mintiegreen · 16/10/2022 05:14

Bonkers

DarkNecessities · 16/10/2022 05:19

The word ‘Butty’ isn’t common, however, tomato ketchup is.

Magissa · 16/10/2022 05:20

Here they are bacon sarnies or sausage sarnies. White sliced bread loads of butter. Brown sauce!
I get your irritation Grin

FurryDandelionSeekingMissile · 16/10/2022 05:25

I don't think I've seen anyone here speaking up for "sanger" yet — any better, OP?

Cas112 · 16/10/2022 05:26

Get a grip, most people say bacon butty

FurryDandelionSeekingMissile · 16/10/2022 05:30

I've just realised — one salient aspect of this whole thing that we haven't yet discussed is the vital issue of whether friend is pronouncing "butty" with a glottal stop 😱😱😱

Revolvingwhore · 16/10/2022 05:59

Bacon banjos, they're called around these here parts.

RedDwarfGarbagePod · 16/10/2022 06:29

I hate the word 'butty'. I have no idea why. I've always hated it. See also: 'brew' for tea. Somebody talking about a bacon butty and a brew makes me want to rip my own head off.

So I do feel your pain, OP!

Aprilx · 16/10/2022 06:39

If it was in a roll I would call it a bacon roll, if it is in bread than f course it is a bacon buttie. No other sandwich is called a buttie and nobody says bacon sandwich, surely?

charabang · 16/10/2022 06:41

I much prefer butty to sarnie. Sarnie makes me cringe. And it's red or brown sauce.

isthismylifenow · 16/10/2022 06:43

I think you should all stop messing about with just bacon, butties or sarmies. Make a Dagwood instead.

DuchessofAnkh77 · 16/10/2022 06:43

It's regional slang, as opposed to common

Sarnie, butty, etc
See also chip butty!

If you ask people what they call a bread roll you will find the same divergence of etymology....roll, bam, bap, barm etc.

CrustyFlake · 16/10/2022 06:47

I think it would be much easier to simply never speak to her again.

CGWGWOO · 16/10/2022 06:47

So the choice is common like me or a thundering arse of a snobby judgey cow like you?

Let me think about that …

KvotheTheBloodless · 16/10/2022 06:47

FurryDandelionSeekingMissile · 16/10/2022 03:27

It's completely immaterial.

The really important questions are:

  • what cut of bacon you use: medallions, back or streaky
  • whether you use smoked bacon or pleasant bacon
  • whether you're one of those freaks who toasts the bread first
  • whether you butter the bread or just leave it dry like some kind of ascetic
  • whether you cook the bacon pink and flabby with fat flobbing around, hard and shattering into mouth-stabbing pieces, or the correct, middle level of cookedness

Smoked bacon is pleasant bacon! I will die on this hill.

Your other descriptions are correct, though.

Burnamer · 16/10/2022 06:50

FurryDandelionSeekingMissile · 16/10/2022 03:27

It's completely immaterial.

The really important questions are:

  • what cut of bacon you use: medallions, back or streaky
  • whether you use smoked bacon or pleasant bacon
  • whether you're one of those freaks who toasts the bread first
  • whether you butter the bread or just leave it dry like some kind of ascetic
  • whether you cook the bacon pink and flabby with fat flobbing around, hard and shattering into mouth-stabbing pieces, or the correct, middle level of cookedness

I enjoyed the level of judgement 👏🏻

FrangipaniBlue · 16/10/2022 06:53

Singleandproud · 16/10/2022 04:35

A hot filling between two slices of bread = butty - bacon butty, chip butty, sausage butty.

A cold filling between two slices of bread = sandwich.

This.

If you asked for a bacon sandwich or chip sandwich (wtf?!) in this house you're be laughed out the front door.

KermitlovesKeyLimePie · 16/10/2022 06:54

What about a Jam butty?

Are they "common" too?

Oysterbabe · 16/10/2022 06:56

Mushroom ketchup is great. I use this basically as you would use Worcestershire sauce.
Smoked bacon is the only bacon worth having.
Personally I say bacon sandwich but I have no issue with butties.

Not to make BF this food anymore - Bacon
FurryDandelionSeekingMissile · 16/10/2022 06:59

KvotheTheBloodless · 16/10/2022 06:47

Smoked bacon is pleasant bacon! I will die on this hill.

Your other descriptions are correct, though.

Heathen!

Though at least now I know who to call when I end up with a rogue packet of burnt-wood flavoured bacon due to somebody depositing a rogue packet of it in among the bacon-flavoured stuff. (I can only assume they came to their senses and swapped it.) (See also: accidental barbecue flavour baked beans, unintentional tuna in brine, and the two consecutive and very disappointing occasions when the supermarket delivered me fat free Greek yogurt by mistake, with no substitution alert, because the packaging is near identical to the full-fat version and the picker confused them.)

DaisyWaldron · 16/10/2022 07:03

I agree with the earlier poster that it's a butty if the filling is bacon or chips. I would also accept "butty" for a sausage filling, but prefer the alliteration of "sandwich". I don't think it's down to the temperature of the filling, because a hot halloumi and roasted vegetable sandwich wouldn't be a butty, but a fried egg sandwich could. I think it comes to whether or not the sandwich could be served in a café-pronounced-caff. You can upgrade the ingredients and still have it be a butty, but you can't mess around with it too much - eggs Benedict made with bacon is NOT a butty.

And brown sauce is far better than ketchup.

FurryDandelionSeekingMissile · 16/10/2022 07:03

How did I end up typing rogue packet twice without noticing? 😂 I'm obviously as inattentive a typist as I am a shopper.