[Magdalen] How?

[Roger Stokes]

On 22/07/2016 22:47, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
> On 7/22/16 1:50 PM, F von Prondzynski wrote:
>> I am currently on vacation in the US, and have had to get used to the 
>> different terminology again. What Americans call a sandwich would not 
>> normally qualify in the British Isles. And yesterday I ordered 
>> something with a ‘biscuit’ and got something entirely unexpected.
>>
>
> Oh, what is a "butty", a "cheese butty" or a "bacon butty"?  Is that 
> some kind of sandwich?  Or is the terminology entirely Liverpudlian, 
> and not widespread UK? 
It may have started in Merseyside but I think it is at least understood 
more widely now, particularly in the sense of the unhealthy chip butty.  
A butty is a sandwich of two slices of a standard loaf with the filling 
betweem.  In the case of a chip butty the filling would be chips - 
french fries in buttered bread though I suspect they are normally in a 
bun rather than using regular sliced bread.  Other sorts of sandwiches 
could be in that form as well and Joan would sometimes talk of her early 
days as a postgraduate student going into a shop, pointing at the salad 
sandwich bun she wanted and being asked in a thibk Liverpool accent "You 
wany a barm?" without being able to understand it.

Roger