[Magdalen] How?

[Roger Stokes]

On 23/07/2016 00:28, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
> On 7/22/16 5:28 PM, Roger Stokes wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Thank you, Roger.  Sounds to me like a normal basic home-kitchen 
> sandwich, although I've never heard of one with potatoes of any kind 
> between the bread. 
You are dead-right there.  I would certainly avoid one with potato in it 
- carbohydrate overload.  I would say the same of the offer of chips 
with lasagna or anything else with potato or pasta as an ingredient.

Roger