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That's right - my first time having/making a chip butty!!

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Article: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/british-sandwich-week-lockdown-coronavirus-bread-crisps-love-a9522646.html

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Mohegan13

Some people would say a real chip butty uses teacakes/baps/rolls where as bread would be just a chip sandwich. :P A proper butty would be proper chips (thick ones) done in a fryer, covered in salt & vineger. But who has time for that these days? Oven chips will do. Weirdly a chip butty is the only thing I still put salt on. I stopped having extra salt on food back in 1994/5. And yes, we have 'I can't believe it's not butter' in the UK and pretty much every supermarket has their own knock-off brand too. xD Although ours are called "spreads" rather than Margarine because they changed the formula (something to do with fat content iirc) many years back and it doesn't fall under the legal definition of margarine, or so say EU food people. *shrug*

Stephen Parker

Hi, Alanna, I feel really hungry after watching that, that was a pretty near perfect chip butty, the only thing to improve it would be to swap the ketchup for vinegar, although it does make the bread go soggy. I was surprised vinegar was not so popular in Canada, fish and chips is nowhere near as good without vinegar. How about another video featuring your sisters dog? If you want to try cooking again how about a cake a traditional Victoria Sponge, it would be fun watching you make that. We do have I can't believe it's not butter here, in fact there was a very funny scene in The Vicar of Dibley featuring it. It's probably still about somewhere on You Tube. Looking forward to your next video soon.

Benjamin Myers

Great video Alanna. The chip butty is a real classic, even used to do this growing up in Australia. Always used thick sliced fresh bread, one slice, buttered, enough to just see teeth marks as you bite into it. Layer hot chip shop chips, salted and lightly vinegared on one half and fold over, with a little ketchup on the side for dipping. The hot chips make the butter melt a little, so watch out for drips. Simple, but so good.

Simon

I knew you would like it, but you have much to explore in the butty world. Bacon butty, sausage butty (although lack of brown sauce will be an issue, bacon and egg butty, basically any combination of cooked breakfast ingredients and chips can go in a butty or just crisps. A salt and vinegar crisps butty is amazing. Think what you had but more crunch less soggy and more vinegar

Holger Steinwedel

Looks delicious! Definitely have to try one. You are the Martha Stewart of the lockdown! 😊

Graham Lavers

4 years in the U.K and never had a chip butty, I`m surprised. Oh the bread thing,keep it in the freezer and just take out what you want,keeps about 6 months.

Arthur Gatward

That's made me hungry. As other people have said just put salt and vinegar on, little tip, put the salt and vinegar on the chips before you put them in the sandwich that way the vinegar will not make the bread soggy. Thinking of traditional British food for you to make i think Bubble and Squeak would be a good one. As always great vid that cheered up my morning.

Adam Clark

The tan is looking strong again,you have a glow going on! As for the butty, i prefer chip shop chips in mine with plenty of salt and just a hint of vinegar, simple is best. The ketchup is a mood thing, if i do have it, i don't have much. If you want traditional British food you have to try a trifle. To be honest it wouldn't be my choice but it is very traditional. Stay happy.

Adventures and Naps

I took some bread out of the freezer for the video and the dog ate it before filming lol oops, stuck with the stale stuff!

Simon

It might have to wait until you are back in the UK. But a fun video might be trying things the British call pudding. Yorkshire, black, white, pease, steak and kidney, bread, sticky toffee... I know you have done some in the past but I think the range would be fun

Stephen Wadkin

Welcome to the dark side Alanna. It's true the butty is best with chip shop chips, preferably left over chips that had lots of salt and vinegar on them, so the flavor is soaked in. Warmed in the microwave so they're nice and soggy and and more vinegar for good measure. It's always brown sauce for me. For extra scrumptiousness and calorific value melt some cheese on top of the chips. 😋 I'm pleased you didn't cut it in half. The butty must always be shoved into the cake hole in one piece. I'm hungry now so guess what I'm going to have! 😊

Adam Clark

The chips have to be fresh and hot, then with the butter melting, it is ok. It is always handy to have a drink of choice close by too.

Sarah Hogg

I think you made a great chip sandwich but a real chip butty has to come from the chip shop you have made me fancy one now. I hope you’re staying sane and finding fun things to do. I’m sure we’ll happily wait to see Ontario until it’s safer for you to show us, thanks for the video

Ar558a

Brilliant, that looked so good! We do have "I can't believe it's not butter" here in the UK (and have done for like 30 years, i posted a hilarious vid related on discord). You're totally right about it being quintessential comfort food. Have you tried Fried Egg butty? They are 😋. Also I loved it when you looked at your non-existent watch😂

Sven Linton

Only thing better than a chip butty is a bacon butty. For a great chip butty, the chips need to be fried but oven is okay if you prefer. The fried ones seem to hold the heat more which helps melt the butter. Nothing worse than a chip butty with cold or colder than the chips butter as you bite in you feel the warmth of the chips then there's that awful moment where the cold butter touches your gums. Yuck. We gte I Can't Believe it's Not Butter here, but after so many years, if you still can't believe it's not butter, you never will. I like how it says, 'original' and 'originale', as if they didn't put the second one on the French speakers wouldn't know what it is. Or would say, 'but this is nothing to us, meh'.

David Brant

Love it! \o/ You truly are a Brit now you've had a chip butty. 😆Add another chevron to the shoulder and try a 'Sugar Butty'. Yes, a thin layer of white granulated sugar on buttered white bread! Better still - 'Bread & Dripping' with salt & pepper. Dripping is cooled beef fat leftover from a Sunday roast (also known as Lard). Proper WW2 ration foods. Nasty to me and younger generations, but was the staple diet of my Grandparents era during those harsh times. 🤓

Sven Linton

My mother and grand father loved beef dripping. We made our own but you could buy it in Yorkshire butchers. You'd get a bit of the jelly from the meat as well as the fat, so you'd either stick your knife in and get a mix of the two and spread or if you'd just done a beef roast, take your bread and wipe one side along the warm beef fat, fold in half and enjoy.

David O

my favourite being 'singles', the yellow squares that you put on a burger. So-called because they don't fit under the definition of 'cheese'.

David O

"I love a chip butty but it has to be made with white bread, in the old days it would have been Mother’s Pride or Sunblest. When you put on those hot chip-shop chips, with plenty of butter and salt and malt vinegar, the bread takes on the same texture as the potato and it’s just delicious." Marco Pierre White (https://jaimemagazine.com/2017/10/09/marco-pierre-white-on-life-after-the-kitchen/) He says something similar to Bourdain in his Netflix series. The texture is a massive component of the pleasure. End of slightly pompous post!

Martin Dobler

Nice - carbs on carbs :). This reminds me of something my father does: take left over mashed potatoes (preferably still modestly warm or even hot) - put butter on a piece of (white) bread - mashed potatoes on top - salt it slightly -> eat :). Sounds gross, I know, but you know what, surprisingly it's bloody delicious.

William Seabrook

I hope you could go on a nice long walk or bike ride to make up for the carbs. I love the potato parts but it is hard to find worthwhile bread in the average shop. And I'm sure that there's lots of great bread being baked by smaller food entrepreneurs in Canada! There's a video idea - unique Canadian healthy foods!

Peter Coombe

So glad you tried this, this is one of my favourite comfort foods and you're right you can't have it too often because of the unhealthy nature of it but then you should never have any treat too often because it will no longer be a treat.