Settle an argument

[jugwhatfrud]

What is the definition of a butty

 

[AndrewP]

Food enveloped by bread product.

 

[Arkle]

A sandwich of some sort or something resembling an arse in America?

 

[Butcher's Coat]

What is the definition of a butty

A sandwich/bread bun with a filling - ie bacon.
That's what I would define it as.

 

[Ramone]

Strictest definition is chips in bread. Just my opinion, never really use it for owt else. That includes bacon and eggs.

 

[jugwhatfrud]

So chips in a bun with no butter is that a butty or a chip sarnie

 

[peachy]

What is the definition of a butty

What is the argument ?

So chips in a bun with no butter is that a butty or a chip sarnie

Either I'd think

Edit: nothing to do with the butter. If it is in bread, then it could be a butty or sarnie. If the filling is in a bread bun, it could be a bun or butty ( but not a sarnie)

 

[jugwhatfrud]

What is the argument ?

So I say a butty must include butter
She says any sarnie is a butty butter or not

 

[Dave Hosselhaff]

So chips in a bun with no butter is that a butty or a chip sarnie

Well it's not a sarnie in a bun. A sarnie is a sandwich. A bun it isn't.

 

[MackemBob]

So I say a butty must include butter
She says any sarnie is a butty butter or not

Just say sorry and take her to bed you old romantic.

 

[Becs]

Butty for hot food - chip butty, bacon butty etc.

Sandwich for cold fillings.

Butter optional on both.

 

[SAFC1962]

A buttered bun with something hot in it so as the butter oozes & makes your fingers greasy

 

[NYMackem]

So I say a butty must include butter
She says any sarnie is a butty butter or not

Sorry, but you're wrong. The butty is the bun / bap / barm / insert regional variation here filled with chips, egg or meat. Doesn't matter whether its buttered or not. Needs to be a bun of some stripe and it needs to be filled with hot food to be a butty.

 

[wigwams]

So chips in a bun with no butter is that a butty or a chip sarnie

Butter is irrelevant. Chips in a bun is a chip butty

 

[jugwhatfrud]

Butter is irrelevant. Chips in a bun is a chip butty

But if there's no butter it's just chips in a bun surley

 

[NYMackem]

Butty for hot food - chip butty, bacon butty etc.

Sandwich for cold fillings.

Butter optional on both.

I reckon a sandwich can be hot (bacon sandwich?), but I think it needs to be in sliced bread. If it is in a bun it isn't technically a sandwich, although most people use the term interchangeably.

 

[Cockney Mackem]

Not sure on the answer to the question, just wanted to commend the OP's user name

 

[Ramone]

Surely chip sandwich has never been spoken out loud. It’s a chip butty from the fishy, and I respectfully call it chips and bread when home cooked

 

[Pnematic1]

Butty for hot food - chip butty, bacon butty etc.

Sandwich for cold fillings.

Butter optional on both.

There’s cheese buttys and crisp buttys here in the Deep South mind ……..

 

[peachy]

Butty for hot food - chip butty, bacon butty etc.

Yes I agree that for a butty the filling would be hot.

Sandwich for cold fillings.

A sandwich could have hot or cold fillings. Bacon sarnie, bacon roll, bacon bap, bacon butty all work. Cheese sandwich/sarnie but not a cheese butty.

Butter optional on both.

I'd agree.

But I did look up out of interest and the butty bit seems to have been derived from the word butter. It also seems to have northern origins, but butty is well used and understood in the south too now.