Chip butty
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Scottish English
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) or hot chip sandwich (in Australian English
Australian English
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) is a sandwich
Sandwich
A sandwich is a food item, typically consisting of two or more slices of :bread with one or more fillings between them, or one slice of bread with a topping or toppings, commonly called an open sandwich. Sandwiches are a widely popular type of lunch food, typically taken to work or school, or...
made with bread or bread roll
Bread roll
A bread roll is a piece of bread, usually small and round and is commonly considered a side dish. Bread rolls are often used in the same way as sandwiches are—cut transversely, with fillings placed between the two halves.-Various forms:...
(usually white and buttered) and hot chips (i.e. French fries), often with some sort of sauce such as tomato sauce (i.e. ketchup
Ketchup
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) or brown sauce. It was originally considered a working-class meal and was served in pubs. The chip butty is a vegetarian-friendly dish, except when the chips are fried in lard
Lard
Lard is pig fat in both its rendered and unrendered forms. Lard was commonly used in many cuisines as a cooking fat or shortening, or as a spread similar to butter. Its use in contemporary cuisine has diminished because of health concerns posed by its saturated-fat content and its often negative...
or dripping
Dripping
Dripping, also known usually as beef dripping or more rarely, as pork dripping, is an animal fat produced from the fatty or otherwise unusable parts of cow or pig carcasses...
, as used to be traditional in a British chip shop.
The word butty is a contraction of 'bread and butter', that came from northern England, perhaps Yorkshire or Liverpool.
A football chant (sung to "Annie's Song
Annie's Song
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" by John Denver
John Denver
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) called "The Greasy Chip Butty Song
The Greasy Chip Butty Song
The Greasy Chip Butty Song is a football chant originally sung by the supporters of Sheffield United football club to the tune of Annie's Song, glorifying the dubious delights of life in Sheffield, in chief the eponymous Chip butty but also nightlife, beer and tobacco products...
" is popular with the supporters of Sheffield United Football Club.
Variants include chip bap or barm, using a floury bap or barm cake instead of white sliced.
Another variation in the North is the Scollop Butty where the chips are battered before frying.