Butty or Sandwich

15 Apr 2005

It has recently been brought to my attention the difference between a butty & a sandwich .......
According to sources (not sauces) a butty is any roll that has a hot filling & a sandwich has a cold filling.
Now I agree with this idea in prinicple a bacon butty or a ham roll but I get a little confused of when having a chip butty & the chips go cold does this then mean a butty will change into a sandwich.
Please assist my dilema
The WHOOSH Manâ„¢

15 Apr 2005

The difference between a Butty and a sandwich is regional.
A butty here means a sandwich, and a barm a roll. In South Wales a butty is your mate, a sandwich is a sandiwich and no-one's heard of a barm.

15 Apr 2005

Quote by SlydeWHOOSH
It has recently been brought to my attention the difference between a butty & a sandwich .......
According to sources (not sauces) a butty is any roll that has a hot filling & a sandwich has a cold filling.
Now I agree with this idea in prinicple a bacon butty or a ham roll but I get a little confused of when having a chip butty & the chips go cold does this then mean a butty will change into a sandwich.
Please assist my dilema
The WHOOSH Man™

As a general rule, your assumptions are right.
You would not call a chip butty that has gone cold a sandwhich, you would simply call it.........hers!

15 Apr 2005

What about the 'sarnie' ?

15 Apr 2005

Sarnie can be used in either context.

15 Apr 2005

In Scotland they use the expresion 'abody wan a piece?'.
A piece being a sandwich.

15 Apr 2005

surely butty is northern
sandwich southern
????????
here endeth the lesson

15 Apr 2005

I thought that a butty and a sandwich are the same thing, except that posh people tend to say sandwich and everyone else says butty.
I always say butty btw smile

:) :) :)

15 Apr 2005

Butty being pronounced like the word 'put'

15 Apr 2005

You get sandwiches round here,
If you asked for a butty or barm cake, they would wonder what on earth you were on about.
Butty with cold chips chuck it out, there is nothing worse than cold chips IMO

15 Apr 2005

I've always said sandwich does that make me posh? :shock:
Posh I'm certainly not, common as muck me... ask Mr CC :grin: although that might be down to my mum... took me ages to stop her saying gar(arge) instead of gar(ige)!
Everyone seems to each batches round here though.

15 Apr 2005

Would love to get in a sandwich with any of you lovely ladies wink

15 Apr 2005

Quote by Clansman
Would love to get in a sandwich with any of you lovely ladies

There you go Clansman, you're in between curious catz and me.......happy??? lol

:lol:
Fee
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15 Apr 2005

Quote by LadyFeeBee
There you go Clansman, you're in between curious catz and me.......happy??? :lol:
Fee
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And you're sandwiched rather tightly between me and Clansman, how's that for you m'Lady?

15 Apr 2005

Quote by marmalaid
There you go Clansman, you're in between curious catz and me.......happy??? :lol:
Fee
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And you're sandwiched rather tightly between me and Clansman, how's that for you m'Lady?
Mmmmmm.......and the day just gets better and better marmalaid :twisted: :twisted:
Fee
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(I've done it again and hijacked a thread - oops!)

15 Apr 2005

a sandwich is a sandwich...
why do you need so many different names for specific names to denote breads/fillings etc?
you are all crazy.
but wait: what in the h** does "BAP stand for?!!

15 Apr 2005

Quote by ockysweeties
a sandwich is a sandwich...
why do you need so many different names for specific names to denote breads/fillings etc?
you are all crazy.
but wait: what in the h** does "BAP stand for?!!

ah... but this is where is gets awkward...took my 6 months at uni in leicester to work out what a cob was...... (a bap) but when i get my morning dose of greasy food up here i ask for a stottie (supersize bap)
hmmm...me sense some regional differces.... maybe they only say "sandwich" south of the gravy line????
sean xxxxxxxx

15 Apr 2005

as long as its bread with a filling of some discription im not bother what you call it, i just call it food

15 Apr 2005

Quote by ockysweeties
a sandwich is a sandwich...
why do you need so many different names for specific names to denote breads/fillings etc?
you are all crazy.
but wait: what in the h** does "BAP stand for?!!

A bap is a soft bread roll. It's also slang for breasts.

15 Apr 2005

Quote by flapjackboy
a sandwich is a sandwich...
why do you need so many different names for specific names to denote breads/fillings etc?
you are all crazy.
but wait: what in the h** does "BAP stand for?!!

A bap is a soft bread roll. It's also slang for breasts.
ta flapjackboy... although, I should've been more specific. I know that when I order a BAP I get what I would normally call a sandwich... I was wondering if the letters has specific meaning... where I come from BAP means Black American Princess... (tho no one really uses it)

15 Apr 2005

Ah, right. As far as I know, the word bap in relation to bakery produce is not an acronym for anything

15 Apr 2005

Quote by flapjackboy
Ah, right. As far as I know, the word bap in relation to bakery produce is not an acronym for anything

it's all for the best, as I was enjoying snickering everytime I ordered one biggrin

15 Apr 2005

Up here in Geordie Land, where life is perfect (apart from this f*cking awful weather mad

) we have Stotties (big sandwiches), Sarnies (smaller sandwiches), & Butties with anything in really but (hopefully filled with something edible).
Rolls & Sandwiches are what southerners buy in the south!!! Southerners tend to end up starving when they visit, unless someone is kind enough to tell them what to ask for in Greggs. Otherwise they stand around on street corners, asking people "Please, could you possibly spare a sandwich or a roll, because I am ever so frightfully hungry?" Most of the time everyone just laughs, saying not another bluddy southerner. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

15 Apr 2005

Sandwich everytime for me except when making a chip butty biggrin

15 Apr 2005

You have a chip butty and everything else between two slices of bread is a sandwhich. But Im southern - I think that has alot to do with it ;)
Sini
cool

15 Apr 2005

Sandwich was an Earl, and therefore posh. Butty wasn't, and therefore isn't. Sarnie is just the Earl slumming it.
S'there :P
oh, and a bitta bread with hot stuff in it is a kebab biggrin

15 Apr 2005

Hmmm....From the Concise Oxford Dictionary Ninth Edition.
butty1 // n. (pl. -ies) Brit.
1 colloq. or dial. a mate; a companion.
2 hist. a middleman negotiating between a mine owner and the miners.
3 a barge or other craft towed by another.

butty2 // n. (also buttie) (pl. -ies)
1 a sandwich (bacon butty).
2 a slice of bread and butter.

butty-gang n.
a gang of men contracted to work on a large job and sharing the profits equally.

16 Apr 2005

I always thought a butty was a roll and a sandwich was well.. a sandwich but maybe im wrong lol

Carol

16 Apr 2005

My old dad (god bless him) always talked about a 'Bacon Banjo' and a 'Ham Daguid' :shock: :shock:
anyone ever heard of those? or better still have any idea of the origins?
only asking coz we never got to know much about dads early life, thought there might be some clues here.
cheers guys biggrin

16 Apr 2005

Strange I've just realised I always them butties if it's a chip or bacon one. And the rest are sandwiches.
I'll leave the bap/bun/batch thread to another time hehe.