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Who breaks their Atkins diet before the second meal?
The trouble with visiting seaside towns is that you can smell the chips on the air! I only wanted a 'taste', they almost refused to sell me so few chips.
Why is it when I say I only want a half of their smallest portion yet will pay for the whole portion, they look at me strangely? Wouldn't you think they'd say, ahhh, go on, have it for 50p?
Just to be almost normal for once, wanting just a few chips, I asked for a chip butty without the butty, which is £1.20 rather than £1.50 for a portion of chips. I just assumed there would be fewer chips.
The young guy serving commented to his colleague, "Humph, they're all catching on to this, getting cheap chips cos they get as many on a butty as a small portion." So why don't they give fewer chips??
Then I was in a garden centre which had a pick and mix sweetie counter and they had some banana foamy things which I couldn't resist. I've eaten sufficient to make a class full of 4 yr olds super hyper - except they have a soporific effect on me.
Oh, I forgot about the Snicker bar - large one. I think that was my pudding after the chips.
Ok, maybe I'll start the diet tomorrow?
The trouble with visiting seaside towns is that you can smell the chips on the air! I only wanted a 'taste', they almost refused to sell me so few chips.
Why is it when I say I only want a half of their smallest portion yet will pay for the whole portion, they look at me strangely? Wouldn't you think they'd say, ahhh, go on, have it for 50p?
Just to be almost normal for once, wanting just a few chips, I asked for a chip butty without the butty, which is £1.20 rather than £1.50 for a portion of chips. I just assumed there would be fewer chips.
The young guy serving commented to his colleague, "Humph, they're all catching on to this, getting cheap chips cos they get as many on a butty as a small portion." So why don't they give fewer chips??
Then I was in a garden centre which had a pick and mix sweetie counter and they had some banana foamy things which I couldn't resist. I've eaten sufficient to make a class full of 4 yr olds super hyper - except they have a soporific effect on me.
Oh, I forgot about the Snicker bar - large one. I think that was my pudding after the chips.
Ok, maybe I'll start the diet tomorrow?
posted by Pykspeeks Rides Again at 9/11/2005 03:39:00 pm
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Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we diet.
1 Corinthians 15:32
I think I know chips are fries right? Or are "chips" sliced like potato chips and not french fries? ??? Also, what is "butty"?
I understood Snicker though!
Chips are fries but not french fries, well not around here! They're fatter. Do you realise that fatter chips are less fattening, cos there's a larger surface area on each chip so less fat. I suppose it depends how many chips you have though??
A butty is a bread bun (usually a flatish one, maybe called a barm, buttered with a filling. Chip butties are quite filling! I don't think a sandwich really counts as a butty.
I open to being corrected!
A barm is a soft round flatish white bread roll about 5~6 inches across common in Lancashire where you can get two varieties 'barm cakes' and 'oven-bottom barms'
It's where the phrase barmy comes from as in 'eeeeh, ya daft barm cake'.
I didn't think the phrase 'butty' was restricted to buns though, e.g. jam butties (also a nickname for the white police cars with two yellow strips and a red stripe down the side).
Snickers bars used to be called 'Marathon' in the UK.
I bow to your greater knowledge, GW on butties. You're right of course, sandwiches must count as butties cos I can't imagine a jam roll? Too much bread?
Are there other names for 'buns' - I'm sure there are. When I first moved to the South I was asked if I wanted a ........ which was a bread roll and I can't think what on earther the word was!
Hmm, suppose I could look up in a theasaurus.
I have an MSc in bread product terminology.....
(hold on to it.....)
(I apologise in advance BTW.....)
(nearly there.....)
it was a sandwich course I did!
G R O A N ...........
Would that be a wholegroan or a multigroan...?
You're so sharp you'll cut yourself with the breadknife if you're not careful!
Ooooooh! Nice comeback. Or is it wishful thinking that I should cut myself with a breadknife?
sandwich - two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them
butty - a sandwich; "a bacon butty"
club sandwich, three-decker, triple-decker - made with three slices of usually toasted bread
open sandwich, open-face sandwich - sandwich without a covering slice of bread
beefburger, hamburger - a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun
red hot, hot dog, hotdog - a frankfurter served hot on a bun
Sloppy Joe - ground beef (not a patty) cooked in a spicy sauce and served on a bun
hero, hoagie, poor boy, sub, Cuban, grinder, submarine, zep, torpedo, wedge, bomber, - a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese etc.;
gyro - a Greek sandwich: sliced roast lamb with onion and tomato stuffed into pita bread
bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich, BLT - sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce
Reuben - a hot sandwich with corned beef and Swiss cheese and sauerkraut on rye bread
western sandwich, western - a sandwich made from a western omelet
wrap - a sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla
Hmm, I notice the american 'sandwiches' didn't include the mexican varieties which are very popular in the US: quesadillas and burritos.
From the Caribbean (is it two r's or two b's?)a roti, I think.
I had a HUGE Reuben on Broadway it was a three-person meal.
Came across a po'boy, too and there was nothing poor about it. Huge amounts of roast pork stuffed in a roll. Now if only the Americans (sorry folks) could make good white bread!
I just had to have a ham sandwich!
Danny was out fishing the other evening so I took the opportunity to treat myself to the last of the oven chips to make myself a good chip butty. Can't beat it, the joy of a carbohydrate sandwich is something else entirely. Thanks for introducing me to the good things in life Mum, big and small!
Did you have malt vinegar on your chips, Tora???
You also used to have a penchant for Daddies Sauce / HP Brown Sauce sandwiches.
I'm sure mostly I sent you to school with nutritious lunch boxes but on the day I made sauce sandwiches as a special and put a lump of fruit cake in, probably from Grandma, you said there's been a lunch box inspection and had come home with a school letter advising parents on the importance of nutritious lunches. I still feel guilty about that!
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