The Chippy Butty ... Food porn

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The Chip butty! Licking your lips, well I am, but I am unlikely to be devouring one anytime soon. For health reasons I have kicked white bread into touch (mostly) and I don’t know if you feel the same but brown bread chip butties just don’t do it for me.

You could go along the line of a chip sandwich or a chip butty made with a crusty cob or soft bap I prefer the latter two myself. Not saying if all I had was a few slices of bread I wouldn’t knock up a chippy sarnie but you can’t beat a freshly baked cob or bap.

So a cob or bap, which is my chosen pleasure? A crusty cob with chunky fried chips because oven chips are just not the same and they are all I have to work with at the moment.

The make up for a chip butty is so simple but the pleasure it can give you is immense.

You take one crusty cob, slice it three quarters of the way through the middle, and spread a big dollop of butter, it as to be butter on one-half of the cob and the thicker the better. Taking it for granted you have the chips and they are hot and greasy so they sink into and melt the butter you have food porn. Simple but all those calories are enough to send the anti-fat brigade into a frenzy.

You could leave it just plain or smother with ketchup or brown sauce and another option is to slap a fried egg on top, up goes the calorie count. The reason for this post was that a Facebook friend was banging on about a chip barm (a northern thing) and topping it with mayonnaise, you can’t be serious, mayo is the devils spread. He should be shot at dawn for his crime to a chip butty.