Wotsits Sandwich
Cheesy Wotsits (cheese puffs) on bread; messy but beloved.
Cheesy Wotsits (cheese puffs) on bread; messy but beloved.
A crisp sandwich that insists on the brand: a whole bag of Tayto cheese and onion laid intact between buttered white bread, the orange seasoning powder doing all the talking.
Salt and vinegar crisp sandwich: a packet tipped dry into soft buttered white and pressed to a brittle sheet, the acetic dust the one sour line that lifts starch on starch.
A British crisp sandwich built on Walkers Prawn Cocktail, the pink packet from a 1968 Leicester factory, with no actual shellfish anywhere in the bite.
Monster Munch corn snacks on bread; pickled onion flavor popular.
Potato crisps (chips) between buttered bread; surprisingly popular, any crisp flavor works.
Alternative name for crisp sandwich.
A hot scoop of chip-shop chips packed into a buttered round roll. The word at the counter tells you which county the order was placed in.
Hot chips (thick-cut fries) on buttered white bread; carb-on-carb British classic, often with salt and vinegar.
Marrowfat peas simmered to a thick green pulp, spooned onto buttered white bread, hot chips piled on top: the pea-and-chip tray closed into a Northern chip-shop butty.
Hot chip-shop chips and a ladle of thin brown chippy gravy folded into buttered white bread; the savoury alternative to the same counter's curry sauce.
The sauce is the part worth knowing: not really a curry but a British-Chinese chip-shop invention, mild and turmeric-gold. The butty is chips-and-curry at its most saturated.
A chip-shop chip butty with a ladle of thick, mild, faintly sweet curry sauce, built over the counter with the chips still spitting from the fryer basket.
The Northwest's chip sandwich: hot chips, butter and salt pressed into a soft floured barm cake whose open crumb collapses around the pile and grips it.
Hot chip-shop chips on a soft floured bap: a dry powdery crown over a base that drinks the grease, the denser sweeter crumb the bap brings to a job the barm does its own way.
A green packet of cheese and onion crisps tipped flat into buttered white sliced bread and pressed once with the palm; the seasoning powder, invented by Tayto in Dublin in 1954, does the flavour work.