This National Fish and Chip Day, here’s an important question: What do you call a chip sandwich?
Is it a chip butty? A chip roll? A chip cob? A chip barm?
Well, if you chose anything other than the first option, you’re wrong, apparently. We’re so sorry.
Online takeaway platform Foodhub surveyed 2,000 people in the UK and found that the overwhelming majority – 58% – refer to chips nestled in between bread as a ‘chip butty’.
Now, we’re not going to say that this means a chip sandwich is a ‘chip butty’ all the time, no matter what, and that if you say it’s a ‘chip cob’ you should be laughed out of the chippy.
But we do live in a democracy and thus the majority rules. We must accept that in official terms, ‘chip butty’ wins.
The second most popular term was ‘chip roll’, with 11% of the vote, followed by ‘chip sandwich’ at 6%, ‘chip bap’ (5.75%), then ‘chip cob’ (4%).
What do people call a chip sandwich?
- A chip butty – 58% of people in the UK
- Chip roll – 11%
- Chip sandwich – 6%
- Chip bap – 5.75%
- Chip cob – 4%
This is, of course, a question that draws harsh regional lines – ask someone from the Midlands and they’ll vehemently tell you that a bread roll is a ‘cob’, while further North, it’s a ‘bun’.
But the debate isn’t as simple as asking ‘what do different regions call a bread roll?’. A quick straw poll in the office revealed that while some of us may refer to a bread roll as a bread roll, or a bap, or a cob, when chips are introduced, that changes quickly to a ‘butty’.
Does it make logical sense that the fillings of a sandwich change what the same bread is called? Not really. But this is the truth.
What do you call a bread roll?
- Bread roll – used by 52% of English people, and more common in the South
- Cob – used by 8% of English people, most common in the Midlands
- Bun – used by 10% of English people, most common in the North East
- Barm cake/Barm – used by 6% of English people, most common in Greater Manchester
- Bap – used by 6% of English people, most common in Staffordshire, Cheshire, and Shropshire
- Muffin – used by 3% of English people, most common in Manchester
- Tea cake – used by 4% of English people, most common in West Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Cumbria
- Batch – used by 2% of English people, most common in Warwickshire
- Bread cake
- Scuffler
Wil Chung, Foodhub spokesman, said: ‘For years, people have argued that it should be called either a chip roll, chip cob, chip barm or a myriad of other titles. But, Britain has spoken, and we finally have an overwhelming consensus from the majority of the nation – it is, officially, called a Chip Butty!
‘There were regional differences in opinion on this iconic water cooler debate, as you’d expect. For instance – in the North-west there was very little in it between Chip Butty and Chip Barm, Chip Butty winning the vote by just 2%.
‘In London, while Chip Butty was favourite, Chip Roll was also up there with more than 1 in 5 people opting for that choice.
‘And in the East Midlands, around Leicester and Nottingham, while Chip Butty took the most votes, chip cob was a close second with almost 3 in every 10 people opting for that title.’
In short, while ‘chip butty’ may be the official UK term on the basis of majority rule, if you localise findings that might not be the case where you’re from.
Go onwards and call your chip sandwich whatever you wish.
Just don’t get us started on what sauce to put in there.
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source https://metro.co.uk/2020/09/04/national-fish-and-chip-day-its-official-the-name-for-a-chip-sandwich-is-a-chip-butty-13221612/
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