Hot Carb on Carb Action!

Not the best timing after a post about healthy food, but I have secured photographic proof of the wonder that is the great British chip butty for those of you who were curious.

(more hot greasy action over at WNP!)

I've also added a new page tentatively titled Useful Stuff. Basically I'm attempting to compile all the rockin' health and fitness websites and resources that have helped me over the years, so when people ask me about that sort of thing I can point to this page instead of drooling helplessly!

Comments

[1 · Posted by kate · May 12, 2008 at 01:05 AM]

ARGH! My hips are swelling just looking at it.

I just can't imagine eating something like that. Even when I was a carb addict!

[2 · Posted by Beckie · May 12, 2008 at 01:05 AM]

A CHIP BUTTIE!

I have to show Scott this photo. For a while I thought that this was just something my family were common for because everyone I showed said "WTF?"

I LOVE my chip buttie with a little bit of mayo,.

[3 · Posted by yublocka · May 12, 2008 at 01:59 AM]

Hate to say it, but yum!

I can't believe they used to serve chip sandwiches like that at school canteens here in Australia. I hope they don't do it anymore!!!

[4 · Posted by Andrew is getting fit · May 12, 2008 at 02:03 AM]

I want one! NOW!

[5 · Posted by Dr. Bob · May 12, 2008 at 05:08 AM]

um ... what is it? My eyes want to say that it is a potato sandwich, but that can't be true.

[6 · Posted by ani · May 12, 2008 at 05:56 AM]

oooh looks damn fine - just a wee bit greasier and soggier with a dash of ketchup ("red sauce" for the Scots) and then it'd be bloomin perfect.

Now you've got me reminiscing I'm off to hunt for pictures of deep fried battered haggis....yurmmmmm!

I'm not actually sure I'd enjoy it so much any more. Alhough still a full time sugar addict, grease is something I've somehow weaned myself off pretty successfully - ahh the memories

[7 · Posted by The Bigger Idiot · May 12, 2008 at 06:31 AM]

I miss proper chips so much! Whwn I get back home for my visit this summer it's going to be the first thing I eat.

[8 · Posted by katt · May 12, 2008 at 06:34 AM]

Oh I remember those from my time in scotland yummy. Also when you went into a chippie and you ask for chip buttie they always asked you wanted sauce, but it was such a yummy sauce do they still have that sauce. oh do they also still have there deep fried mushrooms.
I WANT A CHIP BUTTER. Okay I am slowly backing away

[9 · Posted by FLG · May 12, 2008 at 06:37 AM]

:o Scandalous! And delicious! :D

A bit of ketchup, and a fried egg... proper job!

[10 · Posted by LBTEPA · May 12, 2008 at 07:14 AM]

O.M.G.
I can't tell if I really really want one or I feel a bit sick. Are the chips crisp?

[11 · Posted by Sue · May 12, 2008 at 09:35 AM]

Oh god, I would pay the flights and fly back to Scotland just to have one of those babies right now.

Totally worth it and the Aussies don't do a single thing which resembles it.

Sorry, but they just dont.

WANT!

[12 · Posted by Wendy · May 12, 2008 at 10:14 AM]

As much as I love(d) chip butties, they are "beige food" and beige food is almost inevitably bad food, therefore I never eat beige food anymore! Food in bright colours is the way to go. Green = good. Beige = Bad.

[/convincing myself]

[13 · Posted by dg · May 12, 2008 at 10:20 AM]

Ohhh I hear ya Wendy. Beige food definitely falls under the category of once in a blue moon. I think Gareth being Scottish he has some sort of internal chip clock whereby he needs a fix every month or so.

LBTEPA - The chips at Anstruther are sorta crisp, but not in the Australian way that chips are crisp. But they're not soggy, so they're accepetable to Aussie palates. Hehe.

[14 · Posted by Kyotokat · May 12, 2008 at 10:33 AM]

Hmmm. Think I'd have to have a few pints first:)

[15 · Posted by Tess(NL) · May 12, 2008 at 10:57 AM]

Hmmm that looks like it might be worth the cramps, just to try it once ;)

[16 · Posted by Heather · May 12, 2008 at 11:23 AM]

Ahhh. Of course. Looks better than it sounded. Especially that roll... Butter anyone?

[17 · Posted by Hannah · May 12, 2008 at 12:40 PM]

I love chip butties!! nothing like the fatty carby combo with loads of tomato sauce. You must miss proper Aussie chips though!!

[18 · Posted by Pamela · May 12, 2008 at 06:34 PM]

This is fantastic! My Scottish husband amazes me with his love of "carb on carb" delicacies like this, and he honestly thinks there's nothing at all odd about them. Since moving to America, he also has developed a fascination w/peanut butter on toast, but he makes sure to put real butter on the toast before the peanut butter, because PB by itself isn't fatty enough. (BTW, I still haven't gotten him to warm up to the joys of the PB and Jelly sandwich. Maybe after a few more years!)

[19 · Posted by anji · May 13, 2008 at 02:39 AM]

OMG, I totally used to LOVE eating those... I say used to 'cause I forgot all about them. Thanks for reminding me... guess what's for dinner tomorrow? mmmmmm

[20 · Posted by Jo · May 13, 2008 at 05:48 AM]

ANYTHING is good on a sandwich, carb or not. Leftover pasta salad. Leftover chicken risotto. Slightly warmed spaghetti bolognaise. Curried lentils. But then my fiance thinks I'm a little odd for enjoying any food I can find jammed between two slices of bread. Hey, it's always a good grainy type of bread!

[21 · Posted by Marla · May 13, 2008 at 12:12 PM]

O.M.G... is that a... French fry sandwich?

[drooooooooool]

[22 · Posted by Pat (Brit living in US) · May 13, 2008 at 09:23 PM]

Yum - I do miss chip butties. I remember trying to explain them to american friends when I first moved here and they just didnt believe me. Took a friend visiting from LA down to a chippie in NY on lower East side and I still remember the look of horror on her face when I ordered and ate one. );0)

[23 · Posted by sarah · May 16, 2008 at 02:30 PM]

Holy moly that looks good!!! and especially since the chips are from anstruther, had fish and chips on holiday there when i was wee (30 years ago ) and I can still taste them mmm, then I wonder why I had a weight problem lol