Mike Roberts

@Nickiquote@mstdn.social Non-UK folks may see references to names for bread that may need explaining. There are many local / regional names for a bead roll and many styles too, these can include, but are not limited to: rolls, buns, baps, barms, barm cakes, cobs, batch and stotties. Any can be used for a chip butty. Anything from two slices of mass produced white sliced loaf, fancy artisan sourdough, soft flour dusted bap or crusty bread roll. Chips, between two bits of buttered bread equals a chip butty.

@markhburton@mstdn.social @Nickiquote@mstdn.social For those interested ... I did a spot of searching last night and there is an unexpected amount of research on who calls a "bun" what and where across the UK... Including regional distribution maps. People have put an impressive amount of work in to this... https://stephenliddell.co.uk/2022/08/08/different-words-for-a-bread-roll-across-the-u-k/ https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/21204-cobs-buns-baps-or-barm-cakes-what-do-people-call-b https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20240325-barm-vs-cob-why-britain-has-so-many-names-for-a-bread-roll https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z3rpjfr Apologies if BBC articles are geo-blocked

@Simon318ppm@mastodon.sdf.org I spent a couple of years as a student in Sunderland and there it is stotty or stotties that ruled the bun roost. However a stotty is a behemoth among buns. They are a light soft bread but are usually around dinner plate size, 12" / 300mm diameter. A full chip stotty was quite the dining undertaking. Another option was the "savoury stotty" filled with a kind of mix of coleslaw and grated cheese. Finally the traditional favourite Pease Pudding as in the rhyme.

@Nickiquote@mstdn.social Chip butties are usually bought in Fish and Chips shops or "greasy spoon" cafés the latter offering embellishments like tomato sauce, brown sauce, perhaps English mustard or a fried egg. There is also the chip pitta, chips in a pitta bread often available from your local kebab shop.

@samw @jarkman Hoorah 🎉 for the safe return 😄

@jasongorman re defederation of mastodon.cloud