Should the UK public have the right to chip barms?

The first politician to agree to give them away for free will earn a landside.

Whatsa barm? Is it a bun, a warm bun perrrraps?

A chip WHAT?

Possibly the most anemic sandwich I’ve ever seen.

I’m of out to get some chips, power to the people!

ITS A **** MUFFIN!

Death to the infidels.

Chip barm? oven bottom maybe

Roll and chips. With a fritter. and Broon sauce.

Dirty. 😈

That my friend is an (over-filled) chip muffin. Not seeing a lot of butter either. Assuming the brown sauce is out of shot?

Chip barm? NOooooo

Wigan Kebab on the other hand (as per image above), much better.

edit – like this. Chips on the side. They are not the main event 😈 😉

Chip butty innit?

RIGHT! – thats it, I’m going down the cafe, even though its pissing down.

RIGHT! – thats it, I’m going down the cafe, even though its pissing down.

Och,are yi gettin homesick?

😉

pie/pasty barms are wrong, pastry is basically a delivery mechanism for the filling, it allows you to hold it while eating and offers some protection in transit (in your camelbak or whilst walking down the high street) Much the same as a sandwich, so it’s basically duplication of effort and diluting the filling/casing ratio.
Only time you should want bread with a “pie” would be if it was one of those top crust only affairs, but those don’t count as pies.

Chip barms are awesome, but as rocket mentions HtS’s barm is looking a bit dry, needs butter, ketchup (or salad cream according to my mrs) or a tub of gravy/curry sauce to dip in/pour on (the latter is detrimental to the mobility options tho)

pie/pasty barms are wrong, pastry is basically a delivery mechanism for the filling, it allows you to hold it while eating and offers some protection in transit (in your camelbak or whilst walking down the high street) Much the same as a sandwich, so it’s basically duplication of effort and diluting the filling/casing ratio.

In principle you’re correct. Practical experience however is something else. There no good reason to put a pie in a bread roll…. other than the result being magnificent.

I’ve lived in 4 different towns in my life – each one of them has a different word for that thing up there.

Being from Radcliffe I prefer the term “chip muffin”.

Anyone that says muffin is a cake can f*** off back to America.

each one of them has a different word for that thing up there

Nudger?

pie/pasty barms are wrong, pastry is basically a delivery mechanism for the filling, it allows you to hold it while eating and offers some protection in transit (in your camelbak or whilst walking down the high street) Much the same as a sandwich, so it’s basically duplication of effort and diluting the filling/casing ratio.
Only time you should want bread with a “pie” would be if it was one of those top crust only affairs, but those don’t count as pies.

Wrong

no matter what you call it, it needs more butter, more sauce, more salt, more grease and maybe, just maybe a few scraps…. nom.

Got a steak in the fridge for tea. It’s looking pretty 2nd rate after reading this.

pastry is basically a delivery mechanism for the filling

Maybe in some parallel universe, but not the one I’m in.

You’ll be saying that a stew in one of those earthenware dishes with a pastry lid is a pie next. After all, the pastry is *just* a delivery mechanism. Pastry my friend, is what makes a pie a great event.

Chib bams?

Quite common here in Glasgow, but do we really want to encourage vigilantes?

Should the UK public have the right to chip barms?

Nope, but I’d vote for a right to a chip cob as any normal person would say.

i used to enjoy a M&S chicken and cream sauce pie in a roll.
ate them for years, despite protestations from the first mrs mac (you’ll burn yourself)
then one day, i bit into it a little early and burnt the roof of my mouth ‘aaargh’
i took it away from my mouth, and the sauce spilled out, getting me on my bare wrist ‘aaargh’
i then put it into my other hand, and it spilled out and got me on the other wrist too ‘F***** H***’ at full volume.
it totally cured me from eating a pie like that, not because of the burns, but due to the fact that for about 3 weeks after the incident, anytime there was a lull in conversation, my 2 yr old daughter would say ‘ah, ah, kin ell’
i was mortified.

Thought this was going to be a thread about electronic tracking for keeping an eye on the whereabouts of English cricket fans

It’d be a chip cob here too. mmmm, chips…..

A pie in a cob is pointless.
Pie should be with chips, peas and gravy, and the bread used to make a chip butty and to soak up excess gravy.

That is the way it has always been. I have spoken.

Barm, batch, cob, bun, muffin, butty, stottie, bap, teacake, breadcake, roll, oven bottom, scuffler, whaaateva.

I want one! Not that one above though cos it looks crap.

Are we allowed to squash the bap down?
Can we use marg instead of butter?
What happens to people who use mayo (or brown sauce 👿 )?
What is the recommend chip length to width ratio?
Oven chips of fried?
Veg oil or lard?

These questions need answers

Are we allowed to squash the bap down?

Yes, this shows it’s properly filled to the max

Can we use marg instead of butter?

It’s easier to spread and doesn’t rip the bread apart

What happens to people who use mayo (or brown sauce )?

If you use mayo you’re Belgian. ‘Brown sauce’ is the devils work, only real HP Sauce is acceptable.

What is the recommend chip length to width ratio?

5:1 to 10:1

Oven chips of fried?

Whatever is available. Oven chips are pretty good these days. ‘Fries’ are, again, the spawn of Beelzebub

Veg oil or lard?

How good’s your heart..?

Oven chips or fried

Oven chips! 😯 get out! and take your marg with you..

“A pie in a cob is pointless.
Pie should be with chips, peas and gravy, and the bread used to make a chip butty and to soak up excess gravy.
That is the way it has always been. I have spoken.”

Even though you are my brother and we come from the same place in the UK and should share the same values, I cannot agree with you.

You have pledged your allegiance to the south, mine is to the North. I have witnessed many many food miracles in the north. Hot pork pie, mushy peas and mint sauce. Chips and curry sauce. Pies so large you gasp at their enormity. Yorkshire puddings with everything. So many sausages everywhere it makes you weep. And we haven’t even got onto the myriad of traditional butchers dealing out their own brands of pork pies made with secret ingredients like crack cocaine to the masses. Curd tart (vile but I respect the passion for it), white pudding, beef dripping sold everywhere. Never being more than 2 minutes walk from a Greggs. So many food places where the owners are openly hostile to their customers but it doesn’t matter because the food is so good you’d crawl over broken glass naked to get it. Pork scratching stage size of your arm (and a lot hairier), gravy so thick you can mortar bricks with it. For crying out loud there’s even a Rhubarb Triangle to provide fruit for massive crumbles all year round. Being served tea with an extra pot of hot water at EVERY tea shop (I think environmental health close them down if they don’t round here).

However, I do have to agree it should be called a cob. I just can’t get used to calling them baps! 😉

There’s no need for marg in any context, but particularly not in a chip barm. Butter, LOTS of salt and vinegar, tomato sauce and as many chips as you can squash in there. It’s the only way.

“It’s easier to spread and doesn’t rip the bread apart”

Yeah why not?
I’ve never been that bothered about butter TBH*. S’okay I suppose but you can’t taste the difference in a decent sandwich**

* Except in a baked potato

**If you can, may I suggest you take a long, hard look at your choice of fillings….

Apparently thEeeyeu wants fer tban the chippy butty due to carb overloading …….fact !

Is this allowed ?

???

It’s on sliced white

No, no it isn’t.