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What do you call this edible delight?

Buttie
Sarnie
Sandwich
Something else?
And
Triangle or
Rectangle?

Im a triangle butty person myself btw altho can 'cope' with square butty if its basic ie plastic ham, paste etc
The more effort that goes into it increases the probability that it will be triangular.
Thoughts?

Am definately in the Buttie Brigade. Always had rectangle cut when i was a kid, we thought only posh people had triangles. It was a revelation when i got married and was served up triangles by the wife. I thought i'd made it! I'd moved up a class! Nah, she shattered my illusions and told me anyone could have triangles. Damn my council estate upbringing ha ha.

Pmsl. My fella's the same! He finks triangles are posh and wont eat them!! I always had square as a kid too so maybe i think im getting one over me mum?!
Used to work in a bupa run nursing home as a waitress-they wud go a step TOO FAR and do quarter triangles wiv no crusts, standin up wiv a bit of cress+ tömato!? Bit much that like.

Buttie, when I was a kid, a long time ago.
Sarnie or doorstep or tram-stopper, when taking lunchbox to work.
Sandwich, when Mum made them, or for invited guests now I'm retired.
My sandwich toaster starts off square and converts it to 2 triangles. How clever is that!

Bri

Remember once when i was about 18 and working on one of Maggies y.o.p. schemes as a builders labourer. My mum had done my carry-out. Yeah, nice one mum, pretty triangles with the crusts cut off... on a building site! What have you got sarnies today Lah-de-dah? was the question every lunchtime for months.

nooooo! Lol.
Funny how people 'genderise' buttys tho!
At home i'll av a bacon, egg+mushroom doorstoper but in public it would be a 'ham salad' on brown bread-lol-hypothetically speaking!

Butty = singular
Butties = plural

Pasty, pasties; curry, curries... I'm off to the kitchen! ..

ive been a greedy cow tonite. Cheese+ red onion butty (with the ova half shouting thru 'dont be cutting mine into fookin triangles' hence this post). Then i had a cornetto. It was very nice so i had anuva one.

I call them buttie. I also have square, the missus has triangles. It's too difficult and 'fussy' to eat.

Do you think this comes down to a class/gender thing?

A gender thing...
Square cut = Male
Triangle cut = Female

A class thing...
Butties = Working class
Sarnies = Upper class

Jam butties = Working class
Salmon and cucumber sandwiches = Upper class

Chip butties = Footie fans
Prawn sarnies = Corporate hospitality

Bacon & egg butty = Builders
Parma ham & goats cheese sandwich = Company Chief Exec

I deffo agree with you there! I did a reply earlier on the same lines but got 'error' and so didnt go in. Cudnt be arsed re writing....
Deffo a 'divide' re butties/ sandwiches
Male/ female
North/ south
Posh/ pov
Theres a social experiment in here somewhere?

Lets elaborate-
Brown/ white/ wholemeal/ granuler

Marge/ butter

Batch/ bap/ bun

Salad/ no salad/ tomoto slice

So on and so forth...

Lol

It seems fellas favour square. Ladios- triangle altho this is not conclusive by any means!

I was down south one time staying with friends, when i asked for a butty to go with my chips i was just met with blank faces. They'd never even heard the word "butty" before. Worse still, they'd never even had chip butties!

Noooo! They not lived. Esp chippy chips. Yumyum

Can't eat a portion of chippy chips without a butty, it's just not right. In fact there should be some kind of law forbiding the eating of chippy chips without a butty