Bread and chips
By Anne18
@Anne18 (11029)
October 9, 2008 2:26pm CST
This is really for anyone over the age of 45,as it may not make sense to younger readers, but all please feel free to answer.
When I was a girl and we had chips from the chip shop, we were always made to eat bread and butter with our chips, to soak up the fat I think! I used to hate eating bread and butter with my chips and always tried to get away with eating one slice, the arguments it used to cause as I didn't want bread and butter with my chips.
Did this happen to anyone else of about my age? Or was it just my family?
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7 responses
@Anne18 (11029)
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9 Oct 08
Yes we do call our evening meal tea.
Why do you ask?
We have breakfast, at 12pm we have dinner time or lunch time (we use both words, don't know why) and about 5pm is te time regardless if it is a hot meal or sandwiches. Weekends children get supper which is crisps/choccy or homemade cooking if there is any left in the house!!!
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@Humbug25 (12540)
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9 Oct 08
It occured to me that people who call the evening meal tea and others that call it dinner have different eating habits and eating bread and butter with chips, I think is one of them. I was just talking to my mum about it on the phone and she actually calls it tea and I say dinner. How can that be when we come from the same family? Well it was always my dad that would insist we call it dinner. One of my brother's call's it tea and in fairness is the most like my mum out of the three of us, and my other brother always says dinner and it most like my dad. I too call it dinner. My dad came from quite a well to do family and they were quite snobby whereas my mum came from a very working class family and did the bread and butter thing. I think this was because bread helps to bulk up a meal relatively cheaply as they didn't have a lot of money in those days. Does that make sense to you?
@suehan1 (4344)
• Australia
15 Oct 08
i love to have chips with bread and butter every now and then.i was never forced to eat them that way,and mostly i prefer chips with gravy.but now and then i lash out and have a chip bunty as we use to call them back in those days.cheers sue
@Alexandria37 (5717)
• Ireland
14 Oct 08
We also got chips from the chip shop...every Friday. However, we were never told that we had to eat bread and butter with our chips...maybe we would have been, if we refused to eat it. We were just given the bread and butter and we made chip sandwiches with it. I loved to eat my chips that way and to this day, I still make chip sandwiches.
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
9 Oct 08
I never had to do that but I had a friend who used to love chip sandwiches!
@crazydaisy (3896)
• Canada
10 Oct 08
I agree with you about that I was told the same when I was a kid growing
up they use to tell me the same thing.about the bread. yuk.
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@Munchkin547 (2778)
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10 Oct 08
I must have an old fashioned family because they still do this!! If ever have a meal with my family we have to have bread with if we are having chips!apart from the obvious carbohydrate overload I don't mind it, it reminds me of being little when we used to have fish and chips from the chippy every friday, i make chip butties!! hehe xxx
@stvasile (7306)
• Romania
9 Oct 08
I was never made to eat something else with chips... It's the first time I hear something like that, and, at a first view, I don't think it is a valid argument, because with or without the bread and butter, you still eat the same amount of chips.
Maybe they just made you eat the bread and butter to make a more consistent meal.
