One of Liverpool's culinary delights is the "sugar buttie", a treat for young Scousers consisting of white sugar sprinkled generously between two slices of buttered bread. Dentists on Merseyside have very strong opinions about this!

Another local variant is the "treacle buttie" which originated in the docks where the dockers would spread ther bread with the raw treacle which leaked from Tate & Lyle's cargoes.