This refers to what we in the UK call chips - like french fries, but about five times as thick, preferably hand-cut, and served with salt and vinegar.

If they are on the same table as a plate of bread and butter, it is impossible - physically impossible - for me not to make a chip butty. Sllice of bread and butter, topped with a few hot chips, then another slice of bread and butter; wait a few seconds until the butter starts to melt; and then it's chippy nirvana.

I don't care where, or in whose company, I am. It would be a sin not to.