Um, yes, apparently. Cheap, hot, filling. I've never had one. I wouldn't describe brown sauce as gravy but it could perhaps be lost in translation. Brown sauce is a condiment, from a bottle. For some, it's a component of the full cooked breakfast. I haven't ever had brown sauce either.

N.B. 'chip' is deep-fried potato finger - French fry in NAm Eng?
'Butty' is Northern English for 'sandwich', derived from buttered bread. 'Chip butty' used to be Northern food but is now possibly more widespread.
You can also have 'crisp butty'. Crisp = NAm Eng chip. So it's a chip sandwich.

My advice to you all, never having eaten either, is steer clear.

Am just looking up Elizabeth George. ... Extraordinary. I must read one to see how 'right' it feels.

Kind of OK here. There's a lot of furniture and crockery and other logistics in my life at present but that should have washed through by Sunday.

Ah! I looked up brown sauce. The description says that it's similar to what we call steak sauce or Worcestershire sauce in the U.S.

No, I shall stay far away from the chip butty.

Dagmar, poutine sounds like cheese fries taken to a new level with actual gravy... I used to like chili cheese fries, but the calories are enormous.

Elizabeth George's first novel was titled A Great Deliverance, published back in the late 1980s. You might want to start with that, Silverbirch, if you haven't encountered her works before.

I had a little of a carb meltdown yesterday. Headache kept me home from work, then I ended up working all day on a crashed time clock anyway even with the headache. That led to a handful of tortilla chips, and then a handful of triscuits. As a result, up to 157.1 today. Meh.

I did exercise yesterday, 5 miles on the treadmill. I'm not going to even list the food, as it was terrible.

It's time to start a new thread--and so I did! Come on over.

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