Tea and jam with Sean Bean

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http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jul/19/sean-bean-food-tales-chip-butties-sheffield



Tea and jam with Sean Bean

The actor had fond memories of chip butties in Sheffield when John Hind met him in 1988

Bean was 29 when I interviewed him in late 1988 in the council house, on the brow of London's Muswell Hill, which he shared with his partner Melanie and their one-year-old daughter. Here was Bean the family man, on his knees, juggling toys, a "bloody lovely" child and an Embassy cigarette, gearing up to play a drunken, unemployed wife-beater in the TV film Small Zones. "Despite the fact that he pushes his wife's hand in a pan of bacon and egg," Bean mulled, "I have to see things I like in him and consider and understand when they really loved each other."

So far, as an actor, Bean said that his – and his mother's – favourite TV scene, as captured successfully on VHS machine, was him playing a violent bully forcing an early Channel 4 film's romantic lead to drink a bucket of bitter, phlegm and worse in a pre-Falklands RAF bar. Fresh from Rada in 1983 he'd first fronted an alcohol-free lager commercial. "I was the bloke who landed the stricken plane, then said 'Good job I was drinking Barbican.'"

Melanie arranged many teas and jam sandwiches, although Bean had suggested that one of us run up the hill for chips suitable for making chip butties. I thought he was joking. Then he recited a favourite song – not least for his child – which he'd often chanted at Sheffield United games, to the tune of John Denver's Annie's Song.

"You fill up my senses, like a gallon of Magnet [bitter], like a packet of Woodbines, like a good pinch of snuff [from Wilson's Snuff Mill of Sheffield]; Like a night out in Sheffield, like a greasy chip butty…".

Bean had recently served two years with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
 

[lasue]

Sean looks so young for 29 !!! He looks like one of my high school students !!!!!

                                             

[lulu]

Forever a Blades supporter!

[Waverunner]

Not being British I do not know what chip butties are. Can anyone tell me what they are?

[way2prickly]

Not being British I do not know what chip butties are. Can anyone tell me what they are?

As near as I can tell, it's French fries on a hamburger bun, maybe with mayo?

[Karrie A]

Not being British I do not know what chip butties are. Can anyone tell me what they are?

As near as I can tell, it's French fries on a hamburger bun, maybe with mayo?

Not British either, but have had these in Canada, U.S. and U.K.  As an adult, heavy drinking was involved.  Chips (potato fries) served on a soft bun.  The bread is buttered, the chips are greasy and salty. Ketchup, HP sauce or malt vinegar was offered to top them off. No mayo was involved.  As a young child our family always went out for or took out fish and chips every Friday.  Most of them served soft floury buns called baps to make your own butties with the leftover chips.

I don't think my system could handle them these days.  That said, not that long ago I had a sandwich made with pulled barbeque pork,
cole slaw and chips on it. (Food truck.) It was memorable!

Bacon butties with HP used to be our go to hangover cure.

[way2prickly]

Not being British I do not know what chip butties are. Can anyone tell me what they are?

As near as I can tell, it's French fries on a hamburger bun, maybe with mayo?

Not British either, but have had these in Canada, U.S. and U.K.  As an adult, heavy drinking was involved.  Chips (potato fries) served on a soft bun.  The bread is buttered, the chips are greasy and salty. Ketchup, HP sauce or malt vinegar was offered to top them off. No mayo was involved.  As a young child our family always went out for or took out fish and chips every Friday.  Most of them served soft floury buns called baps to make your own butties with the leftover chips.

I don't think my system could handle them these days.  That said, not that long ago I had a sandwich made with pulled barbeque pork,
cole slaw and chips on it. (Food truck.) It was memorable!

Bacon butties with HP used to be our go to hangover cure.

No kidding?   Butter?   Goodness - like a cardiac on a roll, isn't it?

[Karrie A]

That is what buttie means - bread and butter! 
I remember the butter being pretty heavy too.

I am often amazed that at 57 I do not have cholesterol problems show up to haunt me after all
the BAD things I ate/did when I was younger.

[Waverunner]

Thanks for letting me know - Food is not that adventurous in my corner of the world

[Sable899]

Not too long ago, there was a huge uproar in UK when the public schools outlawed chip butties in children's lunch bags. They claimed that there was far too much fat and no nutritional value in them. Parents had fits because, much like the PB&J sandwich or Indian Fry Bread here in the States, they were something that the kids were always sure to eat. So-called healthy foods seemed to end up in the trash bin more often than not and parents would rather see their kids eat butties than sit in classes with empty bellies.  They ended up rescinding the ban.

[Waverunner]

Thanks for letting me know - Food is not that adventurous in my corner of the world

That is what buttie means - bread and butter! 
I remember the butter being pretty heavy too.

I am often amazed that at 57 I do not have cholesterol problems show up to haunt me after all
the BAD things I ate/did when I was younger.

 I hope I am as lucky as you

[Waverunner]

Not too long ago, there was a huge uproar in UK when the public schools outlawed chip butties in children's lunch bags. They claimed that there was far too much fat and no nutritional value in them. Parents had fits because, much like the PB&J sandwich or Indian Fry Bread here in the States, they were something that the kids were always sure to eat. So-called healthy foods seemed to end up in the trash bin more often than not and parents would rather see their kids eat butties than sit in classes with empty bellies.  They ended up rescinding the ban.

I sometimes get really tired of "high minded" people trying to regulate everything we do - glad to know they rescinded the ban - kids to not need to go hungry during the school day