Burger King's New French Fry Sandwich Is A Chip Butty For Cowards

Burger King is scared of the U.K.’s potato sandwich game

Burger King is reintroducing a french fry sandwich to its menu for the first time since 2013, when it tried to put French fries in a bun with a beef burger, which is an unforgivable sin. Surely it will come to the U.K., home of regional delights gone national, chip butties, stotties, and scollop butties — in which the chips in the chip butty are themselves battered — to ply the country with a tribute to heritage, such that customers will continue to forget its multitude of labour, supply chain, and production sins.

No. It’s in New Zealand. A country which has to specify that chips are “hot chips” because the word “crisps” is alien.

Cowards. [ChewBoom]

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• Soho House has applied for a premises license at the former Foxlow steakhouse site on Bedford Hill in Balham. The live music, performance, and 00:00 — 00:00 opening hours suggest that it will be a club with rooms.
• Good tweet:

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— Cold War Steve (@Coldwar_Steve) February 14, 2020

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