My family is Greek. We put so much salt in food that most of my friends think I’m going die at like 30 from a heart attack. We lather everything with olive oil too which is horrifying to most. My grandparents (and great grandparents for that matter) are some of the healthiest people I’ve ever met and have lived very long lives… wondering if the secret is salt and olive oil as much as doctors would dispute it lol
Half my family is also Greek, the other half Uruguayan. Both families, more so my Uruguayan side, use is what I can only describe as an absolutely obnoxious amount of salt.
The Greek side too, my Yiayia (passed recently) would salt salad so much that it got to the point where she would make a separate small bowl of salad for my partner with no oil or salt on it.
My partner was up for a rude shock when we started dating. She didn’t expect so much salt
on everything.
I’m just as bad, my salt usage is quite OTT at times.
I love this story and would love to see the comparative salt usage of Uruguayans haha. My dad (born in Scotland) can only barely tolerate the amount of salt my Yiayia uses, and even then, she makes sure to tone it down if he’s eating. My Chilean uncle has no issue, so could be a shared South American - South European trait! When I make pasta for myself I tend use as much salt as anglo Aussies use cheese lol. Nothing has taste without salt and oil for me!!
If a *Scotsman* is complaining about the high salt content then I’d be getting concerned!
(Porridge is our healthiest breakfast and we even put it in that! )
Chilean food for sure. I married a Chilean, and lived there for a few months. The food was saltier than I was used to, but not so much to turn me off eating anything and I quickly got used to it.
Coming back to Australia and cooking for family, all I got was wrinkled noses and "did you use enough salt?".
Olive oil is really good for you. The Mediterranean diet is well studied and one of the most healthy. Can’t say the salt is a contributing factor however.
Well, my mum swears by olive oil being a superfood and I can’t dispute it - she and my grandparents use it for EVERYTHING. She drinks olive oil from the bottle (and only gets it from the best sources, of course) and so does the rest of her family lol
It’s not the salt but sodium that in excess quantities can lead to water retention. Water retention can lead to increased blood pressure but it’s not the bogey man it was made out to be.
From my understanding; it’s more that it’s a waste of good olive oil rather than it being a real health hazard. You will get trans fats created with many many uses though. But you’re better off using a more stable oil at high temperature like avocado oil. Plus it doesn’t have such a distinct flavour.
Pretty much my whole childhood and young adult life was "Anglos" telling me that my food is too salty (without tasting it) and I used too much oil (while they stuffed their faces with potato chips).
Fuck them.
There's nothing wrong with olive oil. Fat has been unnecessarily demonised. As long as your portion sizes aren't excessive then chuck the oil in for sure.
I married into a family of doctors and this is basically one of their staple foods. As far as I can tell there are very few doctors practising what they preach as far as food goes
Remember that when a doctor tells you something will add years to your life, those years will be the crap ones at the end when a sneeze can break your hip.
>I don’t but people do. I do however like to put hot chips in a sandwich with a fuckton of butter (don’t tell my doctor pls).
hot chips and sometimes a potato cake in there for extra crunch or the snack chips
A proper hot chip is *much* thicker than a French Fry, but otherwise similar.
If “steak fries” had a square cross-section instead of rectangular, they’d be honorary hot chips.
Yes, a fried chip or of any kind is still a chip.
Fries=chips
Crisps=chips
Chips=chips
I too can find it confusing. That's why we say "hot chip".
But some Aussies do call thin cut chips such as from maccas french fries or fries.
I still call them chips.
Yeah we rarely do "crisps" in a sandwich but hot chips in a sandwich with butter and Tomato sauce is the best! A salt n vinegar chips sanga is pretty good once in a while though!
I never really stray from the Smiths crinkle cut personally but I tried some "thins" as well though and they weren't too bad at all, they're a little bit saltier I feel like. What about you, good sir?
I married a pom and as such I have taken to enjoying a chip butty every so often and against my wishes I have even taken to calling them crisps from time to time.
Short for ‘pomegranate’ which is what every English backpacker turns into after 4 days in our ozone free Summer.
Some will tell you it stems from us being ‘Prisoners of Her Majesty’ but this makes no sense cause then we’d be the ‘Poms’
Same! We did chips in them but also would add a meat pie from time to time. A mate of mine got me into the adding a meat pie with chips in the bun. Granted, he was the stoner kid at school but he wasn't wrong, it was great
I mean, it's not absolutely unheard of that some people in Australia may have done that at some point (myself included). But it's not an "Australian thing".
I'm in New Zealand and had some. Admittedly added it to a bread roll with chicken, coleslaw and dip. But the Australian in the group didn't do chip sandwiches.
In the 80s Pizza Hut used to serve crisps with their pizza subs (RIP). In the US serving chips (crisps) with sandwiches is normal, here it is not. (Fries or GTFO) Common practice at the time was for people to put the chips in their subs, because somebody at some point decided that's what you were supposed to do.
Then I went to the States and realised; not so much.
However, yes, as a kid we regularly had chip (crisp) sandwiches, in white sliced bread, usually with sauce.
Ham and cheese sandwich on well buttered white bread, slap a layer or two of original salted crinkle cut or kettle chips (not hot chips) and you're absolutely laughing
I've done it. Between two pieces of white bread.
Yep it tastes great.
..you're talking about the crisps in plastic bags, right? Not hot chips fried in oil?
I like plain chips for this although sometimes chicken ones are good too.
Not like sandwiches you'd serve at an actual event? But yeah a lot of Australians will do that for an informal meal or snack.
Australian schools don't generally do school meals...you bring your own lunch or you order from the canteen or you go and buy over the counter at the canteen or some combination of any of those options. Anyhow... traditionally it was possible to get a plain bread roll at the canteen as well as rolls that had been made into sandwiches. It was also possible to get packs of crisps of various sorts. And well...kids love to eat the soft inner part of a roll by itself. So ordering a roll and a pack of crisps then pulling out the inside of the roll and filling it with crisps was kind of a thing. Definitely a sentimental favourite for many Australians.
"Chips" in Australia can mean both hot chips and cold crisps. A "chip butty" is still a common UK sandwich which has made it's way to Australia through immigration.
And of course me as a child, not understanding that in the UK they call chips "crisps" made myself a chip butty using Samboy chips.
Wasn't bad actually!
I've also never done this or ever seen anyone do it and I've lived in rural (8000) people town, semi rural (wagga) and in Sydney. Never come across it. But also they are all in NSW so maybe it's just not a NSW thing?
I am Austealian, I do this. With chicken flavoured chips on white, unbuttered bread.
Many of my family and friends, most of whom are also Australuan think I am odd for doing this. So I don't think it's an "Australian" thing.
I also have a hot chip sandwich occasionally. I put tomato sauce on those though. This is more common than the cold potato chip sandwich amongst the people I know from both Au and the UK.
Did anyone try the salt and vinegar chips inside a buttered finger bun trend that was going around a while back?
Ruined a perfectly good finger bun for me.
But… in answer to the original question. Yes! This Aussie loves a chip sandwich for lunch. Plain salt for me, thanks.
Not a lot but hot chips are a favourite, lately I’ve been putting a layer of beer battered chips on sourdough then a layer of caramelised onion, covering with cheddar and mozzarella then melting cheese in the oven , I’ve started a trend in the kitchen lol.
Not really. I've heard people (kids) talk about doing but have never seen anyone actually eating a chip sandwich. We do put hot chips in burritos and yiros though sometimes.
Hot chips? Sometimes.
Cold chips from a packet like some British people do? Rarely, unless you've a parent who is from the UK who taught you to do it.
Only one person I've known does it.
I don’t but people do. I do however like to put hot chips in a sandwich with a fuckton of butter (don’t tell my doctor pls).
My family is Greek. We put so much salt in food that most of my friends think I’m going die at like 30 from a heart attack. We lather everything with olive oil too which is horrifying to most. My grandparents (and great grandparents for that matter) are some of the healthiest people I’ve ever met and have lived very long lives… wondering if the secret is salt and olive oil as much as doctors would dispute it lol
Salt and oil have been used since ancient times as preservatives, so maybe replacing half your blood content with salt and oil helps to preserve you?
HAHAHA genius, thank you for that!!
I was told once that with the amount of preservatives I was eating, that when I die it's going to take years for my body to start decomposing.
I'm Greek-Australian. My Yiayia's oily food, with the added salt, beats my mum's dry-ish food any day of the week.
secret is marlboro reds
Half my family is also Greek, the other half Uruguayan. Both families, more so my Uruguayan side, use is what I can only describe as an absolutely obnoxious amount of salt. The Greek side too, my Yiayia (passed recently) would salt salad so much that it got to the point where she would make a separate small bowl of salad for my partner with no oil or salt on it. My partner was up for a rude shock when we started dating. She didn’t expect so much salt on everything. I’m just as bad, my salt usage is quite OTT at times.
I love this story and would love to see the comparative salt usage of Uruguayans haha. My dad (born in Scotland) can only barely tolerate the amount of salt my Yiayia uses, and even then, she makes sure to tone it down if he’s eating. My Chilean uncle has no issue, so could be a shared South American - South European trait! When I make pasta for myself I tend use as much salt as anglo Aussies use cheese lol. Nothing has taste without salt and oil for me!!
If a *Scotsman* is complaining about the high salt content then I’d be getting concerned! (Porridge is our healthiest breakfast and we even put it in that! )
Chilean food for sure. I married a Chilean, and lived there for a few months. The food was saltier than I was used to, but not so much to turn me off eating anything and I quickly got used to it. Coming back to Australia and cooking for family, all I got was wrinkled noses and "did you use enough salt?".
olive oil instead of seed oils is whats kept them alive
Olive oil is really good for you. The Mediterranean diet is well studied and one of the most healthy. Can’t say the salt is a contributing factor however.
Well, my mum swears by olive oil being a superfood and I can’t dispute it - she and my grandparents use it for EVERYTHING. She drinks olive oil from the bottle (and only gets it from the best sources, of course) and so does the rest of her family lol
The salt causing high blood pressure idea was shown to be untrue years ago.
It has? Man, didn’t know, wish I did so I could tell my friends to shut up lol. Thank you for telling me haha!’
It’s not the salt but sodium that in excess quantities can lead to water retention. Water retention can lead to increased blood pressure but it’s not the bogey man it was made out to be.
Also olive oil is super healthy for you. We should eat more of it.
Except when used in high heat cooking. It should be used as a baking or finishing oil.
Olive oil burns at lower temperatures and should never be used for frying. The best frying oil is peanut oil.
From my understanding; it’s more that it’s a waste of good olive oil rather than it being a real health hazard. You will get trans fats created with many many uses though. But you’re better off using a more stable oil at high temperature like avocado oil. Plus it doesn’t have such a distinct flavour.
Pretty much my whole childhood and young adult life was "Anglos" telling me that my food is too salty (without tasting it) and I used too much oil (while they stuffed their faces with potato chips). Fuck them.
Hahaha amen to that brother
Olive oil is one of the most healthiest fats you can have.
There's nothing wrong with olive oil. Fat has been unnecessarily demonised. As long as your portion sizes aren't excessive then chuck the oil in for sure.
Olive oil is good for you. Helps facilitate digestion has virtually no cholesterol is good for your skin and hair,there’s more but I forget at the mo.
I married into a family of doctors and this is basically one of their staple foods. As far as I can tell there are very few doctors practising what they preach as far as food goes
Remember that when a doctor tells you something will add years to your life, those years will be the crap ones at the end when a sneeze can break your hip.
>I don’t but people do. I do however like to put hot chips in a sandwich with a fuckton of butter (don’t tell my doctor pls). hot chips and sometimes a potato cake in there for extra crunch or the snack chips
I like your words potato Man
That's livin'
Not where I grew up. Hot chips however...
Hot chips are still technically potato chips
Frozen hot chips are also technically hot chips despite obviously being cold
Well once you heat them up, sure
If you heat them up and leave them to go cold you would still call them hot chips though no? They would just be cold hot chips.
They're Chips. Formerly Hot, now cold Chips. But with the potential to be reheated.
“The Chips formerly known as Hot”
OP specified crisps which is how the British say like smiths chips etc. not hot chips
What's a hot chip? Is it just a regular "French fry" as the Americans say?
Chips are usually thicker cut. If i ordered chips off a menu and fries came out I'd be pissed
A proper hot chip is *much* thicker than a French Fry, but otherwise similar. If “steak fries” had a square cross-section instead of rectangular, they’d be honorary hot chips.
Yes, a fried chip or of any kind is still a chip. Fries=chips Crisps=chips Chips=chips I too can find it confusing. That's why we say "hot chip". But some Aussies do call thin cut chips such as from maccas french fries or fries. I still call them chips.
I exclusively call chips from Maccas fries, everything else is a chip
This is the correct answer
I forgot about that.......lunch sorted
A buttery hot chip sandwich with tomato sauce is a treat.
I reckon gravy rather than tomato sauce
I add chips to my chicken rolls all the time :)
Vinegar is good too.
I like gravy on chips but not in a sandwich.
The combination of gravy and butter is a game changer.
Hot chips in a roast chicken roll
With mayo on the roll and gravy. Yum
Chips like Smiths, not like chip shop.
Delicious
I feel like everyone in this reply is talking about hot potato chips, not crisps potato chips
Yeah we rarely do "crisps" in a sandwich but hot chips in a sandwich with butter and Tomato sauce is the best! A salt n vinegar chips sanga is pretty good once in a while though!
I gather you’ve never tried a pate and chippie sandwich? Divine!!
No but jesus i want to now. i love pate'
Fresh white bread, Lurpak butter, then the pate and chips Try it and report back ;)
Thats it, thats my lunch tomorrow!!
Don’t put the chips in until you’re ready to eat it, otherwise the chips go soggy
oh no never!
Chip buttie
That sounds disgusting. Just…why?
Try it and be amazed.
No. Never. I’d vomit.
Always , Salt and Vinny
Salt and vinegar is the only fucking way to do it. 10/10 cuisine
You betcha, what your brand ?
I never really stray from the Smiths crinkle cut personally but I tried some "thins" as well though and they weren't too bad at all, they're a little bit saltier I feel like. What about you, good sir?
Nattie chip co for me , one and only 😋
I'll have to give them a rip!
And always open the bottom of the pack !
You won't go back
Red rock deli s&v for me. I like my s&v chips to make my mouth numb where my lips tingle for days and they do it
Thins light and tangy tho
I married a pom and as such I have taken to enjoying a chip butty every so often and against my wishes I have even taken to calling them crisps from time to time.
But a chip butty is supposed to be with hot chips, not "crisps".
What's a pom?
Person from England
Short for ‘pomegranate’ which is what every English backpacker turns into after 4 days in our ozone free Summer. Some will tell you it stems from us being ‘Prisoners of Her Majesty’ but this makes no sense cause then we’d be the ‘Poms’
It's because they're still stuck as "prisoners of her majesty" meanwhile we're living it up in paradise
Yes and with Vegemite.
Underrated combination
Agreed. Cheese and onion Smiths, lots of butter. Little bit of vegemite. The only time I eat vegemite
Cheese twisties and vegemite.
Haven’t tried that but I’m tempted. Doesn’t sound quite right when I think about it but I’m more than happy to give it a go.
Twisties
I'm so glad to see all these Twistie sandwich freaks! I thought I was the only one.
Same!
Okay but Burger Rings in a chicken sandwich is divine.
Yes. It’s about an hour to lunchtime and I think this question has sorted what I’ll be having for lunch.
With Vegemite? This is how it should be done IMO.
Definitely from now on. Genuinely never thought to do so before.
It’s game changing. Enjoy.
Yep. Doritos between two slices of buttered white bread is so good.
Our canteen sold plain buttered rolls specifically for this purpose.
Same! We did chips in them but also would add a meat pie from time to time. A mate of mine got me into the adding a meat pie with chips in the bun. Granted, he was the stoner kid at school but he wasn't wrong, it was great
Twisties are great as well but I normally go a roll with the twisties as they tend to go everywhere
I thought I might’ve been weird until I saw your comment. Twisties on a roll are so good haha
Sometimes... 😐
Chicken crinkle cut or cheese twisties on while bread or a roll with heaps of butter
I'm English/Australian so I grew up eating crisp sandwiches at my Nans (English) and chip and tomato sauce sandwiches at my Grans (Australian).
Tomato sauce sandwich, fuck yeah, forgot about those bad boys
Twisties but the bread has to be fresh
I mean, it's not absolutely unheard of that some people in Australia may have done that at some point (myself included). But it's not an "Australian thing".
I'm in New Zealand and had some. Admittedly added it to a bread roll with chicken, coleslaw and dip. But the Australian in the group didn't do chip sandwiches.
That must be a "him" thing rather than an "Australia" thing.
Yeah Chip Butty was imported from the UK.
Salt and Vinegar or Chicken Smiths only. Twisties or Burger rings are god Tier though
Twisties!
Hot chips sanga and crisp chips are both two very real things in my house
Chip sandwiches are great! With either hot chips or what you’d call crisps!
In the 80s Pizza Hut used to serve crisps with their pizza subs (RIP). In the US serving chips (crisps) with sandwiches is normal, here it is not. (Fries or GTFO) Common practice at the time was for people to put the chips in their subs, because somebody at some point decided that's what you were supposed to do. Then I went to the States and realised; not so much. However, yes, as a kid we regularly had chip (crisp) sandwiches, in white sliced bread, usually with sauce.
Had one last night actually... As nutritious as it can get
Cheese and Onion potato chips in a Vegemite sandwich. **Chef's kiss.*
Hot chips yes
Ham and cheese sandwich on well buttered white bread, slap a layer or two of original salted crinkle cut or kettle chips (not hot chips) and you're absolutely laughing
Yes. Cheese sandwich with salt and vinegar chips is culinary greatness.
Chip sammich? I love them, been having those since I was a kid. The combination of soft bread and crunchy chips is nice.
They're delicious 😋
I've done it. Between two pieces of white bread. Yep it tastes great. ..you're talking about the crisps in plastic bags, right? Not hot chips fried in oil? I like plain chips for this although sometimes chicken ones are good too.
Hot chips in a sandwich for a chip butty 10/10 Potato chips in a sandwich for texture 10/10
To all my countrymen who have not yet partaken in the old chip sandwich- white bread, lots of butter, pizza shapes. You are welcome.
Not like sandwiches you'd serve at an actual event? But yeah a lot of Australians will do that for an informal meal or snack. Australian schools don't generally do school meals...you bring your own lunch or you order from the canteen or you go and buy over the counter at the canteen or some combination of any of those options. Anyhow... traditionally it was possible to get a plain bread roll at the canteen as well as rolls that had been made into sandwiches. It was also possible to get packs of crisps of various sorts. And well...kids love to eat the soft inner part of a roll by itself. So ordering a roll and a pack of crisps then pulling out the inside of the roll and filling it with crisps was kind of a thing. Definitely a sentimental favourite for many Australians.
Cheese Twisties Yes Thin chips no
"Chips" in Australia can mean both hot chips and cold crisps. A "chip butty" is still a common UK sandwich which has made it's way to Australia through immigration. And of course me as a child, not understanding that in the UK they call chips "crisps" made myself a chip butty using Samboy chips. Wasn't bad actually!
I personally hate it but my parents love butter, Vegemite and smith's chicken chips on a sandwich.
r/chipsangas
Not very often, but that makes it (a crisp sandwich) even more epic when I do
90's kid here and can confirm, must be white sliced bread with margarine and roast chicken flavour crisps
I have been known to do that, not for a long time though, hot chips on the other hand, awesome
Nope
With the cost of living these days, only the very rich Australians…
I've been known to put both chips and chips in a sandwich.
Yes , it used to be a thing , now not so much . Maybe because it costs $11.00 for two 500gm packs of smiths chips !!!!
Yes
Of course.
Hell yes. Good bread, real butter and salt and vinegar crisps. Hot chips are pretty good too
potato chips and cheese on toast is very nice
Never seen potato chips, that sounds very American. A good old-fashioned Twistie roll, however...
Smith's barbecue or original chips and a slice of cheese in a sandwich. It's my comfort food
Bloody oath!
Haven’t done it in a while. But a BBQ chip sandwich or Chicken chip sandwich on white bread… Yummy! Needs to be crinkle cut chips for me.
That’s an American thing….
No. Chips/crisps are also not sold as part of a meal deal. We have sangas and we have chips (hot or crisps). We don’t unite them as one.
Re-read the post... in the sandwich not next to it was the question.
> We have sangas and we have chips (hot or crisps). We don’t unite them as one. Clearly, you are not an Aussie.
I've also never done this or ever seen anyone do it and I've lived in rural (8000) people town, semi rural (wagga) and in Sydney. Never come across it. But also they are all in NSW so maybe it's just not a NSW thing?
No it’s fucking weird and I hate that Americans ruin sandwiches by doing this.
When I was a youngin definitely
Smiths barbecue chips with a little bit of smokey BBQ sauce on a sandwich is unreal
I don’t.
yes we do, with shit loads of budddda. Chip Sangas were actually one of my fave cravings in my first pregnancy.
Some. I had friends at school in the 80's that did this. I don't think is bad as such but I've never even tried it. I prefer my chips unadulterated.
Yes they do. Hot chips in between fresh bread with butter and/or sauce. We also put chips/crisps in fresh bread etc. .both are delicious
Depends how ripped I am
I've seen it done. Not my cup of tea though.
I am Austealian, I do this. With chicken flavoured chips on white, unbuttered bread. Many of my family and friends, most of whom are also Australuan think I am odd for doing this. So I don't think it's an "Australian" thing. I also have a hot chip sandwich occasionally. I put tomato sauce on those though. This is more common than the cold potato chip sandwich amongst the people I know from both Au and the UK.
Did anyone try the salt and vinegar chips inside a buttered finger bun trend that was going around a while back? Ruined a perfectly good finger bun for me. But… in answer to the original question. Yes! This Aussie loves a chip sandwich for lunch. Plain salt for me, thanks.
What's a finger bun?
I don't think I saw that option in Subway shops
Some good bread or a bread roll, some butter and crinkle cut chicken chips *chefs kiss* perfect
Once 😅
hot chips or salt and vinegar chips make great sandwich filler.
Not a lot but hot chips are a favourite, lately I’ve been putting a layer of beer battered chips on sourdough then a layer of caramelised onion, covering with cheddar and mozzarella then melting cheese in the oven , I’ve started a trend in the kitchen lol.
Some do. Some don't. Like any other food choice, really
This one does.
Yep. Plus hot chips too
Yeah, absolutely. Salt n vinegar Samboys on fresh baked bread with butter was my go to hangover cure in my early 20s
Unusual, but I've seen it.
Had some for lunch. The softness of Brioche rolls with the crunch from the chips is *chef's kiss*
Not really. I've heard people (kids) talk about doing but have never seen anyone actually eating a chip sandwich. We do put hot chips in burritos and yiros though sometimes.
Salt and vinegar with Vegemite. The food of fucken kings.
salt and vinegar hot chips on sandwiches.
I did yesterday! I needed extra crunch to my sandwich. But usually i don't.
Fuck yes we do.
Hot chips yeah, the soft ones from the fish & chippo, straight onto a piece of fresh white bread with butter on it.
Chips (‘crisps’) not so much though I’ve seen it done.
we used to as kids but my thats possibly our British roots shining through 😅
chips yes, but not crisps. we're talkin beer battered chips you get from the fish and chips place
Sometimes but it’s more of a NZ thing.
Hot chips? Sometimes. Cold chips from a packet like some British people do? Rarely, unless you've a parent who is from the UK who taught you to do it. Only one person I've known does it.
Yeah, both hot chips and crisps. Depends on the area
Yes. Both crisps and hot chips
It completes any good sandwhich imo. That or hot chips
Twistie sandwich is where it's at!
What about sweet potato fries with aioli in a toasted bun? Obviously, with butter to lubricate the toasted bun... duhhh
Best cheap snack in high school was a buttered roll and a pack of honey soy red rock deli chips 👌🏻
Hot chips, absolutely! Crisps with sandwiches seems to be a very American thing
Yes, both the Hot chips and the cold chips. But I haven’t had both in the sandwich at the same time
No
Fucking oath yes
Not really. It’s more something that happens when people are trying to survive in places where it’s difficult to get healthy food.