Yeh but look at all the good stuff they've given us - burgers, barbecue, donuts, NY strip steak, Ben and Jerry's ....
Brown all day long for a bacon butty, can't have the sweetness of ketchup spoiling the saltiness of the bacon but ketchup for chip butty....
You're confusing me now cos you said this - "A buttie to me is a cob/roll/barm/etc, not a slice of bread" So does it follow that 'butty' is just your perception of something but not a word you would actually use?
A butty to me is a chip cob; ie a chip butty When you mentioned ham I realised you just meant a cob I recognise most of the words used in this thread apart from 'barm'
I quite like bagels sweet or savoury. I'm also surprised that I like them! I'm waiting to try a cronut.
The irony for me, is that I'm currently on a very low carb diet & therefore bread under any name is off the menu....