If Toronto Has Chip Butties, I’m There

A week on Saturday, the Fire travel to Toronto for a sold-out game against MLS’ newest team (can’t quite bring myself to use the word ‘franchise’, yet). I hadn’t seriously considered making the trip to the game, given, you know, Canada is apparently another country and all, and the stadium is presumably far far away from Chicago, but then I learned what food would be available there, and my English instincts kicked in:

For $4, sport enthusiasts can chow down on a traditional British chip butty, a buttered sandwich filled with greasy fries and served with a side of aioli (garlic mayonnaise). “As opposed to putting the chips in a takeout container, it was just an easy way to get the chips into your hand and to walk away with it,” said Gingrich about the origin of the butty, a slang word in northern England for sandwich.

Now, I haven’t had a chip butty since I lived in Manchester, one long blue moon ago. So I’ll be there in Toronto on May 12th, along with a couple of hundred other hardened Fire fools hoping to drown out what sounded like an impressively enthusiastic home crowd for Toronto’s opener last week. Fellow Chicagoans, let us not be shouted down by Torontoans (?) – whether it’s for city pride, the promise of a chip butty, or the joy of another Fire victory, make your way to Canada on May 12th.

Category: Off the field