In defence of the Greenbank butty

A WORD in defence of the old Greenbank butty has come whistling in from Canada.

Bill Harrison, now living out there, chimes in about that old St Helens insult, 'You're as thick as a Greenbank butty.'

This was usually thrown at someone who wasn't the sharpest knife in the box!

Now, Bill says of that auld Irish Greenbank area: "I think the thick butty was simply because of the lack of family funds all those years ago.

"For me, it was just after the war, when the main meal was a big jam or treacle butty...very thick!"