The food!!

French-fry sandwich tops the menu for Toronto soccer fans

TORONTO (CP) - French-fry sandwich, anyone? Scotch eggs? Chicken roti?

Toronto soccer fans are getting more than just a stadium in which to watch their favourite sport. Fans of the city’s newest professional team are also able to sample traditional soccer snack food.

“We went with world street food,” said Don Gingrich, sous-chef for Maple Leaf Entertainment, who helped get the stadium menu set up.

“You look at the demographic of soccer fans in Toronto, you end up with Italian, West Indian, Portuguese, Spanish and then Canadians and English as well.”

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.

If artery-choking sandwiches don’t whet your appetite, there will be plenty of choice of international fare.

Jamaican patties, chicken roti, scotch eggs, risotto balls, bratwurst and Portuguese cornbread wraps will all be available throughout the BMO Stadium, which had its opening game last weekend when Toronto FC lost its first home game against the Kansas City Wizards.

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