[Albion] Celery

[Guinness Boy]

Saw this on another thread and thought it deserved its own.

Given we are playing Chelsea today (BOOOOO!) was one of the first things they nicked off us the celery song? Or did we pinch it off them?

IIRC at the time the infamous Krispies (so named because he looked like a kid in the Rice Krispies ad, which he doesn't any more) would be encouraged by the North Stand to start a song or do the Goldstone Rap. After doing so there would be a chant of "Rice, Rice, Rice Krispies". At some point in one season this was then countered by the pelting of the Krispies gang with celery and the chant "Celery, celery, if she don't come I'll tickle her bum with a stick of celery". Then this tradition slowly took over home and away.

This was, of course, in the days before people in mustard coloured sweaters issued various food and drink based edicts.

(No @Swansman this is an actual recollection and the drugs probably have worn off for now).

But Chelsea did the celery thing too. So who was first?

 

[Ludensian Gull]

Saw this on another thread and thought it deserved its own.

Given we are playing Chelsea today (BOOOOO!) was one of the first things they nicked off us the celery song? Or did we pinch it off them?

IIRC at the time the infamous Krispies (so named because he looked like a kid in the Rice Krispies ad, which he doesn't any more) would be encouraged by the North Stand to start a song or do the Goldstone Rap. After doing so there would be a chant of "Rice, Rice, Rice Krispies". At some point in one season this was then countered by the pelting of the Krispies gang with celery and the chant "Celery, celery, if she don't come I'll tickle her bum with a stick of celery". Then this tradition slowly took over home and away.

This was, of course, in the days before people in mustard coloured sweaters issued various food and drink based edicts.

(No @Swansman this is an actual recollection and the drugs probably have worn off for now).

But Chelsea did the celery thing too. So who was first?

No idea but I remember it well

 

[Munchkin]

Chelsea stealing something off us? Never….

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

Saw this on another thread and thought it deserved its own.

Given we are playing Chelsea today (BOOOOO!) was one of the first things they nicked off us the celery song? Or did we pinch it off them?

IIRC at the time the infamous Krispies (so named because he looked like a kid in the Rice Krispies ad, which he doesn't any more) would be encouraged by the North Stand to start a song or do the Goldstone Rap. After doing so there would be a chant of "Rice, Rice, Rice Krispies". At some point in one season this was then countered by the pelting of the Krispies gang with celery and the chant "Celery, celery, if she don't come I'll tickle her bum with a stick of celery". Then this tradition slowly took over home and away.

This was, of course, in the days before people in mustard coloured sweaters issued various food and drink based edicts.

(No @Swansman this is an actual recollection and the drugs probably have worn off for now).

But Chelsea did the celery thing too. So who was first?

I knew my 1997 Cassell Soccer Companion would come in handy one day…

“The song originated among fans of BHA as the anthem of a band of fans calling themselves the Caveman’s Crew…rumour had it that sticks of celery played a major role in initiation ceremonies on Brighton (sic) pier”

 

[vegster]

I heard about 30 years ago ffom a genuine Chelsea fan that throwing Celery around and singing about it was taking the piss out of The Inter City Firm....renamed The Into Celery Firm .

 

[willalbion]

"Krispies (so named because he looked like a kid in the Rice Krispies ad,"
I'd always thought Krispies (I never met him but I remember as a kid seeing him with this moniker emblasoned on the back of his Albion shirt) got his name due to his tight curls looking like rice crispies. An innocent and not-too-bright child I was.

 

[Silverhatch]

I knew my 1997 Cassell Soccer Companion would come in handy one day…

“The song originated among fans of BHA as the anthem of a band of fans calling themselves the Caveman’s Crew…rumour had it that sticks of celery played a major role in initiation ceremonies on Brighton (sic) pier”

This. I published Rob Merill’s Dick’s Out books. He was an authority on football culture/songs and it was the Caveman Crew

 

[The Wookiee]

Definitely Chelsea around 1986/87