[Food] First crisp

[zefarelly]

What else could it possibly be . . . . Still hae the very very faded sticker on my dads snap-on tool box . . . Another prized posession!

 

[Bozza]

I don't know what my first crisp was, but my mum always had Smiths salt n shake, so they probably featured.

Smiths did actually try the same concept with flavoured crisps for a while - flavour 'n' shake - you got a small sachet of, say, cheese & onion flavouring, to open and sprinkle before giving the packet a shake. I don't think the experiment lasted very long - it was difficult to get an even coating of flavour.

Notable mention to Space Invaders, Burton's Fish n Chips - which had a great vinegary bite and, I recall from my primary school days, Hedgehog Flavour crisps.

 

[Norman Potting]

I think in my younger days the only option was Smiths Crisps (potato flavour) with a little blue paper sack containing salt for tipping into the crisp bag which was then shaken.

Memories of trips to Camber Sands and stops on the way home for a Coca Cola and crisps, only plain or cheese and onions in those days. Usual pub stops were the Cherry Tree near Ticehurst, or the (long demolished) Rock Robin by Wadhurst Station.

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

What a race it was - the 1973 National - a classic!

 

[HeaviestTed]

Probably earliest memory of eating crisps is in a pub with parents given a coke and salt and vinegar square crisps - glorious.

 

[zeemeeuw]

Cheese and Onion but in a green packet.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Can't remember my first crisp but I do remember Hedgehog flavour crisps as a kid.

 

[maltaseagull]

As mentioned by others pub car park while Mum and Dad were inside.
Our regular place was the Chalk Pitt Lewes.

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

Growing up in the 90s these were a thing I loved, they were around until fairly recently but not seen them for a while

 

[zamora the merrier]

Yep same here, with a glass bottle of Pepsi Cola in the village pub garden while Mum & Dad were inside…. after one of the weekend cricket matches the old man played in

Pretty much a carbon copy of all my summer weekends when I was young

 

[The Wookiee]

I think in my younger days the only option was Smiths Crisps (potato flavour) with a little blue paper sack containing salt for tipping into the crisp bag which was then shaken.

For me as a kid in the 70’s it was Smiths, Golden Wonder and KP
KP crisps I seem to recall always being sold in pubs ?
A bottle of coke and a packet of Smoky Bacon KP crisps - the staple diet of many a kid who got dragged along to the pub with parents in the 70’s

 

[Chicken Run]

Pretty much a carbon copy of all my summer weekends when I was young

If this ritual was played out in Sussex, as a kid I’m sure like me you had your favourite Sussex pub gardens post Cricket match, although my dads team Noel Bennetts’s played at a few venues that had their own club houses

My favourite pub was either the Royal Oak at Barcombe or the Pub at Scaynes Hill and clubhouse was Henfield, Glynde or Petworth Park

 

[banjo]

 

[wehatepalace]

 

[studio150]

Salt n Shake

Like many other posts on this thread.

 

[Live by the sea]

Pretty much a carbon copy of all my summer weekends when I was young

You still got your own teeth ?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I think in my younger days the only option was Smiths Crisps (potato flavour) with a little blue paper sack containing salt for tipping into the crisp bag which was then shaken.

Yep.

 

[ozzygull]

I used to love these

 

[METALMICKY]

I tried Discos again the other month. Totally changed. They’re very unpleasant now.

Really? I tried a pack the other day and they are the king of salt and vinegar crisps.

 

[clapham_gull]

Slightly left field but I remember all these cos we had a shop.