Kettle Chips - the OFFICIAL crisp of NSC ?

[Easy 10]

Apart from the fact that they are DELICIOUS, may I make a motion for Kettle Chips to be adopted as the OFFICIAL crisp of NSC ? My outlandish assertion for this groundbreaking suggestion is that I noticed today, the packet itself carries all the HALLMARKS of strategic CAPITALISATION that has become such an intrinsic and ESSENTIAL element of NSC. I quote DIRECTLY from my packet today:

KETTLE
chips

sea salt &
BALSAMIC
vinegar

a distinctive SWEET sharp BALANCE
absolutely NOTHING artificial

As another example, here is a bag I found earlier:

KETTLE Chips - the choice of the true DISCERNING NSC-er

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

haha

crushed black

PEPPERCORNS

 

[Jake Manthorpe]

Its all about the Brannigans Roast Beef And Mustard

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

SEA SALT AND PEPPERCORNS? what protentious CRAP.

A pot of pringles is the answer...maybe with some DIP

 

[Superphil]

Never, they are horrible, McCoys Sizzling Chilli Beef please.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

up here there is a brand of crisp, i forget the name, which is available in some pubs

flavours include:

roast OX

jalapeno pepper

sweet chilli

ham & mustard



and they are all LOVELY

 

[Row Z Creased Shirt]

Do you think once we reach Falmer the PRAWN COCKTAIL brigade will be out in force?

 

[Dandyman]

Kettle Chips are SCAB crisps.

Seabrooks' garlic flavour are the proper guv'nors.

 

[pasty]

maybe with some DIP

OH MY GOD IT'S DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP

 

[Dandyman]

Consumers start Kettle Chips boycott | Business | The Guardian


A campaign to boycott Kettle Foods has been launched on the internet following the disclosure in the Guardian last week that the upmarket crispmaker called in US union busters to dissuade workers at its Norwich factory from joining a union.

Two groups, Boycott Kettle Crisps for attacks on workers and Boycott Kettle Crisps: the Anti-Trade Union snack, have been formed on the popular website Facebook.com.

They have attracted 130 members, many of whom say they are pledged to persuade friends and family not to buy the product. Discussion groups have also been launched on other websites.

Some have emailed the company, others have emailed supermarkets which stock the crisps, criticising the decision to bring in Omega Training, part of the US Burke Group, to urge workers not to join the Unite union.

Kettle Foods is owned by a private equity firm, Lion Capital, and makes upmarket and organic crisps and snacks, supplying supermarkets such as Waitrose and Tesco and making own-brand products for Marks & Spencer.

One blogger, Steve Wilson, wrote to the firm: "I am disgusted that Kettle Chips is engaged in union-busting activities, including non-disclosure to its own employees about the anti-union stance of the supposedly impartial consultancy company Omega Training.

"I and ALL my friends and family will be boycotting your products if Kettle Chips proceeds in this shameful manner."

Another, Jamie Heckert from Edinburgh University, wrote: "I LOVE the crisps the workers at your company make. And because I love them, I'll stop buying them if the management continue working with the Burke Group to discourage workers from joining unions."

The organiser of one group, Martin Togher, has emailed Waitrose to protest.

Public relations companies say the use of the internet to launch anti-corporate campaigns on specific issues is growing.

Rob Blackie, internet expert at the Blue Rubicon corporate communications consultancy, said: "Facebook now allows anyone to establish a pressure group in minutes - so campaigns of this sort will become increasingly common."

When contacted yesterday, Kettle Foods did not wish to comment on the campaigns running on Facebook, but said that it provided good working conditions for its workers.

Steve Hart, eastern regional secretary of Unite, said: " We are really pleased. In this case we hadn't thought about setting up a website.

"As a union we support the ethical trading initiatives that are being backed by companies like Marks & Spencer, and we are delighted that people see that basic human rights like joining a trade union apply as much in the UK as abroad."

 

[Easy 10]

"I and ALL my friends and family will be boycotting your products if Kettle Chips proceeds in this shameful manner."

Another, Jamie Heckert from Edinburgh University, wrote: "I LOVE the crisps the workers at your company make."

 

[barney]

up here there is a brand of crisp, i forget the name, which is available in some pubs

flavours include:

roast OX

jalapeno pepper

sweet chilli

ham & mustard



and they are all LOVELY

they're called "real crisps"

they treat me well away

 

[crodonilson]

http://www.northstandchat.biz/showthread.php?t=97483

Salt and Vinegar are clearly NSC's favourite Crisp.

 

[Easy 10]

Salt and vinegar is a FLAVOUR though Crodo, not a BRAND.

 

[Lokki 7]

Kettle Chips are foul. There are no better boozer crisps than Tavern Snacks salt and vinegar. Think they only stock London pubs though.

 

[csider]

Sweet Chilli - Kettle Rock!!

 

[crodonilson]

It has to be Roysters then.....

 

[maffew]

Kettle chips are rank, there is no way they should be the nsc adopted brand

they taste like f***ing stale cardboard

The official crisp of NSC? :nofuckingway:

how about Walkers normal ones, Monster Munch (any flavour), Skips, Brannigans.....................

 

[Simster]

Put me in the kettle crisp CAMP. They're LUVERLY.

 

[JJ McClure]

Kettle chips are great, the Salt and Pepper and Salt and vinegar ones. The fact that they bully trade unions is fine by me. Infact it may make me eat more of them, union scum.