What happened to crisps?

[Herr Tubthumper]

I have to say the posh crisps are a waste on me. There are somethings in life where cheaper and trashier is better: crisps is one of them.

 

[JBizzleBeard]

It all started to go wrong when Walkers started messing around with the colours. Salt n Vinegar is blue, not green, that's cheese n onion. TWATS.

Sweet chilli is the best new flavour of the millenium though.

Amen to that. I'm still seething (not really) about the ridiculous colour change.

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

Back in the late seventies early eighties there were these things like really thin wheat crunchies, tubes of some description.

If anyone can remember what they were or even if you can get anything like them now I would be very happy.

 

[MissGull]

Wheat crunchies are still out there in most supermarkets. Spicy Tomato, Crispy Bacon and Cheddar and Onion.

Space Raiders spicy and also pickled onion are awesome.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

S&V Discos.

Thread closed.

Do Discos still exist? I used to love them. Also thought the crinkly mini cheddars tasted better than normal ones. Can never find them now.

 

[Manx Shearwater]

For full on flavour, you can't whack a packet of proper Irish Tayto Chesse & Onion crisps.

None of that Davidstow Three Year Matured Cheddar with Tuscan Shallots Poached in a Red Wine and Rosemary Jus b*ll*cks.

 

[Boys 9d]

Why don't they make Hedgehog Flavoured crisps anymore?

 

[Manx Shearwater]

Why don't they make Hedgehog Flavoured crisps anymore?

RSPCA stopped all that. They weren't being slaughtered humanely.

 

[Nibble]

Wheat crunchies are still out there in most supermarkets. Spicy Tomato, Crispy Bacon and Cheddar and Onion.

Space Raiders spicy and also pickled onion are awesome.

Hells teeth those tasty little tubes repeat on me summat rotten, love the taste, hate the 6 hours of heartburn afterward.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Because the focus group that the vastly over paid Walker's marketing department took it to, deemed "big" bag boring.

Presumably the same sort of *******s who deemed a tiny bit of chocolate to be "Fun Size".

What the bloody hell is fun about a 2" Mars Bar, I ask you? They should rename the massive ones Fun Size as that is patently the truth of the matter.

Then the small ones could be called "Keep Kidding Yourselves This Is OK, Fatties" Size.

 

[Nibble]

It's sizest and sexist of me I know but one thing I used to hate about working in an office is when the chubby office worker (sort of woman that says I work hard and I play hard, as she downs her second bottle of chardonnay on a Tuesday night) picks up her 23rd Celebration from the box left for EVERYONE by Bob in Accounts and does that horrid fat faced self apologist nose twitch and says "Ooh, I shouldn't really". No, you really shouldn't you fat bitch. Or the chubby office worker trotting down the high street smooshing a Greggs pasty or cream fancy into their face. Grim.

 

[Hillian1]

Presumably the same sort of *******s who deemed a tiny bit of chocolate to be "Fun Size".

What the bloody hell is fun about a 2" Mars Bar, I ask you? They should rename the massive ones Fun Size as that is patently the truth of the matter.

Then the small ones could be called "Keep Kidding Yourselves This Is OK, Fatties" Size.

Marianne Faithfull thought they were fun too I seem to remember.

 

[JBizzleBeard]

It's sizest and sexist of me I know but one thing I used to hate about working in an office is when the chubby office worker (sort of woman that says I work hard and I play hard, as she downs her second bottle of chardonnay on a Tuesday night) picks up her 23rd Celebration from the box left for EVERYONE by Bob in Accounts and does that horrid fat faced self apologist nose twitch and says "Ooh, I shouldn't really". No, you really shouldn't you fat bitch. Or the chubby office worker trotting down the high street smooshing a Greggs pasty or cream fancy into their face. Grim.

Haha I hear ya.

 

[HastingsSeagull]

I want to know what happened to the cheeseburger flavoured crisps you could get in the Eighties? Quarterbacks possibly.

Still sold them only month or so ago in my local corner shop....... none there the other day though Hoping they 'just not a summer crisp'

 

[ExmouthExile]

What annoys me with crisps in recent years is the way they've tried to justify the price by renaming good old cheese and onion something like 'Glastonbury cheddar and caramelized onion' or salt and vinegar is now 'Pacific sea salt and balsamic vinegar'. Do they think we're daft or something?

 

[The Sock of Poskett]

i had a pack the other day that had about 4 crisps in it

And THAT is one of my BIGGEST moans about the contemporary crisp. (turning into ERNEST here)
In the rush to be more funky - eg tell the consumer they are 'hand cut', 'hand cooked', 'lightly salted with sea salt' or 'tossed in secret herbs by a bunch of elves' the crisp monkeys have forgotten that small and plentiful is MUCH better than three ginormous crisps the size of the back of my hand.
What ARE they thinking?
Rant OVER.

 

[brakespear]

Do Discos still exist? I used to love them.

You can buy multipacks of them at Tesco (or at least you could the last time I checked).

Personally I feel all will not be right with the world of crips/snacks until Rancheros are returned to claim the throne they once held, like a maize-based King Arthur figure for an era of crisps that has sadly gone awry.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

You can buy multipacks of them at Tesco (or at least you could the last time I checked).

Personally I feel all will not be right with the world of crips/snacks until Rancheros are returned to claim the throne they once held, like a maize-based King Arthur figure for an era of crisps that has sadly gone awry.

You can still buy RANCHEROS.

(In IRELAND)

 

[brakespear]

You can still buy RANCHEROS.

(In IRELAND)

hmmmmmm.....I wonder if the Irish section of Tescos has them (I'm not lobbying for Tesco or anything here )?
At least they still exist, thank you for the info

Now, what about Fish and Chips?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

hmmmmmm.....I wonder if the Irish section of Tescos has them (I'm not lobbying for Tesco or anything here )?
At least they still exist, thank you for the info

Now, what about Fish and Chips?

Afraid not. At least not that I've noticed. Every time my wife visits her family over there, she brings back Taytos for herself, cadbury's chocolate for the kids (Its nicer over there - creamier) and Rancheros for me