A Golden Age of Crisps?
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Marmite crisps (and on a related note, marmite cashews), nandos, HP sauce, and occasionally Reggae Reggae. There are some good crisps out at the moment.
Walkers suck, though. Their ubiquitousness is baffling to me. They haven't been good for quite a few years. I think they tried to be more "healthy" or something and cut down on the sugar and fat in their crisps, got rid of some ace flavours and started to suck. Their needs to be a new contender for the throne.
Walkers suck, though. Their ubiquitousness is baffling to me. They haven't been good for quite a few years. I think they tried to be more "healthy" or something and cut down on the sugar and fat in their crisps, got rid of some ace flavours and started to suck. Their needs to be a new contender for the throne.
Was that not Smiths that did the Salt 'n Shake. Also, Flavour Shake. Most flavours of which were mildly disgusting TBF.
With out tdoubt the worst maze / corn based snack I've ever eaten were proportidly chese flavour Ghostbusters.
DotCommunist
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Walkers did the re-issue. They even kitted the bags out in the plain white n blue to evoke the old-time crisp experience
Fez909
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It's not just crisps; we're in a golden age of food in this country. And I think we're starting to slip back, so enjoy it while you can indeed.
I think this because I'm a fan of posh breads and nice coffee, and I've noticed that two or three years ago there was an explosion of different types of bread which contained seeds, and nuts and were made with different grains, etc, at the same time as coffee varieties were increasing and these tended to be on the upper end of the consumer scale - 100% arabica instants became common, provenance was important and proudly displayed. This is all in supermarkets, I mean. Specialist shops have always had this sort of thing.
And of course we still have that to a degree, but the choice is diminishing. There's fewer coffees to choose from, bread is reverting back to boring sliced white. I've not been keeping track of the crisp choices (as I love them too much and I eat too much fattening food already, so avoid that aisle) but I'd bet if you compared choice now, with choice two or three years ago, you'd already see a decline in the premium/interesting crisps.
Another 'lost decade' as they're calling it, and we might be back to salt n shake as the height of sophistication.
I think this because I'm a fan of posh breads and nice coffee, and I've noticed that two or three years ago there was an explosion of different types of bread which contained seeds, and nuts and were made with different grains, etc, at the same time as coffee varieties were increasing and these tended to be on the upper end of the consumer scale - 100% arabica instants became common, provenance was important and proudly displayed. This is all in supermarkets, I mean. Specialist shops have always had this sort of thing.
And of course we still have that to a degree, but the choice is diminishing. There's fewer coffees to choose from, bread is reverting back to boring sliced white. I've not been keeping track of the crisp choices (as I love them too much and I eat too much fattening food already, so avoid that aisle) but I'd bet if you compared choice now, with choice two or three years ago, you'd already see a decline in the premium/interesting crisps.
Another 'lost decade' as they're calling it, and we might be back to salt n shake as the height of sophistication.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
seabrooks are a crisp eaters crisp
fractionMan
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
It's not just crisps; we're in a golden age of food in this country. And I think we're starting to slip back, so enjoy it while you can indeed.
I think this because I'm a fan of posh breads and nice coffee, and I've noticed that two or three years ago there was an explosion of different types of bread which contained seeds, and nuts and were made with different grains, etc, at the same time as coffee varieties were increasing and these tended to be on the upper end of the consumer scale - 100% arabica instants became common, provenance was important and proudly displayed. This is all in supermarkets, I mean. Specialist shops have always had this sort of thing.
And of course we still have that to a degree, but the choice is diminishing. There's fewer coffees to choose from, bread is reverting back to boring sliced white. I've not been keeping track of the crisp choices (as I love them too much and I eat too much fattening food already, so avoid that aisle) but I'd bet if you compared choice now, with choice two or three years ago, you'd already see a decline in the premium/interesting crisps.
Another 'lost decade' as they're calling it, and we might be back to salt n shake as the height of sophistication.
artisan breads. No forgiveness
Fez909
toilet expert
moonsi til
worked it out now!
I bought some of them a while back, for nostalgias sake.
They're horrible
wrong they are delish...where can I buy them?
discokermit
Well-Known Member
the seventies were the best decade for crisps. into the early eighties. outer spacers, bones/fangs/claws/bats, noughts and crosses, hedgehog, piglets, potato puffs, jumbo puffs, all gone now...
discokermit
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posh crisps are shit. just as much, if not more, salt and fat. given the name "kettle chip" so they can massively inflate the price and rip off aspirational mugs who don't like admitting to eating crisps.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
you can still get potato puffs, only they are cheese flavoured and called watsits
fractionMan
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8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
Quoted for truth.
purenarcotic
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purenarcotic
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And they're crisps as far as I'm concerned. 
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Lol. You "think". You fucking *know*.DotCommunist said:
Mr.Bishie
pickled egg
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
Perhaps a hundredth of the ersatz scampi power that Nik Naks had. They could clear a room within seconds of being opened.
tony.c
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But the salt wasn't slightly damp like in the old Smith's Crisps blue paper twists.
I was going to say, I certainly do my patriotic bit. Then realised having just put a Tesco online order through, I've forgotten to buy crisps of any kind. This shall be rectified.
Fez909
toilet expert
You mean adjusted for population? As I'd struggle to believe we eat more than America otherwise.
Mr.Bishie
pickled egg
Yeah.
Mr.Bishie
pickled egg
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Of course nobody remembers when Mcoys did this weird hexagonal crisp that was more like a type of dense cracker. They deffo existed though. Like champagne flavoured crunchie bars, they existed and not just in my head
tony.c
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OK just been to Sainsburys. They don't have the cassava crisps. I got them from Tescos. So I got some Walkers Baked stars. Mild Sweet Chilli and Cheese & Onion. They are potato, but baked not fried, and claimed to be 70% less fat. Hope they count.
RedDragon
"I am not one of your fans!"
And as far as I can remember they were hollow-tubular-traslucent things reminiscent of dried paster.Puffs were made from spuds - wotsits are maize
Garek
Living n ADDled chaos
We certainly have variety. Abroad it seems to be just fucking paprika.
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