A Golden Age of Crisps?

[discokermit]

smiths chipsticks have sold here continuously since the early seventies at least. tayto make chipsticks as well though. don't know if there is much difference.

haven't seen burger bites for years though.

anyway, all hail tayto and joe "spud" murphy, inventor of the flavoured crisp!

 

[purenarcotic]

These are also immense.

 

[DotCommunist]

anyone else remember the fish and chip ones that were mixed maize sticks and little fish shaped pieces of dense potato more akin to a cracker?

 

[Part 2]

You can get Taytos in Home Bargains.

 

[Part 2]

anyone else remember the fish and chip ones that were mixed maize sticks and little fish shaped pieces of dense potato more akin to a cracker?

 

[pogofish]

Yep. And so do these.

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Ya skinny cuntchya.

Not even 50% potato! No chance, whatever the courts say - and even Proctor & Gamble's own defence was "our product is utter shite!"

 

[pogofish]

call me fucked but hedgehog flavoured come on that must be taking the crisp

They were delicious actually - A bit Marmitey!

 

[8den]

I'm still reeling about champagne flavoured crunchie bars.

 

[discokermit]

They were delicious actually - A bit Marmitey!

a bit, maybe. but a lot more subtle.

 

[pogofish]

Yup - but the marmite/yeasty tang was still there.

 

[discokermit]

Yup - but the marmite/yeasty tang was still there.

second only to murphy's worcester sauce as my favourite straight up potato crisp of all time.

 

[xenon]

I think it must have been in the early 70's. Before all the crack trouble.

 

[Cheesypoof]

No way are they all Irish! Well I know Tayto is only in Ireland but now I feel sorry for all the British kids who missed out on Chipsticks. more for me I guess.

they are! I read the backs of all crisps (since childhood, such was my disbelief!) and they are all made in Ireland !!

 

[xenon]

anyone else remember the fish and chip ones that were mixed maize sticks and little fish shaped pieces of dense potato more akin to a cracker?

Yeah. They were rank. Same stuff chese biscuits are made with. Again, rank.

 

[Cheesypoof]

eh? you can get chipsticks here.

where? I have never seen them for sale in England. You can get some Irish crisps in the Uk tho. They are made by Tayto

 

[discokermit]

where?

everywhere, but not the tayto ones. smiths make them and they are pretty universal.

 

[DotCommunist]

they are less available in big cities though, and C.Poof is normally to be found in cities. So perhaps she has not seen them.

I went around for years banging on about how the Topic had been retired but then found the fucker in a sweetshelf just outside of a liverpool industrial estate.

 

[xenon]

I love S&V chip sticks.

 

[discokermit]

they are less available in big cities though, and C.Poof is normally to be found in cities. So perhaps she has not seen them.

nope. sainsburies sell them. and tesco. walkers own smiths. they may even be branded as walkers these days, i'm not sure.

snaps are almost impossible to get in london.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Anyone had the Corfresh snacks? I keep seeing them places but have yet to buy any.

Fucking lush, 99p shop was doing 2 for a pound and me and the missus bought half the stock.

 

[DotCommunist]

Space Raiders while tasty used to have a little comic strip on the back endorsing space piracy. Piracy on the ocean is not a death sentence, as you might well drift untill you bump against an island or something. Space piracy is just appalling because you would have to breach the living quarters and disable the engines. You'd be killing people in the most horrible manner just in order to take their space stuff that they were delivering. To a space colony desperate for anti virals or Israeli built weapons platforms to defeat the local aliens or whatever. Either way you would be a total arsehole to be a space raider, reaver or pirate of the stars. Space Raiders endorse this behaviour and as such should be condemned.

 

[DotCommunist]

Don't get me started on Flying Saucers. Thats the sherbert filling of oppression

 

[DotCommunist]

I did once have a really overcooked walkers crisp that looked like cliff richrads as well, which just goes to show imo

 

[DotCommunist]

urgh, I have stayed up all night and am now talking to the void about fucking crisps because I have nothing better to do. For fucks sake.The sooner I have frog in perm residence the better.

 

[DotCommunist]

I hate you all. badger its your fault with yer mindless cheese and beans shit.



its beans first tho


look! I have found the face of christ inna crisp!

 

[salem]

I'm still reeling about champagne flavoured crunchie bars.

They existed, a google says they were launched in 1999 for the millennium (friends reunited shows up in the search results) They had sparkley wrappers but I don't remember how close to champagne they were as I wasn't much of a champagne drinker back then.

 

[salem]

These

Are suitable for vegetarians.

This is my favourite fact.

On a similar note, Percy Pigs contain actual pig and so are not suitable for vegetarians!

 

[moose]

You can get these now

(they're not very nice, crisps are better)

 

[moonsi til]

Anyone had the Corfresh snacks? I keep seeing them places but have yet to buy any.

Yep...buy them all the time. The chilli & lemon one that do not say 'hot' in fact they say 'tangy' will be a lot of folks idea of hot. Only had the chilli & lemon and the jalopeno ones though but I imagine they are all worth trying. When I first started buying them and bringing them out to share lots of people were like 'WTF'...some they are too hot for and others can't get enough of them. I'm in the latter group.

 

[ringo]

No ring goes like a Ringo goes