A lot of people on this board seem to mention poncy versions of food, so it'll be interesting to see how many people cite Gherkin & Marjoram Pan-Fried Kettle Chips made out of Maris Piper potatoes, dipped in taramasalate and lime juice dip as their favourites.
Me? I like Beef & Onion KP.
― Greg, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Sean, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Nitsuh, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― jel, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Are "Corn snacks" allowed? Nothing quite comes close to gruesomely titled (bacon flavour) Oinks, and they're only 5p. Was there anything more to the cartoons on the back of Space Raiders, or did someone really make up an entire intergalactic war concept just for a couple of 3 frame comic strips?
― Graham, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― anthony, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Josh, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Kim, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Wasn't "Miss Vicki" the name of Tiny Tim's wife? Whom he married on the Tonight Show or something?
Destroy: Walkers. And that's just for finishers.
― Ally C, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Patrick, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Ally, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― DG, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Mike Hanley, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― anthony, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― nathalie (nathalie), Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Search: tomato Wheat Crunchies, salt and vinegar Chipsticks, pickled onion Monsta Munch, pizza Pringles, ready salted Patatine San Carlo.
Destroy: anything claiming to have a percentage of fat freeness.
― Madchen, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― scott, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Destroy: Ready Salted crisps - you can't uninvent artificial flavourings you luddite swines.
Did any American readers think "fish and chips" meant fish with a load of crisps? URGH.
― Tom, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Emma, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― duane, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Has Emma just proved she is a hideous invading space-mutant, and can we chase her thru the streets and burn her up in a vat of superheated cooking oil? (Or, er, not?)
― mark s, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
destroy: all meat, salt & vinegar, and cheese flavour crisps. and reconstituted corn based snacks. hell, just destroy crisps. they taste inoffensive at best, and are probably sufficiently complicit in the high levels of heart disease around here for walkers to be next through the courts after the cigarette companies have finished.
― kevan, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Bacon Wheat Crunchies are da bomb, Pringles are however evil. flavour is easily Barbeque flavour - in their evil black packets they taste nothing like barbeques.
By the way, we worked out why Gary Linaker was picked for the Brass Eye last wee'character' in the Walkers Crisps adverts after all preys on young kiddies, lurking in the bushes to steal their crisps. Lucky there aren't cherry flavoured crisps eh?
― Pete, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Patrick, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Search: any reconsituted corn snack which sucks the flesh of yr tongue into the body of itself before dissolving
Please stop talking about crisps as they are barred from my new diet.
I would buy any drink which advertised itself with a drunk person, apart from a real ale with a ridiculous drunkard cartoon on the pumphead.
― Tim, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Walkers live forever in my memory for introducing actual nice-looking potatoes into the equation: in the mid-70s, Smiths and Golden Wonder used only potatoes-of-the-thousand-eyes variety, which were very often i. purple, or ii. green.
― gareth, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
And search: bags of those fishy old Scampi Fries containing more than 5 fries. And destroy: Cheese Moments, which surely contain the most repulsive cheese-like substance ever to have been imported from space? Some competition here, I know.
I also like the plain ones you get in Europe, no flavour but fried potato, nice.
― cabbage, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Brannigans not that greasy IN THEMSELVES: the grease come off the inside of the container stamping itself straight onto the front of the human face forever...
got some fucking A mango/lime pickle crisps from local cheapo freezer shop the other week
― Eden Hazard otm (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 January 2013 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
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― standard disclaimer applies (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 January 2013 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
anyway, lol at no 'tayto' itt til now
― standard disclaimer applies (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 January 2013 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
i don't rate 'em, soz. what was this dodgy website anyhow?
also on a semi-related note, god bless Just-Eat.com you are the lazy bachelor's best friend
― Eden Hazard otm (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 January 2013 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
Seabrooks over rated? That’s fighting talk.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 24 January 2013 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
do Seabrooks still do wasabi flavour? they're like the crisps Jesus wd eat
― Eden Hazard otm (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
sozziest thing i ever heard
― standard disclaimer applies (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
I ate a gigantic pack of these (pictured below) that some people left at my house. I feel dirty.
http://static.wix.com/media/ebecac_018159d035e763e2829b6b453f78e307.jpg_256
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man, it's the Bacon Nasty's
― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
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― standard disclaimer applies (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like americans today don't really respect or appreciate potato chips the way in which they once did. it's sad really
― dell (del), Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
like it's okay to eat them if they have ridges and are a vehicle for some "dip", but if you are just eating a bag of plain unruffled ones then you are automatically the laughing stock of the room, no matter what company you're surrounded by
ever since chips with salsa strutted onto the american snack scene i guess potato chips just aren't "sexy" enough for the average american consumer. again, it's quite sad
― dell (del), Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
is the faux artisan potato chip a thing there?
― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
best ridged crisps = walkers max paprika flavour, goddamn yes
― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
yup v much
― dell (del), Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
or "v munch" should i say!
REading about the need for dips to go with “potato chips”, whatever the fuck that is, I feel like America probably would not appreciate the textural joy that is the crisp sandwich.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
(tries to remember the bacon-flavoured KP crisp product, unavailable in the UK, which we got terribly addicted to on our last visit to Ireland)
― a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
Bacon Jawz! Yeah. We need those over here. And Club Lemon to wash them down.
Oh... I'm meant to be on a diet. And I already ate a bag of Walkers (prawn cocktail) and drank a bottle of Irn Bru. It's going really well, this diet thing. Now if you'll excuse me there's some leftover Chinese takeaway in the fridge.
― a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
Idk bacon jawz but club lemon is perfection
― standard disclaimer applies (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
I'm getting the same malware warning message when I try to view the entire thread as well.
fuck why did i click on this thread, could murder a bag of hula hoops all of a sudden
― r|t|c, Thursday, January 24, 2013 5:18 PM (1 hour ago)
Great. Now I have to go and source some BBQ Beef flavour hoops. Also their website is flash (ahahaha gedddit? Flash? *gets coat*)
― pure dressed up like a white ninja (snoball), Thursday, 24 January 2013 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
not a club lemon fan myself. that much citrus and sugar gives me a headache, guaranteed.
the fancy crisp really is so disappointing, most of the time. kettle chips are mainly a great way to slice the inside of your mouth to bits, and the flavours don't taste particularly authentic.
― Ballboy to Afghanistan (LocalGarda), Thursday, 24 January 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
the posh pork scratching on the other hand opens up a whole world of competitive quality.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Pekm5EFbGF8/TAejfTYEzDI/AAAAAAAABjY/wIQfLp5aXE4/s1600/IMG_2898.JPG
these are surprisingly good but you can only eat like five of them before they become gross
― dell (del), Thursday, 24 January 2013 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
most posh crisps seem to just prove how important texture is in our enjoyment of food.
― Ballboy to Afghanistan (LocalGarda), Thursday, 24 January 2013 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
yeah otm about the mouth ravaging qualities
― Eden Hazard otm (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 January 2013 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
― Ballboy to Afghanistan (LocalGarda), Thursday, 24 January 2013 19:02 (1 hour ago) Bookmark
i somehow contrived to eat only a plate of pork crackling and nothing else for dinner the other week so this post made me feel quite ill
― r|t|c, Thursday, 24 January 2013 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha, what? Lay's plain potato chips are the #1 snack food in the USA and have been for like 40 years now. Tortilla chips are a distant second.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 24 January 2013 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
read the trade papers and then get back to me. when that Whore salsa came into the picture coupla decades back everything changed
― dell (del), Thursday, 24 January 2013 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
how did this happen? bad restaurant or burnt dinner?
― Ballboy to Afghanistan (LocalGarda), Thursday, 24 January 2013 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
Man, I wish I had access to a savory snacks magazine. I had a great time once reading a magazine for pizza restauranteurs. As for tortilla overtaking potato in chip sales in the USA, I'm not buyin' it.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 24 January 2013 23:41 (eleven years ago) link
well i'd made the pork with the original intention of sandwiches & freezing and while i had meant to have a couple bits for dinner too i got started on the crackling and couldnt stop
― r|t|c, Thursday, 24 January 2013 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
Garda this selfloathing gael routine has to fuckin stop man, next you'll be dissing barrys tea and not buying far east magazine ffs
― standard disclaimer applies (darraghmac), Friday, 25 January 2013 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
Don't forget to vote
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― polyphonic, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 20:18 (nine years ago) link
Oh shiiiiiiiit, the biscuits and gravy ones are really good.
― phở intellectual (WilliamC), Sunday, 6 December 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
Biscuit flavoured chips: guaranteed to confuse a limey.
― ledge, Sunday, 6 December 2015 19:48 (nine years ago) link
I wonder if there are UK restaurants that specialize in varieties of American breakfast.
― phở intellectual (WilliamC), Sunday, 6 December 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link
Co-op sea salt and chardonnay vinegar. Try and overcome any instinctive reactions the name might produce, they are tremendous.
― ledge, Monday, 10 April 2017 16:39 (seven years ago) link
http://www.burtschips.com/wp-content/uploads/Hamageddon-40g-small.png
Not bad. More mustardy then Brannigans.
― nashwan, Friday, 13 October 2017 13:37 (seven years ago) link
these are great! thanks, scotland!
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51wSqW5egnL._SX466_.jpg
― scott seward, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
got them at my favorite store in massachusetts: THE OCEAN STATE JOB LOT. which means they might not have them the next time i go there and i might not be able to find them again.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
they aren't really fiery hot. but that's okay. they have the most marvelous chip/crisp texture. perfect mouth feel.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
mackie's make fucking great ice-cream too fyi
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
i don't really eat chips anymore but i used to love these
https://secretmenus.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/jalapeno-cheddar-kettle-chips-291x400.gif
and sorry but i also did like old dutch ketchup chips
― bald butte (∞), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 18:20 (six years ago) link
Holy God, Torres Selecta Black Truffle has raised the stakes
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
Here: https://www.souschef.co.uk/products/crisps-with-black-truffle
The holy grail. I've only just finished my first ever pack and I want this every day forever
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 21:17 (four years ago) link
an intense black truffle punch
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 21:23 (four years ago) link
you heard
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 21:37 (four years ago) link
We just came back from Mexico and I’d like to vouch for Pap’s Chiles Mexicanos (chile puya flavour). Amongst the best uh crisps I have ever encountered.
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 05:21 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/CdxCRHE.jpgMind blownBasically sour cream and onion with a hint of cool ranch aftertaste
― calstars, Monday, 19 September 2022 02:49 (two years ago) link