Crisps
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Crisps
What's your favourite flavour of crisps?
We can discuss brands and sorts as well. My favourite sorts of crisps are:
- Crinkly Cheese and Onion Mini Cheddars
- Roast Beef Monster Munch
- Cheesey doritos
I'm not going to the bother of qualifying my poll options. If you don't like them, you can go and die.
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Re: Crisps
Smiths crisps, Bovril flavour.
Golden wonder Ringos, cheese and onion flavour.
Cheese and tomato puffs, from when I was a kid. (not sure who made them, but they were delicious but messy to eat).
Oh I nearly forgot, Piglets and nice and spicy Nick Nacks.
Golden wonder Ringos, cheese and onion flavour.
Cheese and tomato puffs, from when I was a kid. (not sure who made them, but they were delicious but messy to eat).
Oh I nearly forgot, Piglets and nice and spicy Nick Nacks.
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Re: Crisps
Never heard of most of those, although it did remind me of Ready Salted Squares, now Walkers. But M&S do their own version in a big red bag for 49p, and they're even better. Bigger, crispier and saltier. They're fucking amazing. They're not in every M&S though, for some ridiculous reason.
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Beef (or Flamin' Hot) Monster Munch are awesome.
Beef Hula Hoops.
Wheat Crunchies.
Square Crisps.
Chipsticks.
Beef Hula Hoops.
Wheat Crunchies.
Square Crisps.
Chipsticks.
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Re: Crisps
Some more............
Discos
Frazzles
Cheeselets (more morish than Heroin)
Salt and vinegar spirals
Burtons Chicken fingers (C 1970)
Discos
Frazzles
Cheeselets (more morish than Heroin)
Salt and vinegar spirals
Burtons Chicken fingers (C 1970)
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Re: Crisps
Good ol' cheese + onion, particularly McCoys. Honourable mentions to Walkers Builders breakfast and original mini cheddars.
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Walker's Sensations Thai Sweet Chilli or, if I'm on a diet, Walker's Baked Mango & Chilli (although they are getting harder to find so I'm wondering if they're being discontinued).
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Seabrook Salt & Vinegar.
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Seabrook Tomato Sauce, Spicy Monster Munch, Rib n Saucy Nik Naks (if they still exist).
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Re: Crisps
[quote="Jon Corby"]Beef (or Flamin' Hot) Monster Munch are awesome.[quote]
Flamin' Hot ones are disgusting!
Quavers and Pom Bears are the shit.
Flamin' Hot ones are disgusting!
Quavers and Pom Bears are the shit.
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Pom Bears are the blandest snack known to mankind!Ryan Taylor wrote:Flamin' Hot ones are disgusting!Jon Corby wrote:Beef (or Flamin' Hot) Monster Munch are awesome.
Quavers and Pom Bears are the shit.
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Red doritos are pretty awesome, do they count? Or are 'tortilla chips' a separate entity?
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Oh sorry, I didn't mean to type "the".Jon Corby wrote:Pom Bears are the blandest snack known to mankind!Ryan Taylor wrote:Flamin' Hot ones are disgusting!Jon Corby wrote:Beef (or Flamin' Hot) Monster Munch are awesome.
Quavers and Pom Bears are the shit.
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That's their appeal. It's pure grub.Jon Corby wrote:Pom Bears are the blandest snack known to mankind!Ryan Taylor wrote:Flamin' Hot ones are disgusting!Jon Corby wrote:Beef (or Flamin' Hot) Monster Munch are awesome.
Quavers and Pom Bears are the shit.
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This being my thread, I get to make the rules, and they're in. But the red ones are disgusting.Michael Wallace wrote:Red doritos are pretty awesome, do they count? Or are 'tortilla chips' a separate entity?
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The blue ones (Cool Original or something I think) are a pathetic excuse for a snack. Cheesy all the way.Jon O'Neill wrote:This being my thread, I get to make the rules, and they're in. But the red ones are disgusting.Michael Wallace wrote:Red doritos are pretty awesome, do they count? Or are 'tortilla chips' a separate entity?
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I often find myself having an allergic reaction to certain crisps (well, they make me sneeze and give me a runny nose), but I've got no idea what it is in the crisps. This is annoying. I used to blame monosodium glutamate (always a good scapegoat) but further research led me to believe it gets a bad press and looking at ingredients lists, I'm not convinced by the correlation.
I think Frazzles are pretty good and I like Monster Munch (but they used to be better when they had a bacon flavour), but they are both on my out list unfortunately, but Kettle Chips don't affect me and some of their crisps are pretty good. I'd say salt and pepper Kettle Chips are probably my favourite.
Has anyone had the Walkers lime and coriander chutney sensations? They taste excellent but also make me feel a bit weird.
I think Frazzles are pretty good and I like Monster Munch (but they used to be better when they had a bacon flavour), but they are both on my out list unfortunately, but Kettle Chips don't affect me and some of their crisps are pretty good. I'd say salt and pepper Kettle Chips are probably my favourite.
Has anyone had the Walkers lime and coriander chutney sensations? They taste excellent but also make me feel a bit weird.
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Kettle Chips are brilliant. Salted ones are my favourite, in line with my above poll.Gavin Chipper wrote:I often find myself having an allergic reaction to certain crisps (well, they make me sneeze and give me a runny nose), but I've got no idea what it is in the crisps. This is annoying. I used to blame monosodium glutamate (always a good scapegoat) but further research led me to believe it gets a bad press and looking at ingredients lists, I'm not convinced by the correlation.
I think Frazzles are pretty good and I like Monster Munch (but they used to be better when they had a bacon flavour), but they are both on my out list unfortunately, but Kettle Chips don't affect me and some of their crisps are pretty good. I'd say salt and pepper Kettle Chips are probably my favourite.
Has anyone had the Walkers lime and coriander chutney sensations? They taste excellent but also make me feel a bit weird.
I've had them and they do taste nice, but like all the other Sensations, are too addictive. After about half a big bag they taste a bit nasty.
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I pretty much love all crisps. If I have a least favourite, it's Ready Salted, but they're still great. It's just that with food scienticians inventing all these really exciting flavouroids, I'd always choose a flavour over a not-flavour. And I suppose my favourite flavours are the really high-power ones; Tomato Sauce and Worcester Sauce are always good for this, no matter what the brand. I used to be able to get whole boxes of KP Worcester Sauce for about three quid but that's gone now - did KP get swallowed up by Walkers or something? Anyway, they don't seem to be available anymore.
Lately I've got quite into the awesomely sharp-tasting Highlander Salt & Vinegar (their Bacon & Brown Sauce and Tomato are also fantastic and very very reasonably-priced - I think cheapo freezer shops like Farmfoods or equivalent should have them) but overall Seabrooks make the best crisps, all theirs are great.
I also like maize and corn snacks like Space Raiders and Nik-Naks and Wheat Crunchies and all of the others ever invented. God, I could talk about crisps all day.
Lately I've got quite into the awesomely sharp-tasting Highlander Salt & Vinegar (their Bacon & Brown Sauce and Tomato are also fantastic and very very reasonably-priced - I think cheapo freezer shops like Farmfoods or equivalent should have them) but overall Seabrooks make the best crisps, all theirs are great.
I also like maize and corn snacks like Space Raiders and Nik-Naks and Wheat Crunchies and all of the others ever invented. God, I could talk about crisps all day.
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Love ready salted myself, but bein orish it's got to be
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I could listen all day, in my thread. Feel free to come back to my thread and continue talking about crisps.JimBentley wrote:I pretty much love all crisps. If I have a least favourite, it's Ready Salted, but they're still great. It's just that with food scienticians inventing all these really exciting flavouroids, I'd always choose a flavour over a not-flavour. And I suppose my favourite flavours are the really high-power ones; Tomato Sauce and Worcester Sauce are always good for this, no matter what the brand. I used to be able to get whole boxes of KP Worcester Sauce for about three quid but that's gone now - did KP get swallowed up by Walkers or something? Anyway, they don't seem to be available anymore.
Lately I've got quite into the awesomely sharp-tasting Highlander Salt & Vinegar (their Bacon & Brown Sauce and Tomato are also fantastic and very very reasonably-priced - I think cheapo freezer shops like Farmfoods or equivalent should have them) but overall Seabrooks make the best crisps, all theirs are great.
I also like maize and corn snacks like Space Raiders and Nik-Naks and Wheat Crunchies and all of the others ever invented. God, I could talk about crisps all day.
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Kettle Chips (and Doritos to an extent) are too crunchy. Nobody seems to agree with me on this point.
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Re: Crisps
I ordered a box from them once, with all their flavours in. Some are pretty good, but I wasn't a fan of all of them. The bacon ones were pretty good, but I tend not to like oniony ones, prawn cocktail and various other things. I seem to remember spring onion being pretty horrific.JimBentley wrote:but overall Seabrooks make the best crisps, all theirs are great.
I always like ready salted crisps and I think it gives a good platform to compare different brands on an equal footing. Seabrooks do well here, as do Kettle Chips (definitely not too crunchy!)
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Some of the more expensive crisps can be a bit hardcore, it is true. I've lacerated my mouth on Kettle Chips before.Ian Volante wrote:Kettle Chips (and Doritos to an extent) are too crunchy. Nobody seems to agree with me on this point.
Also, I'm not sure about Doritos. They seem to fulfil all the general requirements of crisps, but I find them a bit cardboardy and unpleasant.
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I don't think anyone's mentioned Pringles. That can only be a good sign.
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Kettle chips qft. Try Doritos with melted choose, jalapenos, salsa and sour creamJimBentley wrote:Also, I'm not sure about Doritos. They seem to fulfil all the general requirements of crisps, but I find them a bit cardboardy and unpleasant.Ian Volante wrote:Kettle Chips (and Doritos to an extent) are too crunchy. Nobody seems to agree with me on this point.
Surely the *only* crisps:
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Re: Crisps
We recently discovered chilli and lime pringles, which are pretty tasty as pringles go.Gavin Chipper wrote:I don't think anyone's mentioned Pringles. That can only be a good sign.
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Pringles dipped in hummus works well.Michael Wallace wrote:We recently discovered chilli and lime pringles, which are pretty tasty as pringles go.Gavin Chipper wrote:I don't think anyone's mentioned Pringles. That can only be a good sign.
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Truesay, but isn't that the case with most tasty crisps?Ian Volante wrote:Pringles dipped in hummus works well.
Actually hmm, maybe not. Like, Sensations generally seem to go in hummus, but I can't imagine dunking some cheese and onion walkers.
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Re: Crisps
Cheese and onion Squares
The lesser known Beef Discos
T-Bone Steak Roysters
Fish'n'chips
S+V Chipsticks
The lesser known Beef Discos
T-Bone Steak Roysters
Fish'n'chips
S+V Chipsticks
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Re: Crisps
Totally agree. Also try a bit of Reggae Reggae Sauce smothered chicken with it as well. You don't know what you're missingLesley Hines wrote:Kettle chips qft. Try Doritos with melted choose, jalapenos, salsa and sour creamJimBentley wrote:Also, I'm not sure about Doritos. They seem to fulfil all the general requirements of crisps, but I find them a bit cardboardy and unpleasant.Ian Volante wrote:Kettle Chips (and Doritos to an extent) are too crunchy. Nobody seems to agree with me on this point.
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Totally agree. Also try a bit of Reggae Reggae Sauce smothered chicken with it as well. You don't know what you're missingLesley Hines wrote:Kettle chips qft. Try Doritos with melted choose, jalapenos, salsa and sour creamJimBentley wrote:Also, I'm not sure about Doritos. They seem to fulfil all the general requirements of crisps, but I find them a bit cardboardy and unpleasant.Ian Volante wrote:Kettle Chips (and Doritos to an extent) are too crunchy. Nobody seems to agree with me on this point.
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Re: Crisps
Veering off topic, a mate of mine made me one of Levi Roots' own recipe starters recently, Chilli, Mango and Avocado with onion on a bed of lettuce. Yum.
To bring us back on topic, wotsits were always hard to find here when I was a kid so I went mad on em both times i was in England as a chizzler having been watching the ads for years. Tasty and somewhat a British cultural treasure
To bring us back on topic, wotsits were always hard to find here when I was a kid so I went mad on em both times i was in England as a chizzler having been watching the ads for years. Tasty and somewhat a British cultural treasure
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Re: Crisps
Cheese & Onion. Always has been, always will be- the crisp of kings.Jon O'Neill wrote:What's your favourite flavour of crisps?
These are also all gorgeous.Jon O'Neill wrote:We can discuss brands and sorts as well. My favourite sorts of crisps are:
- Crinkly Cheese and Onion Mini Cheddars
- Roast Beef Monster Munch
- Cheesey doritos
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