Crisps [split topic]

[Magnum Valentino]

Sorry. I read that as like they only allowed you to buy two bags per person.
They were making you buy extra, which would be the opposite of a famine.
I appreciate you all putting up with my idiocy.

No! One pack was free. Two for the normal price of one bag.

[seepage]

In the Co-op yesterday:
One small bag of Walkers Cheese & Onion = 90p
Six-pack of Walkers Cheese & Onion = £1.25

I assume they think single bags will normally only be purchased as part of a "meal deal".

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I still carry around the price expectations of my ten year old self when it comes to crisps, chocolates and sweets.  90p for a packet of crisps or a Drifter bar?  Absolutely not, thank you.  I will pay between 15p and 25p and you'll be happy with it.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Abhorrent stuff, but try getting a bag of crisps anywhere outside Lidl in Ireland for less than €1.19, even a small bag. The crisp industry is mad on power over here, seen some big bags go for €3.80. Needs bringing to its knees, then kneecapping. A crisp cap, like rent controls would be appropriate.

[imitationleather]

Interestingly enough, I used to go to school with a Chris P'Cap.

[buttgammon]

Abhorrent stuff, but try getting a bag of crisps anywhere outside Lidl in Ireland for less than €1.19, even a small bag. The crisp industry is mad on power over here, seen some big bags go for €3.80. Needs bringing to its knees, then kneecapping. A crisp cap, like rent controls would be appropriate.

Some people sum up the absurd neoliberal mess that is Ireland in terms of the rent crisis, but the biggest issue for me is the crisp crisis. It's capitalism gone mad, and the rest of us suffer while Mr Tayto and the Hunky Dory twat roll around laughing at us in a cocaine-induced daze.

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Abhorrent stuff, but try getting a bag of crisps anywhere outside Lidl in Ireland for less than €1.19, even a small bag. The crisp industry is mad on power over here, seen some big bags go for €3.80. Needs bringing to its knees, then kneecapping. A crisp cap, like rent controls would be appropriate.

You're just using kilometres instead of miles because it generates bigger numbers and makes you look wealthy as all fuck

[amateur]

Crisps are nice imo.

[mothman]

Utterly disappointing on every level. I've had ready salted crisps with more flavour. Even as rebranded paprika flavour they fall so short of the mark they needn't have bothered.

[touchingcloth]

Does anywhere do crisps which are fried exclusively in either olive oil or animal fat? I found some olive oil Lay's recently and was VERY excited, but on closer inspection they were 50/50 olive and sunflower.

[Gurke and Hare]

Doesn't pure olive oil burn at too low a temperature to properly deep fry in it?

[Gurke and Hare]

Beef dripping crisps should be a thing though.

[beanheadmcginty]

Does anywhere do crisps which are fried exclusively in either olive oil or animal fat? I found some olive oil Lay's recently and was VERY excited, but on closer inspection they were 50/50 olive and sunflower.

Islington Waitrose used to sell crisps in a big pink packet cooked in olive oil and dusted with sea salt. They cost 4 quid a bag and tasted like total shit.

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Beef dripping crisps should be a thing though.

You can melt down pork scratchings and simmer your salt n shake inside

[Steven88]

They taste like smokie bacon. The Thai sweet chicken is the best of the meaty McCoy's.
Utterly disappointing on every level. I've had ready salted crisps with more flavour. Even as rebranded paprika flavour they fall so short of the mark they needn't have bothered.

[Neomod]

I still carry around the price expectations of my ten year old self when it comes to crisps, chocolates and sweets.  90p for a packet of crisps or a Drifter bar?  Absolutely not, thank you.  I will pay between 15p and 25p and you'll be happy with it.

When I were a lad I remember Sainsbury's own brand crisps were 4p a pack circa mid 70's.



Looks like Johnny Trunk missed a trick with this one from copyright Bermuda Triangle, Redbubble.

[The Mollusk]

Not a crisp bit fuck starting a new thread.



These are fucking excellent. Massive whack of peppery spice, absolutely delicious. Just inhaled what looks like it should be a sharing/snack bowl bag in about 10 mins.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Not even nearly a crisp. Clearly inhaling that bag has you all hepped up off goofballs as your post is wilfully non-compliant. Get him out.

[Kankurette]

Oriental Beef and Chargrilled Chicken are best McCoy's but you can never get them anywhere. I do love the Thai Chicken ones though.

Of all the new limited edition Walker's flavours I've tried so far, it's Lamb Madras > Fish & Chips > Thai Green Curry. It's odd because I love Thai food but it has a weird aftertaste. Not had the Chicken Burrito one yet.

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Not a crisp bit fuck starting a new thread.



These are fucking excellent. Massive whack of peppery spice, absolutely delicious. Just inhaled what looks like it should be a sharing/snack bowl bag in about 10 mins.

Are they even slightly more expensive than a bag of unpeppered cashews?


I'm beginning to experience the private indignation of all those people who first encountered ready salted crisps and couldn't believe that the concept could warrant any kind of price increase. 

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO CARRYING A PEPPERMILL AROUND WITH YOU ALL DAY

[The Mollusk]

Not even nearly a crisp. Clearly inhaling that bag has you all hepped up off goofballs as your post is wilfully non-compliant. Get him out.

I didn't claim it was even nearly a crisp. In fact I stated the exact opposite beforehand. You're very nearly a dead man though, once I find you.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

I didn't claim it was even nearly a crisp. In fact I stated the exact opposite beforehand. You're very nearly a dead man though, once I find you.

I'll be here, consuming... Crisps.

[Jittlebags]

Had these on Friday. Expensive, but not at all bad.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Ah, spied those in so called Home Bargains, but I couldn't justify the price. Also, Steak flavour again. Ehh, so done with that flavour.

[Blumf]

Not a crisp bit fuck starting a new thread.

Cashew bastards!!

https://www.slowfood.com/cashew-nuts-a-toxic-industry/

In Vietnam, reports going back as far as 2011 from Human Rights Watch and reported by Time suggest that drug addicts in forced-labor 'rehabilitation' camps are engaged in the production and processing, and "those who refuse to work are beaten with truncheons, given electric shocks, locked in isolation, deprived of food and water, and obliged to work even longer hours". Why might they refuse to work? Because the anacardic acid present in the fruit that cashew nuts grow from is caustic, and burns the skin. All this for "a few dollars a month"—all to ensure the lowest export prices possible to supermarkets in the West.

[Jittlebags]

Ah, spied those in so called Home Bargains, but I couldn't justify the price. Also, Steak flavour again. Ehh, so done with that flavour.

They did have egg and chips flavour as well, but that sounded wrong.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Cashew bastards!!

https://www.slowfood.com/cashew-nuts-a-toxic-industry/

Argh jesus. Don't eat them very often but think I might eat them a little less than that.

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I'm going to eat them even harder, if anything

[Fr.Bigley]

In the North of England, chickers means a big bag of ecstacy.

[Jasha]

They did have egg and chips flavour as well, but that sounded wrong.

IKEA had picked mushroom crisps lining the winding back and forth queue at the weekend