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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    Tashman said:

    Hedgehog

    Are you Frank Wilson?

    I did try them when they came out, they were horrendous.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,376
    Cheese & Onion. Which just beats ready salted into second place.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    I do like cheese & onion and now I'm home based I feel I can have them for lunch more often.
  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,495
    Pross said:

    Tashman said:

    Hedgehog

    Are you Frank Wilson?

    I did try them when they came out, they were horrendous.
    They weren't great to be fair, just love the fact that they were produced.

    Cheese and Onion or pork scratchings if we're diversifying into pub snacks are the correct answers.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,145
    I think dry roasted peanuts are under rated. You don't see peanuts so much at all these days, because so few people are allergic to them.

    No, that's not a typo.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,434
    These two people are related (by marriage)






    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,434
    rick_chasey said:

    What’s everyone’s favourite crisp flavour?

    1 Hunky Dory Salt&Vinegar
    2 Sensations Sweet Chilli
    3 Tayto Cheese & Onion
    4 Monster Munch Pickled Onion
    5 Wotsits

    Wotsits are the rogue entry. Simultaneously not nice but incredibly,inexplicably moreish

    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    On a crisps embargo, given the price (big supermarket own brand) got hiked by 35% in past year. bleep off!

    However. Not a flavour input but one on format. I do not like at all those brands which use reconstituted potato mash to construct the crisp. Just not right. Needs to be proper sliced tattie.
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    mrb123 said:

    Discovered Mackies Pickled Onion crisps when staying up in the Highlands earlier this year. Assume they're a Scottish brand as quite hard to find South of the border. Very good though - superb with a cold beer after a day on the hills.

    You occasionally get them in Lidl. There’s a deli in Northallerton that’s sells them. Their cheese and onion are great. They also do a Scots bonnet chilli flavour.
  • bm5
    bm5 Posts: 584
    pblakeney said:

    rick_chasey said:

    What’s everyone’s favourite crisp flavour?

    Of all time? Tudor Pickled Onion.
    Current? Simple "vanilla" Salt & Vinegar. Walkers or GW, no fancy brands required.
    "Giz a bag of Tudor"
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,145
    webboo said:

    mrb123 said:

    Discovered Mackies Pickled Onion crisps when staying up in the Highlands earlier this year. Assume they're a Scottish brand as quite hard to find South of the border. Very good though - superb with a cold beer after a day on the hills.

    You occasionally get them in Lidl. There’s a deli in Northallerton that’s sells them. Their cheese and onion are great. They also do a Scots bonnet chilli flavour.
    There is also a haggis flavour. It is salt and pepper, basically, but really good.
  • laurentian
    laurentian Posts: 2,548
    Walkers Salt and Vinegar are an all time favourite but Tescos Finest Beef and Horseradish are amazing IMO:

    https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/301401987
    Wilier Izoard XP
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,133
    Salt and pepper first, salt and vinegar second, holiday crisps third.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,328
    At this rate we'll need a Crisp Thread.

    I guess I eat less than ten packs a year. Seems like an expensive way to eat an ounce of potatoes.
    https://www.facebook.com/unanglaisendiois
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,376
    briantrumpet said:

    At this rate we'll need a Crisp Thread.

    I guess I eat less than ten packs a year. Seems like an expensive way to eat an ounce of potatoes.

    Live a bit, enjoy crisps and cost be damned :smile:
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,537
    Stevo_666 said:



    Live a bit, enjoy crisps

    🤣
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
    Pinnacle Monzonite

    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,144
    edited July 2023
    Crisps chucked in tomato soup, yum yum yum yum.
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,144
    Flavour not critical.
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,144
    That's bloody livin!
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,537
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
    Pinnacle Monzonite

    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,308
    A bit like the Renault Clio 'Nicole' ads. It was aimed at semi-affluent, independent women but this backfired.
    Despite the marketing fluff, sales of that Clio was huge though mainly male purchases.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,314
    A greetings card that can play ‘Happy Birthday’ has more computing power than existed in the whole world in 1950.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,145
    pblakeney said:

    A greetings card that can play ‘Happy Birthday’ has more computing power than existed in the whole world in 1950.

    ? This appears to be wrong.

    Has a greetings card of that nature got any computing power at all? If it has, is this any more than the "computing power" of a taped recording played when a power switch is activated? The only difference would seem to be the data storage medium.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,314
    First.Aspect said:

    pblakeney said:

    A greetings card that can play ‘Happy Birthday’ has more computing power than existed in the whole world in 1950.

    ? This appears to be wrong.
    ...
    Source was the QI Elves.
    They are usually reliable.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,537
    pblakeney said:

    First.Aspect said:

    pblakeney said:

    A greetings card that can play ‘Happy Birthday’ has more computing power than existed in the whole world in 1950.

    ? This appears to be wrong.
    ...
    Source was the QI Elves.
    They are usually reliable.
    As FA points out, a very basic analysis suggests this one is nonsense.
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
    Pinnacle Monzonite

    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,133
    The HK66T can be programmed to play multiple different melodies though.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,314
    One answer may involve the wording. "A greetings card that can..."
    A specific card, not all cards. Maybe...
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,328
    kingstongraham said:

    The HK66T can be programmed to play multiple different melodies though.


    So can I. Maybe I should change my name.
    https://www.facebook.com/unanglaisendiois
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,434
    Fun little factoid


    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,891
    tailwindhome said:

    Fun little factoid


    The most northern, eastern and western US state is Alaska

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