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Crisps (Potato Chips & Similar Snacks)

I swear that when I was a kid*, Hostess briefly made grape flavoured chips. Also, for a brief, glorious time, there were nacho cheese flavoured Crunchits.

*1970s, Canada
 
Flick said:
Am I imagining that for a while there were curry flavour Hula Hoops? And maybe barbecue chicken too. What ever happened to them? If I haven't just dreamt them up then they were great.
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There were definitely barbecue (beef?) flavour. And smoky bacon.

At least, *I* remember them...

Steve.
 
Lays has just come out with a salsa-flavoured chip, which is quite yummy. (Rooney thought so too; he kept pulling them out of my hand)
 
I've just remembered, there definitely were curry flavour Hula Hoops, sometime around 1990. They came in a purple packet and they were great.
 
waggonwheels only for spoiled kids

We never got waggon wheels as kids going to primary school, and I always envied those who really crappy, unhealthy, junk-food lunches. All me and my brother got were wholesome home-made cheese or salad sammatches and a flask of hot chocolate (or on some occasions, when forgetful mother got distracted, a delicious flask of hot water :cry:)
I just had a bag of King cheese and onion crisps - I pity you non-irish people, unless you come and visit, you will never know how utterly yummy they are (and I spit on walker crappy crisps: ptooey! ptooey!)
 
In Brooklyn we have avacod flavored chips......they are green!
And the bakery near my house sells chocolate flavored chips aka crisps they make in the back every day but I will never try them thanks......

I would love to see salty pistachio chips.....sounds good eh?
 
American "chips"

Wow, this thread may be the most bizarre I have read since finding this board. Steak flavoured chips?

Just for the novelty, I thought I'd mention the ones we have here in the states, which we call "potato chips" of course.

salt and vinegar, sour cream and green onion, barbeque, Cheddar and sour cream, dill pickle (newer), ketchup (catsup, newer), nacho cheese (we have nacho flavoured EVERYTHING), guacamole (also newer), plain salted, cajun (sort of like barbeque but spicy)

That's really mainly it. Seems a heck of a lot less exotic. I imagine in the North they have a bit more variety, but I've never heard of prawn flavoured chips short of a Japanese market. Are all crisps in Britain made of potato, or does that include corn as well? Oh, and for the record, I think calling crisps "chips" is dumb too, because it meas we have to call chips "french fries", and that's just STUPID.
 
Traditional crisps are made from potato here, although they call some other things ' corn snacks '. I just found some roasted onion and balsamic vinegar flavour. I do love those Scampi knick knacks, and all I can find here is nice n' spicey flavour. :(
 
dunno if it still works, but my mum used to put black crisp packets (space raiders and monster munch) under the grill to make a perfectly proportioned minature crisp packet. they turned out slightly crinkly and about the size of a passport photo.

i used to sell them at school and made a packet!!! (sorry). never told them how it was done though to keep prices high.
 
nikoteen said:
dunno if it still works, but my mum used to put black crisp packets (space raiders and monster munch) under the grill to make a perfectly proportioned minature crisp packet. they turned out slightly crinkly and about the size of a passport photo.
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kids used to do this when i was young, not just black packets though, and in the oven, not the grill. then i think a rumour went around that it released toxic fumes, and people stopped.
 
fluffle said:
nikoteen said:
dunno if it still works, but my mum used to put black crisp packets (space raiders and monster munch) under the grill to make a perfectly proportioned minature crisp packet. they turned out slightly crinkly and about the size of a passport photo.
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kids used to do this when i was young, not just black packets though, and in the oven, not the grill. then i think a rumour went around that it released toxic fumes, and people stopped.
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It was all the rage at school to crush the crisps as much as possible then shrink the entire packet in the oven to be made into key-rings, badges etc.
 
Space raiders rocked! :yeay: You got so much for your money. There were the 20p bags which were huge, they were twice the size of the 10p bags. Hmmm, wait a minute...

Where I live they don't sell Monster Munch, so I have to get Red Cross parcels sent with Pickled Onion flavour. I love crisps which take your breath away and put tears into your eyes!

Here in sweden we have 5 flavours: Sour Cream and Onion, Sour Cream and Dill, Dill and Onion, Dill Onion and Sour Cream and finally, Peanut!! Things have gone seriously wrong, I long for a bag of prawn cocktail.
 
Big on dill then...

We used to have a British crisp brand called Ringos, Ringo. Nice they were too. Especially in salt 'n vinegar.
 
Someone offered me a pork scratching the other day, and since I'd never had one I thought I'd give it a go.....

Oh my God.

It was literally the most disgusting thing I'd ever tasted. Be warned, everyone who has never heard of them! I thought they'd be like a Nik Nak, a crunchy, scratchy sort of snack, but it was really just a chunk of puffed fat, puffed pork fat, with a coating of thick soggy salty stuff...like a revolting fat bomb.

I pale just thinking of it.

Nice N Spicy Nik Naks rocked my world when I was a childer. I'm now quite a fan of the salted crisp, as the flavourings seem to make me sweat and tingle. I enjoy it, but it's not pretty!
 
I bought some pork scratchings for a Dutch friend who was over here, I did tell him what they were! ( Pork skin and prk fat with salt basically! )He gave them to his brother who loved them. I don't mind the actual very crunchy bit, not the fat though.
 
About 10 years ago, I worked for a company whose major client was at the time the largest pig abbatoir in the UK. They gave us a presentation that showed us how pork scratchings were made, from start to finish.
First, they handed us all packets of scratchings to munch on while we watched the presentation. Then they gave a blow-by-blow account of how various parts of the pigs were used in food products.
By the end of it, I'd say more than half the people there had become vegetarians! :lol:
 
It does help not to know, yes. :? I went off meat when I was about 17 after meeting and talking to some guys who came in the pub for lunch , and who worked in the abbatoir.
 
I bought 5 unused crisp packets a couple of days ago that are potentially pre war, £1 for the lot ... because the price on them was 3d, I imagined when I was buying them that the youngest they could be would be around 1970 as decimalisation of UK currency was was around the '71 mark .. 3d was about three quarters of a penny in pre WW2 times .. (photos for details, nothing's printed on the back of them and they're waxed paper)

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.. so I thought, a quid isn't too much of an investment .. I like the artwork .. I bet they're rare .. there's probably some sort of hardcore nerd crisp packet collecting scene on the internet .. I might stick one in a frame and give another to a local retail business person or something because the address of the manufacture is in North Walsham, just down the road from Cromer. A cursory internet search hasn't provided any clues as to who and where Morris & Co were located other than Market Street .. so at this moment in time, I'm imagining that somewhere in the world, a vintage empirical object collector who specialises in crisp packets will be creaming their pants when they see these bad boys! .. or not. Either way, I've googled every version of 'vintage crisp packets' (taking into account the US description of 'potato chips') that I can think of and other than some early U.S. potato chip cans, the only vintage to the point of, at the latest, the 1960's and even earlier examples ? ... they don't exist online.

The reason I'm wondering if the Krunchy Morrisco Crisps are pre war boils (fries) down to finding another earlier Norfolk crisp company, the details listed below:

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http://www.greatyarmouthmercury.co....-you-remember-these-yarmouth-crisps-1-4531393
 
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These paper crisp packets are advertised on eBay as apparently being from the 1950's.

FWIW - the eBay seller(s) pricing is higher than what you paid.
 
fascinating that they were marketed as a side-dish! (great with chops steaks..)

ps Did you find a hardcore crisp nerd scene?
 
EnolaGaia said:
These paper crisp packets are advertised on eBay as apparently being from the 1950's.

FWIW - the eBay seller(s) pricing is higher than what you paid.
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Cool! .. the exact same ones? .. have you got a link to that please? .. I won't be selling mine unless they're going for silly money ..
 
Swifty said:
'Scene' ? .. no .. hardcore nerd collector ?, yes ..
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Ach, am disappointed there isn't a scene but delighted there's at least one collector, though my first thought was "500" doesn't seem at first like a newsworthy size for such a collection, though thinking about it maybe packet designs are longer-lasting than I imagine, and I guess it must be hard to find old examples .. okay, I've changed my mind, 500 is a hardcore number.
 
Moth_in_relay said:
.. okay, I've changed my mind, 500 is a hardcore number.
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.. but only until another hardcore nerd crisp packet collecting pretender to the throne comes along .. women will fall at his/her feet, foes will lament etc etc .. and only then can we say we, yes, only WE were there at the very beginning :sparta:..
 
Swifty said:
Cool! .. the exact same ones? .. have you got a link to that please? .. I won't be selling mine unless they're going for silly money ..
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Just Google:

morrisco "krisps" (use the quotation marks)

... and the current eBay listings should appear at the top of your search results.
 
EnolaGaia said:
Just Google:

morrisco "krisps" (use the quotation marks)

... and the current eBay listings should appear at the top of your search results.
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Have done that thanks and this eBay seller runs a cool old record shop a stone's throw from the antiques store we obviously both bought them from .. I went into his store asking if he sold VHS tapes but sadly he didn't, I thought about buying one of his T Shirts .. fair play to him for making some profit, they are very nice ..
 
Swifty said:
.. but only until another hardcore nerd crisp packet collecting pretender to the throne comes along .. women will fall at his/her feet, foes will lament etc etc .. and only then can we say we, yes, only WE were there at the very beginning ..
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oh God (or good, can't decide) now I'm going to be paying proper attention to the varieties and packets and everything in shops and watching out for them appearing in popular culture. What have you started Swifty!
 
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For some reason I can't edit my previous post but this packet cost 2D, The Smiths company started up around 1920 ..

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