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Crisps (Potato Chips & Similar Snacks)

I don't worry about what I eat.
I make my choices based on a consensus of information - reduce salt and sugar intake - then eat according to my choices.
Me 'n' t'missus was just talking about this. I cook with no-salt added (if I can help it) and she's just admitted that sometimes my meals are a little bland. I've no problem with her dishes, and she does use a little salt. When I said she could always ask for the salt/pepper grinders, she said she didn't want to be rude! :)
We both agree that while it's fine to salt to taste, it's more insulting to add salt before even tasting the dish.
 
Steven said:
A Warning to the Curious

Monster Munch has some kind of bizarre mood-accelerant in them, maybe MSG or some such. I had a packet recently and went (even more) mad: set fire to my hair, cut my trousers into strips, sold my gran to buy more Monster Munch, did the ironing etc.
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How many packets of Monster Much does a gran go for these days?

Pickled Onion Monster Munch is like heroin, also these bad boys:

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My favourite crisps at the moment are Walkers Pizza Hut Pepperoni Feast crisps.
I fear they will be a short-lived thing, like the KFC crisps.
 
A few years back I more or less lived for 4 weeks on various burgers and chips from
the same outlet, expecting to put on weight but found I had lost near a stone, I
can only put this down to the food having no nutritional value whatsoever.
:dunno:
 
RaM said:
A few years back I more or less lived for 4 weeks on various burgers and chips from
the same outlet, expecting to put on weight but found I had lost near a stone, I
can only put this down to the food having no nutritional value whatsoever.
:dunno:
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Which outlet was that?
I need to lose weight.
 
Essentially, it's filling your stomach, making you think you've eaten enough, with food that's lacking in nutrition.
You might put on weight eating fast food as well as other foodstuffs.
You could try a 'diet' of my old mate tried; a teaspoon of bakers yeast in the afternoon and evening, with the only 'proper' meal being breakfast. The yeast was meant to 'fill' his stomach but it also gave him horrific wind!
After a week of this, he had lost weight though.
 
When I used to eat pre-made pizzas, I found that I was always still hungry afterwards, even after eating all that cheese and dough.
 
Stormkhan said:
Essentially, it's filling your stomach, making you think you've eaten enough, with food that's lacking in nutrition.
You might put on weight eating fast food as well as other foodstuffs.
You could try a 'diet' of my old mate tried; a teaspoon of bakers yeast in the afternoon and evening, with the only 'proper' meal being breakfast. The yeast was meant to 'fill' his stomach but it also gave him horrific wind!
After a week of this, he had lost weight though.
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Don't think I will try that. It's already blowing a gale in here, more so than what's going on outside.
 
fluffle9 said:
my mum reckoned it was because people thought they really had hedgehogs in and thought that hedgehogs were too cute to kill for meat or something.
my dad used to eat hedgehogs when he was in the army.

[a note on crisp ingredients: until very recently,
walkers smoky bacon, prawn coctail, and other assorted meat flavours - suitable for vegetarians.
walkers cheese and onion - not.]
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I lived for a little while in Denmark as I was dating a Danish girl and I swear one day we were in a supermarket , possibly Lidl , it was the mid 90s , and I could smell this very pungent odour and I came across a display of cooked meat , a joint that resembled pork with crackling but the crackling bit was covered in holes... I was perplexed until my girlfriend explained to me Oh THAT , it's... (some Danish word I didn't understand , ok that hardly narrows it down but hey...) She tried to reiterate , saying What are those cute animals that you see run over on the side of the road??!! And I looked at the holes and said HEDGEHOGS ?? And she said YES THAT'S IT !! I SWEAR this is a true story , whether she was winding me up or not I don't know but we were together for a few years , mostly over here in England , but if it was a wind up she never let on
 
According to what I read, the UK, France, and the U.S. eat the most chips or crisps averaging each person eating 4 pounds of crisps or chips a year.

I guess we like our “ crunchy taste “.
 
I do like a dip with my cheese and onion crisps. Problem is, I often baulk at the price. If there is a whole, plastic tray of them, I may not like all the flavours anyway.

Solution is easy: make my own. With the Greek yoghurt as a base, add something piquant. I have often used the Chat Massala condiment, which includes stink-salt. This dip is sulphuric in odour but nicely tangy and satisfying.

More recently, I have just added an inch of wasabi from the tube. The process reminds me of mixing epoxy resin. Mix. until the evil, green paste is well-distributed, unless you like sinus-cleaning surprises. For some reason, I think Lidl's wasabi is more evil than anyone's, though it contains even less real wasabi, confirming that the buzz is all from horseradish. Now that is a dip which knocks the supermarket ones into oblivion! :cheer:
 
I really can not believe that one brand alone PepsiCo’s brand Lays uses 4 billion potatoes alone a year.

Where does one get 4 billion potatoes ?

Barbecue chips are my weakness.
 
One of my favorites here........
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charliebrown said:
According to what I read, the UK, France, and the U.S. eat the most chips or crisps averaging each person eating 4 pounds of crisps or chips a year.

I guess we like our “ crunchy taste “.
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I do love my crisps.... Especially quavers and hula hoops but I remember the hedgehog flavour but as I never purchased the apparent hedgehog in Denmark , I can't authenticate the actual flavour .... Oh man , what were those horror themed crisp like snacks in the 70s ?? Bones or something??
 
gojiramonkey said:
I do love my crisps.... Especially quavers and hula hoops but I remember the hedgehog flavour but as I never purchased the apparent hedgehog in Denmark , I can't authenticate the actual flavour .... Oh man , what were those horror themed crisp like snacks in the 70s ?? Bones or something??
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I eat about 4 pounds in weight every blooming week !!
 
Xanatic* said:
Your danish girlfriend was winding you up. Nobody there eats hedgehogs.
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Gypsies used to. No joke. Apparently the trick was to extremely slow roast them. You'd kill your hedgehog, smother it in damp clay then put that inside a compost pit. The natural heat from that would eventually roast them. Then you'd remove the now baked clay, all the spines would come out in the clay or as I've read. I've no idea how long you'd cook them like that though?. At least two or three days I expect?.

edit: I haven't found the method online yet. This is the nearest I've got to any connection between hedgehogs and compost pits.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...-a-hedgehog-other-ancient-recipes-754940.html

and ...

Foods of England - Hedgehog. There is well-attested record of hedgehog (or 'hotchewitchi' or 'otchie'; see 'horse') being a Romany favourite. The beast is packed in clay to be baked on an open fire so that the hardened clay can be broken away along with the spines and skin to reveal a meat reminiscent of pork.

 
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Marmite crisps are returning, but they’re no longer being made and sold by Walkers. Instead, Marmite has teamed up with Tayto Group to release their own version

‘Marmite crisps are finally returning! I’m sure you all heard the devastating news that Walkers discontinued these but now they are back!

‘Marmite kindly sent us these to try before they land on shelves and let me tell you, they are delicious.’

According to Foodbev.com, these Marmite crisps are just the first item in a new range of snacks by the brand. Other items will include Cheese and Marmite Puffs, and Marmite Tortillas.
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