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Crisps (Potato Chips & Similar Snacks)

Swifty said:
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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You may also have heard about the hedgehog-roasting from me. As a child I was told about it by kids from the Traveller families who'd sometimes camp in the area.
The hedgehogs were cooked alive because dead ones would not have rolled up with their spines erect.
 
escargot said:
You may also have heard about the hedgehog-roasting from me. As a child I was told about it by kids from the Traveller families who'd sometimes camp in the area.
The hedgehogs were cooked alive because dead ones would not have rolled up with their spines erect.
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Anyone who would be daft enough to roast an animal with its guts still inside it is welcome to the resulting “treat.”

:puke2:

maximus otter
 
maximus otter said:
Anyone who would be daft enough to roast an animal with its guts still inside it is welcome to the resulting “treat.”

:puke2:

maximus otter
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I wonder if those kids were taking the piss, living up to an expected stereotype.
 
Floyd1 said:
Clay-baked hedgehog was/is a real thing.
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If you were desperate enough to need the tiny amount of meat available on a hedgehog, you'd:

a) Gut it first, and;

b) If you're far enough into it to gut it, why would you leave the skin on?

I've never gralloched a hedgehog - :puke2: - but I can't see that it would be any more difficult to skin than a rabbit or a grey squirrel, both legendarily easy to "peel."

My bet? Folk tale, with the "baking in clay" thing as dressing to boost credibility.

maximus otter
 
maximus otter said:
If you were desperate enough to need the tiny amount of meat available on a hedgehog, you'd:

a) Gut it first, and;

b) If you're far enough into it to gut it, why would you leave the skin on?

I've never gralloched a hedgehog - :puke2: - but I can't see that it would be any more difficult to skin than a rabbit or a grey squirrel, both legendarily easy to "peel."

My bet? Folk tale, with the "baking in clay" thing as dressing to boost credibility.

maximus otter
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Well I think I'd pass, but apparently;

Hedgehog (Hociwici or Niglo in Romany) is considered a delicacy, particularly by French and British Gypsies. The hedgehog is often cooked by wrapping it in clay and baking it on the fire. When the hardened clay shell is removed, the prickles come off as well. Often the hedgehog meat is cooked with agrimony and sorrel, herbs frequently used in Romani dishes. Other cooking methods include stews with onion and tomatoes and even as a lasagne.
 
Floyd1 said:
Well I think I'd pass, but apparently;

Hedgehog (Hociwici or Niglo in Romany) is considered a delicacy, particularly by French and British Gypsies. The hedgehog is often cooked by wrapping it in clay and baking it on the fire. When the hardened clay shell is removed, the prickles come off as well. Often the hedgehog meat is cooked with agrimony and sorrel, herbs frequently used in Romani dishes. Other cooking methods include stews with onion and tomatoes and even as a lasagne.
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I doubt if it would be cooked while still alive though.
 
charliebrown said:
“ It’s Revolutionary “

The British eat 8 billion packs of crisps or potato chips a year.

The British Crisp Co. has come up with a revolutionary paper bag with a biodegradable plastic lining inside.

https://www.packworld.com/news/sust...p-co-launches-first-recyclable-paper-chip-bag
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Doesn’t look like you can get many in there.
Mind you, I remember the Great Salt’n’Shake Apocalypse of the late Sixties where you couldn’t see the ground for discarded bits of blue paper.

They way I see it, the best green packaging for crisps would be a domestic potato slicer which people could use on an actual potato for use in the air fryers they already have. Chuck some salt and household spices in there and you’d have a delicious homemade alternative. Possibly.
 
Analogue Boy said:
Doesn’t look like you can get many in there.
Mind you, I remember the Great Salt’n’Shake Apocalypse of the late Sixties where you couldn’t see the ground for discarded bits of blue paper.

They way I see it, the best green packaging for crisps would be a domestic potato slicer which people could use on an actual potato for use in the air fryers they already have. Chuck some salt and household spices in there and you’d have a delicious homemade alternative. Possibly.
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Certainly food-for-thought! I 'Wonder' (no pun intended!), how that would work out for comparison ~ cost wise?
 
Potato chips or crisps in the U.S. has gotten ridiculously expensive.

A regular sized bag in 2000 was 89 cents and today it is $4.39.

Ridiculous but people will buy their chips.
 
charliebrown said:
Potato chips or crisps in the U.S. has gotten ridiculously expensive.

A regular sized bag in 2000 was 89 cents and today it is $4.39.

Ridiculous but people will buy their chips.
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What size is regular over there?
A small bag here costs around 80p in a cafe (about 1 dollar).
 
Analogue Boy said:
Doesn’t look like you can get many in there.
Mind you, I remember the Great Salt’n’Shake Apocalypse of the late Sixties where you couldn’t see the ground for discarded bits of blue paper.

They way I see it, the best green packaging for crisps would be a domestic potato slicer which people could use on an actual potato for use in the air fryers they already have. Chuck some salt and household spices in there and you’d have a delicious homemade alternative. Possibly.
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I remember those salt-n'-shake crisps in the late '70s, they did a promotion at one point where some of the blue bags had £20 notes in! (a lot of money in those days). We fell for it and bought those packets at every opportunity in the hope of getting lucky, I don't ever remember anyone actually getting one with a £20 note in though.
 
Today a regular potato chip or crisp bag is 8 ounces or 226.8 grams.

I know they have all sizes.

When I was a boy the cereal companies put all kinds of stuff in their cereal boxes.

I own one inch of the State of Alaska, an plastic army man, a special secret decoder, a small model of a submarine, and a small rubber bouncing ball.

I thought I was lucky with my treasures.
 
I won some money in a bag of salted crisps. Can’t remember if it was 10 or 20 quid.
I also won some money when they did the rain game. They had an online map of the UK and you had to pick a square where it would rain. Just picked Ireland or Wales to get the best chance. I also collected tokens for the ‘Wear’em Scare’ems’ promotion and got a Skull and Crossbones trinket.
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On the subject of giveaways, I’d like it to be known I am still a lifetime member of the Bazooka Joe Fan Club. And no. I’m not allowed to tell you what sort of high jinks we get up to.
 
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