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Crisps (Potato Chips & Similar Snacks)

I have suspicions that Tufty transmigrated and became ME Pearl:

The ascended squirrel-guru of the lovely Georgette, better known as that possum-woman on Youtube.

"I AM A DEAD SQUIRREL WHO KNOWS EVERYTHING and pines to share it with YOU. I lived for 10 years as a non-releasable in So. Cal, and gnawed my way through most of a Merriam-Webster’s English dictionary and around the edges of a LaRousse Spanish/French. Plus, I absorbed vast amounts of information through my 7 senses, tuned beyond anything you can yet imagine. And the rest I make up."

:omg:
 
As a side note, the Quaker Oats Co. in 1955 bought 19 acres of land in Dawson, Yukon, Canada for $1,000 and printed 21,000,000 one inch deeds to give out.

The deeds were not legal because they were not registered.

But Quaker Oats would not pay 37 dollars for the property tax and lost the land.

Recently Dawson built a golf course on this land.

Quaker Oats sponsored Sgt. Preston of the Yukon TV show.
 
dr wu said:
One of my new favorites
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Mmm, they look good!
 
Fluttermoth said:
I used to save the extra ones to go with my boiled eggs; I once got a packet with 14 sachets in!
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14. Ye gods. I had packets twice with two. A friend swore he had three. I didn't believe him. 14. incredible.

Boiled egg. I bet you were popular in the canteen. Boiled egg sandwiches when I was a kid made me do farts that could stink out the class room. They would build up until I had no choice but to shift onto one buttock and let rip silently. As the saying then went, silent but violent. The relief was incredible. I never let on that it was me though.

As a kid then in those days, you'd just eat what you were given.

On the bus on the way to school, I could smell those egg sandwiches in my satchel. Why did my mum put me through that? Why not banana or marmite? Why boiled egg? As soon as I picked up my satchel on leaving home my heart would sink. I could smell it. Boiled egg again.

My mum meant well.
 
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kesavaross said:
14. Ye gods. I had packets twice with two. A friend swore he had three. I didn't believe him. 14. incredible.

Boiled egg. I bet you were popular in the canteen. Boiled egg sandwiches when I was a kid made me do farts that could stink out the class room. They would build up until I had no choice but to shift onto one buttock and let rip silently. As the saying then went, silent but violent. The relief was incredible. I never let on that it was me though.

As a kid then in those days, you'd just eat what you were given.

On the bus on the way to school, I could smell those egg sandwiches in my satchel. Why did my mum put me through that? Why not banana or marmite? Why boiled egg? As soon as I picked up my satchel on leaving home my heart would sink. I could smell it. Boiled egg again.

My mum meant well.
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Yes, eggs do have that effect on me too, so I kept my egg eating to weekends!

I remember a friend of mine bringing a boiled egg to school for lunch once, and it caused a lot of consternation :chuckle: I must have been about 7, and in consequence, I never take egg anywhere, unless it's for a picnic.
 
charliebrown said:
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.
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Idaho?

I've just had to look up this American state which was frankly just a name for somewhere in the Mid-West and otherwise a void, even for a Brit who would rate himself as being reasonably clued up on American states.

I discovered that even other Americans consider the state of Idaho as synonymous with "potatoes" and not very much else. Apparently this one state supplies the whole USA with its spuds. It's like Lincolnshire on the grand scale.
 
And now... this. I have noticed that for over a year now, supply of smoky bacon crisps has been sporadic and downright erratic, with frequent total absences from the shelves. Is this the root cause?

Smoky Bacon Crisps, soon to be a fond memory?
 
In the U.S. Lays keep trying different flavors with a lot of failures.

Next is Korean Sweet and Spicy potato chips.

Hmmmm—I don’t know about this flavor ?
 
charliebrown said:
In the U.S. Lays keep trying different flavors with a lot of failures.

Next is Korean Sweet and Spicy potato chips.

Hmmmm—I don’t know about this flavor ?
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Red Rock, one of the most popular chip/crisp brands in Australia often have limited release flavours as well as a ''Chef Series'' where a guest Chef, usually of the Celebrity nature has their flavours featured.

The present Chef is former Masterchef contestant and now Masterchef (Australia) host Poh Ling Yeow.

I've tried the rendang and the crispy chicken with garlic & soy. They taste exactly as described and are bold and strongly flavoured. Personally, I prefer just a plain, salted chip/crisp, but these were pretty good.

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I was at a market today and a guy was selling badges. There was a Burton’s Potato Puffs badge on display. I was sooooo tempted.
 
The Co Op has brought out Barbecue Puffs. They are, in my humble opinion, not a patch on the sadly lamented Gravy Puffs of several Christmases ago though. But worth eating. Big enough to take two bites, unlike their Cheese Puffs, which used to be enormous and are now the size of a Wotsit.
 
The crunch, the flavours, the rituals: how crisps became a British snack obsession

You can love crisps to the ends of the earth, but there will still be one you haven’t tried. If I mentioned to anyone that I was writing a book about crisps, I knew there would be immediate quizzing. Will you be including German paprika chips? What about Highlander tomato? What do you think of Torres fried egg? Are Pringles really crisps? (Yes, according to lengthy tax wranglings pursued by HMRC.) I’ve yet to come across someone without at least two or three strong opinions about crisps. Larry Bush, who was part of PepsiCo’s British tortilla team (and now runs a wildlife park outside Bristol), told me: “You could put people into crisp tribes depending on where you grew up. Crisps are almost like a member of the family.”

https://www.theguardian.com/food/20...s-how-crisps-became-a-british-snack-obsession

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