Crisps; choose your weapon.

[Gorvid]

Crisps: Can't live with them, can't live without them.

Or something.

Anyway, CRISPS! What a wonderful and wholesome revelation it must have been all those many thousands of years ago when some young firebrand of a prehistoric chap looked longingly at a humble potato, and thought:

"Crikey! If I cut this thing up into really REALLY thin slices, then drop into into very very hot fat, then cover it in some of that white juice from inside a cow's boob (almost rotten, naturally) and some dead pig... well BLOW MY ME if I won't have Cheese & Ham crisps!"

So my point is this...

What are your absolute favourite crisps to perform the following duties;

1. Go with beer?
2. Go with a sandwich?
3. Go INSIDE a sandwich?
4. Just eat?
5. Throw at a swan?

[NoVetec]

Gorvid said:

1. Go with beer?
2. Go with a sandwich?
3. Go INSIDE a sandwich?
4. Just eat?
5. Throw at a swan?

1. Cheese & onion
2. Prawn cocktail or smokey bacon
3. None
4. Steak or Worcester Sauce
5. None TBH, but if I had a gun to the head - it'd be ready salted.

[MajorProblem]

Wotsits for a sarnie, cheap white bread and loads of butter.

[Hugo a Gogo]

Gorvid said:

"Crikey! If I cut this thing up into really REALLY thin slices, then drop into into very very hot fat, then cover it in some of that white juice from inside a cow's boob (almost rotten, naturally) and some dead pig... well BLOW MY ME if I won't have Cheese & Ham crisps!"

sadly, only the south americans had potatos, and everyone else in the world had pigs

we can thank Columbo for many things, including cheese and ham (or even smoky bacon) crisps

1. salt n vinegar
2. cheese n onion
3. roast chicken
4. smoky bacon
5. ready salted

[Stu R]

Pickled onion Monster Munch or Brannigan's beef and mustard.

[vladcjelli]

There are no bad crisps.

But up with the best are Seabrooks.

My other favourite crisp related pastime is adding them to soup. Especially puffy ones like wotsits that go soggy.

Yum.

[Mobile Chicane]

I love crisps, and could quite happily eat my own weight in most of them

However on to matters of serious crispology:

1. Go with beer?
Any. All's good. Likewise, wine. Though not anything like prawn cocktail with red wine

2. Go with a sandwich?
Salt and vinegar or plain salted. I think anything else detracts from what's 'in' the sandwich

3. Go INSIDE a sandwich?
Cheese and onion. Especially with a cheese sandwich, though I could see the long-forgotten 'tomato sauce' flavour working well with a fish finger sandwich

4. Just eat?
And eat, and eat, and eat? Walker's roast chicken, char-grilled steak or bacon Frazzles. These must be laced with crack cocaine they're so good

5. Throw at a swan?
Never. A waste. Plus I'm sure it isn't good for animals to eat human food.

My cat - adopted from da ghetto innit - goes beserk whenever I open a packet of crisps. I'm sure his former owners fed him crisps, curry, KFC and all sorts (since he goes beserk for any of those), none of which are allowed.

[vladcjelli]

Mobile Chicane said:

bacon Frazzles. These must be laced with crack cocaine they're so good.

Not trying to be picky, but since the salt crusades, I don't think these are as good as they used to be.

An alternative, which in my humble opinion betters even the mighty Frazzle can be bought at our a local corner shop. They are some sort of local shop cooperative production (think happy shopper or somesuch. Will get some, and post correct info) but are truly lovely.

Hmmm, despite the snow, I can hear them calling me to them now...

[NoVetec]

vladcjelli said:

Not trying to be picky, but since the salt crusades, I don't think these are as good as they used to be.

An alternative, which in my humble opinion betters even the mighty Frazzle can be bought at our a local corner shop. They are some sort of local shop cooperative production (think happy shopper or somesuch. Will get some, and post correct info) but are truly lovely.

Hmmm, despite the snow, I can hear them calling me to them now...

The supermarket own brand ones are salty enough, IMHO, at least.

[Mobile Chicane]

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vladcjelli said:

Not trying to be picky, but since the salt crusades, I don't think these are as good as they used to be.

An alternative, which in my humble opinion betters even the mighty Frazzle can be bought at our a local corner shop. They are some sort of local shop cooperative production (think happy shopper or somesuch. Will get some, and post correct info) but are truly lovely.

Hmmm, despite the snow, I can hear them calling me to them now...

Ah! Post-Frazzles.

I agree Frazzles are not as salty as they once were - not good, plus I'm sure they tasted better with their artificial colouring as well.

[Steve H]

You can keep your frazzles, bacon fries are the real kiddie



Very, very good

[bobbo89]

1. Real ham and english mustard (nicest ones the local sells)

2. Seabrook prawn cocktail
3. It may be weird but i eat Quavers inside tuna mayo sandwiches
4. Seabrook cheese and onion
5. Anything ready salted

[Slink]

1. Go with beer? salt and vinegar or monster munch spicy
2. Go with a sandwich? watzits or quavers or pom bears
3. Go INSIDE a sandwich? prawn cocktail
4. Just eat? pom bears or watsits or quavers or salt an vin squares
5. Throw at a swan? blairs extra hot ghost chilli ones.

[expensivegarms]

Steve H said:

You can keep your frazzles, bacon fries are the real kiddie



Very, very good

Same company makes Scampi fries too... I'd eat them all day if I could! Never seen them outside of a pub though!

[Steve H]

Yep, I have to get my fix of bacon Fries from Macro on a card that you pull the packs off!

[vladcjelli]

NoVetec said:

The supermarket own brand ones are salty enough, IMHO, at least.

Not my point.

Not that frazzles aren't salty enough compared to own brands, rather that the frazzles recipe changed significantly post salt revolution.

Many own brands just have weird tastes/aftertastes. Salty or not.

[Pints]

Gorvid said:

1. Go with beer?
2. Go with a sandwich?
3. Go INSIDE a sandwich?
4. Just eat?
5. Throw at a swan?

1. Cheese & Onion
2. Sour Cream & Chive
3. Chilli
4. Tangy Cheese
5. Ready salted

Edited by Pints on Saturday 23 March 23:36

[ocrx8]

I adore all crisps. Golden Wonder cheese and onion are the nuts.

[Shinobi]

1.cheese and onion
2.cheese and onion
3.ready salted
4.cheese and onion
5.cheese and onion

[thetapeworm]

For all purposes, Seabrook Sea Salted:




For a treat now and again, happy to use in all situations apart from the throwing: