Don't ask me why but I was thinking about crisps this morning (very surreal I know) and I was thinking about all the variety on offer these days, which consequently reminded me how few options there were available to us as kids growing up in the 70's.
Which then got me thinking of the worst ever crisps, the choice is great I know. After long consideration (12 seconds) I have decided that Walkers (long before Gary Bloody Lineker) Prawn Cocktail were/are the most vile gastronomic crisp experience......EVER!!!!
Be interested to know what blog world thinks.....answers on a comment please
13 comments:
i like prawn cocktail!
but i do remember having my first ever real prawn cocktail (the sort with actual prawns)and being very disappointed to find they didn't taste like the crisps....
Prawn Cocktail are ace!
Wotsits have to be the worst! It was always the yucky kids at school that you didn't want to go near that had them. It just added to their ickiness, they had orange fingers, potato gunk in their teeth and cheesy breath.
Oh yuck
Not really a crisp person to be fair but I'll quite happily much a packet of the McCoys range in thai chicken or chilli etc
Oh I can't stand crisps. They're yucky. All flavours. I don't like chips either though - maybe it's a potato thing.
When I was at school...alright in Junior School...Space Raiders were the big thing - mainly because they're 10p and that's all the pocket money we got.
6th Form Centre sells yucky crisps which 'friends' insist on leaving in my locker.
Marko, i will send you a packet of prawn cocktail!
MrT, love that story....one of the few things to make me laugh of late...thank you
MWL, Wotsits? You must be younger than i - they hadn't been invented when i was a kid. they sound vile though, might have to get a packet and see for myself!
Niki, haven't come across space raiders either - i need to get out more! but at 10p i can tell why they would be popular
A good friend of minetold me that their favourite crisp to hate was roast chicken - because how could you put such an amazing flavour in a bag - it's an insult to a fine upstanding British icon and tradition and should never have been turned into a crisp
Apparently you can get donut flavour in Florida - I'll say no more
donut flavour? Shit, really? Anybody tried them?
My least favorite are the brand called Pringles, which come in a tube. Each is just like the last, all nested together -- having been made, I think, out of some sort of potato mush originally. They are like the Stepford Crisps. Too thick, too overtly potato-like. They offend my crisp-sensibilities.
Mata, I don't mind pringles but never realised the anal regimented way they pack 'em in rather than the 'lets be free to wander the packet of most crisps/chips - good point!
marko
email me where i can send these crisps - just wish i was there to se your face as you take a bite!
and of course walkers are truly evil because they changed the colour convention of crisps ..... everyone knows that salt and vinegar crisps should be blue and cheese and onion green. But not bloody walkers - For that alone i boycott them never mind the taste or the increasingly sun tanned lineker ...
Hey mark
love your sculpture of june 12! gonna have to get me one of them!
I agree with the blue and green choices. i wonder why and who chose them? One of life's great mysteries i guess
smoky bacon flavour was my runner-up just so blog can sleep soundly again
Can't believe I forgot.
Quavers are amazing - although they are everything a crisp shouldn't be, thin, melty, full of air, strangely cheesy, they simply can't can't help being anything more than fantastic.
For an example of all those things embodied in a bad crisp, please refer to SKIPS - they fizz! Whats the deal with that!
All Walkers crisps are evil and disgusting.
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