[Food] First crisp

[clapham_gull]

Based on some posts on the first crush thread, I got wondering about people's first crisps.

Who was yours?

I used to love these 1970s classics.

 

[The Clamp]

Salt n Shake

 

[Bakero]

Quentin.

 

[Boys 9d]

I think in my younger days the only option was Smiths Crisps (potato flavour) with a little blue paper sack containing salt for tipping into the crisp bag which was then shaken.

 

[The Clamp]

I think in my younger days the only option was Smiths Crisps (potato flavour) with a little blue paper sack containing salt for tipping into the crisp bag which was then shaken.

See my above post.

 

[OzMike]

Smiths Chicken Fry, but soon after discovered Cheese and onion.
Never going back.

 

[dazzer6666]

 

[Peteinblack]

Remember when these appeared in the early 1980s; absolutely loved them. A bag of them usually accompanied a pint in the old Windsor Tavern while playing on the newly-installed Asteroids machine. Ah, the simple pleasures of youth.

 

[Chicken Run]

Salt n Shake

Yep same here, with a glass bottle of Pepsi Cola in the village pub garden while Mum & Dad were inside…. after one of the weekend cricket matches the old man played in

 

[Live by the sea]

Keebler Tato skins

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Based on some posts on the first crush thread, I got wondering about people's first crisps.

Who was yours?

I used to love these 1970s classics.

I used to love these as well. An event I have always remembered is being in Newcastle at a 10 year old and asking for a bag of these in a shop. I asked how much they were but couldn’t understand the thick Geordie accent, the guy had to tell me numerous times they were “9p” before I understood.

I have slightly improved my understanding of regional accents over the years.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I used to love Rancheros and was a fan of Potato Puffs and salt and vinegar Discos as well.

 

[The Clamp]

I used to love Rancheros and was a fan of Potato Puffs and salt and vinegar Discos as well.

I tried Discos again the other month. Totally changed. They’re very unpleasant now.

 

[The Clamp]

Used to have Tayta’s when I was in N.Ireland

Still pick them up when I visit family.

Really very nice crisps.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I tried Discos again the other month. Totally changed. They’re very unpleasant now.

That’s a shame. They were nice back in the day, really really crispy and really salty and vinegary.

 

[The Clamp]

That’s a shame. They were nice back in the day, really really crispy and really salty and vinegary.

Very thick now for some reason and a bit chewy. They turn into a gelatinous globule in your mouth. Odd.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Probably Golden Wonder. Also remember my old man sharing his dry roast peanuts with me when he’d get them from the offy or in a beer garden. Would probably cause some tutting and at least one social media post these days.

 

[Questions]

I remember Chipmunk crisps.
The makers not the flavour.
Their OXO flavour were the best.

 

[Bozza]

Given the ages of most of us, it would be remiss for this discussion not to mention how salt & vinegar used to be blue, with cheese & onion being green.

Then Walkers appeared and ruined everything.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Given the ages of most of us, it would be remiss for this discussion not to mention how salt & vinegar used to be blue, with cheese & onion being green.

Then Walkers appeared and ruined everything.

Indeed. I’ve still not got over it.