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It’s a good point. The French are usually the absolute masters when it comes to the humble potato: frites, gratin, dauphinoise, algot etc etc. But they struggle with the crisp. Weird.

It was like all the fun had been removed from the cakes.

A bit like the vegan cafe near me. Their coffee is superb but their cakes and pastries have all the nice stuff removed from them.

Wow. I remember these, just.

Too posh for me then.

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

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

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...