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[Food] Cheese Footballs!













Bozza

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Helpful Moderator
Jul 4, 2003
55,848
Back in Sussex
What the hell happened this year?

[MENTION=3734]Giraffe[/MENTION] and I have an informal competition to eat the most cheese footballs over the festive period, as well as having enough stocks to last well into the New Year.

This year neither of us have been able to track any down. Tesco Extra in Durrington just didn't have them at any stage.

(For certainty, I'm talking about FP cheese footballs, the wafer balls filled with soft cheese stuff, not the things that are a bit like Wotsits)

Did anyone get any?

Delighted to say that I'm stocked for this festive season - £1.50 per tub/caddy/whatever from Tesco in Durrington.

It very nearly went horribly wrong however. When I first spotted them I was so eager to troll [MENTION=3734]Giraffe[/MENTION] that after taking my photo to send him, I then forgot to put them in my trolley. I didn't realise this until I was home unpacking. Worse still, as I was doing self-scan, I paid for the ones I left on the shelf.
 




Mellotron

I've asked for soup
Jul 2, 2008
31,902
Brighton
I love football.
I love cheese.

I really should be the target market for these. But nah, not for me.
 


Uh_huh_him

Well-known member
Sep 28, 2011
10,794
I love football.
I love cheese.

I really should be the target market for these. But nah, not for me.

Same here.

A couple of blokes at work are big fans and had been going on about them for so long, I was intrigued.
After such a build up I was significantly underwhelmed, when I had my first try.

My guess is that if it's something you grow up with then that masks what is actually quite a nasty tasting snack.
This may also be the case for nice and spicy niknaks, though that seems unlikely to me.
 


zefarelly

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Jul 7, 2003
21,877
Sussex, by the sea
I love football.
I love cheese.

I really should be the target market for these. But nah, not for me.

perhaps we could ask Waitrose to make some posh ones . . . Gianfrancos gorgonzola footballs, or Pogbas Port Salut, or something.
 






We're the Stripes

Well-known member
Jul 31, 2005
3,591
BN2
I love football.
I love cheese.

I really should be the target market for these. But nah, not for me.
Well, it's barely cheese in fairness. Some sort of odd cheese flavoured condensed powder.

(Not that it stops me - I'll eat tons of them).
 


The Brighton Bear

Come on Kylie, get a grip
May 3, 2010
14,024
Rottingdean
My brother bought me three packs from Sainsbury's in Newhaven a couple of weeks ago. I soon downed one pack and foolishly believed that I would save the other two for nearer Christmas :laugh:

I do agree that it is a taste acquired from days long gone by but they are a legal drug for those of us addicted to them.
 




Moshe Gariani

Well-known member
Mar 10, 2005
12,105
**** that - I want these back

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I used to love those. Savoured individually as a real treat.

I could buy a pack in Sackville Road if I saved my bus fare money by walking from St Andrews C of E back to Holmes Avenue... it was a toss up between a packet of Football Crazy or a sticky bun from the bakers...(c.1977)
 


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