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**JD21290**

im on;
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not gunna bother with snaks, too many to list

1: snooker
2: pool
3: darts

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Sorry, but no Pub related Alcohol Aided Activity ranks as highly as a good bit of Gobshite. Drunkenly setting the world to rights is a birthright man.

I get suspicious of drunks who don't get beligerent!

**JD21290**

i do, but its alot more fun when your trying to hit a pissy little ball with a lump of wood and keep your balance

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Meh. Is easy enough.

Now, Darts...thats a pub game. Especially if, like me, you tend to turn up with the face of a celebrity you don't like. For instance, Richard 'Won't Smith' Blackwood.

**JD21290**

lol, if your aiming for a face i say gary glitter.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

I saw him live once. Good show. Shame about the predilictions.

I'd rather lob Arrers into Jade Goody's mush though. Vile, toxic harridan that she is.

**legoburner**

I never thought I'd be complaining that a discussion on crisp flavours in the offtopic forum has veered offtopic, but wow. Can we go back to crisps again?

**Greebynog**

Nuclear Mekanik, great call on Cream and Cheesy Nik Naks, I love those crisps a unhealthy amount.

**Waaagh_Gonads**

The gravy flavoured chip/crisp was designed by a couple of radio DJs and Smiths Crisps made a run of about 500 bags which were sold by several prize winning stores who came up with the best release party ideas in each state (IIRC one was a lawnmower repair shop).

Due to the publicity generated Smiths are now doing a run of 50,000 bags and hopefully I'll get to 'Taste the gravy'.
I prefer heavier beef gravy than the lighter chicken/turkey gravy.

**Waaagh_Gonads**

Currently though salt and vinegar chips are my favorite and the popcorn stand sells the same flavour, but on air popped popcorn so no fat like those artery clogging crisps.

**JD21290**

gonads, here all the ready salted chrisps have had the salt taken out :K
apparently they arent healthy, so now its just spud flavour :(

**Waaagh_Gonads**

Here in Australia our 'plain' chips which are supposed to have just potato flavour are drenched in salt.

To be honest I think the only way that a crisp could be made worse for you is to add sugar.... and let fatties eat 200g packs of them.

Oh wait...

**JD21290**

ours sadly have none, so they taste like cardboard drenched in fat.

lol, look at a bag of salted peanuts, thats serious crap in them

**Waaagh_Gonads**

Here in Oz they have been selling crisps with 25% less fat, taste just the same.

I prefer the baked crisps to decrease my saturated fat intake.

**JD21290**

we didnt get a fat reduction, just a straight no fat thing.

im not fussed, no matter what i eat i dont put on weight, but the crap i eat and drink im guessing my liver and heart will pack up soon, and smoking is taking care of the lungs.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

I don't want my decisions made for me. All I ask is the information presented that I might make my own, informed decision.

Take smoking. I know it's no good for me, but not only I am addicted, I genuinely enjoy a tab.

Beer. A certain amount is good, surplus bad. I am aware of what I am doing.

Salt and Shake. The Salt is optional. Ergo, leave it in. End of story.

And interesting aside....Salt and Vinegar crisps leave me in quandry. First of all, I love them. I could eat them til the Cows come home, then go out again. Either Smiths Squares, or McCoys Thick Cuts are preferred. But the problem is, I sweat like a Priest in a Playgroup when I eay them. Can anyone explain this?

**Nuclear Mekanik**

Hmmm...

1. Magners
2. Guinness and black
3. Bitter
4. Bitter and Guinness

1. Southern Comfort
2. Gin
3. Morgan's Spiced Rum (with ginger beer, sounds rank, tastes yum!)

Pork Scratchings, everyone knows the hairy ones are the best ones right?

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Guinness? Blech! 'Orrible stuff, and I've had 'proper' Irish Guinness.

Give me a nice bottle of Spitfire any day of the week.

And I can't drink Rum anymore. Not since I got through £70 on the stuff.

**Brimstone**

reds8n wrote:So....I'd have to side with Mr. Legoburner here, Brannigans are the mutt's nuts.

I'd agree, having worked for the company who manufactured Brannigans, McCoys and numerous other crisps (basically anything not Walkers) Roast Beef & Mustard are the DB's.

**reds8n**

So they ARE forged in hell ! I knew it.

.... this thread will now force me to divert from my usual journey home now to acquire fried goodness. Note how on a hobby forum you never get "best healthy snack" threads, it's always ones like this or ones where people try to refute the simple truth that bacon should only be served soft and encased in cheap white bread with ketchup.

**Brimstone**

I used to be responsible for Hula Hoops, Skips, Nik Naks & Space Raiders (the only product to tast stale even when fresh).

Suffice to say when I left I lost a bit of weight (The same company was McVities as well).

**legoburner**

Brimstone wrote:I used to be responsible for Hula Hoops, Skips, Nik Naks & Space Raiders (the only product to tast stale even when fresh).

Suffice to say when I left I lost a bit of weight (The same company was McVities as well).

If you also did transform-a-snax you are my new hero.

**reds8n**

Brimstone wrote:I used to be responsible...

So we've heard....

..I slay me !

Still, hooray for not dying of a heart attack I guess.

Is it true ... you know..... that tale about what they make hula hoop crisps from.

**Brimstone**

reds8n wrote:
Brimstone wrote:I used to be responsible...

So we've heard....

..I slay me !

I still am but now I have to speak Japanese.

Still, hooray for not dying of a heart attack I guess.

Oh you should have seen some of the flavours we didn't launch, I'm still proud of my Pirate Hula hoops.

Is it true ... you know..... that tale about what they make hula hoop crisps from.

Snip snip.

**Brimstone**

legoburner wrote:If you also did transform-a-snax you are my new hero.

Nah that was a company called Red Mill our biggest competition in the 10p(17 cents) snack rage.

Space Raiders screwed themselves when the put the price up and made the bags smaller.

**reds8n**

Pirate hula hoops ? !

wait..... originally they were 8 shaped and they got dropped and ...

..and... I'll get me coat.

Space Raiders screwed themselves when they got rid of the monsters in the adverts.

**legoburner**

Brimstone wrote:Nah that was a company called Red Mill our biggest competition in the 10p(17 cents) snack rage.

Space Raiders screwed themselves when the put the price up and made the bags smaller.

What was the deal with the 'added vitamins and iron' label on some bags of 10p crisps back then? I always thought it would be something along the lines of a vitamin tablet crushed up and mixed in to the flavouring (in my innocent youth)

Did you ever have any dealings in that area?

**Brimstone**

legoburner wrote:What was the deal with the 'added vitamins and iron' label on some bags of 10p crisps back then? I always thought it would be something along the lines of a vitamin tablet crushed up and mixed in to the flavouring (in my innocent youth) Did you ever have any dealings in that area?

Just another way of selling product when people became health conscious, some were already in the product but were not emphasised and for the others they just reformulated the product to include them.

After that you had added fibre, removal of trans-fats whatever the latest heath worry is and a lot of these had IMO a negative impact on their flavour

Basically though marketing puff the actual benefits are normally quite low.

**Phoenix**

I'm fond of these. Got to love the Japaneese snacks...

Oh and of course almond pocky...its like the food of the gods or maybe just an addictive drug.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Mmmmm....Space Raiders.

I have approximately 30p to my name. And a Newsagents across the road.

Perhaps I will soon be skint, with a gobful of tasty, tasty Space Raiders....