Are hula hoops the worst of the crisp-y snacks?

[bumper]

NikNaks are horrible.

Correct.

Anything tastes good after eating a bag of these in scampi flavour.

[ian]

Beef chemical flavour anything is horrid. I'm sure it breaks some kind of weapons convention.

I've given this subject some thought and Hula Hoops are pointless once you get past the putting them on your fingers stage. They just mush up and coat the top of your mouth like wallpaper paste. The only difference is that wallpaper paste tastes better.

NikNaks, Scampi Fries, Frazzles, Quavers, Skips, etc. are all brilliant. Salt and Finger Chipstix are frankly direct from Heaven's own vending machine.

Pringles are good too. It's true that once you pop you just can't stop. They're like the nutritional equivalent of speedballs.

I've gone off standard crisps these days. I hate to be posh-o but the hand fried (ouch) kettle chips type are far, far better. Provided it's not stupid flavour. Plain crisps are perfect, to be honest, but salt and vinegar and cheese and onion are good. OK, I'll reserve a place at the table for prawn cocktail Walkers.

Root vegetable chips can fuck right off. This topic is about proper food.

[Clare]

Hula Hoops are great and perform the function of getting hummus from pot to taste buds without the need for cutlery or sticked vegetables.

Prawn cocktail anything are the work of Stan.

[Wowbagger]

I thought all the crisp-style snacks were total anti-food anyway.

[Basil]

Root vegetable chips can fuck right off. This topic is about proper food.

 

[hellymedic]

Quavers

Are those those the revolting orange things?

If so then +1.

If not then I nominate those revolting orange things.

Those might be Wotsits or Monster Munch but I hardly ever go near these things so could be wrong.

[rogerzilla]

Wotsits are what maggots would turn into if maggots behaved like popcorn.  Then dipped in dried smegma.

I find pretzels rather dull (the dried sort were invented so Germans could drink more lager, or something like that).  Prawn cocktail only if there's nothing else left.  Smoky Bacon flavour tends to repeat like a Gatling gun and you'll still be enjoying it after the next meal, at which point it will probably morph into acid indigestion.  Anything described as barbecue flavour should be avoided.

In Austria we almost bought some crisps labelled "Kren".  None of us knew what it was.  Turns out then "kren" is one of those Austrian dialect words not found in German and means horseradish.  They would probably have been really nice.

[hellymedic]

Makes sense as Yiddish for horseradish (sauce) is 'chrane'.

[nicknack]

Oh yeah.  NikNaks are unforgivable.

Never heard of them.

[Paul]

Hula Hoops are not the greatest but the WORST are Pringles

Are these two essentially the same? Hardened Smash?

[Charlotte]

[Cudzoziemiec]

Wotsits are what maggots would turn into if maggots behaved like popcorn.  Then dipped in dried smegma.

I find pretzels rather dull (the dried sort were invented so Germans could drink more lager, or something like that).  Prawn cocktail only if there's nothing else left.  Smoky Bacon flavour tends to repeat like a Gatling gun and you'll still be enjoying it after the next meal, at which point it will probably morph into acid indigestion.  Anything described as barbecue flavour should be avoided.

In Austria we almost bought some crisps labelled "Kren".  None of us knew what it was.  Turns out then "kren" is one of those Austrian dialect words not found in German and means horseradish.  They would probably have been really nice.

Makes sense as Yiddish for horseradish (sauce) is 'chrane'.

And in Polish chrzan.

Hula Hoops aren't that bad as crispy things go, I reckon, but then it's a long time since I had them.

[Illegal Combat Ant]

Cofresh Jalapeno potato grills. Awesome. Available in the 'Ethnic' section of larger Tescos.

[mrcharly-YHT]

Am I really sick if I admit to finding that pic slightly erotic?  I'm sure it wasn't intended that way.

Most crisps have similar levels of saturated fat to hummus.

[Exit Stage Left]

We like Aldi's Wasabi Peas or Nuts. A recent good value savoury snack were the 6x50g tins of olives stuffed with anchovies at Lidl for £1.99.

[Charlotte]

Am I really sick if I admit to finding that pic slightly erotic? 

To my mind, yes -  I read the subject of that image as a pubescent girl.

[mrcharly-YHT]

Am I really sick if I admit to finding that pic slightly erotic? 

To my mind, yes -  I read the subject of that image as a pubescent girl.

Huh - I thought late twenties or early 30s.

Was at a friend's 42nd birthday last weekend. Her gf is 23 and had her best-friend-from-school along.
I felt like an old man, chatting to them!

[rogerzilla]

It's only erotic if you like golden showers.

[hellymedic]

Silly ad IMO. So what if crisps are 33% oil. Peanuts are around 50% oil all 'natural'.

[geraldc]

My GCSE french teacher had a bad earwax problem. It looked a lot like that.

[red marley]

My favourite used to be Seabrook crisps. That was, until they changed their packaging and lost all those extra comedy inverted commas.

I can't find an online photo but the old packaging had them everywhere:

"More" than a "Crisp"
"Since" 1945
"Original" flavour
25g Net Weight "e"

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

Not a dig at jo, I promise, but why do people talk about inverted commas? What's wrong with apostrophes and quotation marks?

[rafletcher]

Hula Hoops are not the greatest but the WORST are Pringles

Are these two essentially the same? Hardened Smash?

Most of the potato snacks that aren't real potato based -  proper crisps that is - are made from recovered potato starch, which is a by-product of making proper crisps and other potato processing like chip making. Dried, powdered, reformed and moulded. I had the misfortune to try some Walkers "deep ridge" ones today. 

[TimC]

Salty Dog Salt and Vinegar crisps FTW. Just sublime.

Nice'n'spicy NikNaks for a guilty pleasure.

Beetroot crisps are fabulous.

[hellymedic]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes 'strange vegetable' crisps.
I even enjoy Pringles occasionally.

Junk is great in scant moderation!