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

[Paul]

I've just had a packet and I feel dirty. Despite the 26% oil content, they still taste like the lickings from under the sofa. And how on earth can the main ingredient ("potato") be comprised of potato starch and dried potato? When did potato become something other than potato?

I'm not counting salt and vinegar crisps (or salt and vinegar anything) in this. While S&V is hors category in the disgusting stakes, it is merely a flavour of snack.

This is about the snack overall, not the individual flavours.

What's worse than a hula hoop? Once you get past the excitement of the hoop, that is.

[mrcharly-YHT]

Quavers

[Montmorency]

Quavers

Are those those the revolting orange things?

If so then +1.

If not then I nominate those revolting orange things.

[GothonaBrompton]

I used to like Hula Hoops as a kid, but now I am missing a couple of teeth near the back, they are really hard and scratch the gums.

Quavers are like the packing polystyrene chip things.  As are Wotsits - remember them?  Your hands would be flouresent orange with the cheese flavouring after eating those.  Skips are a horrid texture as well.

I feel old now.

[clarion]

Wotsits, Skips, Monster Munch etc.  All worse.

[clarion]

And, of course, pork scratchings, chicken itchings and doggy scabs </NOTN>

[ian]

Wotsits, Skips, Monster Munch etc.  All worse.

No, no, and no.

I'll go with the contention that Hula Hoops are the worst though.

[vorsprung]

Hula Hoops are not the greatest but the WORST are Pringles

[Ruth]

Cheesy wotsits.

Space raiders.

[Wobbly John]

Monster Munch and those 'Chipstix' things are way down the list after Hula Hoops 

[red marley]

I think I've still got some of that chipstix gunge in my molars from when I last ate a packet, aged about 10.


Confession:

I really like hula hoops. Especially in a garage egg sandwich when I'm audaxing.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

Pickled onion Monster Munch and salt n vinegar Chipsticks are awesomesauce. Quavers and Skips are horrible. Hula Hoops are ok, but only if you put them on your fingers before eating.

I can't remember the name of my childhood favourites - they were like Hula Hoops but shaped like fusilli.

[urban_biker]

All the snacks mentioned here taste great. Especially the salt and vinegar flavour. Perhaps I'm just in the wrong thread.

Edit: apart from

chicken itchings and doggy scabs

[hatler]

I think Nik Naks (sp ?) are pretty foul. Hula Hoops are just tedious, and the grunge gets stuck in my teeth.

Now, who's a fan of Worcester Sauce Wheat Crunchies ?

Some of my finest evenings at Uni were sitting in the cheap bar of The Crown in Beeston supping the ale and eating those at a ratio of 1:1. The perfect complement to each other.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

NikNaks are horrible. Wheat Crunchies are ok. Brannigans' ham and pickle crisps are my pub crisp of choice.

[rogerzilla]

I hate those root vegetable crisps made from parsnip or beetroot.  Like eating pot-pourri.

[GothonaBrompton]

I can't remember the name of my childhood favourites - they were like Hula Hoops but shaped like fusilli.

Oh that's bugging me now.  I liked them too.  Swirls or Twirls or similar?  Salt and Vinegar flavour, very strong.

M&S used to do a really good version of those but I don't know whether they still do.

[hatler]

I can't remember the name of my childhood favourites - they were like Hula Hoops but shaped like fusilli.

Oh that's bugging me now.  I liked them too.  Swirls or Twirls or similar?  Salt and Vinegar flavour, very strong.

M&S used to do a really good version of those but I don't know whether they still do.

I know exactly the things.

Twists ?

[clarion]

Oh yeah.  NikNaks are unforgivable.

[rafletcher]

And Frazzles

[vorsprung]

Oh yeah.  NikNaks are unforgivablely good.

ftfy

[CrinklyLion]

S&V flavour aside, I've never yet found a packet of crisps I couldn't find it in my heart to make friends with.  The posh ones, the naff one, the mortgage-requiring ones, the cheap (as chips?) ones, the polystyrene ones, the ones made out of silly vegetables.... they're all good.

[Oaky]

Dirtiest crisps have got to be the cheap own-brand/no-name onion rings.

Still, I quite like them, even given the obvious greasiness exuding from them.

[Basil]

I seem to differ from most.  I really dislike crisps, but I often buy Hula Hoops (Beef Chemical Flavour)

[Kim]

Not sure what the objection to Sore Finger flavour is, but I think I'll have to vote for Wotsits and Monster Much as joint worst.

Hula Hoops are fine.  Pringles are dangerously addictive, while being not actually nice.

Proper Crisps (Kettle Chips or the like, or bizarrely, the Sainsbury's 9p per bag value ones) made with potato (actual potato) oil^[1] and salt are infinitely preferable, especially when eaten with cheese.


_{[1] Walkers crisps taste bad since they started cooking them in triffid oil.  Best avoided.}