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Crisps/Chips: Pick Your Poison

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Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown

04:22 / 21.04.06

A random topic. I'm eating these vegetable crisps right now (...I love the word "crisp", its just so damn descriptive). I'm not sure WHAT they're made out of. Some've them are orange, some are a sort of olive green, and some are white. They're odd for me, I'm normally a salt and vinegar man myself.

Anyway. The chip or crisp is near ubiquitous across all nations now. What's your favourite flavor? What's your least? What strange and exotic sorts have you tried or loved in your life?

And do you JUST prefer them for snack food, or do you delve into the deeper recesses of the crunchy semi-crisp underworld such as cheesies, Bugles, and bagged popcorn?

Or are you anti-snack food? Do you prefer just a few crackers and some cheese insead? Maybe just a carrot or an apple?

So tell all, Barbelith. Lay it on the line.

Chips and Crisps: What's YOUR Poison?

ciotog

05:13 / 21.04.06

A packet of Tayto Salt & Vinegar brings some joy into my life, but any of the Tayto range hits the spot. Had Soy Chicken crisps yesterday though ...

Ariadne

06:39 / 21.04.06

Crisps! I love crisps. And I missed thin british crisps when I was in New Zealand, as they tend to go for thick crinkly ones. I used to get bags of pickled onion crisps sent to me.

So yeah - salt and vinegar first, then pickled onion, and I recently found sausage and tomato - that was my favourite flavour when I was at primary. They don't taste *quite* as magic as I remembered though...

oooh, I could go a crisp roll right now.

■

06:57 / 21.04.06

Beef Monster Munch when I can find them are probably the closest thing the heaven on earth. Anything loaded with MSG is good. Have never been a fan of fancy crisps, such as Sensations or Kettle Chips as they tend to slice the roof of my mouth up and give me hiccups.

Mourne Kransky

07:37 / 21.04.06

I like root vegetable crisps: parsnip, sweet potato, carrot, and beetroot - my favourite.
Sainsburys do good ones and there are some fine, specialist deli versions.

Otherwise, when I was younger and thinner, I would open a tube of Pringles - Salt and Vinegar - and wolf them by the handful. Now I do that only in my dreams. *sighs fatly*

Loomis

07:43 / 21.04.06

As a kid I used to love barbecue flavour and used to whinge when my mum always bought plain crisps. I used to try to flavour them myself and even went through a phase of sprinkling vinegar on them. They go soggy but taste quite good as I recall.

Now I'm officially a grown up I actually prefer plain, or "ready salted" as they call them here. They work particularly good in a crisp roll. In fact we should extend this topic to enquire into personal preferences for crisp rolls and sandwiches. For some reason I put margarine in a crisp sandwich but when I have rolls I don't put margarine. And I went through a phase of making crisp sandwiches with toasted bread, which was nicer than it sounds.

I also like most members of the extended crisp family, particularly corn chips (chilli flavour preferably).

Ariadne

08:04 / 21.04.06

hehehe, I can SO imagine the young Loomis experimenting with vinegar on his crisps, while his family looked on in alarm.

Hungarisch crisps! I love those -- paprika flavoured crisps you get in Germany. And in France you get the best crisps ever invented - mustard flavour. A bowl of those and a beer... or put them in crusty bread with slices of tomato and I'm in heaven.

Triplets

08:40 / 21.04.06

Salt and vinegar FRISPS. They are the daddy and the mummy. Frisps are pretty thick as crisps go and the ribbed accordianess gives them loads of texture. Ribbed for hir pleasure!

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

08:48 / 21.04.06

I do like it when we all eat the crisps and watch the man on telly fight Sir Killerlot. We like a bag of Pickled Onion monster munch just like Craig Charles.

Spaniel

08:53 / 21.04.06

Cube, I'm gonna second the Monster Munch love, not 'cause I eat them loads these days - my current crisps of choice are tomato Wheat Crunchies - but because they were the crisp that my crisp love formed around. Personally, however, I'm more inclined to go for pickled onion flavour than beef, and I still miss the saucy varierty, but they're all, as they say, good.
Am I right in thinking that they changed the recipe around 15 years ago? I seem to remember that MSG/salt coating being so much thicker and so much more satisfying (and weirdly cold - anyone else remember that?) than it is today.

Oh yeah, and they used to have monster factfiles on the back of every packet. How cool was that?

dubmick

08:55 / 21.04.06

I'm quite fond of Walkers Sensation particularly the 'Thai Sweet Chilli' flavour but as ciotog said you can't go wrong with Tayto crisps.

Spaniel

09:27 / 21.04.06

Has anyone tried mango chilli Kettle Chips? Are they sweet, savoury, or somewhere in between? Are they hot? Are they nice? Are they made out of yer real live mangos?

Ariadne

09:31 / 21.04.06

I tried the mango kettle chips the other week, because I'd been told they were amazing, but I was fairly underwhelmed. They're just sort of sweet and mildly chilli flavoured.

Spaniel

10:23 / 21.04.06

Sweet as in sweet and sour, or sweet as in pudding? Are they made out of mangos?

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

10:31 / 21.04.06

Yes yes answer him goddamit, this is very important.

ARE THEY MADE OF REAL BLOODY MANGO OR WHAT?

ANSWER NOW FOR CHRIST SAKE YOU'RE MAKING US VERY ANGRY!

Mon Oncle Ignatius

10:49 / 21.04.06

We do need an answer on this important question. Soon, please.

[I had a fresh mango the other day for the first time in years. It wasn't all that exciting - though it did taste good - and damned difficult to peel. I'd forgotten how huge the pips are too, so how little flesh you get. Oh, and the flesh gets stuck in the teeth too.]

Anyway, back to the crisp information - mango ones especially.

■

10:53 / 21.04.06

Harrison, in my mind you now look like Kevin Eldon.
Now, back to the matter in hand. Mango: how sweet? Lollipop sweet or Natalie Portman sweet?

Shrug

10:57 / 21.04.06

Anyone remember that add campaign where a little girl is forced to decide between "Daddy & Chips". She chooses chips.

Crisp sandwiches/chip sandwiches, ambroisa of the gods, I'm hungover and I'd sell at least part of my soul for either one. Right. Now.

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

11:00 / 21.04.06

Look Shrug, we're trying to establish the mango situation here and although yur input in perfectly valid and indeed interesting, WE NEED TO FIND OUT ABOUT THE FUCKIN' MANGO SITUATION.

This doesn't stop me wanting you by the way.

Shrug

11:23 / 21.04.06

None of that's important to me right now.

Mission: Go to the shop for hula-hoops.

Reward: One soul, (slightly tarnished).

All Acting Regiment

11:26 / 21.04.06

I think those parsnip crisps you get from health shops are quite nice, and mini popadoms. In terms of crisps, it's salt and vinegar, mostly.

Evil Scientist

11:41 / 21.04.06

Twiglets. Twiglets in all their knobbly glory! Munch down a bag of twiglets! Crunch them down until nothing is left but marmite stains and crumbs. Twiglets I tells ya!

But not the curry twiglets. For they are the anti-twiglet and an abomination in the eyes of the Universe.

Twiglets.

dubmick

11:45 / 21.04.06

parsnip crisps ugghh you've just put me off my lunch!

Spaniel

11:48 / 21.04.06

That's because you are wrong, and perhaps a fussy child

Evil, I raise you Twiglets punctured and dipped in beer! Very good indeed (I think it's Gumbitch I can thank for that one).

Ariadne

11:51 / 21.04.06

No, you silly sausages, of course they're not made of mangoes. They're just tattie crisps with a bit of mango powder and chilli.

Spaniel

11:54 / 21.04.06

So are they sweet like sweet and sour, then? Are they savoury sweet?

Makin' 'em out of yer real mangos might be a little expensive, I suppose.

Ariadne

12:00 / 21.04.06

Savoury sweet? My mind bends a bit thinking about that. Yes, I suppose so. Like fruit with salt and chilli. I mean, they're nice enough, just not the flavour sensation I was hoping for. And Kettle chips are always so prickly, too.

Evil Scientist

12:02 / 21.04.06

Evil, I raise you Twiglets punctured and dipped in beer! Very good indeed (I think it's Gumbitch I can thank for that one).

Kinky.

I think I know what Evil Scientist is having for dinner tonight!

doozy floop

15:23 / 21.04.06

Sweet lord, a fine cheddar sandwich in cheap white bread with margarine and a full packet of mashed-up prawn cocktail flavour Walkers........

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

15:27 / 21.04.06

I had root vegetable crisps from Sainsbury today and they were fuckin' awesome. I nearly fell off my skate board whilst trying to do a nolly 520 kick flip or something, I dunno.

Spyder Todd 2008

15:29 / 21.04.06

Barbeque is totally where it's at.

Spaniel

16:28 / 21.04.06

Doozy, you are correct, that is the best.

Prawn cocktail crips are the best.

All Acting Regiment

16:30 / 21.04.06

Oo! We also mustn't forget Quavers, and the melting in the mouth thereof and also of skips. Also, does anyone eat the green bits of crisps and what actually happens, and who else likes it when there's bubbles in it?

Unencumbered

17:02 / 21.04.06

Bacon or cheese and onion flavour crisps, pickled onion flavour Monster Munch or (no longer available, *sob*) chili garlic flavour Really Ruthless Crisps.

Shrug

17:56 / 21.04.06

I love the "fizzibly melty" tag for Quavers.

Have Meanies or Banshee Bones made it to the UK or America?
I've come over all drooly just thinking about them.
I mean I like crisps but I <3 Meanies and Banshee Bones.

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