| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| Rob R |
Walkers CrispsReading the Walkers crisps website it proclaims how 'it's all about our local farmers'. All well & good, that doesn't quite sit so well when a wagon driver friend has been bringing potatoes in from the continent for a Walkers contract...Apparently if you wash a spud in the UK it becomes 'British'  [/quote]
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| toggle |
ffs.
should be rules that prevent mis-descriptions on where food comes from. |
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| Shane |
I've never forgiven Walkers for making all the packets the wrong colour, so I don't eat them out of principle. | ||||||
| VSS |
quite so - salt and vinegar should be blue |
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| vegplot |
Absolutely! |
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| tahir |
Or for driving Golden Wonder out of business |
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| Shane |
That implies that the majority of UK crisp buyers prefer the wrong colour packets (either that, or Gary Lineker is much more popular that I'd first realised). It's true what they're saying - we're all going to hell in a handcart! |
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| tahir |
I met a Walkers "executive" once, he told me about some of the things they do in every market they enter, they don't do #2.... | ||||||
| vegplot |
I was gobsmacked when our local shop stopped doing Golden Wonder Salt and Vineger (in blue packs).
Golden Wonder is still going, or the name is anyway. 
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| tahir |
They've been bust twice in the last few years, their cheese and onion is still the best |
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| Shane |
And it comes in a green packet | ||||||
| tahir |
The only way. |
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| Ian33568 |
Not sure if these are an 'up north' brand but you cannot beat a bag of Seabrook Crisps, cracking crisps. 
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| Fee |
Awww, yeah, was all we had as children, def. more common up north, but there are a few select places that sell them down south too 
 They sell them on their website!!!! Oh dear.
Shop, shop, shop |
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| tahir |
They sell them in Waitrose too. | ||||||
| Fee |
And Budgens
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| Behemoth |
They're the best thing out of Bradford after the Leeds Road. | ||||||
| earthyvirgo |
I'd have to disagree. GW always used to be my faves so when we saw them recently I was overjoyed (well, maybe that's an overstatement) but oh dear, the Cheese and Onion was pretty disgusting
Not that they've ever really tasted like actual cheese and onion! EV |
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| Northern_Lad |
They always are though. |
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| kevin.vinke |
Itīs one of our family treats we order a big box from the English shop mail order. Smokey Bacon is the most prized flavour. | ||||||
| woodsprite |
Tyrells are fab and the tatties are definately grown in England, just down the road in fact.
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| tahir |
Tyrells are indeed fabulous | ||||||
| judith |
Bit of a crispy connoisseur, aren't you 
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| tahir |
I've done some crisps in me time. | ||||||
| judith |
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| tahir |
Who's old enough to remmber the bags of "potato puffs" for 1d? Tunnocks teacakes same price, used to be sold at our primary at break time
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| twoscoops |
Not for long methinks. You'll see them in Tesco before the year is out I tell ya. |
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| tahir |
You're probably right, but they did get involved in legals to stop Tescos selling them |
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| vegplot |
Why woud Tesco's selling them be a problem? |
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| twoscoops |
I don't think Tyrrell's had a legal leg to stand on and Tesco withdrew them without a fight. Which is a shame I think, because wherever Tesco bought them from had originally bought them from Tyrrells and Tesco had every right to stock them. Tyrrell's have now been bought by an investment team who will, I'm sure, try and exploit the brands good name and gain national distribution in the multiples. | ||||||
| tahir |
True
Didn't know that, I'm sure you're right, hope they keep quality up and sourcing local. |
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| Ian33568 |
I have a soft spot for parsnip, beetroot and carrot crisps but ya can't get 'em in Spain. Mind you they were blxxdy expensive in the UK.
Once made my own in the microwave (before I got rid of it) and ended up burning the plastic crisp holder......disgusting.....Spanish crisps aren't too bad but all tend to be plain and a lot of 'sin sal' which taste ok and obviously better for you so you can eat more!!! |
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| Fee |
REAL Patatas Bravas are pretty yummy, always have to have a packet of those in the cafe at Wisley
I worked in a crisp factory (KP) briefly when I was a student, very interesting it was. |
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| Ian33568 |
They often say if you've worked in a food factory you would never eat their products.......does that have a ring of truth in it? |
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| RichardW |
Tyrells are over priced & over rated (for the potatoes ones the other root veg ones are better).
Justme |
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| Fee |
Nope, I love crisps The actual food production part was primarily done by machine, the only human contact part was when they
came through from the ovens on a bouncy (very hot) conveyor belt, all sliced and you had to pick out any bad ones. Not food, but I worked in a rubber glove factory for 2 consecutive summer holidays (during A Levels), and I have never and will never buy a pair of flocked rubber gloves! |
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| Rob R |
Walkers had this thing for a while where they insisted a sample was tested before they even went out of store- crisps & chips by the bucket load & it would have just been wasteful not to eat them...
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| woodsprite |
Oooh I loved potato puffs Tahir! Please tell me you've found somewhere that still sells them?
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| tahir |
PM me your address and I'll send you some when I get the time |
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| woodsprite |
See, I told you the downsizer men are better than all that so called totty.
Tahir, I kiss your feet, you are indeed top totty!
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| tahir |
No, I work in the ghetto, where people love all the cheapo junk, we don't do Tyrells round here.
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| Fee |
They used to have potato puffs in our swimming baths vending machine when I were a lass, though they were 10p by then ( ), but they lasted all the way home, they seemed to go on forever!
Tunnocks teacakes, yummmmmm. I remember boffing one into a boy called Joseph's face while he was eating it at break in primary school, charming child I was. And Tunnocks snowballs too, yumm. |
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| Rob R |
Did you manage to break his nose? | ||||||
| Fee |
Don't think so, but I remember making him cry. Probably why I remember it. | ||||||
| gnome |
i used to live about a mile away from the walkers factory. the local shops refused to stock walkers at one point because of their underhanded business methods. i prefered seabrooks anyway | ||||||
| Northern_Lad |
You'll end up with hair in your teeth. |
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| Nick |
Tyrrels have diversified. Crisps are soon to be a by product of their main product. Vodka. I kid you not. | ||||||
| Behemoth |
It's the potato. | ||||||
| vegplot |
From their waste products. | ||||||
| gnome |
ooh - chilli vodka flavoured crisps - i cant wait | ||||||
| Gray |
Whatever happened to Tudor crisps ? They were all in the right colours 
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| Behemoth |
They weren't canny enough. Seems they got taken over by Smiths Crisps and hen Walkers. Remember the advert which ended with the paperboy standnig outside the Dunston Rocket? Gammon and Pineapple flavour was an aquired taste. |
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| lettucewoman |
and our tescos and sainsburys ...on the south coast
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| sean |
I like the Burt's ones. They tell you which field the spuds came from and who fried them, thus providing a spurious sense of linkage with your food's origins. | ||||||
| cab |
Dagnammit... I just looked up Tudor crisps, it turns out that Walkers bought them and killed the brand! | ||||||
| gnome |
see? walkers are evil | ||||||
| Jonnyboy |
They have been bought out by Tayto which is based in Tandragee, a mate of mine works there and flies to the GW factory every week. They have their own helicopter for the journey. |
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| tahir |
They did that with Smiths too |
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| Brownbear |
The Protocols of the Elders of Walkers... they're moving in to their predistined position, and soon will come the Great Frying, we will pass the Crisp Event Horizon and Walkers will undergo gravitational collapse and become a black hole. | ||||||
| vegplot |
I wonder if that's related to their habit of going bust. |
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| tahir |
Nah, this new firm's supposed to be pretty stable |
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| vegplot |
Back in the last century around '95 a firm brough out some crisps which were really hot, chillie hot that is. They didn't last long a few months before being pulled. Shame, they were delicious. | ||||||
| tahir |
In a yellow pack? Lemon and chilli if I remember | ||||||
| cab |
As in 'Wey aye man, for Tudor I'd climb a mountain!', followed by a view if the Derwent Tower (also known as the Dunston Rocket)? Ahh, yes, that was a fine advert. Ran forever, that did. |
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| vegplot |
No black and red. I mean really really hot, not watered down with other flavours. If there was lemon in them you couldn't posibly have tasted it. I think they were called something original like Fiery Crisps. |
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| tahir |
Don't remember that one | ||||||
| vegplot |
Tesco's did them for a while and a few other places. |