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Crisp packet colour codeing
Doreen Posted Jul 10, 2000
I'm not a great crisp fan, so I bought a large packet of Sainsbury's 'Roddy Sorted'. I thought I could eat the C&O flavour and the rest could be for visitors. Unbelievably, 'Roddy Sorted' turns out to be yet another pathetic gimmick and they were 'Ready Salted', not 'Assorted'.
*sigh*
Am I too thick for this world?
Crisp packet colour codeing
ellencherry Posted Jul 11, 2000
i'm not sure what brands most of you are talking about, but the color coding is an interesting thing:
here in america, i believe it's mostly:
green: sour cream & onion
blue: salt & vinegar
red: spicy/nacho-flavored
i don't think we've turned anything to pink yet!
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Dinsdale Piranha Posted Jul 11, 2000
Still, at least we forced them to stay with Coco-Pops. Choco-crispies - Pah!
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Potholer Posted Jul 11, 2000
Certainly when it comes to 'internationalising' brand names, you'd think we eat enough chocolate in the UK to qualify for keeping our own brands, particularly when continental European versions often seem to have a different taste. Let's face it, anyone too dim to realise from the size, packaging colours, and typeface that Snickers are actually Marathons, or that Raiders are really Twixes in disguise doesn't deserve to eat one.
Surely one of the pleasures of going to a different country is that things aren't exactly the same there as where you came from.
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SallyM Posted Jul 11, 2000
I really like Prawn Cocktail flavour, but tend to agree with my Mum's opinion that they taste just like Heinz tomato ketchup.
Also Brannigans (I think that's the company name) make the most gorgeous Roast Chicken and Stuffing, OK Roast beef and mustard and some other weird flavours which actually taste like the title, rather than some chemical substitute
SallyM (ACE)
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C Hawke Posted Jul 11, 2000
So it looks like Blue is the colour for Salt and Vinegar across the atlantic, cool.
I have just had Mustard flovoured crisp very hot, very nice, purple packet.
CH
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Dinsdale Piranha Posted Jul 12, 2000
They changed Twixes too? B******s! Can't leave anything alone, can they?
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Potholer Posted Jul 12, 2000
No - many years ago (I'm not sure about these days) Twixes were called Raiders in France. What I was trying to say was that the name on the packet being different didn't cause any confusion for me or my mates when stocking up on subsurface chocolate supplies.
(Though I must admit that Twixes aren't as good a cave-food as Mars or Marathon, since the the biscuit section is a little too mechanically weak to survive rough handling in constricted passageways. However, when Marathon are near freezing, the peanut-reinforced caramel can become a little too resilient for anything but bite-and-swallow ingestion.)
Crisp packet colour codeing
Doreen Posted Jul 12, 2000
Mmmm - interesting. You could probably write an article on 'unusual considerations when preparing for potholing' (snappy title, not). I definitely choose snacks for qualities other than their taste. For instance, I take flapjack bought from the local garage if I have a long way to drive. It doesn't taste all that good, but it's easy to break a piece off and chew while driving, while the crumbs can easily be brushed off on arrival.
The most disastrous snack I've ever had while driving was my sister's idea of 'lunch on the move', poached salmon sandwiches. The bread flopped, fish went everywhere and the car stank for weeks.
Car snacks
Wand'rin star Posted Jul 13, 2000
Don't try drinking milk from a carton in a car - unless you have an unnaturally steady hand.
Car snacks
cafram - in the states. Posted Jul 13, 2000
Coffee's worse....the pain of the hot liquid spilt only adds to the embarrasmnet felt at the position of the spill....
Crisp packet colour codeing
TheHappyHooker Posted Jul 14, 2000
Crisp Packet Colour Coding (CPCC) is the very latest in communications technology, superseding GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) and shortly to be known as 2 and seven eights G. It is particularly good for sending short mesages in confined spaces, like pubs. The parties will exchange messages based on the colour of the crisp packets they are holding, referring to a pre-agreed coding system. For example, the purple crisp packet may mean "Cor',I could murder a pint" while the red one may mean "Wotchadoin' Sat'day night?"
I have it on good authority that the British government will shortly be auctioning 2 and seven eigths G spectrum, netting billions more pounds from the gob-smackingly silly mobile phone companies, who will roll out the service using base stations cleverly disguised as crisp vending machines.
Green Crisp Packet
(goodbye)
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Mustapha Posted Jul 14, 2000
D'you think people will be able to take a degree in it at uni?
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TheHappyHooker Posted Jul 15, 2000
Most students will qualify in CPCC as a joint degree, earning credits based on practical work time spent in pubs scoffing crisps 'n ale
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Truffy (dazed and confused) Posted Jul 17, 2000
Walkers ready saltede crisps are the very best. Full stop.
Crisp packet colour coding
Wand'rin star Posted Jul 18, 2000
You obviously haven't tried Phineas Fogg's
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Is mise Duncan Posted Jul 18, 2000
I may not know what is the best crisp - but I do know what is the worst: Tayto. Irish brand crisp that is absolutely saturated with vegetable oil...these things can stain clothing. And no taste whatsoever! Ghastly - its a good jobe there's oodless of Guinness to wash the stuff down with
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Pinky Parker-Tourettes Posted Jul 18, 2000
I know it's a terrible joke, but that's never stopped me before... - Why has no-one mentioned the fact that they had to stop the "Salt'n' Lineka" "Cheese 'n' Owen" thing because of an approach from David Seaman's agent #boom-boom#
Oh - and think yerselves lucky. In Ireland (surely the spiritual home of all things potato) there's only 1 flavour of crisps, and it's a rather nasty example of the dreaded Cheese & Onion.
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Pinky Parker-Tourettes Posted Jul 18, 2000
Ah - I see our Irish corespondent has already covered Taytos - sorry
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