h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Our game, when we were drunk, was to try to make "crisp houses" (like card houses) from Pringles. It was a bit like the game Jenga - if your crisp caused the house to topple, you had to buy the beer to go with eating all the fallen crisps. But we all got too fat and gave it up.

Sho have you tried the American Cream flavour - that's a new one here too and we all like it.

Sounds a little dodgy to me. I'm suspicious of Pizza flavour

American Cream?? Bad enough a pun to make the flavour interesting. Never tried them, but I'll put them on the shopping list for the weekend. And don't you just hate those ads for the Pizza flavour ones? Grr. There is nothing like a pizza. Nothing. When will they get that?

I like it because it's so English - you don't get high rises like that here.

Don't get much in the way of any humour here.... sniff. Although there was the Sparkasse ad on TV, now that was worth 20 years of waiting....

And do you remember Worstershire sauce flavoured crisps - they (because I just remembered them) were the best ever. Yum.

Sho

No, but I remember Bovril, bacon, hedgehog.

The soggy crisp idea sounds great (to my 12-year-old mind) but my 45-year-old respectable mum outer version would have to shun it now.

When I buy sweets in England now they taste very very sweet and artificial. I suppose they always tasted like that, but the equivalents aren't so sweet in Germany. They make up for it with their cakes.

I don't really notice, since the only sweets I buy in England are Thornton's toffee (which is sweet anyway) and Polo mints. And the other Polo versions (which my mum sends over about every 3 months).
I grew up here, and my favourite sweets were always: flying saucers, those boiled sweet things in the plastic shells and I used to like the tiny cherry lollies on a green stick (but they have changed and are not the same now). Oh and also from the baker's van a round lolly which was like a giant milk chew covered in chocolate. Sigh for the good ol' days
Sho

Ah, I know teh feeling, and those wierd teeth. I actually know a place in striling which sells sweets from big jars, things like soor plooms, and cinamin balls and bonbons. Its great.

There's a sweet shop somewhere in H2G2 - can't remember where for the minute. Search for pineapple chunks or something like that - you'll get there.

If they can get me pineapple chunks..... I'm off there.
My mum's village shop sells jars of sweets like: mint imperials, rhubharb&custard, sour apple, strawberry&cream.... yum
Sho *hurrying off to find the sweetshop*

Wasn't the yoghurt pot thing a gimmick where they were designed to be shrunk in the oven and then the pictures would be the right size and the pot would go flat (due to plastic memory), so you could make them into a badge?

I can't remember which brand this was but I think I remember my brothers trying it.

I'm supprised noone mentioned the penny packets we produced in the 50's

((( Also, when I was about 14 the fashion was to "shrink" the empty packet and make it into a badge. )))
Using an oven was easier than a bunsen burner. I used to love shrinking crisp packets round at my gran's house. They did make fantastic badges and key rings, provided they didn't shrivel too much or get too distorted in the process...

The Apprentice