Many years ago there were these amazing chili and lemon crisps. I could only get them from one newsagents near the Elephant and Castle. They were in a yellow metallic bag. DELICIOUS.
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Their sweetcorn flavour were amazing too 
Hi all, just popped into say, forget all those posh imposters, the best crisps of all time are Cheese XL (only available in random food outlets in the North of England eg. the butchers down the road from my mums). I have to stock up when I go home and will happily wrestle them off my kids if they happen to find my stash. Well worth a 7 hour journey up the M6 
My downstairs neighbour is like that (and I am, to a certain extent too) - something of a hoarder of unwanted yet potentially useful things. It drives our upstairs neighbours mad because we're always bringing stuff back from other peoples' gardens and whatnot, which kind of sit there until we've got round to spraypainting / building / otherwise ~restoring~ them. We've got a shared garden which is full of things like old fire grates which get used as planters and little cracked porcelain cherubs hanging from trees and whatnot. Upstairs are EXTREMELY minimalist and neat and I can't help but laugh whenever we bring back some new monstrosity (as they will no doubt see it, I personally love a bit of kitsch and clutter). They vetoed us building a planting box for courgettes and stuff in the front bit of the garden but my excellent downstairs neighbour has reclaimed a little bit of the wooded area our terrace backs onto and put it there. No homegrown courgettes for upstairs, more for us!
I can’t believe a gravy ring isn’t savoury that’s wrong it would put me right off a donut and that’s no easy feet. Feat? Feat.
Apropos of nothing at all, but I mentioned on the mother thread a while ago that my partner lost his job (because Covid). He's just got a shiny new one! And I reckon much better suited to him than the previous one. Am so very happy and so relieved for him. I may have had a little cry, because I am a crier.
So, you know when you said something delightfully modest in the last thread that was along the lines of ‘I’m a fairly competent baker’ - I can see now that was a massive, massive understatement!!!!!! How talented are you?!
Babe, same
That packaging design is brilliant though, shame about the paprika dust taste.I bought these before a plane journey (not for leisure!) last week based purely on the packaging - do not be deceived they were AWFUL! Not salty at all... just tasted like a tin of smoked paprika had been poured on top. Had to deal with breathing in that flavour inside of my mask for the rest of the journey
That is super cool though! Plus I never laugh at cake, it's serious business (though I cannot run said business because I loved the big ideas and the creative part, but sucked at the boring detail and minor things like charging enough to make a profit)So, you know when you said something delightfully modest in the last thread that was along the lines of ‘I’m a fairly competent baker’ - I can see now that was a massive, massive understatement!!!!!! How talented are you?!
Have a look at the last cake I did for my oldest son - it will make you LAUGH at the sloppiness (he loves Stranger Things - I scratched out his name):
Ah that’s fab!
I am loving this thread 
I hope to chime in more on the lunches and dinners when I am less, you know, BUSY...but I had to add my 5 cents about crisps.
Love salt and vinegar squares, walker's worcester sauce, pickled onion monster munch, sensations thai sweet chilli, and I am obsessed with flamin' hot Cheetos and it's a good thing they are hard to come by outside of the US (l live on the continent...for triangulation purposes). As someone else mentioned, twiglets are the food of the gods and my fingers are permanently brown around Christmas time.
I have also expanded my recipe book collection based on your recommendations, including a couple of roasting tin ones, the Dishoom (not a chain) one, and the ice kitchen
ETA: I wish you could still get Brannigan's roast beef and mustard, and they also didan amazing ham and pickle flavour too I seem to recall.
I hope to chime in more on the lunches and dinners when I am less, you know, BUSY...but I had to add my 5 cents about crisps.Love salt and vinegar squares, walker's worcester sauce, pickled onion monster munch, sensations thai sweet chilli, and I am obsessed with flamin' hot Cheetos and it's a good thing they are hard to come by outside of the US (l live on the continent...for triangulation purposes). As someone else mentioned, twiglets are the food of the gods and my fingers are permanently brown around Christmas time.
I have also expanded my recipe book collection based on your recommendations, including a couple of roasting tin ones, the Dishoom (not a chain) one, and the ice kitchen
ETA: I wish you could still get Brannigan's roast beef and mustard, and they also didan amazing ham and pickle flavour too I seem to recall.
Oh I'd forgotten about them! Yeah, they were brilliant.
I’m going to be controversial here, but I absolutely hate salt and vinegar crisps. They are disgusting, although to be fair, I hate the taste of vinegar as well. I’m a lightly salted or cheese and onion girl. But I do love roast beef Monster Munch, Frazzles, and Tayto onion rings. Rancheros are pretty damn tasty too. Now I’ve totally triangulated myself with those last ones! 
I love crisps. Would eat about 3 bags a day if I could. The best crisps are Spanish crisps, super thin, cooked in olive oil. The best brand is Torres which are ridiculously expensive but out of this world especially (food wanker alert) black truffle
But everyday crisps it is: Walkers salt and vinegar, Frazzles, Salt and vinegar chipsticks, Ringos and Smith's square crisps.
For dinner I'm making a green chilli pork curry from a lovely cookbook called Coconut and Sambal.
But everyday crisps it is: Walkers salt and vinegar, Frazzles, Salt and vinegar chipsticks, Ringos and Smith's square crisps.
For dinner I'm making a green chilli pork curry from a lovely cookbook called Coconut and Sambal.
The name of that book and the idea of a green chilli pork curry have just forced, forced I tell you, to add that to my Amazon wishlist of many many cookbooks.
Congratulations Mr Flumps! How exciting - not just a new job but a BETTER one as well. What lovely news. Please post more photos of cakes Flumps, I could look at them all day and your cakes are so beautiful.
Salt & Vinegar and Cheese & Onion crisps are both disgustang, Lidl Crusti Croc paprika are the bees bollocks
I am partial to sweet and salty popcorn too... especially the ones coated in the sticky flavouring, mmmmm
Salt & Vinegar and Cheese & Onion crisps are both disgustang, Lidl Crusti Croc paprika are the bees bollocks
I am partial to sweet and salty popcorn too... especially the ones coated in the sticky flavouring, mmmmm
I loooove restored things, it's both the thrill of creating something (which is also why I love lego, cross topic relevance) but also doing it so cheaply / keeping stuff out of landfill? Your garden sounds lovely & exactly what a garden should be like though, they should be much funner than your house! Also duck them vetoing it how utterly joyless, surely it's 2 against 1 anyway?!
We're super minimalist inside the house but this is largely as my husband is really irritating, I think a lot of men believe that the more expensive something is the better it is and it's a continuous battle to un-train him from this mindset. I wanted this really cute table from a local cafe that was closing down, it was just a wooden table but had 4 vintage ecrol style chairs and wanted to paint them fun colours and he was appalled at the idea?! Life would be so much easier living with a woman with taste wouldn't it. I thought that earlier when I had to explain what an umbilical cord is for the fifth time.
ETA: massive congrats @Flumps that's amazing!!
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