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Often a great divider of opinion.  I love them - there is no better beer snack.

You working class bastard! I suppose you're the sort of person that doesn't bother getting out of the bath to go for a piss.

i prefer a virgin scratch

Used to like them until i delivered to a factory in Brum that made them....

Yeah, that accent is enough to put anyone off their food.

What were you delivering Leefer?

I used to like them until i broke a tooth.

I like them. They have to be Mr Porky's though, anything else just doesn't taste right.

I always thought the beer snack was a pkt of cheese & onion crisps with a pickled egg.

Pickled Eggs  :eatkf: Love 'em.

Salt....but when i got there i was confronted with tons and tons of pig fat ready for roasting...luverly.

It confronted you. Gobby bastard pig fat

I bet it was like "The Blob"  :D

Not really a fan of scratchings.

Nuts are the way forward, salted, dry roasted, chili coated, cashews, pistachios, hot, they're all good.

When did hot become a flavour? Most flavours tend to relate more to a kind of food rather than a sensation. I'm looking forward to cramp flavour.

Nope, I just piss in a cup and have Jeeves dispose of it for me.

You've never had hot nuts? They are in a kind of crispy coating

Never had hot nuts?

They're a type, not a flavour.

How did they get their name?

They are served, urmmm...............................hot.

A characteristic of their nature. i.e. temperature, and then some bright spark (probably northern) coined the phrase 'hot nuts' and scraggy looking vendors at tourist hotspots have never looked back.

 So they serve them hot. What flavour are they?

nut

Nut.

there's an echo on this thread

They've got it all figured out. Nut flavoured nuts! Whatever next?

Plain crisps.

crisp crisps

Since when did plain become a flavour. Most flavours are named after a food rather than an adjective.

Does plain not refer to non-flavoured crisps?

i thought they were crisps served in mid air

I once had plane flavoured crisps served on a transatlantic flight..... 'nice pun' I said to the stewardess, she blanked me the sour faced cow.

One of two things has happened here.  Either she didn't get it, or she'd heard it a million times before.  My guess would be the latter.

Maybe she mis-heard pun for bum.

What you mean crisps? Why do they have to specify non-flavoured? If it just said crisps on the packet would you become confused? "What flavour are these crisps? I don't trust this secrecy."

A non-flavored crisp is a crisp

I like the Scotch egg.  There's something sadistic and yet satisfying about garage bought scotch eggs.  You have to wonder how long the egg has been sat there in that excuse of meat wrapped in a layer of soft moist orange breadcrumbs.

I once made some at home with proper meat and few herbs and a fresh farm egg and it was fucking great.

Always reminds me though of Partridge.  Can you smell gas?

Probably.... I might start using the same excuse 'I've heard it a million times before' when people call me by my name.... I'll just blank them... :D

Try it tomorrow at work..

those hot nut thingys look a bit rank to me.they seem to just be sat there all the time,with hardly anyone buying them.dont they go off?
oh and pork scratchings are up there in the disgusting stakes with shellfish.
i'm happy with a bag of nuts or crisps to compliment my pint

Ah, but you know as well as I do that many people, when confronted with a packet that just said "crisps" would complain that they didn't know what flavour they were.  People like clarity and often have no common sense anymore.  Therefore you are right in principle, but in reality people want the word "plain" or "salted" to describe their non-flavoured crisps.

How about 'Potato' flavour?

But then every crisp would have to have potato in it's flavour description. a thinly sliced potato that is deep fried is called a crisp in the same way that a dried grape is called a raisin.

And we don't feel the need to flavour raisins, so why crisps?

Because raisins don't lend themselves to beng flavoured.

Have you tried flavoured raisins?

Yeah, I had some hot plain raisins. It wasn't working for me.


This is like Lumps v Ironside but with flavourings.

I hate this thread.  I keep agreeing with Spacey.  Doesn't feel right.

Shut up you raisinist cunt.

i like parsnip flavour :)

Try parsnips, you'll love 'em.

Come now, lets put all that middle class stuff behind us. I couldn't give a fuck if you're middle class, upper class, working class or Mylene Klass. You reacted in a way to something Herthab said about the middle class in a way that amused me. "I am Doore, protector of accountants, defender of wine bars."

When you register for the forum it does say that it is possible that someone might take the piss out of you. It's not my fault you pressed I accept without doing your research.

Bugger, rumbled.  I am Myleen Klass.  I possibly did overreact to one comment, fair enough.  The rest, I have to say, has been said with tongue firmly inserted in cheek.  Might not have come across that way, I'm not a natural comedian.

And I fucking hate accountants.  And wine bars.

What's wrong with Si Pie?

And wine bars? I like wine, and I like drinking in places with a nice ambience.

Have you ever met spacey? He's so middle class I bet he has a bidet in his bathroom.

Once, he's a bit scruffy.

Nothing wrong with Si Pie, it seems I am destined to upset someone everytime i post.  Wine bars are dull - go to the pub, people are friendlier and they serve wine.

I can't drink wine in a pub, people might think I'm middle class.

No shame in that.  A lot of us are.  A lot more claim not to be for a badge of honour.

There was a scratchings crisis in the late seventies when a scratchings factory in Brum burnt down. 

I like skips.

Pork scratchings are evil, the occasional small crispy one is OK but when you get a soft, chewy one it makes me feel sick.

Also when did Spacey lose his wit? It's like Oevil Red's posts but without the slightly retarded overtones.

i bought him a drink at the wedding present, i think

Pork scratchings tend to make me sick after I eat a couple of them. They're essentially fat, mixed with salt and pigs pubic hair.

Food stuffs should never be hairy

What about coconut's tho.

you dont eat the hairy bit do you??

Oh god no,I was merely pointing out it's an hairy food.

You are so lucky leroy has moved on...

:D

I think I come out of that slightly better than Yeovil.

You know I love to make you laugh, David. The thought of your chubby little face rippling with mirth is one that is very dear to me. I promise to try harder in future

Because that's what the inventor called it. Whether it's true or not, I'm sure I've read that the scotch egg is actually an English invention.

Hence me wondering why they call it Scotch.

You'd have thought it beyond the nation which gave us porridge, haggis and the deep fried Mars Bar to invent something as decent as the Scotch egg.