[Slightly OT] Seabrooks crisps

On about salt, it takes me back to about 1960 in "The Lamb Stores" in Bridge Street Warrington. The bar was in the cellar & it had bowls of free nuts & crackers on every table. Every one of them was as salty as possible to increase beer sales. I think it was stopped when health regulations did not allow the sharing.

And oily! This should cheer you up..... not! :-)

Wayne

Fredericks Ice Cream (and vans) originated from the factory in the Kirkland Street area of St. Helens.

This was in the 1940s 50s. The area was cleared of housing in the 60s 70s and is now covered by

Superstores of the inner ringroad (A570).

As it was about 100 yards from my Grandmothers house I regularly had to go for ice cream for

my gran and aunties!

Bondee19/11/06 13:25

If 50% of raw beef is water then the finished product pound for pound is twice as dense as raw meat !!

Never tasted it yet.

CR

PeterE19/11/06 16:41

What size is *normal* size? I 've seen every size of bag used over the years - 15, 25, 30, 35, 40 and 50 gm

CR

Dave Spencer19/11/06 10:23

I don't go in for the over salted artificial/chemical-flavoured potato crisps that they sell in most pubs - too much salt and often sugar too in the fancy flavoured ones.

Even the real flavour additives... the cheese used for food and crisps flavourings for instance - you really wouldn't want to see or smell - basically waste Stilton from the creameries. Nothing goes to waste.

The salt in them is just bad for you. But to be fair, someone pointed out that there's more salt in a single 12 oz tin of baked beans than in a shedload of crisp packets. So yes it is comparative.

Some of the more enlightened pubs are selling other snacks and bigger bags etc. Two friends and I shared a 150g tub of Yorkshire parsnip crisps - costing 1.99 in a pub recently - probably the equivalent of six reg. bags of potato crisps in volume. Some crisp/snack flavours are a bit more subtle and don't spoil the flavour of good beers for me.

Tyrrells are very good, but Yorkshire Crisps are just as good and quite a bit cheaper. I like parsnip crisps. Tyrrells make a mixed root vegetable parsnip, carrot and beetroot crisp mix - delicious. The 150g bag that I bought recently of Tyrrels was a quid more than the Yorkshire equiv. locally.

CR

About half the content of the bags we used to get when I was a kid...

Grams? Good Lord, damn new fangled ideas.

I very much doubt whether the bags you got when you were a kid were bigger than 1 ounce, which is about 28g.

I was born in Yorkshire. :-) Bigger, better, tougher...

Shall we move on to discussions on the maximum number of twists of salt in the packet? Oh, and then the real novelty - something other than fried potato flavour.

Tsk, tsk - "normal" = 31.8 grams, according to Mr "C" Brook. Well, he used to describe that as a "value" pack akshully.

BTW, I notice that the Underworld ladies' darts team were all scoffing Seabrook's Crisps on Corra t'other night. Must be why they won.

They ran out of mild the other night. How? Who drinks it? When was the last time /anyone/ ordered mild in the Rovers? After Albert Tatlock's funeral?

Was the phrase something like "milds off"? in which case it had probably been there *since* Alberts funeral.

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:25:34 +0000, Joyce Whitchurch wrote (in article ):

On Monday Haley got back from the mythical cash & carry with a big box of Seabrook's crisps - so the cafe sells them too. I wonder how much they pay for that product placement.

I suppose Granada have to take what they can get, now they're losing sponsorship from Cadbury's.

I noticed a bottled beer on the Rover's shelf called "Old Neck Oil". Google reveals nothing. Are Granada mocking-up specific N&R beers?

In fact the phrase "Old Neck Oil" gave me a googlewhack. Cool.

FWIW, the Whalebone brewery in Hull does a beer called "Neck Oil".