I used to love Potato Puffs...they were seriously yummy (especially the BBQ flavour). You only got Potato Puffs from bakers not supermarkets I believe.

Chocolate Garibaldis were gorgeous ...as were Choc-au-lait biscuits. (they were the rippley chocolate ones).

What happened to Oxo Crisps? They were yummy (much better than Marmite or Bovril flavour).

Not noticed about the cucumbers...all I know is they don't taste of anything anymore nor do tomatoes. You've got to go to Greece to get any decent salad. in my humble opinion.

Gee this is fun.

PS Powell out!

Ah, that would explain why another part of my anatomy is not looking to chipper these days

Right or wrong ?

Cheese and Onion Crisps - check.
Salad cream - check.
Salad cream emptied into crisp packet - check
Crisp packet scrunched up big time to smash to little bits - check
Contents placed on a jacket potato

All to go with a smelly cucumber I suppose...........that is seriously weird. You have been living in the sticks for too long

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You will be telling us that you used to eat sugar sandwiches next.

Is that Ju Ju with the big hands? Maybe if our players had hands like that, they wouldn't keep dropping the soddin ball!

My friend you are about as right as it is possible to be!!

Dan -I agree with you -Jersey Royals used to be kidney shaped & tasty.They are completley different now.Don't buy them !

Wish I could join in this amazing discussion (OT) but sadly I have never really been a potato lover! as a kid I used to like Jersey Royals! with some butter, but I can't remember the last time I had them?

jaybs you are fortunate not being a potato lover...it leads only to disappointment and inches round your middle.

Well said Pollytyke...I knew I couldn't be the only one.

Got some nice Albert Roosters for my roasties tonight....don't let me down Albert, don't let me down...

I asked an ex work colleague, a Jerseyman who lives there, about the spuds. He says "They do say that it is the use of artificial fertilizer instead of traditional seaweed."

Found this also:

Maybe somebody, probably not a supermarket, is importing the real thing?

Mmm, the plot thickens.

Used to?

1.. Chips
2.. Dauphinoise
3.. Roasties
4.. Jerseys
5.. Mash
And that was possibly the worst joke ever - I will probably be repeating it all week.

Best thread in ages

By a country mile

ah bless em.

Weren't they also in a Benny Hill sketch once?

Ah, the Smash aliens...what a great ad that was (the potato was hideous though...only suitable for students and sticking wallpaper to walls).

Don't know if they were in Benny Hill....thems were the days thems were.

................mashed potatty and gravy sarnies, the best!

On the subject of foods gone by, anybody remember these?



Seem to recall having these as a kid long before we had a Chinese or Indian in town in the early 70's.

They were bought out by Pot Noodle and became the main staple diet of millions of unfortunate students around the world.

Talking of sandwich fillings……..my old mum like many of her generation always used to keep a bowl of meat dripping (i.e. fat) from the Sunday roasts to use in everyday cooking……..none of these modern fancy cooking oils `drizzled` on your grub!!.

I liked nothing better than a sandwich from a crusty white loaf with a thick spread of dripping and of course plenty of salt…….we might as well have been filling our arteries with Polyfilla……..happy days

Ooh I would love a bit of bread and dripping now...remember mixing the white lardy stuff with the brown jelly then bunging loads of salt on top..yummy!

Of course, could be the reason why I've got hypertension....that or following the Broncos all these years. Wonder what percentage of our fans have got high blood pressure?

Or depression..

Continuing the thread, surely the best sandwich is a chip butty, butter, salt, vinegar, and in times of plenty, Heinz' finest.

Yes kit, without a doubt.