1. Pork scratchings
2. Crisps! HAS to be Salt n Vinegar, premimum hand cut ones are best, would accept Pringles though.
3. Nuts – again the Salt n Vinegar ones or Dry Roasted. Cashews are also excellent.
4. Wasabi Peas! my GOD, 3-5 in the mouth at once hits you straight up the nose. & the taste instantly dissipates, leaving you reeling and wanting another. top Notch!

Salted peanuts

Beer

Your no4. ftw. Just perfect. The only problem is that you get numb to the hit so you need more and more.

Chips
Burgers
Burgers and Chips
Pie and Chips
[url=https://flic.kr/p/HWXdgK]Pie chips n gravy, no finer cuisine[/url] by Mike Smith, on Flickr
Pretzels work
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Brisket with Chilli Chees Chips too
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and really it all depends on the beer, with the Imperial Stout it has to be the richest chocolate cake you can find
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beer and cake? outstanding! 😯

Snyders Jalapeño sour dough pretzels

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Only if your trying to mask the flavour of the beer 😈

Fried mice.

(Not actual mice).

Clancy’s (pub in Fremantle) sell them. Deep fried jalopenos with sour cream. They are lovely, nice kick to them.

Chicken wings coated with Buffalo sauce.

I went for Black Pudding Bon-Bons today. They were very nice indeed 🙂 Caramelised red onion sauce to dip em in as well!

Very nice accompaniment to a pint of Ulverston Breweries festive ale (Santa’s Blotto), and the pint of “A Good Stuffing” that followed 😉

It did take a good bit longer to build a bed for my daughter afterwards – but we got their eventually and even made a damn fine job of it!

Scratchings

A spicy biltong

+1 for bilton

Chilli sauce?

Scratchings FTW.

I’ve just had a moment of dragons den inventor’s ephinany… flavoured pork scratchings!
Wasabi scratchings, Jalapeno Scratchings, Salt & Vinegar Scratchings!
right no-one nick my idea.

A book, but make it a good one.

@tomaso the honey mustard ones for me. so good with beer and when hungover. win win

Snyder’s are great, but cheap pretzel sticks are my go to. Good salt/surface area ratio and cheap for a big bag in the Polish ailse at tesco

I couldn’t eat a big hearty and stogy meal with beer. After beer yes. Got to be salty snacks and the king of those are Scratchings. And I mean proper scratchings that come in a clear plastic back with hairs and everything. Not those mass-produced ones that are just like little deep fried sponges soaked in fat. I can’t abide those.

Pork scratchings (the ones like what wobbliscott recommends) and a kebab afterwards.

The best crisps in the world. FACT. It’s been known that the venue for rides has been decided on the strength of the pub for the post-ride pint stocking them….

@mikewsmith

Only if your trying to mask the flavour of the beer

Only if your sipping. You need to guzzle more to get the true benefit. Two pints for a packet shared.

I always thought DanH went very well with beer.

(that’s one for the forum old timers)

Chorizo. Best when drinking at home though, pub “snacking chorizo” is rubbish.

Pork Scratchings, although quality ones are few and far between. ‘Ray Gray’ are worth a mention. And forget the ponced-up ‘home-made’ affairs often served in a ramekin. They quite literally taste like what they are (burning flesh and desperation)

Safer bets, and much kinder to teeth and pigs:

*Chilli nuts * Chilli nuts * Chilli nuts*

And none of those ‘peanuts in a sweet chilli crispy jacket’ poncense either. Just good honest roasted peanuts coated in chilli, garlic, salt and citric acid.

Walkers cheese and onion crisps

Everything else is rubbish by comparison. Except for a cheese and onion cob, at which point we’re approaching ‘meal’ territory…

Snyders Jalapeño sour dough pretzels

Deffo up there with scratchings for the endangerment of teeth. But really? The first couple or three are good. Even get a decent garlic and herby note with a nice chili heat burst. But then (once the palate has acclimatised) subsequent scoffage reveals a rather empty stale-bread + much salt affair.

Nonetheless. A good pork scratching alternative, with the proviso that less is more. Are pretzels a thread-closer? Never.

I’ve just had a moment of dragons den inventor’s ephinany… flavoured pork scratchings!
Wasabi scratchings, Jalapeno Scratchings, Salt & Vinegar Scratchings!
right no-one nick my idea.

I think you’re safe. I vaguely remember some chilli flavoured pork scratchings popping up in the Black Country circa early 1990s. They were chewy and rubbish. Tasted like old oil and chilli powder-coated curls of flesh that were once-crispy yet now appreciably damp. My opinion was (and is) that you don’t mess with a pork scratching. They have been messing with them for the last 40 years, yet I still remember (as a kid) the ingredients on a pack reading: Pork rind, salt. Those were also perfect scratchings. None since. So the perfect bar snack existed in the 1970s and then for whatever reason shut up shop to be replaced by pretenders laced with MSG, onion powder, hydrolised E thingies.

Hot Chilli Nuts from Sostrene Grene and vegetable crisps from Lidl.

One of my local boozers used to bring round trays of roasted spuds on a Sunday evening. It was my local Sunday pub for years after the first time I discovered it.

Sea salt n Lime tortilla chips from Aldi…

Anything, literally anything. I find there is nothing that doesn’t go well with beer 😀

Chips and mayonnaise.

Greasy kebab from the place you’d never go to if sober. Tastes even better if you accidently drop it and then scarier L scrape it off the floor. Mmmmmn stones Nom Nom

Agree with chocolate cake with stout.

What about pork pie? Oh and being Christmas, a mountain of chipolatas.

Pork pie with mustard or HP, depending on the ale of choice

I’m a fan of the Smiths medley,

Scampi Fries,
Bacon Fries,
Cheesy Moments

Drac got it right early on.

More beer, with conversation if available.

If no conversation is readily available I will take decent TV, followed by Sahara Hot Nut, if they’re still a thing.