Things that are better than you remember…

Classic Coronation Street. I’m talking 80’s/90’s. Ignored at the time as miserabilist dirge that the grown-ups watched, but re-discovered over lockdown as comedy gold!

Also,

Walnut Whips ❤

Worcestershire Sauce flavour French Fries. Best snacks ever

Point Break
Egg sandwiches
Having a bath

Also,

Walnut Whips ❤

Thread fail! 🙂

• Have you seen the price of them!?
• Have you seen how small they are now!?

• Have you seen the price of them!?
• Have you seen how small they are now!?

1 – No, had them round at a mate’s.

2, – Are they really smaller? Or are you bigger? Plus, they come in a box of six. Just eat six. We were bound by rules and poverty as kids. No more!

Picnic bars
Depeche Mode (how did I not know that they were way more than just camp, 80s synth pop drivel ??)
Haldon Forest, used to to be meh about it, now, in the words of the above, I just can’t get enough.

2, – Are they really smaller? Or are you bigger? Plus, they come in a box of six. Just eat six. We were bound by rules and poverty as kids. No more!

I’m married and it’s 2022. I don’t think much has changed.

Bank Holidays. Never appreciated them as a kid. Now they’re the best bit of Christmas.

Genesis.

Worcestershire Sauce flavour French Fries. Best snacks ever

They’re right up there with the best

Have you tried these…

We recently held a World Cup of crisps, which is pretty self-explanatory and involved spending the entire afternoon eating crisps in a head to head, knockout competition.

The standout old-school ones which I hadn’t had for yonks were

and

Having a bath

there’s not much that beats a monkey bath*, a large mug of tea, a bit of music playingm and good book

except when you need glasses like I now do and can’t see a bloody thing because they steam up, and can’t read without them

* a bath so hot that on entering, you exclaim oooh, ooohh, ahh, ahh

Chipsticks I can get behind, but wheat crunchies? Wtf is wrong with you man, they’ve got a texture like someone took a packet of skips, stuck them all in their mouth and then, when they’d melted, extruded little tubules through their puckered lips before desiccating them with bellybutton fluff and plaster dust.

Carry On movies

Tunnocks teacakes and/or snowballs.

extruded little tubules through their puckered lips before desiccating them with bellybutton fluff and plaster dust.

Where do i send the bill for a new laptop that is now dripping with coffee?

Sprouts
Burton’s Fish and Chips
Porn

Cooked Vegetables – at school in the 60s I think they started cooking dinner about 8am, and I suspect the head chef said things like – ohhh look those carrots still have a slight orange colour to them, turn them up and give them another hour. Nowadays – roasted vegetables, roasted cauliflower, steamed broccoli, carrots with butter all very yummy.

Oh yeah, sitting in the countryside, admiring the view with a flask and sarnies, strangely when I was young it was effectively mandatory due to financial constraints, now it’s a choice and a pleasure.

The matrix film with keanu reeves.. Mind blowing at the time..

Has not aged well.

Columbo, so much better than most of the crap on TV these days

The matrix film with keanu reeves.. Mind blowing at the time..

Has not aged well.

I think you’re in the wrong thread.

Depeche Mode (how did I not know that they were way more than just camp, 80s synth pop drivel ??)

There’s a lot of that going about. I caught Deniese Pearson off of that Five Star at https://www.80sclassical.co.uk/ a few weeks back, she was incredible.

We recently held a World Cup of crisps,

They were discontinued ages ago but, Worcester Sauce flavoured Wheat Crunchies were incredible.

Loads of 80’s and 90’s music.

except when you need glasses like I now do and can’t see a bloody thing because they steam up, and can’t read without them

The solution to your woes.  Submerge your specs in the bath for 20 seconds or so.  Dry them off, they now won’t steam up because they are warm enough that the steam won’t condense on them.  You’re welcome.

Wine.
Not a big fan as a youngster but I’ve changed my view. Mind you, it might just be that I used to drink Thunderbird which probably isn’t that refined😀.

I was just thinking about Coronation Street this afternoon when I saw a lady who looked like Mavis Riley. Her and Rita were an institution. Throw in old Norris and you could probably edit together a very solid few hours of ‘The Best of The Cabin’ which would put a lot of today’s terrestrial TV to shame.

In answer to the question: candyfloss. Fantastic stuff.

Growing up in the Southern end of the Lake District. Couldn’t wait to move away when I was in my teens. Found it an utterly boring place to live. Now though, I’d move back up there in a shot if I could afford to.

Haldon Forest, used to to be meh about it, now, in the words of the above, I just can’t get enough.

Have you discovered the doggers carpark then. 😮

Also Boursin. Cheesy garlicy goodness.
Rediscovered it this week after not trying it for years.

We recently held a World Cup of crisps, which is pretty self-explanatory and involved spending the entire afternoon eating crisps in a head to head, knockout competition.

Oh
My
Word!!!

Best idea ever.

How many players, what rules are there, who ref’s it etc. I really NEED to know.

Sounds like a good pi55ed up bothy game 😁

Depeche Mode (how did I not know that they were way more than just camp, 80s synth pop drivel ??)

when I saw the other thread, I was going to start a thread like this one just so I could suggest not Depeche Mode but another similar band from the same time – The Cure. I always liked Caterpillars but their back catalogue is fantastic and I’m playing loads at the moment and I’ve also got tickets to see them for the first time ever in December 🙂

I was just thinking about Coronation Street this afternoon when I saw a lady who looked like Mavis Riley. Her and Rita were an institution. Throw in old Norris and you could probably edit together a very solid few hours of ‘The Best of The Cabin’ which would put a lot of today’s terrestrial TV to shame.

It was the wrangling and intrigue of Jack and Vera that drew me in. And the butcher with the amusing voice 😉

the butcher with the amusing voice

He always reminded me of Foghorn Leghorn, I say Foghorn Leghorn.

@Ambrose – tis a fine way to while away a drunken afternoon/evening

Its dead simple and you can play it with any amount of people

1. Everyone selects their favourite crisps (16 varieties gives you an ideal tournament number)

2. You pop to the supermarket and fill a shopping trolley up with multipacks of said crisps

3. Put all the crisps names in a hat and pull out to give 8 head to head games.
This will inevitably produce a couple of ‘group of death’ matches, for example Monster Munch up against Wotsits, which will lead to the early elimination of a potential winner. Also a couple of easy ‘by’s’ for something like sweet chilli sensations

4. Everyone then has to sample the 2 crisps in each match* giving marks out of ten for your chosen criteria. In our case we did taste, texture and crisp butty potential. Add up marks and the lowest scorer is eliminated, the highest through to the next round for another head to head

Continue the eliminations until you have a winner or you all feel too sick to continue.

Enjoy 😀

*washed down with their beer of choice so as too avoid getting too dry a mouth

What sociopath brings Mini Cheddars to a crisps contest?

ME! Thats who! 😀

All savoury snacks are in play. This is no place for the potato purist

Just wait until you start the nominations. Talk about contentious. All part of the fun

Binners’ living the dream 🙂

Don’t you mean nom nom nominations?

96 for squares! They’re horrendous, mouth destroying bastards with little to no flavour.

Good score for Seabrooks though

Just going for a walk.

Much prefer it to cycling – just me and the dog for hours on end.

I guarantee that nothing will expose the fault lines in relationships like the Crisps World Cup.

You may never look at some of your friends the same way again.

I’m liking nom nom nominations 😂

Ooh! Those plain crisps with the envelope of salt that you add.

Those things are bigger than the sum of their parts! Bloody lovely, can easily destroy a multipack in one go.

I remember as a child watching my grandad eat them when they were made by Smiths? GW? And I just didn’t get how he could prefer them to, well, interesting crisps like Monster Munch… how wrong I was!

Ooh! Those plain crisps with the envelope of salt that you add.

Salt ‘n’ Shake. And Smith’s, yes.

Do they still exist? I haven’t seen them in years.