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Walker's prawn cocktail crisps.
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pacman357 Offline
#1 Posted: Wed, Aug 28 2019, 7:09 PM EST
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For anyone who watches John Oliver's show on HBO and saw the episode where JO discussed just why Boris Johnson was not a good choice for PM of the UK, you saw JO open a bag of these and eat them. Curious as to whether he was just being overly dramatic, I naturally ordered up a six pack.

They are truly awful. Horrid. I cannot even think of a sufficient adjective for these, they are that despicable. I say this as someone who has about 1/4 heritage of English-Welsh mix, these are a perfect example of why British cuisine is derided world-wide. OMG. They are potato chips that have the worst parts of BBQ, sour cream & onion, and what I can only imagine is what baboon a$$ sweat tastes like when you combine them. If we were still a British colony, I'd recommend dumping them from a boat in a harbor in Boston...and then not eating anything that came from that body of water for at least 200 years.

Now, if you grew up in a place that got snow, had a hill that everyone called "Deadman's Curve" or something similarly self-explanatory, and you sledded or skied down that hill, then by all means, give these a try. A few bashes in the noggin earlier in life might make these palatable. For me, I'm going to leave the rest for the raccoons that keep getting into our garbage. This will likely wipe out the raccoon population for miles.
frankj1 Offline
#2 Posted: Wed, Aug 28 2019, 7:33 PM EST
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200 plus years later, I still won't eat anything out of Boston Hahbuh
USNGunner Offline
#3 Posted: Wed, Aug 28 2019, 8:33 PM EST
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ROTFLMAO! Yeah, the brits eat some wierd crap. The Aussies too. Give vegemite a go. LOL. Damned foul stuff there.
pacman357 Offline
#4 Posted: Wed, Aug 28 2019, 9:19 PM EST
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#2 LOL. Probably a pretty good idea.

#3 I tried that once. Now I know why their beer comes in like 2 liter cans. Truly awful. I do like to sample local cuisine when I can, but with food issues, I take what I can get. Just not these crisps. Nor Vegemite.
Whistlebritches Offline
#5 Posted: Wed, Aug 28 2019, 10:20 PM EST
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They drink their beer at room temp...…….My buddy Sammy,a British Marine I spent 6 months with in Diego Garcia,lived on Jaffa Cakes and warm Guinness.Just thinking bout it today makes me wanna hurl.
izonfire Offline
#6 Posted: Wed, Aug 28 2019, 10:40 PM EST
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Lutefisk - give it a try. You'll be begging for Walker's prawn cocktail crisps. No wonder the Vikings were so fucquin enraged.

It is made from aged stockfish (air-dried whitefish), or dried and salted whitefish (klippfisk), and lye (lut). It is gelatinous in texture. Its name literally means 'lye fish'. Nyt!!!
USNGunner Offline
#7 Posted: Thu, Aug 29 2019, 12:13 AM EST
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izonfire wrote:
Lutefisk - give it a try. You'll be begging for Walker's prawn cocktail crisps. No wonder the Vikings were so fucquin enraged.

It is made from aged stockfish (air-dried whitefish), or dried and salted whitefish (klippfisk), and lye (lut). It is gelatinous in texture. Its name literally means 'lye fish'. Nyt!!!


OH yeah, that's huge in Minnesota. Served on Lefse'. Yak.
pacman357 Offline
#8 Posted: Thu, Aug 29 2019, 12:41 AM EST
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#5 Warm beer. That should be against the Geneva Convention and just about every other international law. If I was on a desert island and dying, and a case of warm beer landed onshore one night, I'd push it back in the water. I mean, what were they, raised by wolves?

#6 My first serious long-term girlfriend is Norwegian. We dated something like 3-4 years, but drifted after I went off to law school. Her parents emigrated to this country, so food from home was big. This was about a thousand years ago. I still cannot get the smell of lutefisk out of my memory banks. Wait...urp, sorry, threw up in my mouth a bit. Fish in a tube is another gem (I used to call it Aquafish, borrowing from a similar-sounding toothpaste of the day). Not even sure what gjetost is, but...damn, that is awful, too. Seems to me the cuisine is largely made of white or off-putting-color food, but the baked goods are unbelievably delicious. Christmas around a Norwegian household is a very good place to be for a meal. Just as long as you save all your room for dessert. And take off your shoes in the house.
izonfire Offline
#9 Posted: Thu, Aug 29 2019, 1:00 AM EST
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pacman357 wrote:
Christmas around a Norwegian household is a very good place to be for a meal. Just as long as you save all your room for dessert. And take off your shoes in the house.


And your pants. Then you really know it's a celebration!
frankj1 Offline
#10 Posted: Thu, Aug 29 2019, 9:42 AM EST
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pacman357 wrote:
#5 Warm beer. That should be against the Geneva Convention and just about every other international law. If I was on a desert island and dying, and a case of warm beer landed onshore one night, I'd push it back in the water. I mean, what were they, raised by wolves?

#6 My first serious long-term girlfriend is Norwegian. We dated something like 3-4 years, but drifted after I went off to law school. Her parents emigrated to this country, so food from home was big. This was about a thousand years ago. I still cannot get the smell of lutefisk out of my memory banks. Wait...urp, sorry, threw up in my mouth a bit. Fish in a tube is another gem (I used to call it Aquafish, borrowing from a similar-sounding toothpaste of the day). Not even sure what gjetost is, but...damn, that is awful, too. Seems to me the cuisine is largely made of white or off-putting-color food, but the baked goods are unbelievably delicious. Christmas around a Norwegian household is a very good place to be for a meal. Just as long as you save all your room for dessert. And take off your shoes in the house.

haven't seen it in a while but I used to buy a cheese by that name.
I'd slice it paper thin and let it just melt on my tongue...sort of had a peanut butter taste, not exactly but reminiscent of peanut butter.
wife hated it.
victor809 Offline
#11 Posted: Thu, Aug 29 2019, 10:05 AM EST
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USNGunner wrote:
ROTFLMAO! Yeah, the brits eat some wierd crap. The Aussies too. Give vegemite a go. LOL. Damned foul stuff there.


I kinda like vegemite...
The trick is to use small portions on toast...
ZRX1200 Offline
#12 Posted: Thu, Aug 29 2019, 10:47 AM EST
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We know you really just like Men at Work.


It’s cool
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