I love potatoes and everything that is made out of potatoes. Dumplings, mash, roasted, schupfnudeln, gnocchi, rösti, french fries and -yes – crisps(UK/Australia)/chips(Rest of Earth). When I first visited the United Kingdom in 1983 I nourished 100% on crisps. There were about a few million different products and they were sold in little plastic bags in every pub. When I visited Cornwall last year I still found strange flavors available, like marmite, caramelised onion, bullshot, gammon or paxo stuffing. Plastic is almost completely replaced by tin foil and one special flavor is not available anymore: Hedgehog – quite popular in 1983. They were flavored with pork fat obvisously – so Mr. Lewis Phillips – founder of Hedgehog Foods Ltd. was hauled into court by Britain’s Office of Fair Trading for false advertising. Finally a whimsical arrangement was found: Mr. Lewis interviewed gypsies (Famous for their spicy hedgehog recipes – or is that just an urban legend?) – and paid a flavoring company to meet their description of the taste as closely as possible. This PR stunt made the crisps popular throughout the island and everybody had to try them at least once. If I remember correctly, they tasted like burnt bacon… This maybe the reason why hedgehog flavor is not to be found anywhere…
Now go and visit I love Crisps, a wonderful website filled with about 70 entertaining reviews of crisps.
(BTW: I found the advert here.)
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