Crisps - another subject too broad and too deep for the remit of this feature. So, needs must that I should specialise.
In a life that can be charted by comics, crisps and Doctor Who (oh, and yoghurt), it's only fair that the snack angle should be examined at last....
Friday 16th December
Purists will bemoan the fact that their status as a corn snack cannot possibly classify them as "crisps", but I have fond memories of when Monster Munch launched in 1978. (Although they had been around for a year before that under a rubbish different name, apparantly).
"The biggest snack that pennies can buy!" shouted the adverts, and that was indeed true. They were a large but undaunting proposition for my six year old palette.
But it was the intense chemical flavours that appealed most, and are still a source of much joy today. (Especially since the brand is back up to the quality height of its 70's heyday, and not deliberately trying to turn your tongue a strange colour).
As one work colleague remarked just yesterday, "Jesus, I could just live on pickled onion Monster Munch, I could".
And who am I to disagree?
