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Emblazon the flavour of crisps on the inside of the packet, too. That way, when two jalapeno and sour cream, two sea salt and balsamic vinegar and two mustard and cress are opened out flat on the pub table providing friendly access for all, one can easily see which is which is which is which.
Boy,
I love the pub.
Things can go badly if you don't know your British pub etiquette.
http://www.youtube....cvI&feature=related
Beware the moon, lads. [Amos Kito, Apr 10 2008]
For [UnaBubba}
http://www.griffins...upName=Potato+chips
There's more than just Lamb and Mint... [neutrinos_shadow, Apr 13 2008]
mine.
http://www.slashfoo...s-slowly-addictive/
[jaksplat, Apr 14 2008]
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It's just... so... obvious. [+] |
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Do you think this crisp-sharing tactic is
widespread across the globe or is it a UK-
centric social norm? |
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get your dirty hands off me cheese n onion. |
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Based solely on this idea alone I want to move to the UK. Something about a table, in a bar, laden with communal, multi-flavored potato chips sounds warm and cozy. |
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Oh yeah, and why aren't the packages labeled on the inside? [+] |
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Given that crisps (chips) are often served on plates or in bowls, entirely devoid of wrappers, then shouldn't they each be labelled directly? Little picture icons of the flavor, printed on each crisp (chip) would be fun. |
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Why aren't there potato (potatoe) flavoured crisps? |
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I have never been to UK, but from this idea I imagine that the potato chip bags there are either (a) turned inside out when you open them, or (b) shaped like the bell of a French horn, completely preventing you from seeing the sides of the package over the flared mouth of the bag. Quite bizarre, I reckon. |
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Or maybe it's that the bar tables are much higher in England than elsewhere, causing patrons to have to stare UP at the bags of crisps, therefore preventing them from seeing over the bag but still allowing them to see inside the upper edge of the bag. That's probably it. |
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I suppose it would be, to a foreigner. We have many more dimensions here, and that enables us to transpose outsideness and insideness simply by progressing around the circle of fifths. |
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What does a potato flavoured crisp entail? Is it just a plain fried slice of potato, or is it dusted with extra potato flavouring (i.e. Smash) ? |
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[phundung], the bags are just like those in the US of A, but on the pub table they are opened fully; flattened out. Open at the top, bottom and torn along one side. Thus, only the inside of the bag is visible. |
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Otherwise, if it's opened in the 'solo' style, each drinker has to wait their turn to root around through the neck of a three-quarters empty bag of crisps that's already been enjoyed by six other people. |
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Also, that's how we drink our beer too, in the UK. |
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What happens if you eat an inadequately labeled crisp? |
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Thanks for the explanation! Well, the idea makes sense to me now, so why not. Croissant. |
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[amos k], eating the wrong crisps can cause whooping cough, depression, genital rashes, and in some cases, death. |
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//eating the wrong crisps can cause
whooping cough, depression, genital
rashes, and in some cases, death.// |
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I got fired for an email like that
[beeman]. It read: |
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Please refrain from closing the lift
doors on your colleagues. This can
cause internal bleeding, amnesia and,
in some cases, cancer of the larynx. |
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Apparently it sounded threatening, as if
I was going to maliciously give the
recipient cancer of the larynx for
banging my elbow on the lift door and
not apologising. |
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Wow, sensitive. Who was your employer? Something in the public service? |
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Barclays. My brother and best friend have also both been fired from the same place, during entirely different tenures of service. They're just monkeys basically. |
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[Not sure I'm ever going to get those images of Mr. Tindale drinking beer from a flattened crisp packet out of my head.] |
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Don't worry, [theleopard]. Employers like that would have fired you eventually for having the wrong sort of hair or using slang or something. |
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The Norwegians open the top of the crisp packet, then clasp it from underneath with one hand - the fingertips about halfway up the packet. They then fold the top down around the outside of their fingers until is is level with the bottom so that it looks a bit like an 'M' in profile, with the crisps sitting in the middle dip. This then becomes a self-supporting bowl which can be placed in the centre of the table. Genius. |
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This method would likewise benefit from internal labelling. |
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I keep my bag to myself - its like sharing needles. |
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I've heard those tales of the stuff that gets left on bowls of nuts... |
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imprint the flavour *on* the crisp. |
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what if you cant read, can you have a scratch and sniff alternative to the writing |
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Or a tastebud activated iconic message, where the flavour of the crisps is encapsulated within a chemically applied coating, onto the outer surface of the crisps themselves, so that when you lick a crisp, or put it in your mouth, you can tell what flavour it is from the sensory information contained in the 'direct to tongue' delivery vector. |
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How about a cunning flavour barcode on the crisp that can be read by a handheld scanner that most people happen to have these days (i.e. in a mobile phone). |
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//What happens if you eat an inadequately
labeled crisp?// |
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You'd get myxomacrispies. |
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I've never come across this - opening bags of crisps thing and sharing habit. |
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it has to be a yuppie thing. |
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like I say - get yer dirty hands of my cheese n onion. |
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It's a bloke thing, you wouldn't understand .... |
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A place where I used to work - the Hispanic workers would bring in two bags of corn chips, and a 1-liter bottle of hot sauce. Open the bag most of the way down one side, pour in the hot sauce, and everybody dive in. That part of the shop could get to 115 degrees, and the water fountain was at the opposite end of the building. |
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//I've never come across this - opening bags of crisps thing and sharing habit.//
[po], I'm surprised to learn that although British pub attendees will partake of communal bags, they can't be bothered to point out which pile is which. "That's the Steak 'N Kippers, that's Custard 'N Onion. I've had to say it twice tonight, what am I the blinkin Bureau of Information!" |
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Mix all of the chips together in a big bowl, so you can't tell which flavour you're picking up. |
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<aside> The strangest chip flavour I have seen was a packet I bought in England. It was Roast Lamb & Mint Sauce. Bizarre. |
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[UnaBubba] - see <link>. The Honey Soy Chicken are quite nice, too. I thought there were more flavours than that, though. Eh, what do I know...? |
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We get HSC, Thai Lime and Pepper, Sour Cream, Sweet Chilli & Coriander, etc, etc. I was just surprised at the idea of a Sunday roast sort of thing... I guess. |
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Since they are colour-coded on the outside, maybe they should be colour-coded on the inside using food dye? |
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Two gangs, here in So Cal, the Bloods and the Crips. Across the room, on my display, thought I saw "Crips Labeled On The Inside". |
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It would make it easier for the coroner. |
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Excellent idea - although of course the writing would have to be printed in a variety of orientations so that people all around the table could read it. You could however do without writing if there was an
ISO-mandated schema of pictograms to represent the various crisp flavours. |
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I'm not sure whether you can still get
Hedgehog flavour. |
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