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Anyone come across this "stripped" concept for threads that's popular on some other places these days?
You basically start off with a list of, say, all The Beatles' albums and then one poster at a time removes one from the list and explains why and you end up with "teh winner" (I've never written that before - perhaps the stripped contenders might be "pwned" too).
Anyway, it's got entertainingly out of hand on the music forum I go to where lists include:
The Justice League of America, The Monty Python Team, England football managers, Europe, The counties of England, British Sit-coms (based on a BBC top 20 list), Olympic discus gold medalists, London boroughs etc etc
It's actually fairly entertaining as long as people post controversial reasons for whatever they've stripped, and argue a lot.
So, anyway, maybe one to use on a sleepy Friday afternoon here. Perhaps, Favourite flavour crisps - stripped! or something.
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Salt and Vinegar Cheese and Onion Ready Salted Scampi and lemon Bacon Beef Prawn Cocktail Cracked Black Pepper and Sea Salt Cheese Tomato Ketchup Barbacue
any others to add before we start?
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Here's the full Walkers range according to Wikipedia:
Standard Flavours: BBQ Rib Cheddar Cheese Cheese and Onion Heinz Tomato ketchup Lamb and Mint Marmite yeast extract Pickled Onion Prawn Cocktail Ready Salted Roast Chicken Salt and Vinegar Smoky Bacon Spicy Chilli Steak and Onion
Limited Editions: Branston Pickle Feta and Herb Greek Kebab Sausage and Ketchup Tomato and Basil Turkey and Bacon
I'm horrified to see that the wondrous Worcester Sauce flavour was discontinued last September. There must be an online petition about that somewhere...
I can't remember the last time I ate a packet of crisps. Salt & Vinegar flavour Hula Hoops are a different matter.
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They still do Worcester Sauce flavour "French Fries" crisps. I thought those were made by Walkers, so they obviously haven't renounced cancer entirely.
quote:I will never buy another bag of Walkers crisps,unless it is Worcester Sauce flavour. Hear that,Mr. Walker? Bring them back or lose my custom...FOREVER!
quote:Originally posted by dang65: They still do Worcester Sauce flavour "French Fries" crisps. I thought those were made by Walkers, so they obviously haven't renounced cancer entirely.
The so called French Fry is in no way worthy of continuing the Worcester Sauce flavour legacy. I suppose I'm stuck with Wheat Crunchies now.
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quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: BBQ Rib Cheddar Cheese Cheese and Onion Heinz Tomato ketchup Lamb and Mint Marmite yeast extract Pickled Onion Prawn Cocktail Ready Salted Roast Chicken Salt and Vinegar Smoky Bacon Spicy Chilli Steak and Onion
I nominate Steak and Onion to go first. Anyone who eats a bag is guaranteed dog like breath for the following few hours. From the smell, I imagine BBQ Rib are pretty much the same, but I've never eaten a bag. At leat they have the possibility of a BBQ sauce tang to redeem them. Somehow Beef/Steak flavourings never seem to taste anything like meat.
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BBQ Rib Cheddar Cheese Cheese and Onion Heinz Tomato ketchup Lamb and Mint Marmite yeast extract Pickled Onion Prawn Cocktail Ready Salted Roast Chicken Salt and Vinegar Smoky Bacon Spicy Chilli
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: BBQ Rib Cheddar Cheese Cheese and Onion Heinz Tomato ketchup Lamb and Mint Marmite yeast extract Pickled Onion Prawn Cocktail Ready Salted Roast Chicken Salt and Vinegar Smoky Bacon Spicy Chilli
Okay, we really need to get rid of Marmite yeast extract next, since marmite is evil in all of it's forms, and although I've never tried this flavour, I'd almost sooner poke myself in the eye with a sharp stick.
So that leaves:
BBQ Rib Cheddar Cheese Cheese and Onion Heinz Tomato ketchup Lamb and Mint Pickled Onion Prawn Cocktail Ready Salted Roast Chicken Salt and Vinegar Smoky Bacon Spicy Chilli
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Cheese and Onion - it's just rubbish, it's for old people to chomp away on until their mouths are filled with a paste of oniony smelling, damp, brown matter - it's nasty and stinks more than any other crisp of fat, oil and additives - and Walkers, the top dicks that they are, changed the colour of the packs so that for about a year all those Salt and Vinegar lovers out there accidently suffered the Cheese and Onion pain.
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I'm afraid Cheddar Cheese has to go to the Great Failed Flavourings Factory In The Sky. I'm a great lover of the Cheddar, and also of real Marmite, but they never get it right in sprinkle-on form. I worry about the youngsters of today who may be introduced to the Cheese of Kings via this treasonous fakery.
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Smokey Bacon I'd cull - from memory it tastes nothing really like bacon, and after an incident on a climbing frame when I was 7, I can tell you, vomitted up these are awful. Umpteen years later I can still vividly remember the stench and flavour - its probably what the inside of Satan's foreskin tastes and smells like.
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I'm going to touch a few nerves here, but I want Prawn Cocktail out of the list. Not because it isn't a great flavour, but it's inconsistent. Sometimes it has the prawn cocktail we all know and love. The prawn cocktail that dances on the side of Discos. The Walkers variety are pretty consistent but move outside of that and you don't know what kind of oral punishment you are looking at. Crisps should never taste like the decomposing version of the flavour they are mimicking. I've eaten a few packets that taste like a crustacean wiped his ass all over them.
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I think prawn cocktail should go next, because although I adore prawns, and cocktails, and prawn cocktails, prawn cocktail crisps just taste way too chemically, and have a bit of a weird after taste. Also, like Dang's reason for cheese flavour, it worries me that they will put people off eating prawns.
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I'm not sure we should strike a flavour from the list, purely because it smells horrible when regurgitated. I can't imagine Prawn Cocktail would smell any better in these circumstances.
On the whole, I think it does a passable impression of burnt bacon, at least the crispy fat bits if you leave it on the grill too long.
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quote:Originally posted by Hades: Spicy chilli has to go. Im not a fan of anything spicyer than southwest sauce at subway.why, why put your tounge through such pain!
You absolute wuss! God, chilli crisps aren't that spicy at all!
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quote:Originally posted by Hades: Spicy chilli has to go. Im not a fan of anything spicyer than southwest sauce at subway.why, why put your tounge through such pain!
You absolute wuss! God, chilli crisps aren't that spicy at all!
I've never botherd to actually try them. Just saw the word chilli and thought "i'll stick with Dorietos"
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I'm quite into chilli abuse. Sometimes I like a really hot chilli and I'll splash that shit around and make out like I didn't know how much I put in. I'll be a bit of a dick and say stuff like 'hot enough for ya?' while the person wipes their sweaty head on their t-shirt.
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: I'm quite into chilli abuse. Sometimes I like a really hot chilli and I'll splash that shit around and make out like I didn't know how much I put in. I'll be a bit of a dick and say stuff like 'hot enough for ya?' while the person wipes their sweaty head on their t-shirt.
Cool, this is exactly what I do too!
When I first started my last job, it was almost all men except me, and for some reason they were daring each other to eat a raw green chilli, and being all pathetic about it, and I was the only one who actually was willing to do it. It was quite nice actually, and all the blokes were like "who the fuck is this woman?!", which made it even more fun.
I think we should reinstate Chilli flavour, since Hades hasn't even tried them.
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Ready Salted should go - just plain bo-ring. I think we already know what the winner will be, don't we?
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did you skip over NWOD and missgolightly completely, then misc? I know, it's a common problem, my brain always tries to skip past their posts too, but I forced myself to read them in this case.
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I think Salt & Vinegar should be stripped from that list. But gasp! Salt & Vinegar is the crisp of choice! No it isn't. It's the crisp that stings your hand to all fucking buggery if you have split cuticles. Chapped lips get five-starred by the only crisp to stingray your face to Irwin. Salt & Vinegar always requires some form of drinking aid or the taste tang lasts all year. If benny wants to out Cheese & Onion for getting it's colours fucked up, then S&V has to go by proxy. You've already helped vote him out. Don't cry for him. He's already gone.
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I have some reservations about the removal of Ready Salted. Surely it's the corner stone of the crisp world. Sometimes you just don't want a synthetic tasting flavour that's trying to make the crisp taste like something else entirely. Since the dawn of time, Ready Salt has been used to enchance the taste of the potato, and not without good reason. Would you eat chips, boiled spuds or mash without adding Ready Salt?
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quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: I think we already know what the winner will be, don't we?
You see, although I'm sure the many salt & vinegar fanboys and girls on here will disagree, I think that salt & vinegar should go because i) they're hardly a flavour at all, they just taste acidic, no salt just vingegar, I mean at least make some effort.. More importantly however, eating salt & vinegar crisps makes other things taste wrong, I mean just drinking water after eating salt & vinegar crisps is total ming.
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