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dang65
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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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Benny the Ball
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ooh, ooh, Justice League!!!!

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Benny the Ball
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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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MiscellaneousFiles

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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.

ETA: *Yes!

quote:
Didn't you know Walkers Worcester Sauce crisps contain Sudan 1 which can cause cancer!? Still, bring em back!!!


[ 28.02.2007, 04:43: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]

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Black Mask

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quote:
Originally posted by Benny the Ball:
ooh, ooh, Justice League!!!!

Let's do it! New thread. You pick the line-up.

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dang65
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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.

ETA: There they are

Snack Type: 33
Flavour ID: 34

[ 28.02.2007, 04:52: Message edited by: dang65 ]

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New Way Of Decay

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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!
Giggle.

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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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Black Mask

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They have Monster Munch over in France. D'you know what they call them over there?

Le Monster Munch.

But they look more like ghosts than monsters.

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quote:
Originally posted by Black Mask:

Le Monster Munch.

Don't they have to call them Le Monster Munch (le mācher du monstre) or something?
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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.

Remaining:

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

[ 28.02.2007, 05:40: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]

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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

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

[ 28.02.2007, 05:51: Message edited by: missgolightly ]

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Benny the Ball
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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.

BBQ Rib
Cheddar Cheese
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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dang65
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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.

Remaining:

BBQ Rib
Heinz Tomato ketchup
Lamb and Mint
Pickled Onion
Prawn Cocktail
Ready Salted
Roast Chicken
Salt and Vinegar
Smoky Bacon
Spicy Chilli

[ 28.02.2007, 06:04: Message edited by: dang65 ]

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quote:
Originally posted by Benny the Ball:
Cheese and Onion

Agreed. Also, it's a fact that every bus in the midlands smells of these hideously flavoured fried potato slices.
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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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New Way Of Decay

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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.

BBQ Rib
Heinz Tomato ketchup
Lamb and Mint
Pickled Onion
Ready Salted
Roast Chicken
Salt and Vinegar
Spicy Chilli

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missgolightly

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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.


BBQ Rib
Heinz Tomato ketchup
Lamb and Mint
Pickled Onion
Ready Salted
Roast Chicken
Salt and Vinegar
Spicy Chilli

ETA - great minds, and all that lol.

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blimey.

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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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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!

remaining
BBQ Rib
Heinz Tomato ketchup
Lamb and Mint
Pickled Onion
Ready Salted
Roast Chicken
Salt and Vinegar

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According to a kid called Matthew who went to Pangbourne Junior School in the mid '80s, Roast Chicken flavour tastes like bogies.

Reason enough?

BBQ Rib
Heinz Tomato ketchup
Lamb and Mint
Pickled Onion
Ready Salted
Salt and Vinegar

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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 missgolightly:
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.

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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?


BBQ Rib
Heinz Tomato ketchup
Lamb and Mint
Pickled Onion
Salt and Vinegar

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BBQ Rib
Heinz Tomato ketchup
Lamb and Mint
Pickled Onion
Salt and Vinegar
Spicy Chilli (?)

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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.

ETA: Gnnnh.

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Don't make me pwn you H1ppy.

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lol
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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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quote:
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I have some reservations about the removal of Ready Salted.

Me too. I'm a major dip-aholic, and ready salted crisps are definately the best for not fucking up the flavour of the dip.
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