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.
Posted by Benny the Ball (Member # 694) on :
ooh, ooh, Justice League!!!!
Posted by Benny the Ball (Member # 694) on :
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?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
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.
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 ]
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Benny the Ball: ooh, ooh, Justice League!!!!
Let's do it! New thread. You pick the line-up.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
They still do Worcester Sauce flavour "French Fries" crisps. I thought those were made by Walkers, so they obviously haven't renounced cancer entirely.
[ 28.02.2007, 04:52: Message edited by: dang65 ]
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
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.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
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.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
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.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
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?
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
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 ]
Posted by missgolightly (Member # 34) on :
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 ]
Posted by Benny the Ball (Member # 694) on :
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
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
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 ]
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
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.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
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.
[ 28.02.2007, 06:10: Message edited by: Waynster ]
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
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
Posted by missgolightly (Member # 34) on :
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.
[ 28.02.2007, 06:19: Message edited by: missgolightly ]
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
blimey.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
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.
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
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
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
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
Posted by missgolightly (Member # 34) on :
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!
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
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"
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
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.
Posted by missgolightly (Member # 34) on :
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.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
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
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
BBQ Rib Heinz Tomato ketchup Lamb and Mint Pickled Onion Salt and Vinegar Spicy Chilli (?)
[ 28.02.2007, 06:53: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
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.
[ 28.02.2007, 06:53: Message edited by: H1ppychick ]
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Don't make me pwn you H1ppy.
Posted by missgolightly (Member # 34) on :
lol
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
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.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
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?
Posted by Physic (Member # 195) on :
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.
Posted by missgolightly (Member # 34) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: 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.
Posted by Benny the Ball (Member # 694) on :
I'm killing Lamb and Mint - simply because Brannigans Roast Beef and Mustard was a great flavour and crisp, and Lamb and Mint tastes like someone with a cold has sucked on a pack of roast beef and mustard crips before you.
[ 28.02.2007, 07:17: Message edited by: Benny the Ball ]
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by missgolightly:
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: 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.
What about not fucking up the flavour of the crisp?
Ready Salted crisps are NOT meant for dipping. Please, for the love of gord, use Doritos. I believe they do a lightly salted flavour which I believe are actually scientifically designed to be dipped.
Anyway, are Ready Salted back in? Who's in charge here?
[ 28.02.2007, 07:18: Message edited by: MiscellaneousFiles ]
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: 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?
This is true. It's the origin of the word salary, in fact. Roman soldiers were kept in line by being issued free potatoes but forced to fight to earn their salārium, or salt money, in order to make them edible.
quote:Originally posted by Physic: vingegar
*spits out mouthful crisps*
Jesus Christ, what have I been eating?
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I think we need to rethink this. Ready Salted is the canvas in which flavours are painted. Without it, we wouldn't even have flavours to choose from.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by Benny the Ball: crips
Cheese and Mongion flavour.
Posted by Benny the Ball (Member # 694) on :
pickled onion has already won in my head.
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
I'd like to re-submit chilli to be stricken. I've just tried a pack (honest) and wasnt impressed. while not too hot they just arnt worth spending money on a packet.
Can I sugest we ADD cheesy doritos and Watsist? as they were shamefully missed off the original list.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Come on Hades, take a picture of the empty packet. Everyone (except me) has a camera phone these days. We need proof.
quote:Originally posted by Hades: (honest)
Actually, that's good enough you know, but pulling out on the spot photographs is the ultimate trump followed by a feeling of righteousness. Trump me, Hades.
[ 28.02.2007, 07:28: Message edited by: New Way Of Decay ]
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
Well, I think the idea of the Stripped concept is that if one person strips something then it's gone for good. It may be argued about for many pages after, but it is no more. It's not as if the ones that are left are completely unacceptable to everyone else, or so I believe. So they remain in the running. Ready Salted, sad as it may be to see it go, stays out.
Signed,
Self-Appointed Adjudicator.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by dang65:
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: 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?
This is true. It's the origin of the word salary, in fact. Roman soldiers were kept in line by being issued free potatoes but forced to fight to earn their salārium, or salt money, in order to make them edible.
URStefanosAICM5GBP
[ 28.02.2007, 07:31: Message edited by: Waynster ]
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I choose you Pickled Onion.
You.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
So what's left?
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
I want to get rid of the Tomato Ketchup crisps.
Tomato Ketchup is rubbish full stop but as a crisp flavour its doubly gross.
Bleurgh...
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
Does that make BBQ Rib the winner?
Jesus.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I want my money back.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Dangs really messed up Ringo's commute and our annual crisp awards hasn't he?
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: Does that make BBQ Rib the winner?
Jesus.
[Sherlock Holmes]Once all [something something something] then whatever remains must be the [something].[/Sherlock Holmes]
You chose your own path people. Now the truth is revealed, and you don't like it.
BBQ Rib - 2007 TMO Crisp Flavour Winner
If that's not printed on Walkers crisp packets by the end of the week then I for one will be very surprised.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
That's the stupidest fucking list I've ever clapped eyes on.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Artists & Entertainers This diverse galaxy of influential stars has won fans and spawned imitators around the globe
J.J. Abrams George Clooney Dixie Chicks Ellen DeGeneres Nicolas Ghesquiere Wayne Gould Philip Seymour Hoffman Arianna Huffington Ang Lee Renzo Piano Rain Rachael Ray Jeff Skoll Kiki Smith Will Smith Zadie Smith Howard Stern Meryl Streep Reese Witherspoon Rob Pardo Daddy Yankee Tyra Banks Dane Cook Matt Drudge Stephen Colbert
L.O.L.
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
J.J. Abrams can go, for starters. I mean fucking hell. He is to entertainment what the Mars bar is to cuisine - cheap, dispoable, mass-produced artless pap troughed up by fatty retards who don't know the difference between 'good' and 'easy'. How he made it onto a list of 100 best anything is a mystery to me. I wouldn't even put him on a list of 100 best people involved with the Mission: Impossible franchise.
George Clooney Dixie Chicks Ellen DeGeneres Nicolas Ghesquiere Wayne Gould Philip Seymour Hoffman Arianna Huffington Ang Lee Renzo Piano Rain Rachael Ray Jeff Skoll Kiki Smith Will Smith Zadie Smith Howard Stern Meryl Streep Reese Witherspoon Rob Pardo Daddy Yankee Tyra Banks Dane Cook Matt Drudge Stephen Colbert
[ 28.02.2007, 09:35: Message edited by: Nathan Bleak ]
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: Artists & Entertainers This diverse galaxy of influential stars has won fans and spawned imitators around the globe:
Ellen DeGeneres
What a frightening thought...
Posted by Hades (Member # 57) on :
I'm tempted to put Dixi chicks in because country and western music is the spawn of the non-exsistant devil (huh?) but at least they are anti-bush.
tough choice.
Posted by squeegy (Member # 136) on :
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