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Re: British thread

Postby PorkChop » Sep 23, '17, 1:47 am

Pro tip: Never, ever rent with an agency. Especially one which may or may not be owned by the 'Sequence UK' brand.
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Re: British thread

Postby AkydefGoldberg » Sep 23, '17, 1:52 pm

Any decent apps I can download via Android to watch a host of TV channels? Mobdro(?) is one recommendation but if there are any others now that I've finally nabbed a tablet (well, other half got it for my 31st)
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Re: British thread

Postby PorkChop » Oct 08, '17, 8:22 am

If Walkers get rid of salt & vinegar for black pepper and lime, I'll riot in the streets. What a joke.
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Re: British thread

Postby Hanley! » Oct 08, '17, 8:59 am

Black pepper and lime sounds really good actually. :lol

But then I never buy Walkers salt and vinegar, so I really have nothing to lose in this.
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Re: British thread

Postby PorkChop » Oct 08, '17, 9:58 am

Hanley! wrote:Black pepper and lime sounds really good actually. :lol

But then I never buy Walkers salt and vinegar, so I really have nothing to lose in this.

Walkers salt and vinegar is probably the best of its kind though. They should get rid of something shitty like prawn cocktail instead.

I blame Brexit personally.
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Re: British thread

Postby Viazon » Oct 08, '17, 11:02 am

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Hanley! wrote:Black pepper and lime sounds really good actually. :lol

But then I never buy Walkers salt and vinegar, so I really have nothing to lose in this.

Walkers salt and vinegar is probably the best of its kind though. They should get rid of something shitty like prawn cocktail instead.

I blame Brexit personally.



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I'm sorry. I'm just trying to process seeing the words "shitty" and "prawn cocktail" in the same sentence. Especially when talking about Walkers.
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Re: British thread

Postby SlightlyJames » Oct 08, '17, 11:17 am

Walkers have no respect for the crisp equilibrium, should have seen this coming based off their refusal to comply with the universal colour coding system and trying to act like Green for Salt & Vinegar and Blue for Cheese & Onion is a sensible choice.
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Re: British thread

Postby PorkChop » Oct 08, '17, 11:33 am

Viazon wrote:I'm sorry. I'm just trying to process seeing the words "shitty" and "prawn cocktail" in the same sentence. Especially when talking about Walkers.

Prawn cocktail should be exclusive to Skips. Walkers prawn cocktail is shite and everyone knows it. Probably doesn't even crack the top 10 best Walkers flavours of all time.

SlightlyJames wrote:Walkers have no respect for the crisp equilibrium, should have seen this coming based off their refusal to comply with the universal colour coding system and trying to act like Green for Salt & Vinegar and Blue for Cheese & Onion is a sensible choice.

It's disgraceful. Walkers refusal to comply with the universally recognised system should be sent to the supreme courts Imo.
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Re: British thread

Postby PorkChop » Oct 08, '17, 11:47 am

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Anyone remember Potato Heads? Arguably the GOAT ready salted crisps but were discontinued. In their absence Salt and Shake have inherited the vacant title for the best ready salted crisp Imo.
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Re: British thread

Postby Hanley! » Oct 08, '17, 11:49 am

PorkChop wrote:Walkers salt and vinegar is probably the best of its kind though. They should get rid of something shitty like prawn cocktail instead.


We have Tayto over here though, which are nicer but they only really do Cheese & Onion or Salt & Vinegar. We have Walkers here too, but most people wouldn't bother with them unless they wanted Prawn Cocktail or something.
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Re: British thread

Postby Viazon » Oct 08, '17, 1:52 pm

Prawn cocktail is the absolute best Walkers flavour and if everyone knows it's shite then everyone is wrong.
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Re: British thread

Postby AkydefGoldberg » Oct 09, '17, 5:13 am

Salt and Vinegar Walkers are delicious every time - I hope people lose their shit just as much for this as they did for some Schuzhen sauce that McDonalds released that resulted in social media complaints.
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Re: British thread

Postby SlightlyJames » Oct 09, '17, 10:15 am

AkydefGoldberg wrote:Salt and Vinegar Walkers are delicious every time - I hope people lose their shit just as much for this as they did for some Schuzhen sauce that McDonalds released that resulted in social media complaints.

Unless Rick and Morty do a Salt and Vinegar crisps episode I doubt it.
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Re: British thread

Postby prophet » Oct 10, '17, 8:26 am

Big up the Seabrook massive
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Re: British thread

Postby PorkChop » Oct 10, '17, 10:46 am

prophet wrote:Big up the Seabrook massive

Seabrook is the pound-for-pound most underrated crisp Imo.
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Re: British thread

Postby AkydefGoldberg » Oct 10, '17, 11:46 am

Oh yes, Seabrooks Cheese and Onion I used to happily wolf packets down at work before I started my healthy eating. Salt, Ready Salted in Seabrooks as well but Cheese and Onion for me.

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Re: British thread

Postby Viazon » Oct 11, '17, 11:44 am

While on the subject of British snacks, does anyone remember Maverick bars? I am not usually big on many chocolate bars but I used to love those.
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Re: British thread

Postby Hanley! » Oct 11, '17, 12:21 pm

Maverick bars were awesome. They were like awesome rocky roads but in bar form. They didn't last nearly long enough. There's not enough Maverick nostalgia around either sadly, so I don't think we're ever getting a comeback.
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Re: British thread

Postby PorkChop » Oct 16, '17, 2:21 am

In the true British spirit of never being outdone by our American cousins, we've gone and got a hurricane of our own it seems. @Hanley! and the rest of Ireland are taking one for the team and will be most affected, though we're all supposed to have some awful weather this week I think.

We've never had a hurricane in our waters before. Quite crazy.
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Re: British thread

Postby Hanley! » Oct 16, '17, 3:06 am

We're not getting the worst of it here, as I'm in Dublin on the east coast. But much of the city has still closed down today. Lots of offices are closed, and others are working on skeleton crews. I'm working from home this morning. It's pretty crazy, nothing is ever cancelled in Ireland due to the weather. It just rarely gets in any way extreme here.

I'm still expecting it to be very mild compared to the kinds of weather events you see reported from the US, particularly once it gets to us. Still a bad sign though. This has been a banner year for climate change.

Not great news for my work either. :lol I'm in insurance and the company is on course to make a profit this year for the first time in a few years. Something like this will generate enough claims to make a real dent.
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