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Your latest purchases, cont.

Butters said:
Curry and chips flavoured Pringles, which our littlest, Mr won’t eat scampi because it’s too spicy, devoured way more than his fair share and refuses to part with the tube in case any he misses any of the seasoning.
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Where do you get those? We don't get exotic Pringles flavors in the stores here, and Amazon charges over $12 for ONE TUBE.

My latest purchases... more penguins. The Penguin Place sent a code for 25% off for their Father's Day sale. So I bought two keychains and a magnet. They've got a baby Gentoo plush, but I'll get that another time, preferably when it's on sale.

Future purchases... my birthday is on Saturday, so I am giving myself a new pair of slippers (old pair is literally falling apart) and some soup and dumplings from my favorite Chinese restaurant.

My cat's birthday is later this month. Haven't decided what to get her yet. She'll be 11.
 
Timewalker said:
Where do you get those? We don't get exotic Pringles flavors in the stores here, and Amazon charges over $12 for ONE TUBE.
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They only seem to do them at ASDA, the UK branch of Walmart. I think they’re limited edition for the World Cup. They’re doing Paprika flavour too and s couple other we can’t have because of milk.

Pigs in Blanket flavour, and Turkey Stuffing are still available from Christmas.

$12 is a bit steep. They’re £1.25 here.

ETA: just seen the carton is Match Day Edition, and they’ve been renamed Pringoooals for the occasion.
 
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Butters said:
They only seem to do them at ASDA, the UK branch of Walmart. I think they’re limited edition for the World Cup. They’re doing Paprika flavour too and s couple other we can’t have because of milk.

Pigs in Blanket flavour, and Turkey Stuffing are still available from Christmas.

$12 is a bit steep. They’re £1.25 here.

ETA: just seen the carton is Match Day Edition, and they’ve been renamed Pringoooals for the occasion.
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Paprika is one of the flavors listed on Amazon for that price I mentioned.

"A bit steep" doesn't begin to cover it. They're normally between $2-$3 CAD, and right now Amazon has the regular flavors on add-on sale for $1.67 (if you buy at least $25 of Amazon goods). I should be able to get at least 4 tubes for what Amazon.ca is demanding.

Since I'm curious to try them, but not to the point of insanity, it looks like I will never have the chance. The Walmart here was selling Hot Dog flavor for awhile (very tasty, so of course it was discontinued) and I loved the Mystery flavor (figured out right away that it's Philly Cheese Steak).

Lays has a lot of flavors I used to love when Hostess did them... their pizza chips were ten times better than Pringles, and they had fries & gravy (a combo I despise in real-food form, but the chip flavor is wonderful), chicken, the best dill pickle chips I've ever had, and the taco chips they had were... indescribably delicious.

But all this was back in the '70s/'80s. None of the stores here carry those Lays flavors and they're not available online.
 
One thing I've learned about Brits from having many friends over there...they LOVE their flavoured crisps! They have flavours you'd never think of here. Almost a four-course meal in chip form.
 
Scribble said:
One thing I've learned about Brits from having many friends over there...they LOVE their flavoured crisps! They have flavours you'd never think of here. Almost a four-course meal in chip form.
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It’s one of the most striking things I notice when I go overseas, how little variety there is outside the UK.

Here, we live for the crisps, we would die for the crisps.
 
Butters said:
It’s one of the most striking things I notice when I go overseas, how little variety there is outside the UK.

Here, we live for the crisps, we would die for the crisps.
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My impression is that Canada has more variety than the U.S. does, or so I've been told. Some of the flavors and varieties we take for granted here are either new there, or impossible to get in some regions.

But it seems that some of the insanely-expensive ones here are just run-of-the-mill over in the UK.

The catch-22 is, of course, that nobody wants to take a chance on exotic flavors because they don't think enough people will buy them. But the reason enough people won't buy them is because they're either not available, or if they are, it's at such a high price that it's beyond the budget of most people. There are a lot of things I'd spend $12 for, but a tube of potato chips isn't one of them.
 
Timewalker said:
My impression is that Canada has more variety than the U.S. does, or so I've been told. Some of the flavors and varieties we take for granted here are either new there, or impossible to get in some regions.

But it seems that some of the insanely-expensive ones here are just run-of-the-mill over in the UK.

The catch-22 is, of course, that nobody wants to take a chance on exotic flavors because they don't think enough people will buy them. But the reason enough people won't buy them is because they're either not available, or if they are, it's at such a high price that it's beyond the budget of most people. There are a lot of things I'd spend $12 for, but a tube of potato chips isn't one of them.
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If American Tv is any indicator, the variety of ice cream more than compensates for lack of crisps. But I wouldn’t switch places.

Crisp flavours are very nuanced. Beef is not the same as Beefy, or Babecue Beef, Roast Beef, Beef and Onion, Beef and Mustard, Steak and Ale, Aberdeen Angus and Red Wine Vinegar...

Brannigans crisps were my favourite but I haven’t seen them for a while. They were thick cut and came in strong flavours, most notably Beef and Mustard.

Sea Brooke is another popular, one of happy memories, the ones my parents would bring back from the pub when I was little, and relieve me of my torturers with a warm hug and the scent of alcohol and winter night air about them.

Piglets. They were pig flavoured, not pork or bacon, pig flavoured potato puffs. I miss them dearly. Hedgehog flavour was a fad at one point.

Canadian Ham was my all time favourite for sandwiches.

If I could get funding, I would write my thesis on crisps.
 
Butters said:
If American Tv is any indicator, the variety of ice cream more than compensates for lack of crisps. But I wouldn’t switch places.

Crisp flavours are very nuanced. Beef is not the same as Beefy, or Babecue Beef, Roast Beef, Beef and Onion, Beef and Mustard, Steak and Ale, Aberdeen Angus and Red Wine Vinegar...

Brannigans crisps were my favourite but I haven’t seen them for a while. They were thick cut and came in strong flavours, most notably Beef and Mustard.

Sea Brooke is another popular, one of happy memories, the ones my parents would bring back from the pub when I was little, and relieve me of my torturers with a warm hug and the scent of alcohol and winter night air about them.

Piglets. They were pig flavoured, not pork or bacon, pig flavoured potato puffs. I miss them dearly. Hedgehog flavour was a fad at one point.

Canadian Ham was my all time favourite for sandwiches.

If I could get funding, I would write my thesis on crisps.
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Some of those sound... okay, are those real flavors? Seriously, hedgehog-flavored potato chips?!

I don't want to know what hedgehog tastes like, either in real animal form or as a flavoring. They're considered pets here. Not that I've ever had one or would want one.
 
Timewalker said:
Some of those sound... okay, are those real flavors? Seriously, hedgehog-flavored potato chips?!

I don't want to know what hedgehog tastes like, either in real animal form or as a flavoring. They're considered pets here. Not that I've ever had one or would want one.
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Hedgehog was a gimmick in the eighties. I don’t remember the flavour but I imagine it being sage-ish. I doubt real hedgehogs were involved though.
 
Hopefully not.

I had an opportunity today to buy a large plush penguin. A really large one. There's a gift shop at the mall that had a plush Emperor Penguin for $200.

Considering that it would have been a choice between food for the month and a penguin, I opted to eat. But it was incredibly adorable and the clerk did let me hug it...
 
Timewalker said:
My impression is that Canada has more variety than the U.S. does, or so I've been told. Some of the flavors and varieties we take for granted here are either new there, or impossible to get in some regions.
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I've heard in the past that both Ketchup and All Dressed aren't available in the US, but I'm not sure if that's still the case.
 
Avro Arrow said:
I've heard in the past that both Ketchup and All Dressed aren't available in the US, but I'm not sure if that's still the case.
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All dressed is not available in the UK,

“wiki” said:
All-dressed (assaisonnées in French) is a potato chip flavor popular in Canada. The flavor combines the potato chip flavors of barbecue, sour cream and onion, ketchup, and salt and vinegar.
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I have just begun to compile my snacks bucket list.
 
Tank of petrol
Large chicken
A ham
Irish sausages
Cabbage, savoy
Spuds
Carrots
Peppers
Tinned sliced mushrooms
Black beans, tinned
Pitted black olives
Smoked paprika
Vinegar
Beefy seabrook crisps
Plain crisps
Passata
Tomato purée
Tinned chopped tomatoes
Garlic purée
Baps
Danish loaf
Crate of beer
Smoked ham, sliced
 
Lacuna Coil -The Presence of The Past 20 years of Lacuna Coil contains:
The EPS/HalfLife
In A Reverie
Unleashed memories
Comalies + Comalies Deluxe Edition CD2
Karmacode + Visual Carma Live at Wacken
Shallow Life + Shallow Life Deluxe Edition CD2
Dark Adrenaline
Broken Crown Halo
Delerium
Rarities & B-Sides

More than worth it, they'll always be a favorite of mine.
 
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