O/T Threads

[monty_rhodes]

CAM, recall the crisps well. They’d be XL crisps made in Conisborough

Brin, not in my day. Crisps were Smiths and they didn't have a sachet but a blue paper wrap with the salt in. Only one flavour then; first new flavour was Cheese & Onion but I can't remember when they came in. No crisps ever as good as Smiths.

[CAMiller]

Lovely photo, Cam. Fizzy orange and crisps with the little blue salt wrap - seems like yesterday.

Yes Smiths with the salt in ball a blue tissue paper twisted to keep it in. Got me thinking about other crisp manufacturers like XL etc. before Walkers/Lays took over the world.

[sickly_child]

Remember XL, I used to live opposite the Joker, many a day sat on the wall with pop and XL.

[monty_rhodes]

Remember XL, I used to live opposite the Joker, many a day sat on the wall with pop and XL.

Sickly, it's not as photogenic as the Yellow lion I'm afraid!

[sickly_child]

No it's not.

[monty_rhodes]

No it's not.

Most of us Madsters seem to have spent our childhoods eating crisps and drinking pop outside pubs. In my case it was because my dad was inside the pub. We were always sworn to secrecy not to mention it to mom!

[sickly_child]

Happy days.

[CTMilller]

Most of us Madsters seem to have spent our childhoods eating crisps and drinking pop outside pubs. In my case it was because my dad was inside the pub. We were always sworn to secrecy not to mention it to mom!

Too, true, Monty. There are pubs to the east side of Rotherham whose frontages I am intimately familiar with having spent so many Sunday lunchtimes staring at them from the family saloon...the best known being The Sitwell Arms in Whiston. What was it about that post-war generation of parents that they socialised so much in pubs and left their children sitting outside for hours on end?!

Frog's mentioning of the word 'Nibbits' immediately takes me back. The quality control on them was always a bit questionable - every packet contained one or two designed to break your milk teeth - but, overall, they were amazingly tasty!

[sota]

Most of us Madsters seem to have spent our childhoods eating crisps and drinking pop outside pubs. In my case it was because my dad was inside the pub. We were always sworn to secrecy not to mention it to mom!

Mom? Oh heck Monty, do you mean Mum or Mam? ;-)

[frogmiller]

I can't remember Nibbits but I found a whole thread on a Sheffield forum about peoples' memories of them although one guy said they looked and tasted like yellow polystyrene!

The taste of them wasn't that good but they came in a massive red bag and it's the memories they bring.