Parsnip crisps

[strung out]

not too keen on the beetroot ones, carrot and parsnip are ok though

 

[cesare]

I've never really "got" crisps, to be honest. I have nothing against hideously unhealthy food per se. But if I'm going to do that to myself, I'd like it to be worth the consequences. Eating slivers of vegetable soaked in boiling oil until said oil makes the whole thing crispy and greasy really requires more than a faint taste of whatever artificial additive is sprinkled on top of it. I want real joy from the experience, not a mindless bit of munching.

Likewise. I'd rather have a big pile of creamy, buttery mash and some rich onion gravy.

 

[Beanburger]

Chilli flavour plantain crips, ftw!

 

[kabbes]

Mmmmm rich onion gravy.

Or possibly a cream tea.

 

[cesare]

Mmmmm rich onion gravy.

Or possibly a cream tea.

Cream teas are too rich, it's the cream. Toasted teacakes dripping with butter win more

 

[dodgepot]

Chilli flavour plantain crips, ftw!

yeah

 

[tarannau]

They're ok, but not a patch on spud crisps if you ask me. Vegetable chips are for ponces in the main.

Parsnip crisps are better than parsnip chips though. My old (primary) school dinnerladies used to play cruel tricks on us and serve those up instead of ordinary chips. Proper chips were an exciting rarity, whereas the parsnip imposters were just rank. I was once so disappointed and offended by the cloying sweet flavour that I may well have thrown tears and tantrums.

 

[kained&able]

Likewise. I'd rather have a big pile of creamy, buttery mash and some rich onion gravy.

but that comparison makes no sense!

Crips are in a packet that you get out of a cupboard and can eat while wondering about or with a snadwich for lunch.

You've gone with an accompaniment to a main meal. I'm not going to have sausage beans and a packet of ready salted for a main meal!!!

Just as i'm not going to have a ham sandwich, mash & gravy for lunch.


dave

 

[DotCommunist]

If I hadn't split the vote with a third option the forces of right would be winning by now

 

[dodgepot]

Vegetable chips are for ponces in the main.

oh hush your beak, man.

 

[Beanburger]

Vegetable chips are for ponces in the main.

I may well have thrown tears and tantrums.

 

[newme]

Dried bannna chips are OK. But they are more into the dried fruit land than the land of crisps

Mmmm yeh i remember having those when I was ickle loads, nommy not crisps tho.

 

[Santino]

Mmmmm rich onion gravy.

Or possibly a cream tea.

How about a cream tea with a scone made of Yorkshire pudding batter, cream made of mash and jam made of gravy?

 

[Griff]

If we're talking snacks with a vegetable twist, then there's none finer than Holland & Barretts' Wasabi Broad-Beans.

They are special.

 

[ice-is-forming]

so these parsnip crisps then? do you reckon i could make some out of thinly sliced pumpkin or sweet potatoe?

 

[Onket]

People really need to stop using this fucking 'nom' word too.

 

[kyser_soze]

so these parsnip crisps then? do you reckon i could make some out of thinly sliced pumpkin or sweet potatoe?

Yup - really thin slice, then a drop of oil on a bakign tray and voila! My missus does them regularly.

BTW, I'm impressed that, as an Aussie, you know that 'crisps' refers to 'chips' My GF still gets them confused after 5 years in the UK

 

[ice-is-forming]

Ha! i'm not a 'proper' aussie...i didn't get here till i was 29.

its still crisps or hot chippies for proper 'chips'....i may make some out of sweet potatoes tomorrow....

 

[dodgepot]

People really need to stop using this fucking 'nom' word too.

like, totally, dude.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I hold that they are fucking foul.

A poll

Ambivalence is definitely my watch-word here, because I've had some parsnip crisps (are you reading, Mr. Stamp? ) that tasted like what I suspect Satan's armpit would taste like, and I've eaten others which were fantastic (Aldi).

 

[cesare]

How about a cream tea with a scone made of Yorkshire pudding batter, cream made of mash and jam made of gravy?

Cold Yorkshire pudding with golden syrup

 

[cesare]

but that comparison makes no sense!

Crips are in a packet that you get out of a cupboard and can eat while wondering about or with a snadwich for lunch.

You've gone with an accompaniment to a main meal. I'm not going to have sausage beans and a packet of ready salted for a main meal!!!

Just as i'm not going to have a ham sandwich, mash & gravy for lunch.


dave

If I'm hungry, needing a nibble, I ain't gonna get a packet of crisps I'd rather wait or have summat more interesting.