Castle Crisps

[RichardB]

I approached 500 postings and asked if I would get a "Castle Crisps Badge", instead I got a "The 500 Club" picture-thingie (not sure what it's called, I call it Crispy), just so we know there was a Castle Crisps .....

Fish and chip shops were the only 'fast food' outlets available, and children would spend their pocket money on 'a pen'orth' of chips with 'bits' pieces of batter that had fallen off the fish. These could be 'washed down' with dandelion and burdock, ice cream soda or lemonade, which had been produced by local manufacturers Heath & Smith or Ben Shaw. A substitute for 'pop' was a glass of water with liquorice stick dipped in for flavour. Jubblies were triangular cartons or orange juice that had been frozen and could be bought from the ice cream seller. Local manufacturer, Massarella's would ride around the streets with a horse and cart, and in later years Wall's sellers would ride their freezer tricycles blowing a whistle or ringing a bell.

The corner shop or local sweetshop was a magnet for a child with pocket money; sweets could be bought for as little as a penny or even a farthing. There were love hearts, sherbet fountains or dabs, 1d chews, fruit salad, lucky bags, liquorice pipes, cherry lips, broken toffee and broken biscuits, Butterkist popcorn, dolly mixtures, gobstoppers, bubble gum, bulls eyes (which changed colour), toffee apples, cola cubes, midget gems 'boilings' which lasted longer! Local specialities included Armitage's pear drops, Mary Teale's humbugs (both of which stuck to the triangular bags in which they were sold), Nuttall's Mintoes, Parkinson's Royal Butterscotch and Radiance toffees. There were no flavoured crisps for sale only plain. Smith's Crisps, and locally produced XL and Castle Crisps added a small twist of salt in blue paper to the bag.

Source : http://www.speakingvolumesonline.org.uk/ed...l.asp?ia_id=606

Rather delightful site, this page came from "Innocence, Freedom and Fun: Childhood Memories"

More information on this site :

Project aims

The Speaking Volumes initiative aims to bring the enjoyment of reading and involvement in reading activities to people with a visual impairment through the public libraries in all fifteen local authorities throughout the Yorkshire and Humber region.

Go pay 'em a visit :rolleyes:

[RichardB]

does anyone remember them castle crisps??? they were yumm esp the spring onion flavour

from http://www.amirsfans.co.uk/forum/lofiversi....php/t3321.html

I do, I do, I also had the late 1960's badge lol

[mickjj]

I remember "Blue Peter" badges lol

[RichardB]

Still waiting for my Castle Crisps Badge !

[DaveH]

Still waiting for my Castle Crisps Badge !

Them little blue crisps don't half taste salty!

At one time most manufacturers made crisps like this, - unsalted with a little blue bag or "twist" of salt.

Then came ready salted, - and then every conceivable combination of artificial flavours, E-numbers and additives.

More recently with health concerns about high levels of salt in our diets the earlier style of crisps have made a bit of a come back.

Smiths produce a "Blue Bag" packet of crisps.

A number of manufacturers produce totally unsalted crisps, - should be quite healthy then, especially as they are fried in polyunsaturated vegetable oils.

Yorkshire Crisps produce unsalted crisps with the flavour title "Nowt On" lol

[syrup]

Them little blue crisps don't half taste salty!

At one time most manufacturers made crisps like this, - unsalted with a little blue bag or "twist" of salt.

Then came ready salted, - and then every conceivable combination of artificial flavours, E-numbers and additives.

More recently with health concerns about high levels of salt in our diets the earlier style of crisps have made a bit of a come back.

Smiths produce a "Blue Bag" packet of crisps.

A number of manufacturers produce totally unsalted crisps, - should be quite healthy then, especially as they are fried in polyunsaturated vegetable oils.

Yorkshire Crisps produce unsalted crisps with the flavour title "Nowt On"

Yorkshire Crisps a Sheffield based company also do Hendersons Relish Flavour.

www.yorkshire-crisps.co.uk

[DaveH]

Yorkshire Crisps a Sheffield based company also do Hendersons Relish Flavour.

www.yorkshire-crisps.co.uk

Didn't realise Yorkshire Crisps were Sheffield based, I thought they were from North Yorkshire somewhere (Harrogate?)

Anyway, with flavours like "Hendersons Relish" and "Nowt On" they can't really go wrong in Sheffield can they.

[Markbaby]

This one was on ebay, sold for 99p plus postage

[RichardB]

This one was on ebay, sold for 99p plus postage

Made me smile; I'd certainly have bought that ... memories ... Tsavo kind of promised me one of those Badges if I got to 500 Posts before him - we didn't half talk some twaddle

I retain my "500" avatar partly through apathy, partly through the fact I don't know how to change it (and yes, I've been told how to do enough times ! The Link Fairy might provide details for the education of newer Members, I'll probably just stick where I am).

There will be another along in 20 years or so.

[ukelele lady]

This one was on ebay, sold for 99p plus postage

Weren't the Castle crisps made in Conisborough, named after the castle?

Some years ago I tried hedgehog flavoured crisps, I don't know who made them

but I loved them [my husband always said I am a gypsy]

Some Christmas's ago some company also did turkey and stuffing flavour, loved

them too.

Many years ago XL did a sausage & tomato, yes you've guessed it, loved them too.

[SteveHB]

Weren't the Castle crisps made in Conisborough, named after the castle?

Some years ago I tried hedgehog flavoured crisps, I don't know who made them

but I loved them [my husband always said I am a gypsy]

Some Christmas's ago some company also did turkey and stuffing flavour, loved

them too.

Many years ago XL did a sausage & tomato, yes you've guessed it, loved them too.

I belive that they were made in Castleford

[ukelele lady]

I belive that they were made in Castleford

It must be X.L I'm thinking of then , who have or had a factory in Conisborough.

[madannie77]

A crisp manufacturer based in Sheffield was H & C Reynold's of Effingham Road:

(this is from the 1953 Sheffield Telegraph Railway Guide)

I assume that the factory was the one seen in the very bottom left hand corner of Map 68. Nice site for a food factory, between the River Don and the canal, with Salmon Pastures and the refuse destructor not far away!

[DaveH]

Weren't the Castle crisps made in Conisborough, named after the castle?

Some years ago I tried hedgehog flavoured crisps, I don't know who made them

but I loved them [my husband always said I am a gypsy]

Some Christmas's ago some company also did turkey and stuffing flavour, loved

them too.

Many years ago XL did a sausage & tomato, yes you've guessed it, loved them too.

Not good for you ukelele lady.

Apart from the fat, which is probably a healthier vegatable oil these days, all those flavours are artificial, - chemicals, additives, preservatives, colourings, flavour enhancers and all sorts of other stuff with E-numbers.

Then on top of all that there is the rather large amount of salt they contain, above the daily recommended intake and likely to give you high blood pressure.

As I suffer from high blood pressure anyway I tend to avoid crisps these days. The only ones I have now are, -

Yorkshire Crisps "Nowt on"

Seabrook Crisps "Unsalted"

Both are unflavoured and contain no salt AND both are made in Yorkshire ;-)

[ukelele lady]

Yes I agree Dave but I don't eat many crisps as I can't find a good one today.

You're right about the Yorkshire crips, they're ok.

I found that it was XL that had their factory in Conisborough, it is now Waites Cash n Carry.

[DaveH]

Yes I agree Dave but I don't eat many crisps as I can't find a good one today.

You're right about the Yorkshire crips, they're ok.

I found that it was XL that had their factory in Conisborough, it is now Waites Cash n Carry.

I used to eat a lot when my evening drink was in pints of beer.

Now that my evening drink tends to be in glasses of wine I eat a lot less

Not reached the stage yet where my evening drink is a cup of cocoa or a glass of hot milk lol

[ukelele lady]

We're losing some more of our English foods to the Yanks.

Kettle Crisps are being bought by American Diamond foods.

:(

[DaveH]

We're losing some more of our English foods to the Yanks.

Kettle Crisps are being bought by American Diamond foods.

All the Yanks will do is drop the word "crisps" and call them "fries"

Over the years we have lost a great deal of our language, including the precise meaning of certain words, its gramatical structure and correct spelling to the Americans

[madannie77]

All the Yanks will do is drop the word "crisps" and call them "fries"

Over the years we have lost a great deal of our language, including the precise meaning of certain words, its gramatical structure and correct spelling to the Americans

Is this the American spelling? :o

[DaveH]

Is this the American spelling?

No its just me that can't spell

Americans would spell it grammatical anyway as they like their M&M's even though they think they are Smarties ;-)

[RichardB]

Just shy of three years and 12,000 posts later I've got my Castle Crisps Club badge in place lol

[madannie77]

No its just me that can't spell

Americans would spell it grammatical anyway as they like their M&M's even though they think they are Smarties

Surely the American name for crisps is chips, and their name for chips is fries. Aren't the kettle things already called Kettle Chips, or am I getting confused (getting my Snickers in a twist, perhaps?). :o

[DaveH]

Surely the American name for crisps is chips, and their name for chips is fries. Aren't the kettle things already called Kettle Chips, or am I getting confused (getting my Snickers in a twist, perhaps?).

What we need here madannie is an English - American dictionary!

Proof perhaps that they speak a totally different language to us

But they have the nerve to call their language "English" and then tell us WE are in the wrong :angry:

[madannie77]

What we need here madannie is an English - American dictionary!

Proof perhaps that they speak a totally different language to us

But they have the nerve to call their language "English" and then tell us WE are in the wrong

This might help: http://www.bg-map.com/us-uk.html

Divided by a Common Language is a book which deals with this topic (I haven't read it yet)

It's not only the Americans. There are many people in this country who seem to speak a different English to mine: I live in Cumbria, for a start, where the local language seems to be a mixture of English, Scottish and gibberish (better gibberish than I speak, anyway).

What was this thread about, anyway. Was it crisps?

[DaveH]

This might help: http://www.bg-map.com/us-uk.html

Divided by a Common Language is a book which deals with this topic (I haven't read it yet)

It's not only the Americans. There are many people in this country who seem to speak a different English to mine: I live in Cumbria, for a start, where the local language seems to be a mixture of English, Scottish and gibberish (better gibberish than I speak, anyway).

What was this thread about, anyway. Was it crisps?

I think it was this news item that got us going off topic.

Kettle Chips