What the hell...?

One of my earliest memories is of being violently sick after eating a crisp sandwich when I was about 3 or 4 years old. My Mum still eats them. I wonder whether that's enough evidence to have her put away?

I've eaten some crap in my time, but the appeal of crisp sandwiches are still a mystery to me. For some reason, though, your mum eating them didn't come as a surprise to me. What a woman.

Indeed, and if you'll pardon the rape of your bandwidth in this manner, I refer the uninitiated to the great story of my mother's unseemly behaviour in Amsterdam, thus:

http://posieflump.blogspot.com/2008/11/origins-of-insect-dropping-its-po...

I used to eat crisps sandwiches when I was little; I was convinced I'd invented them, too.

Crisps are good for breading, although I never do it because I try to avoid both unneeded fat and salt, but it works really well on Schnitzel :p

I like crisp sandwiches

Speaking of 'crisps hot', I was encouraged as a child to put crisps between the bars of my grandparents' gas fire and eat them hot, often red hot. In this way a whole winter evening could be whiled away for no more than the cost of a packet of Walkers, burning my mouth and reading up on world records from the back of the pack.

I should clarify that the crisps were left between the bars for a few moments and then removed and eaten, nobody suggested I should eat them straight from the bars in a daring variant of apple-bobbing. Red hot crisps are very nice. It's the next best thing to eating them straight out of the boiling fat.

I like crisp sandwiches too

As a child and young adult I loved setting fire to crisps with a lighter. I sometimes threw whole bags onto a friend's coal fire to watch them go up. Since they reduced the fat content, they don't sizzle like they used to.

Apart from Monster Munch. You can still get a steady, blue flame from one of those for a good five or six minutes. Please don't ask me why I do this!

What's up with the giant "IT IS" highlighted in "SmITh's CrISps"?

Curious as to how they work out in a lemon meringue pie...?

Try crisps in the pie, Estelle, and let me know! Maybe IT IS was some sort of marketing wheeze. And as for heating/burning crisps, I would have been told off for doing that when I was young!

You don't think I had PERMISSION to start small fires as a child, do you?

I'm loving the old-fashioned "knobbly" '60s pint glass in the "crisps in the pub" photo at the top. Apparently, they stopped using them because people kept hitting each other with them and instead moved onto the taller pint glasses with thinner glass we're more used to now. Since Britain's less-than-gentlemanly booze-users have taken to hitting each other with those as well some pubs are supposedly considering sticking to those horrible plastic things you get at festivals. T'is a shame.

Ahem. Makes you proud, doesn't it? I think pubs ought to use toddler mugs, frankly.

I remember in the 80's using a recipe that suggested using crushed crisps as a topping with melted cheese on the top of a chicken and mushroom bake...it was delicious...It's brought back enough memories for me to make it again!