we use bowls like that, but snacks slide out of them and onto the floor too easily. Chip packets are noisy and can ruin a movie. What to do??
deeper bowls? it not rocket science
hey! we’re talking snacks here, not sending people into space. sheeesh
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Often go into the cinema after work on a friday and take home a giant tub of buttered goodness.
this you?
Wtf is that thing.
The thing eating the butter?
she shoves it into her mouth and it comes out of her head
Thoughts on Pringles?
When they first released in Australia (early 90s), had an uncle working at Proctor & Gamble who got us box loads of them before they were for sale in shops (only Original & Sour Creme/Onion then but we thought we were pretty special as kids).
Enjoyed them for on/off for years after that… then about 5-6 years ago, they built a factory in Malaysia to service the Asia/Pacific region with the production of Pringles. I have gone right off them since as I don’t know WTF they have done… (well I was told that the Malaysian recipe is different due to Islamic customs and the tendency not to put certain ingredients in, sounds quite feasible). They’ve also greatly reduced the size and shape. I refuse to buy them now.
Got so desperate last year I ordered a box from the UK… and they tasted the way they used to taste, particularly the Salt & Vinegar. May order again. These ones are made in a factory in Belgium where we used to get them from here in Australia, as well as the US factory. Seen the US ones randomly at a convenience store in Star City (Sydney).
When you see the ‘Made in Malaysia’ logo on the Pringles can, don’t buy!
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CC’s used to be the go to snack, cheese supreme specifically. Hunting for the one with the most seasoning was, whilst selfish, a rewarding and overly salty experience.
Didn’t Pringles win some sort of raspberry a few years back from a world watchdog (along the lines of Choice or somesuch) for both a) scamming their customers (by reducing the size of the chips themselves, as well as the overall package size without a commensurate drop in price - something which is now a well-known con used by multiple companies), and b) having seriously environmentally-unfriendly packaging (difficult to recycle due to its combination of metal, plastic and cardboard?
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Back when I was a lowly trolley pusher at Safeway, CC’s Sour Cream & Chives were the go-to for getting through a shift. They came in a pale-green, almost white bag and weren’t around much more than a year or two unfortunately. They, Apple & Guava Primas and Blueberry Big M’s are long-remembered things which lit up my (much) younger years and which are sadly missed…
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Blueberry Big M’s ring a bell!! why are the great snacks n things the ones no longer made? (Including violet crumble bags which I used to scoff…ugh…fatty…)
I used to have chicken twisties (and Kraft peanut butter) sent over to the UAE when I lived there for 3 years. Food wise that’s what I missed the most (other than milk which didn’t taste weird).
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It’s so funny what foods you miss. One of the first things I would I would find when I came back for visits was a good bakery meat pie.
The other weirdly strange thing I missed was liquorice. Only now I’m slowly weaning myself back off it after eating so much the first few months back.
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Darrel Lea liquorice?
My wife (Canadian) pays obscene amounts for twizzlers here. Such a second rate liquorice but it’s what she grew up with (and is clearly addicted to).
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Clinkers are the go. Eating them with a packet of chips. I polished a bag off in my sleep after a night on the town. Never leave snacks next to the bed anymore.
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My youngest child has a Very mild superpower of being able to correctly guess the colour of a clinker 99% of the time. Does it by smell. Such a weirdo.
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Ha ha my son is the same. 
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Useless factoid: without Twisties, we would have several of the shopping centres we have in Melbourne. Isador Magid was playing around with an extrusion machine and invented Twisties (cheese flavour, the original and best). He sold this and took the cash and got into real estate. Specifically commercial real estate - retail shops. He used the money to develop, in turn, Mountain Gate shopping centre in Ferntree Gully (an open air development), Brandon Park, and then finally Fountain Gate in Narre Warren.
Fountain Gate included a residential development (Fountain Gate Estate) designed around the Radburn principles and with input from the well known architect Robin Boyd. The parabola shaped fountain that was created for the suburb exists to this day beside the Princes Highway, but was only used once because when it was used, it sprayed water all over the highway and was a hazard to traffic.
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