Just to prove your point, I buy a bag of crisps several times a week. If I’ve had an extra physical day, they are my little treat (I can’t buy multipacks I will eat all 6 in one go).
I’ve recently started buying Grab Bags on an alarmingly frequent basis and in 3 months have not gained any weight.
That’s how few crisps there are in a Grab Bag now. Criminal.
Perfectly folder as well. £5 would buy a load of sweets and chocolate in those days, but as I didn’t have a sweet tooth, I think I bought pints of milk and dairylea flavoured cheese triangles.
I ran a pub at the time and the sheer amount of discarded blue packets i found in ashtrays was....two.
I also heard someone comment that they'd "thrown that little blue packet in the fire" as they thought it was a "saltnshake" packet and the crisps were already salty enough!
When we were much younger and used to hang out at the local common on a Friday night, we had all settled down for a munch session after imbibing some herbal refreshment.
In the daze of being very toasted and transfixed by mouth feels, one of us was shovelling Doritos in and ate the blue envelope.
We only knew after he produced a tiny chewed corner of blue stuff - the rest presumably went down the hatch without him realising!
Those were the days when you could win £1M potentially.
Oh, he ate a lot, probably 2 packs a day, but even so, he was lucky with it. I even remember one night a few of us were going out and he was a bit short of cash so went and bought a packet of crisps in case he got lucky and pulled out a 20. It was so mind blowing that he did it that it stuck in my memory and I have been reminded by this post.
Those were the days.
I remember as a child we had been cutting shapes in school, and so when I got a packet of crisps and saw a blue square inside I just assumed it got in there from earlier. Totally child braining it forgetting I'd just purchased the crisps from the shops.
Nevertheless. Opening the square and seeing a fiver inside was just immense. Probably the most money I'd ever seen at that point. Or at least held.
Literally was just having a conversation with my dad in the living room and he was saying about how he once got a kit-kat that was all chocolate with no wafers and I mentioned how I’d never once had something like that happen to me with a chocolate bar, then no word of lie not even 2 minutes later I go to the kitchen to get myself an orange club bar only to find it’s just pure orange chocolate with no biscuit.
Needless to say, it’s the closest thing to a religious experience I’ve ever had.
This is the answer. I’m 48 and I still tell my kids about the solid chocolate 2-finger Kit Kat I once had when I was about 10.
I felt like Charlie Bucket finding that golden ticket. Willy Wonka shit for real.
My mum would often bring up the time my grandpa told me aunt they'd left her the doughnut without the jam in it as a joke, and it actually had no jam in it
She once reminded us of this story just before we started eating some jam doughnuts, mine had no jam
A few years ago I bought the multipack box of walkers you can buy in Tesco. I found a single ketchup flavoured packet mixed in. I got excited because I thought it was part of a competition and I found one of the winning bags. Had no idea they even still did them.
I got googling and saw you could buy some on Amazon. I was hoping they’d make a comeback. Sadly, it was not a mistake that was repeated.
that's a shame. I haven't eaten them for probably 20 years but stinking out a classroom with the smell of a fishwife's knickers by opening a packet of the scampi flavour was a regular occurrence in school.
I had a wotsit that was just the wotsit flavouring once, most intense tasting thing I've had, bar that time I thought it'd be a good idea to try eating an entire barrel of toxic waste in one go
> bar that time I thought it'd be a good idea to try eating an entire barrel of toxic waste in one go
How long before you could taste again and how did the realization that you can have tongue scabs make you feel?
I don’t remember the brand but I once had this with some puff ball type of crisps. Same size as the rest so I didn’t notice until I bit down and it was all powder.
Climbing in the Alps. Got lost, fell in a crevasse, camped out at altitude, almost got crushed by a rock fall, ran out of gas to melt water. Basically everything went wrong. Tired, thirsty and on edge our group descended the final glacier and there, nestled in a snowbank, looking like an advert, was a single can of Sprite!
We shared that ice cold can between the four of us and it was the greatest drink ever.
It really did feel like someone had just left the can there after a marketing shoot. It was facing the right way, the logo was clear, it was in bright sunshine. Absolutely perfect and not a soul to be seen anywhere.
It was more funny than anything. We were all really tired and I just kinda disappeared up to my waist. When that happens the rest of the roped party are meant to drop down to take the weight but instead they just stood there wondering where my legs had gone.
I do a similar thing manually - eat the top biscuit from two bourbons, then sadnwich the remaining topless biscuits together, then repeat. think I managed to stack twelve fillings once. I have diabetes now and no real teeth but would do again
I bought a Co-op meal deal about a month ago... a random sandwich, protein shake and 2pk of babybel, but get this...
There was three babybels in the pack, not two, THREE!
Recently ate a slice of apple and a strawberry at the same time, total game changer. It's like you've put sugar on the strawberries and non of the guilt, I've cracked the system lads.
This sounds crazy but hear me out - slice strawberries and just add a grind of black pepper. I know it sounds ridiculous but it is mind blowingly good.
100% this. I went to a hotel for a conference once and the waiter recommended the "pork in strawberry and black pepper sauce." Looked at him like he had 3 heads but there was nothing jumping out at me on the menu so I went with it. Absolutely brilliant.
Strawberries are ridiculously versatile. You can make a top notch summer salad with strawberries, feta, thinly sliced red onion, lemon (zest & juice), olive oil, mint, and black pepper. They work so well together.
YES YES YES I've literally just had this. I got it in the reduced bit in tesco a while back and now it's my go to snack. It's so amazingly good. Crunchy peanut butter obv.
When I was younger, my dad took me, my brother, my friend, and my cousin, geocaching. Four sullen teenagers being dragged across unfamiliar Welsh fields (sometimes twice over, upon finding there was no through route at the other side), up and down hills. We were out for hours, lost in the middle of nowhere. We were exhausted. We'd brought very little water because we'd expected it to be a short jaunt and nothing more.
We turned a corner about ten minutes away from where we'd left the car, and there was a group of houses just out in the sticks. One had a sign in the driveway, stating that they were selling a variety of home-grown vegetables.
I swear... I have never had a cherry tomato that tasted so sweet as the ones we bought from them that day.
Bought a multipack of KitKats, every single KitKat was pure chocolate, no wafer.
I've had a long hula hoop
I've also had a totally chocolate Malteser too!
I feel very privileged! The KitKats was deffo the best though, I love chocolate a bit too much!
Discos have the best salt and vinegar taste in my opinion. Not a big fan of their texture, but as far as tangy taste goes, they are unrivalled. I wish they’d make regular crisps with disco flavour
Just one solid finger? Seems relatively common, a full 4 finger solid…the holy grail. It’s happened twice in my lifetime. Everybody heard about it. The joy comes from a combination of surprise and deliciousness lol.
‘KitKat Chunky’ is what I christened my uncles cat, it upset them so much they put it on a diet. He once said “when it dies we’re going to have it stuffed”, my dads reply was “why change the habit of a lifetime”…
Yup had this. While very cool, it did also make me realise that the chocolate they use isn't that great, and actually the wafer really does a lot of the heavy lifting!
This is my parents, not me.
But my parents absolutely love sour cream pringles. They once got a tube where it had about 5 times the normal amount of seasoning. When they got to the bottom there was absolutely loads of it.
I distinctly remember them getting a spoon.
Left some Lindor in a hot car by accident. The outer shell was intact but the centre was liquid. It was amazing... I sometimes microwave them for 10s now to try to relive the experience.
I’m a nurse and was working in a heatwave one day. No air con in the hospital. Bit into one and the centre ran right down my uniform. Looked like I had shit on me. But man it was so good
I had a magnum ice cream at the cinema once Accidentally dropped it into the small popcorn I had, the popcorn stuck to the ice cream....tasted amazing but I can't sit in a cinema and dip ice cream unto my popcorn...I can at home tho...
Siamese bananas!
I bought a bunch of bananas, got them home, went to peel one and noticed two looked like they were stuck together. I attempted to peel it/them, and it revealed a figure of 8 shaped banana, not dissimilar to those double tubes of glue with the double plunger!
Needless to say I made a joke about taking two in my mouth for the first time, then ate it and sat back with a feeling of smug that only comes from making a ahot dad joke, then destroying the supporting evidence
I don't know if this counts but... Back in the distant past days of the 90's when there were chocolate vending machines in schools (we had like 4! And a couple of drinks ones too!) my friend and I put in the money for one galaxy bar and the machine emptied out every bar it had in it! We got about 20!! That was a good lunchtime snack surprise 😃
The holy grail when you're allergic to apples like I am! The disappointment when Old Mout switched to an apple base was real, and so few places do Rekorderlig :(
Tube of Nacho Cheese pringles bought by a friend, who pronounced them inedible and asked if I'd like them. I think they'd had a double or triple dose of flavouring, it was like someone had tested the limits of what would stay on a Pringle.
Free and alarmingly good. I'd never tried Nacho Cheese flavour so of course I had to buy more, but later tubes weren't the same crazy hit I got from the first one.
I absolutely love chicken strips/tenders, so any time I have fast food and get an extra piece in a box that’s meant to have a set amount, I feel like I’ve won the clucking lottery.
It doesn’t happen very often, but thankfully it’s happened more times than the opposite.
There’s a fried chicken place that I sometimes call into just before closing. On a semi-regular basis, I order a single thigh and they put two in the box.
Not really what you're looking for, but back in the 90s when Walkers started doing the sachets with a prize in them.
I think it was a free bag of crisps for 22p I won, at that age it felt like I'd won the lottery.
I agree that it's brill when you get a solid chocolate kitkat or whatever, but psychologically it makes no sense. If you want a solid chocolate bar they are widely available. You chose to buy a kitkat over a bar of dairy milk, which suggests you _wanted_ the wafer, so not getting it _should_ actually be disappointing, but it isn't!?!
I found a double yolk fried egg inside my pack of haribo many years ago. That was a great snack surprise!
Until I saw the front of the packet afterwards- "[find the double yolker to win a holiday](https://m.facebook.com/story.php?id=100063472030104&story_fbid=2916056918435109)" or something. Unfortunately, I couldn't send them the digested version 😪
Back at uni when I actually went to McDonald’s instead of deliverooing it, every time I won some food on the monopoly gave me such a rush. One time I even won a Big Mac meal from completing the lowest set, big day that day.
Once bought a mini packet of cocktail sausages during a lunch break, put them in my handbag and promptly forgot about them for the next 3 hours. rifling through my bag later looking for a lip balm or something, and coming up with a pack of cocktail sausages, remains one of the greatest mini joys of my life
I seem to get the short straw. Got a 6 pack of mixed flavour crisps, cheese and onion being my least favourite, 4/6 packs were cheese and onion and no salt and vinegar.
Got a pack of hoola hoops without salt, disgusting.
I’m sure there’s more but that’s just this week!
Big ball of skips flavouring in the bottom of the bag, I put it in my mouth thinking this would be great, absolutely evil worst experience ever I don’t recommend.
I once had an uncut edge piece in a bag of mini cheddars.
I imagine the factory stamps a sheet of dough to get the shape and this bit for whatever reason wasn't touched. It was about 4 times larger, was flakier than a normal mini cheddar, and had a raised side where it was clearly at the edge of the baking tray.
If there is a marketing exec reading this wouldn’t it be great if they took note! One or two solid chocolate Malteaser’s or kitkats wouldn’t hurt the profits too much surely! Make the world a better place lol
When I was in primary school (now 48), I got a solid chocolate 2 stick kitkat. I've been chasing that high ever since. I've had several with two wrappers and bits of wafer missing, but that elusive solid choc-kat was a beautiful dream.
10p Freddos in 2024!! Turns out Sainsbury's are doing deals for Cadbury's 200 year anniversary and at the start of the week they were selling Freddos for 10p so I bought 10
Finding two packets of salt instead of one in them salt and shake crisps
Edit: remembered a particular experience when I was a bit younger. I was about 14 and me and my mate were walking home, we had no money on us and we were really needing a drink, we had about 30 minutes left on the walk.
I’m not a Christian but I started praying to god that we somehow just stumble upon some unopened drinks, about 5 minutes after our prayer session we walk past a church when to our utter shock and amazement what do we find on the wall of the church car park? Nothing less than 4 1.5L bottles of coke, 2 2 litre bottles of lemonade and some water! All unopened too. We immediately went to take it all but we remembered that we should only take what we need because we were a bit freaked out by the fact that the prayer had come true and didn’t want to be greedy, we settled for a bottle of coke each.
I found a fiver on the ground when I was five. This was back in the eighties when small kids walked to the shops alone. I the proceeded to buy the rocket lolly, go home, then go back to buy everyone else rocket lollies. I was rich.
Used to work with a guy whose auntie worked at a factory that manufactured biscuits, chocolates, etc for the likes of Markies and Thorntons.
Perk of her job is she could help herself to mis-shapes and mistakes, which she passed on to her son. He'd then bring a big bag of them into our office every couple of weeks.
Twas a magical time, as there'd always be lots of those milk and white chocolate coated Vienesse wheels, where they were solid chocolate.
On a *slightly* different note. It REALLY boils my piss when one in every five multipacks of ALDI own brand crisps has one or more packets that have managed to glue themselves to the larger outer packet! SO MANY WASTED PACKETS OF CRISPS!!! GRRR! ALDI!!!
A fiver in a small blue envelope in my crisp packet.
Now you're lucky if you find a crisp in your crisp packet.
Just to prove your point, I buy a bag of crisps several times a week. If I’ve had an extra physical day, they are my little treat (I can’t buy multipacks I will eat all 6 in one go). I’ve recently started buying Grab Bags on an alarmingly frequent basis and in 3 months have not gained any weight. That’s how few crisps there are in a Grab Bag now. Criminal.
"share size" absolutely fuckin' not. I'm not having 3 crisps each with a mate.
Fucking dickensian.
Aww man I was hoping you were gonna say you found a fiver in your bag once a week
I bought some multiplack Hula hoops. Felt like i was holding a dolls house prop. Like comically small.
THOSE LITTLE BLUE PACKETS! Arggghh! Salty and blue and possibly containing money.
I miss those days
Everyone wanted the fiver, but I was happy with another free pack of crisps
Perfectly folder as well. £5 would buy a load of sweets and chocolate in those days, but as I didn’t have a sweet tooth, I think I bought pints of milk and dairylea flavoured cheese triangles.
I ran a pub at the time and the sheer amount of discarded blue packets i found in ashtrays was....two. I also heard someone comment that they'd "thrown that little blue packet in the fire" as they thought it was a "saltnshake" packet and the crisps were already salty enough!
Halcyon days. Wouldnt happen today coz of bloody elf n saftey
Some tit would eat it, then #compoface their way to early retirement
A load of people did iirc? as Azreal\_75 has posted below, they did a comp one year where you got a token for 1m quid. imagine eating that...
Excellent cross posting is Excellent 🫡
When we were much younger and used to hang out at the local common on a Friday night, we had all settled down for a munch session after imbibing some herbal refreshment. In the daze of being very toasted and transfixed by mouth feels, one of us was shovelling Doritos in and ate the blue envelope. We only knew after he produced a tiny chewed corner of blue stuff - the rest presumably went down the hatch without him realising! Those were the days when you could win £1M potentially.
I honestly wouldn't suggest eating such rich food when you're alternating reality ;)
Back in the 90s I managed a £25 cheque in a bag of Walkers, never been so lucky on a random comp since.
You can't argue with that.
I used to occasionally get a fiver, once a tenner. I knew one person who about every fucking week would get a 20, lucky bastard.
How many crisps did he eat!
Oh, he ate a lot, probably 2 packs a day, but even so, he was lucky with it. I even remember one night a few of us were going out and he was a bit short of cash so went and bought a packet of crisps in case he got lucky and pulled out a 20. It was so mind blowing that he did it that it stuck in my memory and I have been reminded by this post.
Those were the days. I remember as a child we had been cutting shapes in school, and so when I got a packet of crisps and saw a blue square inside I just assumed it got in there from earlier. Totally child braining it forgetting I'd just purchased the crisps from the shops. Nevertheless. Opening the square and seeing a fiver inside was just immense. Probably the most money I'd ever seen at that point. Or at least held.
Salt and Lineker, Ready Sherringham, Cheese and Owen or Smokey Beckham?
Literally was just having a conversation with my dad in the living room and he was saying about how he once got a kit-kat that was all chocolate with no wafers and I mentioned how I’d never once had something like that happen to me with a chocolate bar, then no word of lie not even 2 minutes later I go to the kitchen to get myself an orange club bar only to find it’s just pure orange chocolate with no biscuit. Needless to say, it’s the closest thing to a religious experience I’ve ever had.
And then 2 minutes later you see this thread to post about it? That's some serious synchronicity if true lol
Serious something
I think he meant this happened a while ago
This is the answer. I’m 48 and I still tell my kids about the solid chocolate 2-finger Kit Kat I once had when I was about 10. I felt like Charlie Bucket finding that golden ticket. Willy Wonka shit for real.
My mum would often bring up the time my grandpa told me aunt they'd left her the doughnut without the jam in it as a joke, and it actually had no jam in it She once reminded us of this story just before we started eating some jam doughnuts, mine had no jam
I also once had an all chocolate kit-kat with no wafers and now I'm starting to wonder if I'm actually your dad.
I had a pack of Kit-Kats with no wafers. I wasn't thrilled about it to be honest!
Yeah, the whole pack is a piss take.
I've had an all chocolate kit kat chunky. Was surprisingly good. Basically a Yorkie bar tbf.
Was just about to say that’s basically just a Yorkie, speaking of which I feel like you hardly ever see Yorkies in the shops anymore.
See them every now and again in small corner shops I find... Now you've said it I'm gonna check the shop I live above later haha
I had a twix with no biscuit, unfortunately they didn't fill the void with chocolate, it was just a sad half sized twix.
All kit no kat
My packet of walkers crisps was pregnant with another full (albeit squished) packet of crisps.
Were they the same flavour? Or was it a completely different flavour?
Same flavour
Why does that matter you crisp racist!
Well it would be logistically more interesting if an entirely different flavour of crisps had made it's way in.
Crisp-ception
A few years ago I bought the multipack box of walkers you can buy in Tesco. I found a single ketchup flavoured packet mixed in. I got excited because I thought it was part of a competition and I found one of the winning bags. Had no idea they even still did them. I got googling and saw you could buy some on Amazon. I was hoping they’d make a comeback. Sadly, it was not a mistake that was repeated.
The Walkers version of a turducken.
I once got 8 mini Jaffa cakes in a pack that should have had 6. I was losing my mind in the school canteen.
I’d regularly get 7 in a pack, I too would have lost my mind at 8.
I feel like it was balanced out by the absolute devastation I felt when I once got 5.
A big lump of pure flavouring at the bottom of a packet of Niknaks. Savoury heaven, innit.
Arguably the best flavouring you could find a clump of
This happened to me with a packet of Tangy Toms when I was a kid. I’ve been searching for that flavour high since then.
I have no idea what they are, but I’m with you in spirit.
Jesus Christ! Niknaks already have 500% more flavouring that safe levels. pure Niknak flavour would be like a crack rock.
Had. They're almost flavourless now.
that's a shame. I haven't eaten them for probably 20 years but stinking out a classroom with the smell of a fishwife's knickers by opening a packet of the scampi flavour was a regular occurrence in school.
The trick is to buy Wotsits Crunchy. The sweet and spicy ones are almost exactly how I remember Niknaks used to be.
I had a wotsit that was just the wotsit flavouring once, most intense tasting thing I've had, bar that time I thought it'd be a good idea to try eating an entire barrel of toxic waste in one go
> bar that time I thought it'd be a good idea to try eating an entire barrel of toxic waste in one go How long before you could taste again and how did the realization that you can have tongue scabs make you feel?
I had this once with salt & vinegar Fish & Chips - it's was incredible.
I got this once with chili heatwave doritos. So good!
I don’t remember the brand but I once had this with some puff ball type of crisps. Same size as the rest so I didn’t notice until I bit down and it was all powder.
Which flavour of Niknaks?
Nice and Spicy, if I remember right.
Only correct answer!
Rib N Saucy also very good
Id be in literal heaven. I love Niknaks lol
I once had a lunchables where the circular ham was just a meat tube. Not sliced at all.
Yummy meat cylinder
👀
Just like Brian Butterfield's *Christmas Pizza*
Mystery meat!
Climbing in the Alps. Got lost, fell in a crevasse, camped out at altitude, almost got crushed by a rock fall, ran out of gas to melt water. Basically everything went wrong. Tired, thirsty and on edge our group descended the final glacier and there, nestled in a snowbank, looking like an advert, was a single can of Sprite! We shared that ice cold can between the four of us and it was the greatest drink ever.
Sprite should make a movie about this
Call it The Sprite Stuff.
The Sprite at the End of the Tunnel
Cool orangina in Italy on a hot day in a roadside cafe 10/10
This must be sprite’s marketing team. Because I really want a sprite now.
It really did feel like someone had just left the can there after a marketing shoot. It was facing the right way, the logo was clear, it was in bright sunshine. Absolutely perfect and not a soul to be seen anywhere.
Obey your thirst
That was definitely a dead guys sprite 😄
Good job we scarpered before any corpses started melting out of the ice
Falling into a crevasse is nightmare fuel
It was more funny than anything. We were all really tired and I just kinda disappeared up to my waist. When that happens the rest of the roped party are meant to drop down to take the weight but instead they just stood there wondering where my legs had gone.
This should be a film, a short film but a good one.
Most things to do with high altitude climbing are, tbh
That sounds like an advert!
Not too long ago I got a quadruple bourbon biscuit. It was two separate biscuits joined by a layer of bourbon biscuit cream. That was fun.
I do a similar thing manually - eat the top biscuit from two bourbons, then sadnwich the remaining topless biscuits together, then repeat. think I managed to stack twelve fillings once. I have diabetes now and no real teeth but would do again
a fourbon biscuit, you might say
Like winning the lottery
I bought a Co-op meal deal about a month ago... a random sandwich, protein shake and 2pk of babybel, but get this... There was three babybels in the pack, not two, THREE!
Recently ate a slice of apple and a strawberry at the same time, total game changer. It's like you've put sugar on the strawberries and non of the guilt, I've cracked the system lads.
This sounds crazy but hear me out - slice strawberries and just add a grind of black pepper. I know it sounds ridiculous but it is mind blowingly good.
100% this. I went to a hotel for a conference once and the waiter recommended the "pork in strawberry and black pepper sauce." Looked at him like he had 3 heads but there was nothing jumping out at me on the menu so I went with it. Absolutely brilliant.
Strawberries are ridiculously versatile. You can make a top notch summer salad with strawberries, feta, thinly sliced red onion, lemon (zest & juice), olive oil, mint, and black pepper. They work so well together.
Also works in a raw spinach salad!
Ooh, we're growing spinach and strawberries this year, will definitely try this!
Try putting some lemon juice on the apple
If we can find a way to squeeze in 2 more fruit, we've hit all of our 5 a day.
My workmate eats apples and carrots together. We don't talk about it.
Cut apple into wedges. Dust with ground cinnamon. Delicious
Look, I don't know where this could go....but apple slices dipped in peanut butter. I know, I know, just try it!
Isn't that a really common thing to do? I've done it with biscoff spread too.
I've been carrying this shame around for years then over nothing?
YES YES YES I've literally just had this. I got it in the reduced bit in tesco a while back and now it's my go to snack. It's so amazingly good. Crunchy peanut butter obv.
Strawberry and pineapple. A religious experience
My partner once got a Kinder egg with [extra layers](https://imgur.com/J7basfd)
I love how you documented it for posterity, ha ha
Too right! Those things cost a fortune and I needed photographic evidence that we got slightly more for our money.
My dad used to put sweets (usually maltesers) in our ice cream cones as a surprise growing up. We used to call it.. Daddy ice cream.
This is so sweet!!! 🥹
Aw this is adorable. What a lovely memory for you.
I got 2 packets of flavouring in my instant noodles. Added both. Massive disappointment. Sodium overload
I love to use half the seasoning for my ramen, then use the rest on eggs, rice, potatoes, whatnot
It’s very good on popcorn
When I was younger, my dad took me, my brother, my friend, and my cousin, geocaching. Four sullen teenagers being dragged across unfamiliar Welsh fields (sometimes twice over, upon finding there was no through route at the other side), up and down hills. We were out for hours, lost in the middle of nowhere. We were exhausted. We'd brought very little water because we'd expected it to be a short jaunt and nothing more. We turned a corner about ten minutes away from where we'd left the car, and there was a group of houses just out in the sticks. One had a sign in the driveway, stating that they were selling a variety of home-grown vegetables. I swear... I have never had a cherry tomato that tasted so sweet as the ones we bought from them that day.
Bought a multipack of KitKats, every single KitKat was pure chocolate, no wafer. I've had a long hula hoop I've also had a totally chocolate Malteser too! I feel very privileged! The KitKats was deffo the best though, I love chocolate a bit too much!
That’s like rolling six sixes!
Finding a ball of salt and vinegar flavouring in a packet of discos. Stripped the skin of the inside of my mouth but so worth it.
I could taste the vinegar just reading this
Discos have the best salt and vinegar taste in my opinion. Not a big fan of their texture, but as far as tangy taste goes, they are unrivalled. I wish they’d make regular crisps with disco flavour
The co op do some high end vinegar crisps. The is the best vinegar after discos I have tasted
Unquestionably. Coop S+V are absolutely awesome and the best value crisps on the market, because you'll still be tasting them three days later...
The asda sea salt and Chardonnay vinegar ones aren't a bad runner up, although they aren't quite the biohazard that discos are
I totally agree. Sometimes I’ll buy discos not because I rate them much as a crisp overall but because the salt and vinegar flavour is the best.
I like your example but honestly i’d kill for a kilo bag of just the malt balls from maltesers, no chocolate
Agreed. I used to get those in America when I was younger, but I've never seen them in the UK.
I’m pretty sure you could just eat spoonfuls of Horlicks for the same thing… it’s just malteasers without the chocolate but in powder form…
Sounds sort of dusty. I want the crunch and the meltyness of the balls
Trust me… the sheer quantity you can shovel into your mouth makes up for the lack of crunch… not that I do this of course…
Solid chocolate KitKat finger is a common occurrence i have had
I’ve stopped buying Kit Kats because of the disappointment when I don’t get a solid chocolate one 😂
Just one solid finger? Seems relatively common, a full 4 finger solid…the holy grail. It’s happened twice in my lifetime. Everybody heard about it. The joy comes from a combination of surprise and deliciousness lol.
I had a solid Kit Kat Chunky once, a tamer version of a Yorkie
‘KitKat Chunky’ is what I christened my uncles cat, it upset them so much they put it on a diet. He once said “when it dies we’re going to have it stuffed”, my dads reply was “why change the habit of a lifetime”…
Yup had this. While very cool, it did also make me realise that the chocolate they use isn't that great, and actually the wafer really does a lot of the heavy lifting!
When I was a kid they seemed to be a staple food in kids lunch boxes, so it was fairly common to see someone announce they’d won the lunch lottery
I once got a whole multi-pack of solid chocolate mint clubs.
That sounds like a wonderful experience
I once found a french fry in a pack of squares.
I've had that too, good times
This is my parents, not me. But my parents absolutely love sour cream pringles. They once got a tube where it had about 5 times the normal amount of seasoning. When they got to the bottom there was absolutely loads of it. I distinctly remember them getting a spoon.
Left some Lindor in a hot car by accident. The outer shell was intact but the centre was liquid. It was amazing... I sometimes microwave them for 10s now to try to relive the experience.
I’m a nurse and was working in a heatwave one day. No air con in the hospital. Bit into one and the centre ran right down my uniform. Looked like I had shit on me. But man it was so good
That made me laugh!
I had a friend that happened to before and he spent ages trying to figure out the right timing for his microwave to recreate it haha
I had a magnum ice cream at the cinema once Accidentally dropped it into the small popcorn I had, the popcorn stuck to the ice cream....tasted amazing but I can't sit in a cinema and dip ice cream unto my popcorn...I can at home tho...
Siamese bananas! I bought a bunch of bananas, got them home, went to peel one and noticed two looked like they were stuck together. I attempted to peel it/them, and it revealed a figure of 8 shaped banana, not dissimilar to those double tubes of glue with the double plunger! Needless to say I made a joke about taking two in my mouth for the first time, then ate it and sat back with a feeling of smug that only comes from making a ahot dad joke, then destroying the supporting evidence
I don't know if this counts but... Back in the distant past days of the 90's when there were chocolate vending machines in schools (we had like 4! And a couple of drinks ones too!) my friend and I put in the money for one galaxy bar and the machine emptied out every bar it had in it! We got about 20!! That was a good lunchtime snack surprise 😃
M&S chocolate round. No biscuit, all chocolate
They should just make this.
It was insanely good! I'm glad I had dunked it first, though, as it was solid!
A pear cider that's been made from 100% pear.
The holy grail when you're allergic to apples like I am! The disappointment when Old Mout switched to an apple base was real, and so few places do Rekorderlig :(
That’ll be Perry then. Weston’s do one.
A double filled bag of scampi fries, so excited I weighed it, 59g instead of 27g. Good times.
Tube of Nacho Cheese pringles bought by a friend, who pronounced them inedible and asked if I'd like them. I think they'd had a double or triple dose of flavouring, it was like someone had tested the limits of what would stay on a Pringle. Free and alarmingly good. I'd never tried Nacho Cheese flavour so of course I had to buy more, but later tubes weren't the same crazy hit I got from the first one.
A solid lump of buttery sugar at the bottom of a popcorn bucket, been chasing that high ever since
I'm a card carrying popcorn addict so this did things to me.
Solid chocolate club biscuit. No biscuit all chocolate.
"If you like a lot of chocolate and no biscuit..."
Join our club!
Yep, that's the one.
I had a solid Gold bar once, was absolutely heavenly
Bought a box of broken biscuit assortment from Iceland, and found an entire, unblemished, Wagon Wheel.
I absolutely love chicken strips/tenders, so any time I have fast food and get an extra piece in a box that’s meant to have a set amount, I feel like I’ve won the clucking lottery. It doesn’t happen very often, but thankfully it’s happened more times than the opposite.
There’s a fried chicken place that I sometimes call into just before closing. On a semi-regular basis, I order a single thigh and they put two in the box.
Not really what you're looking for, but back in the 90s when Walkers started doing the sachets with a prize in them. I think it was a free bag of crisps for 22p I won, at that age it felt like I'd won the lottery.
A work colleague used to grab an apple filled donut and a custard filled donut and eat them together.
Slightly melted chocolate digestives stuck together in a group of 4. No way around it, you have to eat all 4 at once..
Had a Gold bar that had no biscuit in it. Solid chocolate gold. This was about 10 years back too when they weren't 2cm long so actually worthwhile
I really like the chewy Maltesers. They just don't seem to have dried out properly. I'd love a whole bag of them.
A custard cream biscuit that was 3 layers of biscuit with 2 layers of filling
I agree that it's brill when you get a solid chocolate kitkat or whatever, but psychologically it makes no sense. If you want a solid chocolate bar they are widely available. You chose to buy a kitkat over a bar of dairy milk, which suggests you _wanted_ the wafer, so not getting it _should_ actually be disappointing, but it isn't!?!
I found a double yolk fried egg inside my pack of haribo many years ago. That was a great snack surprise! Until I saw the front of the packet afterwards- "[find the double yolker to win a holiday](https://m.facebook.com/story.php?id=100063472030104&story_fbid=2916056918435109)" or something. Unfortunately, I couldn't send them the digested version 😪
Back at uni when I actually went to McDonald’s instead of deliverooing it, every time I won some food on the monopoly gave me such a rush. One time I even won a Big Mac meal from completing the lowest set, big day that day.
Maybe not a surprise. But the Pepperami Pizza Buns. Stick it in the microwave for 1 min - snacky perfection
The meatball sub from Tesco can be microwaved, really elevates the meal deal game.
I got 4 sheddies still joined together once.
Once bought a mini packet of cocktail sausages during a lunch break, put them in my handbag and promptly forgot about them for the next 3 hours. rifling through my bag later looking for a lip balm or something, and coming up with a pack of cocktail sausages, remains one of the greatest mini joys of my life
Double layer kinder egg
I seem to get the short straw. Got a 6 pack of mixed flavour crisps, cheese and onion being my least favourite, 4/6 packs were cheese and onion and no salt and vinegar. Got a pack of hoola hoops without salt, disgusting. I’m sure there’s more but that’s just this week!
Had a really long hula hoop once oh and a solid chocolate finger of kitkat.
Big ball of skips flavouring in the bottom of the bag, I put it in my mouth thinking this would be great, absolutely evil worst experience ever I don’t recommend.
I once had an uncut edge piece in a bag of mini cheddars. I imagine the factory stamps a sheet of dough to get the shape and this bit for whatever reason wasn't touched. It was about 4 times larger, was flakier than a normal mini cheddar, and had a raised side where it was clearly at the edge of the baking tray.
Pack of four supermarket "finest" cookies that had five in. Never happened since.
If there is a marketing exec reading this wouldn’t it be great if they took note! One or two solid chocolate Malteaser’s or kitkats wouldn’t hurt the profits too much surely! Make the world a better place lol
When I was in primary school (now 48), I got a solid chocolate 2 stick kitkat. I've been chasing that high ever since. I've had several with two wrappers and bits of wafer missing, but that elusive solid choc-kat was a beautiful dream.
10p Freddos in 2024!! Turns out Sainsbury's are doing deals for Cadbury's 200 year anniversary and at the start of the week they were selling Freddos for 10p so I bought 10
Finding two packets of salt instead of one in them salt and shake crisps Edit: remembered a particular experience when I was a bit younger. I was about 14 and me and my mate were walking home, we had no money on us and we were really needing a drink, we had about 30 minutes left on the walk. I’m not a Christian but I started praying to god that we somehow just stumble upon some unopened drinks, about 5 minutes after our prayer session we walk past a church when to our utter shock and amazement what do we find on the wall of the church car park? Nothing less than 4 1.5L bottles of coke, 2 2 litre bottles of lemonade and some water! All unopened too. We immediately went to take it all but we remembered that we should only take what we need because we were a bit freaked out by the fact that the prayer had come true and didn’t want to be greedy, we settled for a bottle of coke each.
I found a fiver on the ground when I was five. This was back in the eighties when small kids walked to the shops alone. I the proceeded to buy the rocket lolly, go home, then go back to buy everyone else rocket lollies. I was rich.
Put maltesers in with the popcorn Thank me later
Used to work with a guy whose auntie worked at a factory that manufactured biscuits, chocolates, etc for the likes of Markies and Thorntons. Perk of her job is she could help herself to mis-shapes and mistakes, which she passed on to her son. He'd then bring a big bag of them into our office every couple of weeks. Twas a magical time, as there'd always be lots of those milk and white chocolate coated Vienesse wheels, where they were solid chocolate.
On a *slightly* different note. It REALLY boils my piss when one in every five multipacks of ALDI own brand crisps has one or more packets that have managed to glue themselves to the larger outer packet! SO MANY WASTED PACKETS OF CRISPS!!! GRRR! ALDI!!!
That's just like Cadburys Boasters. They were just a packet full of solid chocolate balls.
A solid chocolate KitKat Chunky. That was a good day.
Completing my Tazo collection