Monster munch

LoLth

How come we never got the other flavours of monster munch over here?

I can only ever find the yellow spicey crisps. I want my pickled onion flavour crisps right now dammit!

Pighead

Go for the Mega Meanies then. Cheaper greener and most importantly Made In Ireland. Theres also a red monster on the front of the packet if its the whole monster thing you're after.

Degsy

Sound advice pighead..OR you could get a packet of generic crisps and eat them with a jar of pickled onions,they'd last longer too.

dlofnep

Monster much are tasty. Think I'll go loot a pack from the canteen.

monkeyfudge

Why did we only ever get the little fact box on the cyclops?

When Monster Munch first came out I thought that we were going to be regularly enlightened with facts about various mythological beasts.... but no... it was always the bloody cyclops.

monkeyfudge

monkeyfudge wrote:

Why did we only ever get the little fact box on the cyclops?

When Monster Munch first came out I thought that we were going to be regularly enlightened with facts about various mythological beasts.... but no... it was always the bloody cyclops.

Yes this always irked me also.

The cyclops is gone now isnt it?

monkeyfudge

ronoc wrote:

The cyclops is gone now isnt it?

He still haunts my dreams anyway.

humanji

ronoc wrote:

Yes this always irked me also.

The cyclops is gone now isnt it?

It wasn't PC to single eyed people!

Baggly

you ll be glad you can recognise one once armegeddon happens. then there ll be bucket loads of cyplopssssses about. and those who were paying attention to their monster munch will survive.


its basic darwinian theory

DOLEMAN

Have you ever tried putting a few monster munch in vodka and then drinking it? Lovely. Works with beer as well.

Wigertoods

Don't ye just love the way they get caught in your teeth.
(The monster munch that is).:D

dlofnep

Wigertoods wrote:

Don't ye just love the way they get caught in your teeth.
(The monster munch that is).:D

That's the only downfall with monster munch.. Unless you like storing food in your teeth.

DOLEMAN

DOLEMAN wrote:

Have you ever tried putting a few monster munch in vodka and then drinking it? Lovely. Works with beer as well.

What happened did you let some fall in and then drink your drink anyway?:)

I love monster munches I rarely get eat to them because my little sister loves them too and she's does tae kwon do and she's a sneaky little bitch so if she hasn’t nicked them from my bag she kicks me till I hand them over!
I love Mega Meanies too
in fact i love all crisp's but the ones that uses to be 10p rule

DaBreno

LoLth wrote:

How come we never got the other flavours of monster munch over here?

I can only ever find the yellow spicey crisps. I want my pickled onion flavour crisps right now dammit!

They are in Ireland, in a purple pack I believe, but you have to be prepared to travel into the country for em. Any small newsagent in a small village is good bet.

petes

Only thing I didn't like about Monster Munch was, you might get three of them in the pack covered in flavouring and the rest are as as dry as fook.

Vegeta

haven't they changed the name to mighty munch

I haven't seen a real packet of monster munch in years



For the record best crisps/taytos/snack in a bag ever

DOLEMAN

I think Mighty Munch are the Irish ones (Tayto or something) and Monster Munch are the UK ones (Walkers?)

They both taste the same though...

Vegeta

ahhhh that would explain it then, I haven't seen the walkers version in years though

monkeyfudge

Yeah... I just went to the shop to buy 2 packets... I asked for Monster Munch and I got Mighty Munch... it's just not on... it's a completely different type of munch.

No cyclops either.

Oh.. and for a price check : 46c

Terry

we got ripped on the 10p crisps.
they used to weigh 20 grammes, but now they are 16 grammes and cost 20 cent. ****.

mind you, i regularly pay €2.20 for a pack of walkers thai sweet chili. nicest crisps ever (except for nice 'n spicy flavour nik naks).

the Shades

Tayto made Monster Munch under liscence from KP or Walkers one of the two until KP/Walkers decided to expand their product line in the Irish market. As a result Tayto changed the name and declared a 'new improved flavour' at the same time.

Oobie

Mighty Munch (old monster munch) are much better than the walkers monster munch. I'd love some now!

The old monster munch were a lot yummier

Pigman II

I remember I once managed to get a packet of non puple monster monster munch (I got the fat blue guy , beef iirc?) and I almost instinctively savoured each crisp as if I knew a day like this would not come again

Anyway Alien Spacers kicked monster munches ass. Tasted nicer and instead of ol cyclops everytime you instead got an assortment of 8 comic strips.

Ruu_Old

LoLth wrote:

How come we never got the other flavours of monster munch over here?

I can only ever find the yellow spicey crisps. I want my pickled onion flavour crisps right now dammit!

All the crisps have changed since we were younger, they aint the same. Less in the bag and smaller bags.

Pigman II

Ruu wrote:

smaller bags.

Are they really tho? I used to think the same but then I found a box containing all my old toys from when I was a kid and as I held them in my hand to my dismay I could tell that each and every one of them had shrunk over the intervening years.

Ruu_Old

That or more hands got bigger

Ruu

Ruu wrote:

All the crisps have changed since we were younger, they aint the same. Less in the bag and smaller bags.

Chocolate bars are narrower and thinner too
cheap gits!

monkeyfudge

I walked up Bray Head recently and it's no where near as big as it was when I was a kid... bloody rip off.

Baggly

did you know that for the last 3 years they have reduced the size of the creme egg by 2% each year.

no i didnt measure, my uncle works in cadburys. as will i soon.


mwhahahaahahahaha

Ruu_Old

petermonaghan wrote:

did you know that for the last 3 years they have reduced the size of the creme egg by 2% each year.

no i didnt measure, my uncle works in cadburys. as will i soon.


mwhahahaahahahaha

*added to buddy list*

Dyr

monkeyfudge wrote:

Why did we only ever get the little fact box on the cyclops?

When Monster Munch first came out I thought that we were going to be regularly enlightened with facts about various mythological beasts.... but no... it was always the bloody cyclops.

i too have borne for many years this feeling of being totally gipped by only ever reading about the cyclops as a child. How i wished back then to even SEE a different flavour packet of monster munch :mad:

in other news, walkers thai sweet chili is nice but those current mccoys posh flavour range are the knees of bees.

I heartily concur on the spicy nik naks and would add that cheesy wotsits hold their own against crisp

but then what happend to burger bites?

monkeyfudge

Aldi does the fancy McCoys crisps.

I got a nice big bag of Thai Sweet Chicken flavour there for €1.49.

SpitfireIV

Speaking of crisps changing since we were young.....does anyone remember cheese and onion crisps by the name of "Ma Reily's"?? There were in a red bag with a see through part on the front, 10p they cost, no one I know remembers them :rolleyes:

As for the Mighty Munch, had a packet of them last night, jeez, them things really know how to cling to your teeth and then you get the few that are practically bright red because they have so much falvouring in them.......:D they make your face scrunch up!!

CroppyBoy1798

Pigman II

I remember them only because there was a guy in my class called "Reilly" or possibly "O'Reilly" who rather unsensibly used to eat them all the time and being kids we'd always take the piss out him by going "was yer Ma up early making your lunch again for ya?"

monkeyfudge

This getting more and more All Things Retro by the post...

But does anyone remember Hedgehog Crisps? You would get them in health food shops and some of a money went to Hedgehog rescue centres... They were really tasty.

SpitfireIV

Pigman II wrote:

I remember them only because there was a guy in my class called "Reilly" or possibly "O'Reilly" who rather unsensibly used to eat them all the time and being kids we'd always take the piss out him by going "was yer Ma up early making your lunch again for ya?"

Cool! I knew they existed and that it wasnt my imagination....:) . Cheers!

Just found this from Boards.ie back in 2002:

Anyone from laois remember Ma Reily's, they were the ultimate poxy crisp that your aunt or granny always bought you, Adbundant in the laois area.(the crisps, not granny's)

Hangdogroad

RE: that thing with the Cyclops on the back of the Monster Munch packets. I've never been able to find an image of it online. Anyone who grew up in 80s Ireland will remember it. It showed him about to bite into what looked like a big stone, though presume it was supposed to be a loaf of bread, and the stone/loaf was dripping with red gore.

Does anyone have an old packet that they could scan and upload?

JupiterKid

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