Taytos or Crisps

MrStuffins

Chuck Stone wrote: »

If y'all's gonna give out about people calling crips (yes, crips) Taytos, y'all betta stop calling vacuum cleaners 'Hoovers'.

Only auld biddies do this!

Sellotape < Sticky tape.

Sellotape is not < than Sticky Tape, it's the same thing!! How dare you!!

Thermos < Flask.

I've never heard anybody outside of a Hollywood movie call a flask a "Thermos"

Tippex < white stuff that covers mistakes in the olden days before word processing.

Tippex is tippex because saying "Correctional Fluid" is a sin for a number of reasons, not least because it sounds like "Erectional Fluid"!!

Petrol < refined petroleum spirit.

Pertol isn't a brand name.

Astroturf

Nobody smokes that sh*t anymore!

Biro

Pen

ChapStick

See "Thermos"

Jeep

4X4

etc etc.

Ok i'll give you that one, but that's it!

AgileMyth

Working in a shop I regularly get people looking for "Walkers Taytos".

bassy

a bag of spuds

Chuck Stone

MrStuffins wrote: »

Sellotape is not < than Sticky Tape, it's the same thing!! How dare you!!

Sellotape®

I've never heard anybody outside of a Hollywood movie call a flask a "Thermos"

I have.

Pertol isn't a brand name.

The word ‘petrol' was registered as early as 1892 in Great Britain as a trade name by British wholesalers Carless, Capel & Leonard and was used in reference to the refined product.

Source

Na-na-n-na-na™.

Jesus Wept

What did I say to ya about fhacts! :mad:

MrStuffins

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Sellotape®

Yeah but it's not <, it's the same job! Just like Tayto isn't < King (coz Tayto ain't sh*t)

Na-na-n-na-na™.

Damn!

I shall never use the term "Petrol" again. Not least because Sean Sherlock might have my mouth sellotaped shut for using a trademark........... I mean, he'll have my mouth sticky-backed-plasticed shut!

MrStuffins

The-Rigger wrote: »

What did I say to ya about fhacts! :mad:

Yeah Chuck, using facts and sh*t up in here! Facts can be used to prove any aul piece of sh*t theory!

Chuck Stone

/runs away. :pac:

Jesus Wept

Chuck Stone wrote: »

/runs away. :pac:

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Liam Byrne

whatsamsn wrote: »

Crisps.

Would be weird calling Pringles Tatyos :pac:

Especially since that muck is made from rice!

Taytos when asking for the best crisp, because they're the ones I want

Otherwise the generic term.

P.S. if I ask for Taytos in a pub and you say you have them, do not then produce a bag of Hunky Dorys or Walkers or whatever!

Lots of places do it for Coke v Pepsi much too! :-(

You wouldn't serve a Beamish to someone who asked for a Guinness, so why do it for crisp brands ?

P.S. Poll Fail because I call generic crisps "crisps" but I ask for "Taytos" because they're superior.....the OP says they call all Taytos, Taytos - which we all do.....the question is what we call the other crisps we don't want, which probably means we don't call then anything as we don't need to ask for them much.

Liam Byrne

Ficheall wrote: »

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Jeep

Is jeep a brand name? I thought it was an abbreviation of GP (general purpose vehicle).

Yup - Jeep is one very specific manufacturer

Mint Sauce

Wheres the opiton for 'Kings'?

Liam Byrne

irish-stew wrote: »

Wheres the opiton for 'Kings'?

I think that's the point - if someone prefers a specific brand then they'll ask for them.

Imagine going into a pub for the first time and asking for "a pint"

Speaking of which - anyone remember "pub crisps" ? They were yum!

MrStuffins

MrStuffins wrote: »

Tippex is tippex because saying "Correctional Fluid" is a sin for a number of reasons, not least because it sounds like "Erectional Fluid"!!

well feck ya anyway stuffy, I'm after nearly choking on my tea in the middle of the feckin hairdressers :pac:

Novella

Crisps.

Bad Panda

Tayto....and a mineral.

Seomra Mushie

I call them crisps. Tayto aren't even my favourite crisps so why would I call all crisps after them?

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

What do you call them, I call all Tayto's, Tayto's no matter what the brand. I do know people that call them crisps but that just sounds weird imho.

You mean... most people?

Potential-Monke

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Speaking of which - anyone remember "pub crisps" ? They were yum!

These?

Il Trap

Calling crisps 'Taytos' makes a person sound like a total bogger and, frankly, a bit of a simpleton. Cringe.

Abi

MrStuffins wrote: »

Stripey Cat wrote: »

Crips.

"Crisps" come in a packet - a packet of crisps.

"Crips" come in a package - a package a' crips!

I actually heard someone say .. (how do I even phonetically write this) .. "a paji' o crips' before. It's confusing, but there's a silent 't' at the end of 'pagi'.

Never mind my ears bleeding, they nearly fell the fcuk off.

I say crisps.

Chuck Stone

I call crisps crisps too but I was a kid up north where there was a bigger selection.

I was quite surprised about the lack of choice when I came to Cork City in the latter half of the 1980's compared with a small town up norf - there was no prawn cocktail (except skips but they don't count) which was my favourite flavour.

I'd imagine that in many of the smaller towns and country pubs there was only Tayto so it's understandable how people would have adopted the brand name as a generic term.

King give me fierce heartburn although they taste lovely and cheese-and-oniony - they're very tasty with a pint.

Mmmm crips...

Mint Sauce

Il Trap wrote: »

Calling crisps 'Taytos' makes a person sound like a total bogger and, frankly, a bit of a simpleton. Cringe.

Unless its actully 'taytos' that they want, rather than say 'walkers'.

Abi

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I call crisps crisps too but I was a kid up north where there was a bigger selection.

I was quite surprised about the lack of choice when I came to Cork City in the latter half of the 1980's compared with a small town up norf - there was no prawn cocktail (except skips but they don't count) which was my favourite flavour.

I'd imagine that in many of the smaller towns and country pubs there was only Tayto so it's understandable how people would have adopted the brand name as a generic term.

King give me fierce heartburn although they taste lovely and cheese-and-oniony - they're very tasty with a pint.

Mmmm crips...

For some reason I've a fierce want on me now for a pint and crisps

Mance Rayder

Abi wrote: »

For some reason I've a fierce want on me now for a pint and crisps

Or a pint OF crisps.

Il Trap

irish-stew wrote: »

Unless its actully 'taytos' that they want, rather than say 'walkers'.

That goes without saying. Hence the subject of the thread.

Il Trap

CiscoStudent wrote: »

Or a pint OF crisps.

Interesting...

saa

Gis us bag of Crips, shuuup wasn't axin ya was I.

saa

Buffalo Tayto..

meoklmrk91

Il Trap wrote: »

Calling crisps 'Taytos' makes a person sound like a total bogger and, frankly, a bit of a simpleton. Cringe.

I don't mind being called a bogger, I am, so are all the people I know. But simpleton is a little too far, someones use of a word does not make them a simpleton. In my personal opinion uses of the words crisps and cringe sound like an Irish person trying to sound like an English person, but then I don't attack people for that.

jaffacakesyum

Ugh I hate people calling crisps Tayto :mad: I know it's stupid but it's just a pet hate of mine. Thankfully, I live in Dublin so don't hear too much of it :P