Taytos or Crisps

Big Nasty

Abi wrote: »

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.

Do ya mean 'package o' crips'?

Feckin' hate dat! :mad:

King all the way for me!

By the by Abi what happened to your KYN pic last night?

PhlegmyMoses

Calling all crisps Taytos is a country thing. Like calling cakes buns and soft drinks minerals.

Cicero

Cook your own...ftw:cool:

WoollyRedHat

I call em chips

Rothko

I've never heard anyone call crisps Tayto (apart from Tayto crisps of course) and I don't understand why they would.

Liam Byrne

PhlegmyMoses wrote: »

Calling all crisps Taytos is a country thing. Like calling cakes buns and soft drinks minerals.

It's nothing like that, because neither buns nor minerals are brand names!

And cakes are large plate-sized yokes that you cut to share, while buns are single-person sized!

Duckworth_Luas

Suas11 wrote: »

I've never heard anyone call crisps Tayto (apart from Tayto crisps of course) and I don't understand why they would.

The Tayto brand once had so much of the Irish market share, in what Americans call "potato chips", that their brand name became synonymous with the actual product here. A similar thing happened in the US with Hoover and in the UK with Tannoy.

It's one of those idiosyncrasies that makes Ireland unique. However, Dubliners, being from a place that is "as British as Finchley", wouldn't know that. :pac:

senorwipesalot

Tayto,the rolls royce of tayto.

TerrorFirmer

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

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.

Are you actually saying that you think people who use the word 'crisps' are trying to sound English? Would you **** off out of that....

I'm from the west of Ireland and no-one in my family, extended or local, right up the tree to my grandmother, called them 'taytos' unless they actually were that specific brand. I don't even know anyone that calls them 'taytos' actually, come to think of it. Because if they're not Tayto brand, then they're simply crisps if one wants to blanket it.

They're ****ing crisps.

Tayto are a brand of crisps.

All Crisps are not Taytos.

How is that hard.

meoklmrk91

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

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.

Are you actually saying that you think people who use the word 'crisps' are trying to sound English? Would you **** off out of that....

I'm from the west of Ireland and no-one in my family, extended or local, right up the tree to my grandmother, called them 'taytos' unless they actually were that specific brand. I don't even know anyone that calls them 'taytos' actually, come to think of it. Because if they're not Tayto brand, then they're simply crisps if one wants to blanket it.

They're ****ing crisps.

Tayto are a brand of crisps.

All Crisps are not Taytos.

How is that hard.

What is your issue, I stated two words in my post reply, crisps and cringe, not just crisps. Why are you getting so upset over what people choose to call taytos?

Rothko

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

The Tayto brand once had so much of the Irish market share, in what Americans call "potato chips", that their brand name became synonymous with the actual product here. A similar thing happened in the US with Hoover and in the UK with Tannoy.

It's one of those idiosyncrasies that makes Ireland unique. However, Dubliners, being from a place that is "as British as Finchley", wouldn't know that. :pac:

I'm not a Dubliner though and I still never heard anyone use it like that.

Chuck Stone

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Are you actually saying that you think people who use the word 'crisps' are trying to sound English? Would you **** off out of that....

They're ****ing crisps.

The English love their crisps and you seem quite passionate about this subject.

Are you sure there isn't a bit of English in you?

Duckworth_Luas

Chuck Stone wrote: »

The English love their crisps and you seem quite passionate about this subject.

Are you sure there isn't a bit of English in you?

They do love their taytos though, don't they though!

slapbangwallop

jaffacakesyum wrote: »

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

Wow! jackeens are sooooo sophisticated with their use of the term "crisps"

Anyway, I like to crush up my "packet a Tayto" and make a "Taytasamidge" after a heavy night on the sauce and then drop two "asprin" in my "coke" whilst having a "jacuzzi" in my "speedos"!

:rolleyes:

slapbangwallop

slapbangwallop wrote: »

Wow! jackeens are sooooo sophisticated with their use of the term "crisps"

It's not a 'term', genius, nor is it sophisticated to use it. It's just calling them what they actually are called.

Paparazzo

King ftw anyway.

cynder

I was born in Ireland but I spent the next 7 years in the uk where they called them crisps, then i move to Ireland no one here knew what crisps were, so after 10 years or so i start calling them taytos and now after using taytos for the last 12 years they are now crisps again......



ffs....

super_furry

"Howya boss, can I have a packet of Hunky Dory Taytos?"

Head asplode.

Plazaman

The-Rigger wrote: »

I grew up somewhere that many crisp brands, I presume you didn't.
P.S Tayto are shit.

:eek: BLASPHEMER !!!!

Tayto are the only potato crisp listed in the FDA Nutritional Guide as a food group in itself that has all the vitimans and minerals needed to sustain a person indefinitely *

* OK I made this up but Tayto are the most delish in my book

No you can't call all crisps Tayto. It's the whole Hoover/Vaccum arguement all over again.

meoklmrk91

grindelwald wrote: »

I was born in Ireland but I spent the next 7 years in the uk where they called them crisps, then i move to Ireland no one here knew what crisps were, so after 10 years or so i start calling them taytos and now after using taytos for the last 12 years they are now crisps again......



ffs....

Further proof that crisps is an English thing adopted by the Irish.....

the groutch

Tayto crisps are mank, they intentionally burn them, and then hit them with a slegehammer so they only come in tiny pieces.
And don't get me started about the green ones that get mixed in.

Duckworth_Luas

super_furry wrote: »

"Howya boss, can I have a packet of Hunky Dory Taytos?"

Head asplode.

"Hello good sir, may I purchase a Dyson hoover off your kind self?"

Head implodes!

the groutch

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

"Hello good sir, may I purchase a Dyson hoover off your kind self?"

Head implodes!

"Do ya have any of those Bic biros?"

Liam Byrne

super_furry wrote: »

"Howya boss, can I have a packet of Hunky Dory Taytos?"

Head asplode.

I'd agree, but the number of places that try to serve you Pepsi when you order a Coke is unbelieveable!

And it happens also with crisps - even if you explicitly ask for Taytos.

I just don't get it - if someone ordered a Guinness and got a Beamish there'd be murder, not to mention ordering a Golf and getting something "like a golf"

Seachmall

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

"Hello good sir, may I purchase a Dyson hoover off your kind self?"

Head implodes!

Out of curiosity, what is the term for when a brand becomes so popular it's name becomes a general name for the product?

I think about this at least once a year and can never remember what the term is (coincidentally I was asking people on Friday/Saturday about this).


To be honest I'm not sure I want an answer, after so long the answer can only be underwhelming.


Edit - Got it. Genericised Trademark. Very underwhelming.

Cee-Jay-Cee

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're the weirdo....Would you go into a Toyota dealership and ask to buy a Ford? Do you call all TV Channels RTE? Do you call all mobile phones Nokia?

If the answer to all of the above questions is NO then why TF would you call all crisps Tayto?

Nothingbetter2d

lol its a bit like Hoover or Vacuum Cleaner?

Hoover is only one of many brands of vacuum cleaners

washiskin

Back in the 70's my uncles went to the UK for a family funeral - youngest Uncle had never been "out foreign" before and was also teetotal. After the funeral everyone went back to a local pub and with no sign of food, the Uncle went to the bar and asked for "a package of Tayto".The Barman apologised and said they had none - Uncle laughed and said sure he did, he could see them. Argument ensued with tempers flaring with the Uncle asking if the barman thought he was a "stupid Paddy" and went to gab a hold of him. The cousins intervened before the Uncle ended up getting arrested ans explained that he was asking for a bag of crisps. :rolleyes:

Seachmall

CJC999 wrote: »

You're the weirdo....Would you go into a Toyota dealership and ask to buy a Ford? Do you call all TV Channels RTE? Do you call all mobile phones Nokia?

If the answer to all of the above questions is NO then why TF would you call all crisps Tayto?

Aspirin.
Bubble Wrap.
Heroin.
Biro.
Ecstasy.
Adrenaline.
Hoover.
Band-Aid.
Dumpster.
Hula-Hoop.
AstroTurf.

The above void your point. People use these terms all the time without talking about a specific brand or manufacturer.

Tayto is the exact same for some people.

Yanks probably think you're an idiot for calling your vacuum cleaner a Hoover.

cynder

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...

I was in co cork. 1988 - 1994 The bullying I got for calling them crisps, there was a lack of a selection everyone called all crisps taytos.


Worked with a dub guy who called them crips. So annoying.