Pub crisps

SpaceCowb0y

Does anyone remember "pub crisps" this was actually the name of the crisps, and as far as i'm aware were only ever sold in pubs! Think they might have been made by Tayto but i'm not certain! All i remember is they were glorious and i want them, now!

Also Starring LeVar Burton

SpaceCowb0y wrote: »

Does anyone remember "pub crisps" this was actually the name of the crisps, and as far as i'm aware were only ever sold in pubs! Think they might have been made by Tayto but i'm not certain! All i remember is they were glorious and i want them, now!

Yeah, although I think it was King who made them rather than Tayto (I could be wrong on that), but it was definitely one of the two anyway.
Now that you've mentioned it, I'd love nothing more than a packet.

SEPT 23 1989

King made them

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petes

I remember them and yes they were lovely. These days all you seem to get is the generic Tayto or King.

I am partial to the Salt and Vinegar peanuts though!

The Backwards Man

Still make them, I think.

http://www.kingcrisps.ie/range/range.asp

Riskymove

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whiskeyman

What's the difference?
Bigger bag?
Sure I've seem them around recently.

Tzardine

Were they not the same as normal crisps but in a bag that said pub ? A bit like Lucozarde did the pub size bottle. It was the same Lucozade inside it.

Maybe it was the few pints that went with them that made them nice ?

Lyaiera

Two packets of Perri Pub Crisps and Two pints after school. Best years of my life.

DublinWriter

Made by the same crowd who make Tayto. Still nice, though.

anncoates

Presumably the only difference from normal King was the price and probably that the salt content was higher.

Tzardine

Lyaiera wrote: »

Two packets of Perri Pub Crisps and Two pints after school. Best years of my life.

Held back a few years were you ?

SpaceCowb0y

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

King made them

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That's not them! These were a yellow packet i think! Back in the day of plastic packets not foil! Showing my age maybe

Riskymove

SpaceCowb0y wrote: »

That's not them! These were a yellow packet i think! Back in the day of plastic packets not foil! Showing my age maybe

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conorhal

What I want to know is where can I get those yummy individually wrapped little ginger biscuits that a lot of places put on your saucer when you orfer a coffee?

Duggy747

Screw the crisps, Bacon Fries are the way to go when boozing :pac:

Tzardine

conorhal wrote: »

What I want to know is where can I get those yummy individually wrapped little ginger biscuits that a lot of places put on your saucer when you orfer a coffee?

In Tesco. Lovely things. Found them a few weeks ago.

http://www.tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=259874271

SpaceCowb0y

Tzardine wrote: »

Were they not the same as normal crisps but in a bag that said pub ? A bit like Lucozarde did the pub size bottle. It was the same Lucozade inside it.

Maybe it was the few pints that went with them that made them nice ?

I wasn't drinking pints back then... maybe a shandy if the aul lad had had a few though! ha! But yes the bag specifically had a large "PUB" on the front of the pack, that i do remember!

Lyaiera wrote: »

Two packets of Perri Pub Crisps and Two pints after school. Best years of my life.

They might have been made by Perri either! I'm not sure who made them! I'd love to know though as i will be writing to whoever did make them to find out if they will make me a batch!

The Backwards Man

Duggy747 wrote: »

Screw the crisps, Bacon Fries are the way to go when boozing :pac:

Nobby's Nuts are where it's at.

SpaceCowb0y

Riskymove wrote: »

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That's not them either.... again that looks like a foil pack! We're talking late 80's early 90's crisps!

Badly Drunk Boy

Riskymove wrote: »

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They're Nordie Tayto...

jimgoose

Riskymove wrote: »

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I do believe that's them. I remember them too, but I haven't seen a pack for donkey's years. I guess it's not cool to write "PUB" in big letters on a snack pack these days?? :pac::pac::pac:

Plazaman

whiskeyman wrote: »

What's the difference?
Bigger bag?
Sure I've seem them around recently.

Ya pub crisps come in a gigantic 50g bag unlike the limp wristed 27g bag that any Joe Soap can buy in the shops. That's nearly TWICE the size......*cough for 3 times the price.

gerrykin22

i remember the tayto pub crisps.
big brown bag made a great sunday dinner.

freshpopcorn

I've saw the Perri pub crisps in our local maxol/mace a few times.

SpaceCowb0y

jimgoose wrote: »

I do believe that's them. I remember them too, but I haven't seen a pack for donkey's years. I guess it's not cool to write "PUB" in big letters on a snack pack these days?? :pac::pac::pac:

That looks more like a beer mat then the front of a packet of crisps so i can't really tell but it could be a winner! All i know i used to go through about a dozen packs on those family outings to the local when i was a young lad ha! Those were the days :pac:

Funny to think that kind of behaviour is frowned upon these days when it was the norm back then! Or maybe that was just my childhood

jimgoose

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I've saw the Perri pub crisps in our local maxol/mace a few times.

"Perri" crisps, along with "Pringles" and "Walkers" and anything with "gourmet" on it, is more of this Celtic Tiger meballacks, and is clearly the work of the Black-and-Tans subverting the State. Crisps are Tayto around hereabouts, and don't you forget it!

Tzardine

SpaceCowb0y wrote: »

That looks more like a beer mat then the front of a packet of crisps so i can't really tell but it could be a winner! All i know i used to go through about a dozen packs on those family outings to the local when i was a young lad ha! Those were the days :pac:

Funny to think that kind of behaviour is frowned upon these days when it was the norm back then! Or maybe that was just my childhood

Nope , my childhood too.

Many a Sunday involved running around the pub like a mad thing, off my head on red lemonade.

jimgoose

SpaceCowb0y wrote: »

That looks more like a beer mat then the front of a packet of crisps so i can't really tell but it could be a winner! All i know i used to go through about a dozen packs on those family outings to the local when i was a young lad ha! Those were the days :pac:

Funny to think that kind of behaviour is frowned upon these days when it was the norm back then! Or maybe that was just my childhood

Well, I used to belly-up to the bar in the village local at the age of about twelve, with a half-full glass of Smithwicks and a couple of packets of them Taytos with my Dad, God rest him. I guess I had a hard life too! :cool::pac::pac::pac:

freshpopcorn

jimgoose wrote: »

"Perri" crisps, along with "Pringles" and "Walkers" and anything with "gourmet" on it, is more of this Celtic Tiger meballacks, and is clearly the work of the Black-and-Tans subverting the State. Crisps are Tayto around hereabouts, and don't you forget it!

Perri has being around a good while not exactly a Celtic Tiger brand.
Originally owned by the Capaldi family, Largo Foods bought the Perri brand in 1984 thus establishing a firm position in the Irish snack-food industry. As one of Ireland’s oldest and most loved snack brands, Largo Foods has extended the Perri range beyond crisps to include a great variety of snack products.

jimgoose

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Perri has being around a good while not exactly a Celtic Tiger brand.
riginally owned by the Capaldi family, Largo Foods bought the Perri brand in 1984 thus establishing a firm position in the Irish snack-food industry. As one of Ireland’s oldest and most loved snack brands, Largo Foods has extended the Perri range beyond crisps to include a great variety of snack products.

Tan Bastards, I tells ye!!!

SpaceCowb0y

Tzardine wrote: »

Nope , my childhood too.

Many a Sunday involved running around the pub like a mad thing, off my head on red lemonade.

jimgoose wrote: »

Well, I used to belly-up to the bar in the village local at the age of about twelve, with a half-full glass of Smithwicks and a couple of packets of them Taytos with my Dad, God rest him. I guess I had a hard life too! :cool::pac::pac::pac:

Haha hard life me hole, back then i thought a trip to the pub was like winning the lotto! A pound off most of my aul lads mates to shut me up and all the free crisps and lemonade a young boy could ask for! If only life was still so simple!

FGR

Perri Pan Fried were the business.

Wish they were still around.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Nobby's Nuts are where it's at.

He makes a valid point.

Lyaiera

Tzardine wrote: »

Held back a few years were you ?

No.

A lot of people are legally old enough to drink in their final year of school.
A lot of people are able to get served long before they are legally old enough to drink.

As it happens I was diagnosed with an illness about two months before I was due to sit my Leaving Cert and missed out on all bar one of my exams. I "repeated" the next year.

saintsaltynuts

They we're glorious with a pint of Guinness.Although you couldn't get the shift afterwards cause of the smell of ye.

SpaceCowb0y

I'm still not sure we have a firm conclusion of what brand actually made these marvellous crisps?

Are we in agreement that it was it Tayto? Surely there is a forum member who works at Tayto who could have a whisper in the ear of the head spud and have these things reintroduced with the original recipe??

jimgoose

SpaceCowb0y wrote: »

I'm still not sure we have a firm conclusion of what brand actually made these marvellous crisps?

Are we in agreement that it was it Tayto? Surely there is a forum member who works at Tayto who could have a whisper in the ear of the head spud and have these things reintroduced with the original recipe??

I seem to recall they were more cooked than the regular crisps??

Riskymove

SpaceCowb0y wrote: »

That looks more like a beer mat

That's cause it is a beer mat

wandatowell

My local started selling salt and vinegar peanuts

jimgoose

wandatowell wrote: »

My local started selling salt and vinegar peanuts

Intriguing. Where does one subscribe to this newsletter??

SpaceCowb0y

Riskymove wrote: »

That's cause it is a beer mat

I can't ever remember seeing a Tayto beer mat!

fussyonion

My local pub still sells Pub Crisps.
And for whoever mentioned Pan-Fried Perri...yep they were the business.

zenno

SpaceCowb0y wrote: »

Does anyone remember "pub crisps" this was actually the name of the crisps, and as far as i'm aware were only ever sold in pubs! Think they might have been made by Tayto but i'm not certain! All i remember is they were glorious and i want them, now!

The cheese & onion pub crisps were lovely for sure. They sell Manhattan cheese & onion in most pubs now and they are even nicer, really full flavour. €1 a pack though but damn nice, they are in a black coloured packet.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Those tayto Honest Crisps weren't bad either.

Not like those Lying Bastard Crisps.

BraziliaNZ

I used to love when my dad came home from pub with some for me, I'd be over the moon. I think they were the same but even more salty and MSG-ey, or whatever flavourings they use. Makes sense as more flavour and salt is great with pints.

SpaceCowb0y

fussyonion wrote: »

My local pub still sells Pub Crisps.
And for whoever mentioned Pan-Fried Perri...yep they were the business.

Is your local somehow a gateway back to 1990 or are they just flogging crisps that are so long expired they have actually sprouted new spuds?

Davarus Walrus

A couple of bags of Scampi Fries can do down nicely if you start 'hitting the wall' with your pint drinking. Suitable for vegetarians too if you have a fussy eater as a drinking companion.

nlgbbbblth

Dealz sell a six pack of Bacon Fries and Scampi Fries for €1.49 [contains three bags of each].

I went through a dozen six packs in the few weeks coming up to Christmas.

Now on a strict diet as a result.

harry Bailey esq

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

Yeah, although I think it was King who made them rather than Tayto (I could be wrong on that), but it was definitely one of the two anyway.
Now that you've mentioned it, I'd love nothing more than a packet.

yeah king made them,taytos version were called luxury crisps.Havnt seen either for sale in a good while

nlgbbbblth

The Tayto variety of Pub Crisps is post #6