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Findus Crispy Pancakes

  • 30-09-2014 3:44pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭gypsy79


    Does these monstrousities still exist?

    Where have people seen them lately?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,248 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    Yes of course they are still there.

    Dissapointingly though they aren't as nice as nostalgia remembers them to be.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Haven't seen Mccain Micro Chips lately either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,248 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    Haven't seen Mccain Micro Chips lately either.

    They are still OK as snacks go.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86 ✭✭mac_09


    Ha! Been looking for pancakes everywhere! Not in my local Tesco :-(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    God, I'll kill for these now.
    Lovely when you cut a small slice in them, and squeeze all the mince filing out, and mop that up with a slice of bread... then be left over with the odd rubbery, yet crispy, coating.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭gypsy79


    I was looking for them in a couple of different Tesco's with no success. Even in the massive one in Clearwater.

    They werent nice even back then.....food has moved on. It isnt nostalgia. They were probably nice reletive to other food stuffs years ago

    But I know someone who has never tried. Actually didnt know they existed.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Yes of course they are still there.

    Dissapointingly though they aren't as nice as nostalgia remembers them to be.



    Well Mr Horseman.

    Findus Beef Flavoured Crispy Pancakes were never the same since the horse meat scandal.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 712 ✭✭✭Simonigs1.0


    Lapin wrote: »
    Well Mr Horseman.

    They were never the same since the horse meat scandal.

    I don't think there was ever actually "meat" in them tbh


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    They look and taste (probably) like a dockers omlette


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,124 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Them yokes sometimes used to explode when you'd cut into them. But they were quick and easy to cook so the chance of severe facial burns must have been worth it for mammies


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭hoodwinked


    i know supervalu sell them,


    you do see them around alright although i think the Chicken, corn and ham is the main flavour now a days.


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Woah woah woah woah.

    People need to be careful not to be flippant about this.

    Where still sells FINDUS crispy pancakes?

    None of your green isle nonsense now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭lee_baby_simms


    Eating a couple of these would probably shave a day or two off your life expectancy.

    Worth it mind.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Woah woah woah woah.

    People need to be careful not to be flippant about this.

    Where still sells FINDUS crispy pancakes?

    None of your green isle nonsense now.

    Especially for you. Not sure they do mail order though...

    http://groceries.iceland.co.uk/findus-crispy-pancakes-cheese-6-pack-330g/p/54693


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Burned the mouth of me manys a time when I had to go play at other houses as a kid, they seem to have been part of a staple diet in manys a household.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,248 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    Lapin wrote: »
    Well Mr Horseman.

    Findus Beef Flavoured Crispy Pancakes were never the same since the horse meat scandal.

    It wasn't any fear of cannibalism on my part.

    The coating didn't taste great.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,900 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    I only ever had the chicken curry version. They were dangerous, burning the mouth off you if you weren't careful.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    Woah woah woah woah.

    People need to be careful not to be flippant about this.

    Where still sells FINDUS crispy pancakes?

    None of your green isle nonsense now.
    Iceland sells them


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,341 ✭✭✭Fallschirmjager


    Fairly sure I saw then in dunnes recently...made me chuckle, was going to buy them and force the kids to eat them to show them the horror of the 70's in Ireland....to be fair they could from the same batch, I am sure the beef flavour, you all forget that gritty like substance that was 'meat' in the beef one, are like twinkies, only them and cockroaches survive a nuclear war....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    I think they were best appreciated within the smorgasbord of 70s domestic poverty when things like Crispy Pancakes, Pot Noodles and Instant Mash were affordable yet futuristic snacks.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    Funny thing is, maybe 90% of us here ate them in the 80's and 90's yet we are still here


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    gypsy79 wrote: »
    Does these monstrousities still exist?

    Where have people seen them lately?

    Last Friday of every month, boarding school.

    And they were an improvement on most of the meals. Our favourites were the cheesy ones with miniscule bits of what was advertised as ham but was probably bits of recycled shoes. Our dream was to have them with chips, but all we ever got was lumpy mash with them :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Candie wrote: »
    Last Friday of every month, boarding school.

    And they were an improvement on most of the meals. Our favourites were the cheesy ones with miniscule bits of what was advertised as ham but was probably bits of recycled shoes. Our dream was to have them with chips, but all we ever got was lumpy mash with them :(

    Surely you had sumptuous midnight feasts? :(


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    anncoates wrote: »
    Surely you had sumptuous midnight feasts? :(

    I don't think she went to Hogwarts.


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    anncoates wrote: »
    Surely you had sumptuous midnight feasts? :(

    Jolly pork pies and ginger beer Timmy!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson




  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I don't think she went to Hogwarts.

    It's a very good school and I enjoyed it, but I think it's fair to say it probably had more in common with Mountjoy than Hogwarts.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    I saw some guy on tv making his own version. As for the original, somethings are left beautifully preserved in memory and never experienced again.

    Don't ruin it for yourselves by hoovering up crispy fried speed frozen ebola bombs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    the ones you get nowadays aren't a proper job at all, the secret is that crispy pancakes were'nt meant to be really crispy but rather soft.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Funny thing is, maybe 90% of us here ate them in the 80's and 90's yet we are still here

    My wife was brought up in a very healthy household (farm with a fair bit of their food from there) and admitting a childhood of oven chips, pot noodles, crispy pancakes and Smash instant mash is akin to revealing a crack habit or criminal record.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Ah yeh, two slices of batch white, two crispy pancakes and queue burn the crap out of your mouth !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Were crispy pancakes really a part of the 70s? I seem to remember them coming into my consciousness with a bang when they came out with a promotion for the black hole film, which was '79 so more the 80s really.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,248 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    You read Malory Towers?

    Who didn't.

    Aah.... Lacrosse & midnight feasts....


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,557 ✭✭✭KeithM89


    Made the mistake of picking up the wrong ones, ended up with some chicken and sweetcorn mulch that looked and tasted like warm, thick vomit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭mickstupp


    I like them on bread and butter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    You read Malory Towers?

    dorrie the witch was where it was at


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    You read Malory Towers?

    My sister had them.

    It was the 80s. You took your literature about girls in short skirts where you could find it.


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Who didn't.

    Boys, mostly.


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  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    anncoates wrote: »


    I'm not that old!

    I actually read those books when I was in primary school. They may or may not have had anything to do with my agreeing to go to boarding school.

    I used the word 'Beastly' a lot for a long while afterwards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,248 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    Boys, mostly.

    Pffft..... Boys eh!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Boys, mostly.

    So they say.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    I never had them. Between that and not getting milk every day at school, what else have I missed out on?


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Rasheed wrote: »
    I never had them. Between that and not getting milk every day at school, what else have I missed out on?

    Did you read Malory Towers?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    Candie wrote: »
    Did you read Malory Towers?

    No :(
    My parents are monsters


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Rasheed wrote: »
    I never had them. Between that and not getting milk every day at school, what else have I missed out on?

    Having a surefire way to make excruciating small talk with people in their 30s and 40s at parties until you can escape to the bar.


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Rasheed wrote: »
    No :(
    My parents are monsters

    Yes, they are. :(

    If you read The Chalet School, it was more or less the same thing. More more than less. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,341 ✭✭✭Fallschirmjager


    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Findus

    Early 70's the web has spoken...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,829 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Is Findus lasagne the one made out of horse?


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