Crispy Pancakes. What the hell happened???

Filmer Paradise

Like many people of my era, Crispy Pancakes were in the pantheon of Teatime staples alongside Fish Fingers, Potato Waffles.

Had a hankering for them recently & couldn't find them anywhere.

I know, I hadn't had them in a long while, but.....what the hell happened?

Fish fingers & Waffles are everywhere, but the Findus Crispy pancake with it's lava hot fillings of Steak & Kidney, Chicken & Bacon & latterly Chicken Curry.......have gone. Even the Ross muck is hard to find.

Anyway, after exhaustive reserch I discovered they're available in Iceland (the shop, not the country).

Went to the nearest one to me & after a long trawl down the aisles found one, yes One solitary box of them..............with a cheese filling.:eek:

How has the empire fallen so fast & in such a short space of time?

For those of you under 30, you probably wont know about them & everyone else seems to have forgotten about them.

WHY?????????

The Backwards Man

Burnt the fcuking mouth of me more times than enough, hated the bastards.

Señor Fancy Pants

Chicken curry flavour, Findus crispy pancake sandwich ftw.

Banjo String

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Burnt the fcuking mouth of me more times than enough, hated the bastards.

This.

More dangerous than the other edible booby trap, the ****ing baked bean toasted samwich.

Lava wouldn't burn as much as those bastards :mad:

Lisha

Oh they were yummy but would scald the roof of your mouth something terrible.

zcorpian88

They are still available, I had some about two months ago maybe, mince and onion flavour, think they were Findus too, or Green Isle perhaps. Would have got them in my local Dunnes.

Icaras

They were either the temperature of Iceland (the country ) or the temperature of the surface of the sun. I don't think science allows them to exist now.

whiskeyman

I use to horse them into me...

anncoates

You can easily recreate them by stapling together two pieces of sandpaper and filling it with rancid pus.

Larianne

Yeah, they are still available. Ham and mushroom, or some sort. Taste like muck these days though.

Zippie84

Ah them were the days...

mickstupp

I loved putting them on a piece of bread and butter. Gorgeous.

Ol' Donie

Got them a year or two ago in Dunnes.

But they tasted way different. Awful, really.

I was sad that day.

Zippie84

We ate a lot of mince ones when I was small. Had them a while back and they were disgusting.

Filmer Paradise

whiskeyman wrote: »

I use to horse them into me...

We all did, back in the day!

Anyway, I bought the Cheese ones anyway.

My kids loved them! Poor dears know no better....

I couldn't bear to eat such a diluted version of such an icon.:(

The Peanut

Lisha wrote: »

Oh they were yummy but would scald the roof of your mouth something terrible.

Back in the day when toasted sandwich makers first came out, toasted tomatoes were lethal. Would scald the roof of the mouth something awful.

AlteredStates

gawd I do remember them.... gave the ex them all the time for some reason I cannot remember now............................... hmm perhaps it was the scalding ...

Filmer Paradise

anncoates wrote: »

You can easily recreate them by stapling together two pieces of sandpaper and filling it with rancid pus.

Harsh annie. Harsh.

Crumpets

Ohh I remember those bad boys! Wouldn't mind one now

The Peanut

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

Harsh annie. Harsh.

No, they were rank.

TerrorFirmer

I bought some a while back, the Triple Cheese ones from Green Isle. Now I've eaten crispy pancakes before and found them OK but these ones.....it had a strange rubbery texture and tasted quite literally like some sort of construction material, very odd. Took one bite and spat it out, housemate thought I was being a bit dramatic and tried it and was repulsed as well (he's a mega crispy pancake fan). Not sure how an earth they could be brought to market unless I got a bad batch.

Zippie84

mickstupp wrote: »

I loved putting them on a piece of bread and butter. Gorgeous.

urgh :P

gandalf

MMmmmmmm I remember the Curry Chicken ones alright. Dammit OP now you've got me hungry!!!!

fineso.mom

Dire,artificial, processed muck......but I wouldnt mind tasting one for old time's sake - as the actress said to the bishop.

anncoates

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

Harsh annie. Harsh.

Probably hard for people to reproduce septic wounds on demand so maybe snot for the filling instead.

Baggy Trousers

Yeah it took an age for the lava inside them to cool down.

Filmer Paradise

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

I bought some a while back, the Triple Cheese ones from Green Isle. Now I've eaten crispy pancakes before and found them OK but these ones.....it had a strange rubbery texture and tasted quite literally like some sort of construction material, very odd. Took one bite and spat it out, housemate thought I was being a bit dramatic and tried it and was repulsed as well (he's a mega crispy pancake fan). Not sure how an earth they could be brought to market unless I got a bad batch.

Green Isle ones along with the Ross ones were the poor relations of the Findus ones.

They were the real deal.:cool:

The Backwards Man

They probably tasted awful back then too, but in those days we were used to poundies or meatloaf for dinner, crispy pancake and soggy sunburnt frozen chips were practically cordon bleu!

pwurple

Jaysus they look gross. Never had one thank feck.

neckedit

chicken n bacon.........mmmmmm
has Homer moment.....

cloud493

I regularly buy them in marks and spencers.

The Peanut

The Backwards Man wrote: »

They probably tasted awful back then too, but in those days we were used to poundies or meatloaf for dinner, crispy pancake and soggy sunburnt frozen chips were practically cordon bleu!

Had to google poundies; never heard of the word. Knew it as champ or Mammy's fancy mashed potatoes. Rural living eh!

Applause

They were one of the first things I ever "cooked", I loved them, we always had the mince and onion ones. I remember if you over cooked them the burnt part would turn into a black bubble and you could just pick it off.

Luke92

Banjo String wrote: »

This.

More dangerous than the other edible booby trap, the ****ing baked bean toasted samwich.

Lava wouldn't burn as much as those bastards :mad:

Ham and cheese toastie is worse!

cloud493

Spam and cheese toasties are delicious though.

Applause

cloud493 wrote: »

Spam and cheese toasties are delicious though.

Posts like this are the reason we need a "No Thanks" button.

Filmer Paradise

cloud493 wrote: »

Spam and cheese toasties are delicious though.

Applause wrote: »

Posts like this are the reason we need a "No Thanks" button.

Dunno........Sounds like a plan.

Have to find this Spam stuff.

cloud493

Try it, its utterly delicious.

Filmer Paradise

cloud493 wrote: »

Try it, its utterly delicious.

Mashed & processed 'meat' with loadsa E numbers?

Perfect nostalga for the '70s/'80's kid.


I'm on the case!

Tarzana2

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

but the Findus Crispy pancake with it's lava hot fillings of Steak & Kidney, Chicken & Bacon & latterly Chicken Curry.......have gone.

Surely you mean "with it's lava hot fillings of "Steak & Kidney", "Chicken & Bacon" & latterly "Chicken Curry"..."

They are mank. At least fish fingers have a decent amount of fish.

Filmer Paradise

Tarzana2 wrote: »

Surely you mean "with it's lava hot fillings of "Steak & Kidney", "Chicken & Bacon" & latterly "Chicken Curry"..."

They are mank. At least fish fingers have a decent amount of fish.

They sold well in times gone by...

Do people know what goes into Chicken Nuggets, Cheap Sausages, Corned Beef?

This kinda feed is still bought widely.

Also. on the mouth burning issue, the 'apple pies' in micky d's still sell well.:rolleyes:

Tarzana2

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

They sold well in times gone by...

Do people know what goes into Chicken Nuggets, Cheap Sausages, Corned Beef?

They're all shíte. What's your point?

We never had crispy pancakes growing up. Plenty of other processed stuff mind, but I don't get the fondness for crispy pancakes. For people saying they're different and worse now, it's probably just your palette is more refined these days.

Zippie84

This may also be of interest. Popular / controversial things those crispy pancakes.

How Soon Is Now

Crispy pancake sambo s!!

There ****e lately though dry out really easy hhave feck all filling.

Actually now that I'm thinking of this does anyone remember the chicken and mushroom pastry s dunnes used to do? They had like a criss cross design on top. Where Fecking lovely!!

Ol' Donie

C'mere to me, do they still make those bags of little pizzas that you grill?

kfallon

Ol' Donie wrote: »

C'mere to me, do they still make those bags of little pizzas that you grill?

The ones that only had cheese on them? I used to love those

Filmer Paradise

Tarzana2 wrote: »

They're all shíte. What's your point?

We never had crispy pancakes growing up. Plenty of other processed stuff mind, but I don't get the fondness for crispy pancakes. For people saying they're different and worse now, it's probably just your palette is more refined these days.

Nah, most of us growing up back in the day had the standard meat & 2 veg for dinner (when dinner was at 1).

Teatime (6 in the evening) was host to all kind's of ****e like these.

Processed food like this was seen as a 'treat' then & it sticks in your mind as a happy memory of times gone by.

Hence my mission to find them & my surprise that they are just not as avaiable as I thought they would be.

Nothing sinister. I promise.

Lia_lia

Never even heard of them!

Mountainsandh

Ol' Donie wrote: »

C'mere to me, do they still make those bags of little pizzas that you grill?

Pizzinis ?
Bought them for the kids last week, they love them once in a while, reminds me of the meals I used to get as a student in host families in the early 90s (that's how I first met Ireland) : Pizzinis, waffle, beans. They're still there, but you kind of have to look for them.

Used to buy the pancakes for the husband when we were young, I'd say I'd die of heartburn if I had one now, can't handle that much processing, if I had to die of processed food I'd rather the pastries with same filling or the bags of dried pasta with them lethal sauces.

The French frozen pancakes on the other hand...

Candy_Girl

I loved the curry ones, no matter how much you tried to cool the ****ers down you'd always end up with a burnt tongue,wouldn't touch one now.... we lived in deprived times

Savage Tyrant

They were rancid alright and could require a skin graft for your tongue afterwards. I don't miss them at all.....

But what I DO miss that just dissappeared was "Bagel Bites" ... Boxes of 9 mini bagels with pizza toppings.... Heavenly.