Chips Ban at festivals?

rubadub · 07-09-2005 06:53PM

GreenHell wrote:

I know a guy who can hook me up with some oven chips.

The methadone of chips, not the same buzz of them at all

johnny_ultimate · 07-09-2005 07:38PM

Woah Ive been two days without a hit. I can give up whenever I want! You can't tell me what to do!

If anyone can hook me up, ANYONE, I NEED CHIPS!

Ann Elk · 07-09-2005 07:48PM

johnny_ultimate wrote:

Woah Ive been two days without a hit. I can give up whenever I want! You can't tell me what to do!

If anyone can hook me up, ANYONE, I NEED CHIPS!

Glad to oblige........................................

robinph · 07-09-2005 07:58PM

The only reason that lids are taken off bottles is so that they can charge you more for liquid, either alcohol or just plain water, once your inside their control. The thing about being used as a weapon is just a cover story, so that they can take a bottle of water off you on the way in.

The only reason I can think of about not being able to get chips though is that someone must have copyrighted the design or something equally stupid.

Metacortex · 07-09-2005 09:47PM

skipn_easy wrote:

Anyone know the reason behind this? At electric picnic even with the huge variety of foods available there were no chips. Eddie Rockets even removed fries from their menu. The staff told me that they weren't allowed to sell them for legal reasons and that this was happening at every festival. When I asked them for more details they were very tightlipped.

Firstly I thought it was to do with the packaging, some slightly short sighted person deciding that the rubbish at festivals was a disgrace and the way to solve the problem was to ban chips. But then I realised that even though nowhere was selling chips, you could buy hot potatoes in every other form that you could think of. The fish and chips van had resorted to selling potato cubes - a clearly inferior product and the complete lack of explanation from anyone really infuriated me. I mean, I can understand a smoking ban, I can understand a plastic carrier bag tax, I can even understand a chewing gum tax but how dare you take my chips!

I can't think of any other good reason why they would have banned this one foodstuff from festivals, does anyone know the real reason?

I thought it was pretty bizarre too. Those square chips tasted the same as regular chips so i fail to see why they weren't seeling them.

TerrorFirmer · 07-09-2005 10:39PM

bounty_hunter wrote:

This is quite bizarre altogether. I can't think of any reasonable reason why chips should be banned and "potato cubes" shouldn't. They're essentially the same thing, just differently shaped.

What can I say, the above says it all. What a wierd, wierd story...

Rabies · 07-09-2005 11:15PM

Roundtower2 wrote:

There may be something in the insurance or cleaning thing, but its more likely to be a money thing...

Definitly not a cleaning thing. There is no problem with that. Doubt if it is an insurance thing either.

Chips were available on site. Just not from every vendor, which is weird.
There was a good range of food at the festival. The promoters want to make it different from the run of the mill festival. The of food was a nice change.

shellby · 08-09-2005 09:55AM

did some one not say that they weren't available at the dublin match
man i'd kill for a chips sandwhich about now - loads of butter, an easysingle and ketchup .............. drools

ven0m · 08-09-2005 10:20AM

Kiera wrote:

Whats Burdocks?

YOU'VE GOTTA BE KIDDING!!!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:

You Don't know what Burdocks Is???? Burdocks do the BEST Fish & Chips in the country!!!!!!

::: ven0mous :::

wilkins · 08-09-2005 10:29AM

Probably banned chips because their 'other' food ranges make more money

i.e. Hamburger €10
Baked potatoe with filling €7
Posh Potatoe cubes €6
Nachos €9

The spin on the food offering at electric picnic was that it was 'fresh,' 'organic' food, not the usual muck you find at festivals. Whether it's true or not is another matter.................

08-09-2005 10:31AM

skipn_easy wrote:

I never said people threw the lids, sure that wouldn't hurt much would it? But since I was allowed to bring my own lids in, and my own bottles of water with lids on them, it seems pointless to stop them being sold within the grounds.

You're not allowed bring them into the festival areas, you're only allowed them in the campsites

skipn_easy wrote:

Also, even if the lid is taken off, and I throw it full of water at someone, I still reckon it would hurt pretty bad cos depending on how I throw it, not all the water is going to come out.

It would need to be a very good throw from very close. The main thing is to stop people throwing them at bands, which is generally at least a 20ft throw. Besides, it doesn't matter much if there's still water in it, there is a massive difference between being hit by a full bottle with it's lid on versus a full bottle with no lid. If the lid is on, there's nowhere for the weight to go, it's solid. You may as well be throwing a brick. With no lid, when the bottle hits, the water gets compressed, goes out the top, there's a bit of give in the bottle.

skipn_easy · 08-09-2005 11:29AM

28064212 wrote:

You're not allowed bring them into the festival areas, you're only allowed them in the campsites.

Yes you are. To get in to the festival they had people checking bags to make sure they weren't bringing alcohol in. There was no problem with bottles of water/soft drinks as I took several in (they checked my bag and let me in with them).

Suaimhneach · 08-09-2005 04:52PM

So has anyone figured this out yet?

Chips Ban at festivals?

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