Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Crispy Pancakes. What the hell happened???

  • 25-01-2015 11:48PM
    #1
    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭


    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.:confused:

    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?????????


«134

Comments

  • #2
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


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


  • #3
    Señor Fancy Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,628 ✭✭✭Señor Fancy Pants


    Chicken curry flavour, Findus crispy pancake sandwich ftw.


  • #4
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭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:


  • #5
    Lisha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,700 ✭✭✭Lisha


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


  • #6
    zcorpian88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭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.


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    Icaras
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 927 ✭✭✭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.


  • #8
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    I use to horse them into me...


  • #9
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


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


  • #10
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


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


  • #11
    Zippie84
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭Zippie84


    Ah them were the days...




  • Advertisement
  • #12
    mickstupp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭mickstupp


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


  • #13
    Ol' Donie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,777 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    Got them a year or two ago in Dunnes.

    But they tasted way different. Awful, really.

    I was sad that day.


  • #14
    Zippie84
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭Zippie84


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


  • #15
    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭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.:(


  • #16
    The Peanut
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭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.


  • #17
    AlteredStates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 112 ✭✭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 ...


  • #18
    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭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.


  • #19
    Crumpets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 585 ✭✭✭Crumpets


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


  • #20
    The Peanut
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭The Peanut


    Filmer Paradise wrote: »
    Harsh annie. Harsh.

    No, they were rank.


  • #21
    TerrorFirmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Advertisement
  • #22
    Zippie84
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭Zippie84


    mickstupp wrote: »
    I loved putting them on a piece of bread and butter. Gorgeous.


    urgh :P


  • #23
    gandalf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


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


  • #24
    fineso.mom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭fineso.mom


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


  • #25
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Filmer Paradise wrote: »
    Harsh annie. Harsh.

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


  • #26
    Baggy Trousers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Baggy Trousers


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


  • #27
    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭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:


  • #28
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭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!


  • #29
    pwurple
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,449 ✭✭✭✭pwurple


    Jaysus they look gross. Never had one thank feck.


  • #30
    neckedit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭neckedit


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


  • Advertisement
  • #31
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    I regularly buy them in marks and spencers.


Advertisement