I've been a bit lazy recently and not made myself packed lunches to take into work. I really should, because instead of spending £3 on a meal deal I could be spending less than a pound on a smorgasbord of retro treats, such as the Club biscuits ('if you like a lot of chocolate...') I was nibbling on the other week.
Now that I think about it, I've had approximately three triple chickens from Sainsbury's in the last week. That's depressing. I'm not even particularly sure that I like the triple chicken, but it's the only triple that Sainsbury's does and it's important to me that I get value for money out of my meal deal. It's getting increasingly difficult to buy a good triple sandwich – Marks and Spencer used to be the place to go for that kind of action, but I've not been there for a sandwich in quite some time.
I got some crisps with my meal deal today. Well, I get crisps with my meal deal every time I get one, it's not like today was out of the ordinary. 'Unmistakably cheese and onion' it said on the front. I'm not sure what was particularly mistakable. How many people mistake crisps anyway? It's the sort of marketing truism designed to make you gag, which isn't particularly good, especially when you're about to start eating some crisps.
The only time that I think it would have been good to write such a thing would have been during the Great Crisp Bag War of the 1980s. I mean, I grew up with blue salt and vinegar and green cheese and onion, that was the way we rolled back then. I'm not sure whether crisp bag colours are monitored by the European Union, but that's exactly the sort of thing that centrally mandated regulation should cover. Unmistakably cheese and onion? Depends whether you were a Walkers or a Golden Wonder man...
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Surely cheese and onion ought to be yellow? Although I suppose then it would get confused with Quavers. This isn't as easy as it looks, is it?
ReplyDeleteHave you tried Boots? You can get a three-pack of sandwiches, one chicken and salad, one chicken and stuffing and one chicken and bacon, as part of a meal deal for the same price as the two-packs. They're yummy!
ReplyDeleteAlso, have you noticed that the new design of Walkers crisp packets doesn't say 'crisps' anywhere on the front? The last version of the packaging had it in teeny-tiny letters at the bottom, but they don't even have that any more. I blame foreigners who think crisps are called chips.
Tim - Hula Hoops had a yellow cheese flavour out for a while. I suppose there must be a committee at the company that decides what the predominant flavours are in a combo situation. There should be an international colour system though.
ReplyDeleteZoomy - I forget about Boots, actually. I like getting my Nectar points and Sainsbury's is closer. I shall try to make the effort and check Boots out - the home of the original meal deal, after all. Walkers aren't even Walkers when you go abroad, that must freak those pesky foreigners out even more. Like when you see Langnese or Miko boards outside ice cream places on holiday.