Pet Hates........or FFS

**Macca** · 10-08-2018, 11:21

I like plain crisps that's why. Loads of people do.

The chip machine sounds awesome, I've never seen one of those ever.

**Marco** · 10-08-2018, 13:37

Originally Posted by Beobloke

It then lifted the basket, jerked it a few times to shake the oil off, then up-ended it and they came tumbling down a chute into a drawer at the front.

Ooooh lovely, dahling.... One could think of something else you could apply that 'jerking' process to, after which a back or 'front drawer' would be filled - and I bet some would pay handsomely for it, too!

Marco.

**Crackles** · 10-08-2018, 18:01

Originally Posted by Beobloke

Sorry, but plain crisps? Why would you bother??!

On the vending machine front, I remember the coolest one ever in Southampton Central Swimming Baths when I was a kid and it dispensed....freshly cooked chips!!

You put your 50p in and you could watch as it dispensed a portion of pre-cut chips into a basket, lowered them into hot oil and fried them for a pre-determined period.

It then lifted the basket, jerked it a few times to shake the oil off, then up-ended it and they came tumbling down a chute into a drawer at the front. You retrieved them from this and tipped them into a paper bag from a pile sat next to the machine. They were hotter than the surface of the sun but tasted great, especially after you’d been swimming.

The machine was out of order more than it was working but it was still amazing and I’ve never seen another one. I keep looking for one on eBay as I quite fancy one for the kitchen...

Never heard of one of them before.

I have to ask though, did it add salt and vinegar? It's a deal breaker.

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**Sherwood** · 10-08-2018, 18:33

Originally Posted by Beobloke

Sorry, but plain crisps? Why would you bother??!..

Sorry, we're talking 1970s Smiths Crisps here! They tasted of potatoes! The salt scrunchy was there to enhance the taste, not to disguise it!

**spm** · 10-08-2018, 19:04

Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

I remember when the salt provided with Smiths crisps came in a piece of twisted up blue paper. They were my favourite. Then in the eighties Smiths revived them, putting the salt in a sealed sachet, and they didn't seem quite the same. Maybe Smiths had changed the formula slightly to make them healthier.

On the subject of vending machine woes: In the seventies some clever soul discovered that if you put a small elastic band around the rim of a ten pence piece you could fool the cigarette machine into thinking it was a 50p. It was a free for all for a couple of days with our pubs fag machine until it was time to re-stock, and all these 10p's and elastics fell out. This must have been happening all over town

After that the bar staff watched us like hawks, but still lost a fair bit more until an engineer could get out and spoil our fun.

I remember when we found the local chocolate vending machine (with twist handle) accepted plastic toy 10p's, had fun emptying that machine. Also on holiday we found a change machine in an amusement arcade that would change a 5p for five 1p pieces and gave the 5p back. Me and my brothers could hardly walk!

**Pigmy Pony** · 10-08-2018, 19:22

Originally Posted by spm

I remember when we found the local chocolate vending machine (with twist handle) accepted plastic toy 10p's, had fun emptying that machine. Also on holiday we found a change machine in an amusement arcade that would change a 5p for five 1p pieces and gave the 5p back. Me and my brothers could hardly walk!

Probably as well that these things happened before computers. I'd hate to think our faces would be recorded onto a hard drive somewhere, so that one day AI can use them to track us down.

**struth** · 10-08-2018, 19:32

Originally Posted by Macca

70p or a quid. Chocolate is 80p a hit. Right rob-dogs but you can sometimes get a two-for-one or even a three-for-one when they haven't packed it properly. So that sort of makes up for it. Even so the bloke who owns the company must have bought a boat off of me alone over the past 12 years. It costs so much to go to work it's hardly worth the bother.

Take crisps and chocolate with you. Cheaper and you get what u like.

**struth** · 10-08-2018, 19:40

Had a chop shop near our baths fortunately. Not a good one either but hot. Think the shop cat fell into the grease once but he still served the fish. Lol

**Pigmy Pony** · 10-08-2018, 19:43

Originally Posted by Sherwood

Sorry, we're talking 1970s Smiths Crisps here! They tasted of potatoes! The salt scrunchy was there to enhance the taste, not to disguise it!

Maybe it's a good thing that younger folk don't know how much better crisps used to taste. Certainly a good thing for the makers. And don't get me started on Walkers-ugh! I'm just waiting for Bugger-lugs Linnekar in a Santa hat to start with the Christmas pudding flavour crisps.

**Joe** · 10-08-2018, 22:07

Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

Probably as well that these things happened before computers. I'd hate to think our faces would be recorded onto a hard drive somewhere, so that one day AI can use them to track us down.

Thing is, an attempted Windows upgrade would probably wipe the lot.

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