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Unless that Saturday falls on Good Friday TT
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I'll take your word for it, Pumpy!
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" Once in a Blue Moon " is correct, their will only be four of them in the next ten Years !
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The hooligan 'fact' has stuck in my mind ever since I read it, though, and I used to get through a hell of a lot of S+V crisps!
I always read the quirky 'fact' on the back of the packets but that's the only one I remember. Many years after I read it my brother palled up with a bloke named Hoolahan, and on first hearing his name I remember thinking "I wonder if he's related to the 'hooligan' Hoolahans"! |
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there's a pub on the outskirts of Brighton called the Travellers' Rest.
For many years it had a sign by the door which said "No Travellers" |
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I think that the hooligan thing is true tommy, I've read it somewhere as well
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A Walker's Salt & Vinegar crisp packet, Mr Badger!
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IIrc, all crisp packets have an expiry date that falls on Saturdays.
We need crisp eaters to try different makes to ascertain this. |
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a good idea tmp, I don't think their has ever been a thread about crisps on chitchat
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Indeed, Mr Badger. Crisps are a much neglected subject on Chit Chat.
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I have just looked at a mini packet of pringles here and it just has a month, not a day....
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Really Joel - just, say, 'June 2013'?
Mind you, Pringles are different - as they aren't crisps, but reconstituted potato starch. So it probably doesn't matter with them. |
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plus their gairman
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I remember feeding two whole tubes of Pringles one night to my ex sister-in-law.
They were both out of date by two years. She didn't suffer any consequences other than her usual ones - to be even more puddled the next day. |
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Haha they just say Best Before (not used by) 03/2013....so I either have 3 days or a month to eat them....
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2 years, minimum, Joel.
Take no notice of these 'best before dates' - I never do. |
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I generally don't, and I dont think I'll be eating these anyway...
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Pringles will last for yonks, Joel - just like most things will.
It's mainly another great scam by the food companies, imposed on the public to get more money out of them - by the public looking at dates and throwing away perfectly good food. It amazes me how many people do it - especially with fresh food. Trust your eyes and your nose. If it looks or smells 'off' it is. |
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If it doesn't, chances are it's perfectly edible - although the food companies/supermarkets would prefer you to throw it away so you buy more of their stuff.
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Of course, especially for things like that....
Only reason I wont be eating them is they are part of the minibar here, so most likely about double the price I could buy a large can for in the supermarket... |
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Ah! Good man Joel!!
I'd forgotten you were in Tasmania. Get yourself down the supermarket and fill your belly up, without rip-off prices! |
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I might just do that, might buy myself plenty of alcohol too so I can pass out so I don't hear the noisy pr1cks upstairs
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Alhigh?
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Or Kamikazee?
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Hahahaha I don't know who it is, there's someone up there now who it seems can't walk, just stomp......and there's all sorts of strange noises at night.
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Oscar Pitorius did get bail...
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Uh oh, I think i might lock myself in the bathroom.
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Aieeee!!!
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I remember back in the early 70's when I was in our Leytonstone shop, went to the local sainsbury's & got a box of Jaffa cakes, took then back & bit into one, hard as a golf ball, I remember saying mum these are off, " what is the date on it " she said I replied something like April, she said "well its only just April now " & I said yes but April 72 not April 74
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Haha Pumpy! Jaffa Cakes do need to be somewhat 'fresh' as they go hard pretty quickly.
I remember sometime in the 70s when my mother opened a loaf of bread she'd bought the night before in the local shop. The slices were green with mould on the edges. She told me to take it back and to just say to the woman who owned the shop "My mother says this loaf is off". The woman who owned the shop looked at it with derision, and very reluctantly said to me "You'd better have another one then, hadn't you." It was almost like it was "Tough luck, you've picked up something that is ages old and I'm very reluctant to let you have another in replacement" How times have changed re sell-by, use-by dates. No such things existed then. |
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A Tortoise given to the Tongan Royal family by captain Cook in 1777 died in 1965.
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bigmo 25 Feb 13 19:29
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Sarcastic people tend to be more creative.
Walt Disney hired 11 dwarfs for the premier of Pinocchio to dress up like the puppet and greet children.Left with a day's worth of food and wine,by mid-afternoon there were 11 naked dwarfs running around screaming obscenities at the crowd. Starbucks spends more on health insurance for it's employees than on coffee beans. There are no current statistics on religion in Tanzania.Home to many faiths,it's census hasn't asked about religion since 1967 in order to avoid fights over which was the biggest. |