Bring on Summer.... We are running out of entertainment options... bored with endless boxed sets - Spotify fills a large gap and the sun finally making an appearance certainly helped with garden chores but after dark we are reduced to such exciting ventures as blind crisp tasting!!!
YES... this was our exciting experiment for Friday night.... as self confessed crisp addicts it was building up to be a promising evening if for no other reason we would have to eat a minimum of six packets of crisps!!! We have been very circumspect about eating crisps recently - basically not buying them so they are not in the house because if they are we just eat them - what else would one do you might ask, well firstly, you might make them last more than one evening - and you might not fall out about who has eaten them the quickest so getting twice as many... it had got to the point that we only allowed ourselves crisps on very high days and holidays or when we had visitors - none of which has happened much recently. Before attempting to ban them altogether we also decided to buy the small multi pack bags to attempt to limit the amount we ate - as once opened a sharing pack would just goooooooooooo and we could (technically) ratio ourselves to one small packet each. (didn't work).
So in the absence of anything better to do and feeling we deserved a treat - we decided to conduct a serious experiment to see how supermarket own brand crisps compared with the big brands. That was a bad start as we could only locate two 'big brands' so we bought them and them and then to supplement to two bags of 'emergency' crisps already stashed from a budget supermarket we bought 2 other supermarket makes.... now we have five brands in total. We stuck to ready salted flavour to keep things simple - (it got even simpler).
The anticipation builds....
We made ourselves eat a late meal so we wouldn't be starving and gorge the crisps like we usually do. We treated ourselves to a G&T and then set out the bowls carefully labelled underneath. The plan unfolded... one of us left the room and the other emptied the crisps into the bowls correctly and then left the room the other returned and moved them about so no one knew which was which!!!
I hope you are not investing too much into this because it was a damp squib from the outset!!! First we had somehow duplicated a brand - our 'emergency ' crisps were nor what we thought they were so that was one one down - then we discovered a second brand were the wrong flavour - By now the scientist is beginning to get twitchy - this is not proper planning and I suppose its all going to be my fault - why have a glamorous assistant if you cant blame her.. The final blow was that the discovery that one of the 'big brands' were ridged!!!! Ridged crisps are such a no no and we had inadvertently brought them into our house!!! We had to eat them quickly while we made the decision whether to abort the mission or not.
From the expectation of 5 different kinds of crisps we were down to 2 - hardly an experiment, but basically these crisps were now in bowls and needed to be eaten - so under slight duress and with disappointment we taste tested the two left - one big brand and one cheap supermarket - I think its fair to say there was a discernible difference and the big brand won hands down - we repeated the experiment with two further packets just to make sure - feeling a little cheated that we didn't have as many crisps as we were expecting and declared the famous footballer who we think is called Gazza (not the one that cried) doesn't really need to be paid 1.2 million to promote them - they speak or rather taste for themselves.... (actually his nick name is Junior Des - I'm sure that means something to someone but we don't do football)
As with all good experiments we carefully recorded the whole process as we tasted and drank more gin and think we may have to repeat the experiment to continue the inclusion of further brands - after all we have got this far and we need to be absolutely sure from all angles......
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