Plain crisps ffs. PLAIN CRISPS.

[SilentBoob]

If I asked you to get me a packet of plain crisps, what would you bring me?

Every time I have asked dh for plain crisps these past couple of weeks he has come home without them, saying the shop didn't have any.

Then tonight he brought me ready salted and said he was sorry, the shop STILL didn't have any plain crisps but maybe I'd like ready salted instead?

Gentle probing revealed that he thought I wanted entirely plain and unflavoured crisps. WHO THE JEFF WANTS PLAIN, UNSALTED, UNFLAVOURED CRISPS?

Plain crisps = ready salted. IANBU.

'Ready Salted' means Already salted rather than having the bag of salt in the bag & salting your own.

DH does the shopping list (pre typed, sorted by aisle in the supermarket), buys the food decides the cheapest version & comes home with useful alternative me on the other hand

I do not bother giving DH a list since I asked for 'sweet potatoes' and he came back with a staggering five kilos of the bastards!

Could have made a lot of plain crisps with those I tell you!

Katymac can he teach my DH then?

My DCs refuse to go shopping with him now, due to the list fiasco

At least when dd used to go, it normally made sense what they bought, she won't go now though.
She has offered to hold the list and check things off for him but he won't do that either.

It's unmanly to have a list, or ASK if you cant find something.

He is a genius at bringing home 7 bags of shopping when he only went to get eggs though.

klaxon my DH does that as well.

Carrot (singular) became the biggest bag sold anywhere in the world.

In Ireland, plain crisps are cheese and onion. Yuk

funny thread I love plain crisps. Always the one's left over from multi-pack, so Im always in credit.

JosephineCD yep, some cruel trickery going on there

You still get Golden Wonder. At least you do here in Scotland.

Silent

I would no longer think of your DH as a DH. Keep him as an amusing pet.

Save yourself the heartache.

My dh always manages to spend 40 quid on shopping for one meal, if only I my budget was that substantial. He went to the farm for eggs and said he thought that he paid the right amount (honesty box), because he decided a dozen must be 12, because if it was 6, then half a dozen would only be 3 and egg boxes don't come in 3s. Bless. I would try the plain crisps test on him, but as the children always leave those, I'm never in need of any more.

I would bring you some Salt n Shake ('Little blooo saltbagggggg.... and frrrrrennnnnnnds'). I don't mind salt free (if you have some dips).

plain is definitely ready salted.

I'm not sure now. I will have to do a test.

Has anyone tried the mystery flavoured ones in the Golden Wonder (I think) competition? They are revolting.

they're called ready salted because all plain crisps used to come without the salt, but would be a little sachet of salt in the pack - you could have as little or much salt as you wanted.
hen, they started putting the salt on the crisps - ready-salted.

And the salt bags came about because people kept pinching the salt cellars (is that the correct spelling?) in the grocery shops where they sold the crisps. Originally they were little twists of paper with salt in them.

The things you learn!

I can't give DH a list.
I made him a list of things we needed that we don't normally get.
because i wanted him to get these things, and how would he know unless i made a list?

so he came back with only the things on the list .
nothing else.
at all.
not the usual groceries, nothing.

I don't make lists any more.

aww, duracell bless!

When my DH was a teenager Friday night was chip night, his Mum would tell him every week 'fish and chips twice' and every week he would come back with one fish and two lots of chips, because he said thats what they asked for, they didn't say fish twice!
I know how infuriating this would have been as he still sticks to the argument now! So I have to write a list for the chip shop for him!

i suppose he didn't ever think to say the exact quote to the chip shop?

DH only sometimes takes a list to the supermarket. If he doesn't, he'll "just run through" what we need before he leaves. Then he'll ring me on the way there (it's a 5 min drive btw) to "just run through" again. Then he'll ring half way roudn the supermarket telling me what's in the basket so far, then again as he's in the queue. Then I get a final call on the way back "just running through" what he's bought. The DDs think it's hysterical I don't

Oh I get that as well, 74 phone calls to do a 10 minutes shop

just read the list

He actually phoned once and asked what type of ice I wanted
Yes ice
there were 2 different bags apparently both the same size, both ice AFAIK

normally, DH knows that if i haven't specified, then it doesn't matter.
(thank god!)

but sometimes I get phonecalls. If it's a new thing.

Plain is definitely ready salted.

In Ireland (I'm half Irish and spent many summer holidays 'helping' in my grandparents' village shop) I've never heard anyone say anything other than 'a packet of crisps' meaning cheese and onion Tayto. You could get salt and vinegar but would a) have to specify s&v, as crisps just meant c&o and b) have everyone looking at you as though you were a complete and utter weirdo, or loony English eccentric.

Am absolutely creased up at the shopping stories. My DH has never done anything really memorable in the shopping line (I don't let him) and he doesn't mind lists. But his idea of looking for something

Nickel you would think so but, no. He insists by saying that you are asking for one fish, two chips.
This is why I never trust him without a list even if its just milk and bread!

Any of you lot, with Ireland related crisp stories, ever eat the Monster Munch there in the yellow packet? They were Lush! Couldn't get them in the UK. God knows what flavour they were though.