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Offline bev5

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Hedgehog flavour crisps
« on: August 10, 2005, 19:29:02 PM »
Does anyone remember them or have i dreamt it    ;D

I think they were out in the early 80's and if i remember right, they tasted disgusting!!!
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Re: Hedgehog flavour crisps
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2005, 19:46:17 PM »
YUP!

I remember them Bev!!

There is still a HEDGEHOG brand out there now I think.

I seem to remember the Hedgehog flavour ones making the news when some 'clever' sod decided that they couldn't call them Hedgehog flavour as you they would have to have real hedgehog in them?!?!?!    ???

It was pointed out that CHICKEN and BEEF flavour crisps didn't have anything remotely like their name in the flavouring..................

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Re: Hedgehog flavour crisps
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2005, 12:25:25 PM »
I remember them too.

You never see hedgehogs around these days do you?  ???  :-\
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Re: Hedgehog flavour crisps
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2005, 15:51:08 PM »
Quote from: ViscountDiscount on August 11, 2005, 12:25:25 PM
I remember them too.

You never see hedgehogs around these days do you?  ???  :-\
LOL Visc

Glad that other people have heard of them, i knew i hadn't dreamt it  ;D
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Re: Hedgehog flavour crisps
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2005, 15:52:21 PM »
I remember them to Bev.. O0
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Re: Hedgehog flavour crisps
« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2005, 20:29:29 PM »
Me three,if I remember correctly they just tasted a bit like beef crisps.
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Re: Hedgehog flavour crisps
« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2005, 19:12:30 PM »
Indeed. Twas beef flavouring apparently.

Nonetheless where have our hedgehogs gone?
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Re: Hedgehog flavour crisps
« Reply #7 on: August 12, 2005, 19:42:54 PM »
I do remember them, wasnt they in a white bag with brown text and a cartoon image of a Hedgehog on the front?
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Re: Hedgehog flavour crisps
« Reply #8 on: August 12, 2005, 20:40:12 PM »
The decision by the owner of Hedgehog Foods Ltd, Philip Lewis, to produce "hedgehog flavoured" crisps in 1981 made some young animal lovers angry, because they feared that the crisps were made from real hedgehog!

They were actually flavoured with pork fat and in 1982, Britain's Office of Fair Trading hauled Mr Lewis into court for false advertising.

Lewis tried to produce "evidence" by interviewing gypsies as to what "baked hedgehog" tasted like and commisioned a flavourings expert to duplicate the flavour.


Newspaper advertisements said:

"Bristling with flavour!
Hedgehog flavoured crisps on sale now.
Savour all the flavour
Of traditional country fare!
The taste of hedgehog baked in clay
A taste so delicate and rare."






Lewis later had to change the labels from "hedgehog flavoured" to "hedgehog flavour" - which was thought to be a less misleading term.
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Re: Hedgehog flavour crisps
« Reply #9 on: August 12, 2005, 22:25:04 PM »
Damnn PC society!

And they introduce prawn Cocktail flavour ?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?
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Re: Hedgehog flavour crisps
« Reply #10 on: August 12, 2005, 23:51:09 PM »
Does that mean every Chinese takeaway in the land can be sued over "sweet and sour chicken balls"?  ;D
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Re: Hedgehog flavour crisps
« Reply #11 on: August 20, 2005, 18:36:59 PM »
Errrr....


They weren't as good as Badger & Cabbage flavour. >:D
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Re: Hedgehog flavour crisps
« Reply #12 on: August 20, 2005, 19:14:21 PM »
Quote from: Cleo on August 20, 2005, 18:36:59 PM
They weren't as good as Badger & Cabbage flavour. >:D

Badger???   with a Cabbage???  :o

Time to put this into Adults Only methinks  :2funny:
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Re: Hedgehog flavour crisps
« Reply #13 on: August 20, 2005, 21:14:31 PM »
We had a girl in our gang going for months with that...she was CONVINCED they really existed.

She was very like the verger in The Vicar of Dibley (just watched it on tv) but her name was Janet.
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Re: Hedgehog flavour crisps
« Reply #14 on: August 21, 2005, 20:45:54 PM »
Quote from: Cleo on August 20, 2005, 18:36:59 PM
Errrr....


They weren't as good as Badger & Cabbage flavour. >:D

Excuse me???
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