I love crisps, I think I always have ..
I remember when a bag of Tayto crisps was 3 pence and you could buy Perri for 2 pence …that was a lot of money back then and to me they were a total luxury and only bought on very special occasions.
Back in Primary school I remember watching our schoolmate Barry Coffey eat a bag of crisps so quickly during lunch – how could he?
He was the luckiest kid ever – he was the only one in the class who came to school with a bag of crisps and he had the audacity to eat them quickly with no reverence whatsoever!
I remember the Sunday afternoon spins with mum and dad and my sister Laura.
Like most brothers and sisters (there were two and a half years between us) we had our share of fights. My lasting memory of those days was my sisters ability to make that packet of crisps last forever…I would have eaten my packet of crisps as slowly as possible and with total respect and my sister would still have 90% of her packet left.
She would crush her packet up and for the rest of that journey she would tease me silly.. one crumb at a time.
I know we are in tough economic times and that things are really tight but then I think of crisps and I wonder ..
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