If you don't laugh, you'll cry. WFA

Weaty

Are some crisp bags better than others,
this maybe of help, to know which crisps to buy for efficiency.

I think some crisp packets have a silver lining which is what all us elderly folk should be looking for at present!

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Allira

Do we wash them, stick them together to make one large sheet?
Which are best - are Tyrrells lightly sea salted ok or does it have to be Walkers? Tesco own make?

Some crisps are made locally and the bags are apparently compostable so will they disintegrate slowly and disappear?

So many ponderables.

So you get doz of those big bags of crisps ( cost £57 ),run the hot tap, get the water boiling hot to wash all the grease off, ( cost £3.00 per bowl of water). You have eaten all the crisps ( £9.80) for a statin as you have raised your cholesterol & god knows what else- some folk are blinking nuts 🙄

ronib

Kitchen foil behind radiators might be better - it might be more economical than buying crisps in bulk?

Think it’s a joke? Right

merlotgran

So if it takes a while to freeze us all to death they want us to eat salt laden, high fat ultra processed food to hurry things along a bit?

Sponsored by Wa*kers! 😂

This lot are trying to bump off the pensioners for sure😩

Bet the sanctimonious Gary Lineker doesn’t have to put crisp packs behind his radiators 🙄

M0nica

Good point. How about recycling cooking foil? Specifically for a survival blaanket, then you can supplement your diet by nibbling at all the burnt on food bits.

Especially if you have cooked salmon, oh forgot most of us probably can’t afford a piece of decent fish 🤣

Maybe pollock! A fish with a name close to a rude word, probably because that is what is said when someone first tastes it. It is really cheap (for fish) because it tastes so awful.

M0nica

Maybe pollock! A fish with a name close to a rude word, probably because that is what is said when someone first tastes it. It is really cheap (for fish) because it tastes so awful.

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The fish, unusually, mate for life.
That's where that saying comes from...
A pair of pollocks. 🤭

[laugh]

I have had some very tasty Pollock!

WFA Winter Frock Allowance - donations to Lady Vic Starmer?

RosiesMaw2

WFA Winter Frock Allowance - donations to Lady Vic Starmer?

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M0nica

Maybe pollock! A fish with a name close to a rude word, probably because that is what is said when someone first tastes it. It is really cheap (for fish) because it tastes so awful.

I was very proud that I was the only person who caught a pollock when we went mackerel fishing off the coast of Cornwall years ago.

We were camping and we barbecued it (plus mackerel) for dinner.

When I told my mother she said "Pollock's for cats!"

did it used to be coley ?

welbeck

did it used to be coley ?

I think so.

Now the fish is Basa. It tastes OK as long as you don’t trace its origins. It sticks well to tinfoil if you don’t grease it before cooking.

Allira

I've a better idea.

We could all be issued with a survival blanket, so much easier to wrap ourselves up than faff around trying to push crisp packets behind radiators.

For those nifty with needle and thread, we could make ourselves survival outfits so we can wear them when we move around our chilly homes and go to scrape the ice from the inside of the windows.

www.kcl.ac.uk/making-lifesaving-blankets-out-of-crisp-packets

You make the blanket from the crisp packet - not a new idea

Tizliz

Allira

I've a better idea.

We could all be issued with a survival blanket, so much easier to wrap ourselves up than faff around trying to push crisp packets behind radiators.

For those nifty with needle and thread, we could make ourselves survival outfits so we can wear them when we move around our chilly homes and go to scrape the ice from the inside of the windows.

www.kcl.ac.uk/making-lifesaving-blankets-out-of-crisp-packets

You make the blanket from the crisp packet - not a new idea

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I've heard everything now!!

welbeck

did it used to be coley ?

Yes, it did. Still tastes horrible, whatever they call it.

The Treasury does have a full internal analysis of the effects of withdrawing the WFA from pensioners….. seems we don’t get to read it.