Hedgehog flavoured crisps were created in 1981 by Phillip Lewis, landlord of the Vaults public house in Welshpool. He created them as a joke, in part inspired by a Gypsy tale of eating baked hedgeh…
I don’t personally remember them, but in the pub I used to work in, in the late 90s/early 2000s (about 10-15 years ago) one of the locals always used to ask for them as part of his “ordering crisps joke he did every day for years on end”.
“Do you have any hedgehog flavour Crisps?”
“Okay, do you have any helicopter flavour crisps?”
“No helicopter? I guess I’ll just have plane (plain) then”
I don’t personally remember them, but in the pub I used to work in, in the late 90s/early 2000s (about 10-15 years ago) one of the locals always used to ask for them as part of his “ordering crisps joke he did every day for years on end”.
“Do you have any hedgehog flavour Crisps?”
“Okay, do you have any helicopter flavour crisps?”
“No helicopter? I guess I’ll just have plane (plain) then”