FACT: Crisps are an important part of your diet, and comprise at least seven of your five a day.FACT: Modern culture started to collapse the day Golden Wonder stopped making Ringos.
A decision not taken lightly, production was halted after a successful legal challenge by fourth-best Beatle Ringo Starr, demanding a 1p payment for every tasty potato-based snack bearing his name.
Ironically, the Egg Marketing Board dodged a similar bullet by changing the name of the yellow bit inside their product to "yolk" after a writ from Yoko Ono in the early 1970s, while the makers of "Lennonade" craftily switched the double-n to a letter 'm'.
Paul McCartney and Man United footballer Wayne Rooney are said to be perfectly happy with Macca-Roons, as long as they stick to the veggie recipe.
I am not mad.
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They always put 'BEST BEFORE'on stuff.
Why don't fag packets say BEST AFTER: Kylie Minogue????
Not mad in the least.
Ooooeerrr! Loverly Ringos. What was you favourite flavour?
Onion flavour. They didn't do any other flavours did they?
You might be *a little bit* mad. But your marketing skills are flawless, because now I'm hungry.
Surely they should be Ringoes? Like potatoes?
Discos were good. The salt and vinegar ones that tasted as though the potato and salt bits had been missed out.
"... and comprise at least seven of your five a day..."
In my dream world...
If it doesn't taste of bacon - it's not a snack.
Now I'm hungry AND wishing I could have 7 out of five servings of chips a day without dying of a heart attack after a week.
Golden Wonder now do Ringos in C+O & S+V, as well as good ol' onion:
http://www.goldenwonder.com/ringos-brand.asp
Who bets they're not as good/big/small/etc. as they used to be? :)
Quite worthwhile information, thank you for the article.
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