I was reminded today about a rather over the top letter I wrote a while ago to Golden Wonder about the price of so-called 10p crisps. Of course they didn’t reply to my criticism of the bigger bag that is three times the original size and price yet contains the same 10p worth of crisps. It would appear that the general public is not going to see a return to the days of 10p Space Raiders and Tangy Toms, but we can see justice prevail in another way. Golden Wonder can now be boycotted in favour of the next generation of 10p crisps.

Thingies are available in a handful of flavours and I chose the three main ones; salt and vinegar, cheese, and spicy tomato. They are everything you’d expect from this kind of snack and are the ideal substitute for the old guard who has arrogantly priced themselves out of the 10p crisps market. Even the bags are the right style, none of your fancy foil freshness here, and the logo looks like it has been designed on a 1980s BBC computer. Taste wise they are obviously not gourmet standard, they taste how they are supposed to taste and I don’t imagine there being any cheese or tomato anywhere near them. The cheese ones are not dissimilar to Wotsits and the spicy tomato are the next best thing to Tangy Toms, I’m not going to bother doing a blindfold test (mainly because it would involve breaking the Golden Wonder boycott) but I imagine it wouldn’t be easy. I just hope that Thingies don’t make the same calamitous error of judgment that Golden Wonder made and put the price up with delusions of grandeur.

So far I have only seen this brand in one shop, a branch of Londis. If you miss the golden age (and indeed the Golden Wonder) of 10p crisps, then please search out this particular line.

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