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1980s Brits on the street taste-testing crisps is absolutely delicious

Poke Staff. Updated July 28th, 2023

A 1981 clip of the hit show That’s Life, showing people reacting to new and exciting crisp flavours – plus prawn cocktail – has been doing the rounds on Twitter since spring, and it’s like peering into a window on another world.

@allthingshistoricalclips #HistoryVideos #crisps #thatslife #funny #estherrantzen #britishpublic #crispychallenge #fyp #for ♬ Aesthetic – Tollan Kim

Loving the ‘Geordie, not English’ energy from that one woman.

TikTok users had some thoughts.

Everyone was a smoker they couldn’t taste a thing, lmao.
Kazsmaz

TBF no bacon flavour crisp has ever tasked like bacon. Same for chicken.
Scholesy

I’m more concerned that she took a bite of one and put it back.
Chrissyk

The days when there was barely any crisps and now we have aisles in supermarkets of every crisp and flavours you can imagine 😳😳
keeleysinfield

But what wine would you match with these crisps? 🤔
Kel is eating.

After taking 42 years to find its way to TikTok, it was a mere three months before it ended up on Twitter, where it got a lot of attention.

If it felt oddly familiar, Jack Wardlaw made an excellent point.

via Gfycat

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