Things I Love: Space Raiders
I have a great thing noshing a delightfully salty things that have a tendency to be bad for you. Namely, crisps (or chips for my American friends.) So imagine my delight when I moved here to Wales to discover that I now live on an island with people also enjoy crisps and who flavor them in strange and exotic ways. While there are no sour cream and onion (at least not that I've found) nor are there cheese and sour cream (they don't really do sour cream here like we do it. Which is a shame, but you have to take the good with the bad.) they have made up for the lack of both of these by having Cheese and onion flavor. Oh, but that's not all. They make chicken and thyme crisps, sweet thai chilli crisps, beef and onion crisps, marmite crisps ... the list could go on.
But, recently, my love of crisps has focussed on one particular brand known as space raiders. They are lovely. They remind a little of cheetos because they are a corn and wheat puff that is obviously fried and then rolled in some delightful flavoring dust.
That, ladies and gentlemen is what a bag of the pickled onion flavor of space raiders looks like.
But, I think what really makes this snack is that the little bags (and I've only ever seen them in ittle bags) are only 10p. The Space Raiders come in other flavors as well, my favorite being Beef flavored. Which are a little like chilli cheese fritos without the cheese. Although that's a pretty weak description, I think you get my point. These are lovely. Just lovely.
