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does anyone remember those vegetable chips (i think) called lava chips or something like that.

it had a yellow and red flavour, i used to eat it all the time in primary school. would've been around 1996-7.

man they were great chips.
 
I remember the samboy ad in the 80's. There was a guy standing there going through all the flavours and he would say "samboy salt and vinegar" and then he would have vinegar and salt pour down on him, "samboy chicken" and feathers fell down from the sky, then "samboy barbeque" and the ad would end with a thud as a bbq had fallen on the ugly bugger.


Oh my God! I remember that one too. I was only a little fella then but yeah I remember that. In fact I'm certain I have a copy of that ad on an old VHS somewhere. My folks used to record all the kids shows for me then and just record all the ads and everything. It's amazing going through some of those old videos and seeing what we used to watch.
I remember some time last year going through one of those videos and it had some old channel 9 News updates that would come on during the ad breaks. It's a funny feeling watching those things and seeing what everyone was talking about back then. The other thing is it's amazing how some of the things they were talking about back then are still in constant discussion today. Things like first Iraq war, petrol prices going up to something like 30 cents a litre (LOL), all the usual middle eastern conflicts, the first digital cameras which were bigger than bricks, new versions of mobile phones which let you store 10 contacts! (LOL again), remember the 486 Computer!!
Man, how times can change in a matter of 20 years. Kind of makes you feel happy and sad at the same time.
 
:thumbsu: :thumbsu:

Also loved the Thins Light and Tangy - pity that half the time, there was so little flavour they tasted almost identical to original (which I'm not a fan off).
The flavour of Thins Light and Tangy changed dramatically a few years ago. Back in high school, they (along with Burger Rings) would be the only chips I would eat, but now their flavour has changed so much, it is barely recognisable to me. I'm pretty sure it's not me with the problem because Burger Rings still taste the same, I just think that Light and Tangy lost something a few years back. Probably the Tangy, if anything...
 

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Samboy chips were taken off the shelves because there was a growing trend of people being hit by them.

Injury and Hospitalisation by Samboy Chips went up to a very large figure.

Kevin Rudd in his bid to rule the world is trying to bring them back.
 

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I forgot about the Atomic Tomato flavour. They weren't very good. Smiths BBQ and Smith Salt and Vinegar are the best.
 
by the way, oddbods were the shit.

Aw shit.

I.P Freely anyone?

Samboys are amazing. I still regularly snaffel packs of BBQ's tbh.

Re: The flavour sachet, i remember them being banned from our school because someone got the salt and vinegar one in their eye. Maybe this is why they stopped making them?

Barbecue Ruffles were crazy good, if not the best. Why are these not around anymore?

Smiths Sour Cream and Onion are acceptable also :thumbsu:
 
Why aren't they more popular? Far superior to Smiths chips (though smiths original are nice) yet they seem to be disappearing from store shelves. Is this just a WA thing? Are they bigger over East?

They should bring back the extra sachet of flavouring and avoid using Red Symons in any future advertising campaign. Anyway I hope to one day see a return to the glory days of Samboy chips.
I wrote an email to the consumer thing and thay said there are currently no plans to re-introduce the flavour sachets or the 100g packets.:(
 

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