I got an email from Uncle Hunty last night bemoaning the fact that his wife – ‘a red head from Sydney’ – prefers chicken flavoured Twisties to cheese ones.
I’ve got to say I prefer chicken flavoured Twisties too. If you eat a whole large packet to yourself they make your gums go numb.
Hunty is from Melbourne and likes cheese. His wife and I are from Sydney and we prefer chicken. Is this a trait that is consistent across all Sydney-siders and Melbournians? Which flavour do people from Brisbane favour? Adelaide? Perth? Hobart? Darwin?
Of course, this’ll mean nothing to all of you in the rest of the world. But thankfully this entry on wikipedia will get you up to speed.
Actually, the entry has something for everyone. I learnt that Natalie Imbruglia started on her road to fame and fortune with an appearance in a Twisties commercial.
Probably chicken ones.
Probably why I like them.
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I have never heard of anyone prefering chicken twisties, they were things you were force to have if you couldnt get the cheese variety and im from Sydney
Ah, Wikipedia – source of all trivia!!
I’m from Wollongong.
I enjoy chicken Twisties, but can’t eat them very often – I think once a year is probably my limit.
I’m a cheese Twisties girl. Interestingly, I can’t bring myself to eat any other kind of cheese-flavoured chips. No Cheetos for me, and certainly no cheesy corn chips – especially not Super Cheese or anything. Ugh!
A colleague here near Canberra (born in Vietnam, raised in Wollongong) eats cheese Twisties with chopsticks, so as to avoid the cheese-coated fingers.
I stayed mainly in Melbourne and I love the Cheese Twisties. Then again, I haven’t tried the Chicken…
Sydney and cheese. Chicken are interesting as a novelty, but there’s just too much MSG twanginess for me. And I love MSG!
People from Brisbane prefer Doritos.
I told you there would trouble if you spread this type of hate-speech. Gamma rays from space damage chromosomes in the womb which makes people like chicken twisties.
The sort of people that like chicken twisties are the same sort that prefer spring rolls to chiko rolls, Fosters over VB and Ford over Holden.
You know that Adolf Hitler drove a ford and had chicken twisties in his playlunch at school. I can only guess that he didn’t like chiko rolls.
Apparently twisties now available in the UK as ‘tastees’ http://www.tastees.info/
I’m from Brisbane and I must say I prefer Cheese Twisties, but I agree with Jimbo: Doritos are better!
Chicken Twisties all the way. I challenge any Perth people to disagree with me. It’s like our State food. I recently sent over a pack of Chicken Twisties to my boyfriend in the States, and I’m yet to hear back. I can’t decide whether the result was favourable or not.
My Aussie fiance arrives back in Europe tomorrow, so I’ll be sure to ask her opinion for you. She’s a Sydney girl who loves cheese, so the vote could go either way…
Chicken Twistees for me, a Sydneysider in Dublin. Love the furry-mouth feel after a packet on the way home from work…
Life’s pretty straight without ‘em.
Someone told me about Tastees, so I tried a packet of Tastees the other day. They are the British equivalent of Twistees I used to have in Melbourne.
They taste pretty good.
Don’t know if the Chicken variety is going to be on sale.
It’s chicken all the way. Cheese is nice, granted, but chicken twisties are the bees knees. YUMMMMM
Chicken’s my favourite too but I do like the Cheese and I’ll order the cheese if I can’t get the chicken. I have to order from ww.australiashop.co.uk in the UK and do so about twice a year. When your paying £1.70 a packet (almost AU$3.00) you can’t afford to do it often. Sometimes when I’m in London I’ll go into the shop but again that’s not often and only if I’m near the area where the shop is in Covent Garden. I’ve been a Twistie’s girl since I was a child and I’m ahem in my 40s now.