Beat this: Hannah Conduct has spent 30 years gathering packets from around the world
Posted on 08/17/2010 6:09:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It seems collecting empty crisp packets is quite a popular hobby. Last week Metro reported on Dave Valentine’s impressive 500-pack archive – but this obviously opened a can (well, a packet) of worms.
Hannah Conduct has come forward to reveal a whopping 9,000 empty bags in her collection, which she has gathered over the past 30 years.
The marketing manager, who insists she is ‘not a big crisp eater’, said her pastime began during one of her regular family holidays on a canal boat.
‘We were sitting at a pub on the canals one day and I was eating pork scratching-flavoured crisps. My dad said I should keep the packet.
‘I never did but, for some reason, I started collecting crisp packets after that. It’s the kind of thing children do. Some collected Care Bears stickers, I collected crisp packets,’ said the 35-year-old from Acton, west London. The first to go into her collection was a bag of roast chicken flavour Walkers in 1980 and an obsession was born – although she disputes this. ‘It doesn’t rule my life,’ said Ms Conduct. ‘They are up in the attic in folders. It’s a total history of packaging and design. There’s a strange beauty to seeing the design evolution.’
Friends have now taken to sending her packets from all over the world.
Her favourite flavour is homegrown but a little more exciting than ready salted. ‘The standout packet is the traffic warden flavour by Cannibal Crisps,’ she said. ‘It was a promotion done by the BBC in the mid-80s. It was a bit of a spoof.’
She even once found love through her hobby. ‘He went travelling round eastern Europe and brought me back 40 different packets of crisps. We were together for eight years.’
Beat this: Hannah Conduct has spent 30 years gathering packets from around the world
>> Beat this: Hannah Conduct has spent 30 years gathering packets from around the world
Looks like she ate ‘em all, too. Every crumb!
It does not explain what a crisp packet is?
She’s crazy, but definitely not guilty.
Bag of chips: potato, onion ring, Doritos, whatever.
Crisps = chips, potato chips in the British vernacular.
Those crazy Brits...
Savory crisps titillate my taste buds!
On a slightly different, and disgusting note. Our auction company once loaded out all the saleable items from a house in east Baltimore. The lady had some decent antiques, etc., but she also had several closets STUFFED FULL of used “Depends” underwear. Never know WHAT you’ll find when you load out a house! Glad I’m now retired.
>> she also had several closets STUFFED FULL of used “Depends” underwear.
Although they were used, maybe she didn’t think they were used UP.
After all, doesn’t it say right there on the back of the box, “fits up to 175 pounds”?
I see the twins are doing well.
;)
British terms just annoy the hell out of me.
She has nice packets.
Fun bags!
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