Saw V and Space Raiders

I was just eating some spiced tortilla chips and was trying to think what spice was predominant. Unfortunately my point of reference is that it tastes a bit like Barbecue Beef flavoured Monster Munch. Which I haven’t eaten in about ten years. By far the best nutritionally incomplete snacks ever were Pickled Onion Space Raiders. 100% fried corn based snacks with a taste approximating pickled onion if the onions were pickled in car battery acid. Which would be really fucked up if we were invaded by aliens that drank acid. They’d think it was some marvellous act of precognition. Which doesn’t exist, so they’d eventually work out it was just coincidence. Feeling a bit stupid about it, probably.

I once bought a whole box full of Space Raiders that was past its sell-by date. They still tasted OK. And they worked out at 2p a packet. That gave me a warm glow because they retailed at 10p. I ate loads of them and got indigestion. They were no substitute for breakfast. They now retail at 15p. Which still makes them worth it. In the upcoming film Saw V one of the ways a hostage dies is that they’re skinned alive, then chucked in a pit of Pickled Onion Space Raiders. I shit you not.

Nostalgia go fuck yourself.