Remember hedgehog flavour? Moon cheese? The weirdest, wildest, coolest crisp packet designs ever

"Would you eat a smoky spider flavour Monster Munch? What about a Bovril crisp, cooked up to celebrate the release of Back to the Future? Then there's hedgehog flavour and even a Wallace and Gromit corn snack designed to capture the unique taste of moon cheese, which the duo rocketed off to collect in A Grand Day Out. All these salty, crunchy and perhaps even tasty snacks are celebrated in UK Crisp Packets 1970-2000,"

"You'll find Dennis the Menace bacon and baked bean flavour alongside Golden Wonder roast turkey and stuffing and Sonic the Hedgehog salt and vinegar. There are long-gone regional brands from Penryn, Blackpool and Wigan, along with a whole heap of TV and film special editions, including the Spice Girls, Thunderbirds, Zig and Zag, Dr Who, The Mask and Jurassic Park."

"It is nothing if not eclectic, the designs it showcases ranging from straightforward to inspired to bizarre. There's union jack-clad cheese and onion to commemorate the 1981 royal wedding and even innuendo-laden comic strips that recall smutty seaside postcards. The Dandy's Beryl the Peril fronts a bag of sausage and tomato. As alluring as a record sleeve? 1991 KP Discos. Photograph: Chris Packet Equally fascinating, though, is the sheer range of lettering, illustrations, cartoons and styles that always feel playful and are sometimes even cool."

Crisp packet designs from 1970–2000 present an eclectic mix of novelty flavours, promotional tie-ins and regional products, including smoky spider Monster Munch, Bovril crisps, hedgehog flavour and Wallace and Gromit moon cheese. Childhood favourites such as Chipsticks, Frazzles and Snaps appear alongside rarer items and long-gone brands from Penryn, Blackpool and Wigan. Numerous TV and film special editions feature properties like the Spice Girls, Thunderbirds, Dr Who, Sonic the Hedgehog and Jurassic Park. Graphic approaches range from straightforward to bizarre, with bold lettering, playful illustrations, innuendo-laden comic strips and record-sleeve-like designs, plus unusual snack shapes.

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