Cul-de-snack
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An edible street with crisp-covered buildings, a white chocolate pavement, Chipstick fences and a liquorice lamppost, assembled from familiar snacks.
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- The idea came from a lunchtime conversation about joining Wotsits end to end, was posted on the site forum after the writer’s boyfriend heard about Pimp That Snack on the radio, and was built with her brother. About £10 bought Milky Bar, Onion Rings, Chipsticks, liquorice, candy floss, Frazzles, Squares, jelly babies and mini eggs. The pavement is Milkybar with road markings and a fence of Chipsticks, the ready salted kind though salt and vinegar would do; the house and roof are a shoe box tiled with Squares and Frazzles stuck on with icing; the scooter is Hula Hoops and Chipsticks; the street lamp is liquorice topped with a Wotsit. The account reckons £10 buys a house for up to a hundred jelly babies and invites others to extend the neighbourhood. Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3 · Source 4 · Source 5 · Source 6
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I spend about £10 on the ingredients including Milky Bar, Onion Rings, Chipsticks, licorice, candy floss, frazels, squares, jelly babies and mini eggs.
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There’s a bit of a story behind this one. I was having lunch with a couple of people at work and one of us had wotsits. We started to talk about biting the ends of a wotsit, licking the end and molding them together speculating how long we could get them . The conversation probably went that bit too far and if we been within ear-shot of some sort of authority we would probably have been institutionalised. Anyhow, we thought of making scenes with crisps and even small towns probably being in competition with LegoLand but a bit more tasteful.
Earlier this week my boyfriend heard about PimpThatSnack.com on the radio and told me to have a look. I did and I posted my idea on the forum, getting a totally positive response. So I roped my brother in and we got pimping…..
I spend about £10 on the ingredients including Milky Bar, Onion Rings, Chipsticks, licorice, candy floss, frazels, squares, jelly babies and mini eggs.
We began by laying the pavement with milkybar and made the road markings with chipsticks (ready salted flavour however salt and vinegar works just as well). We also used this to make a fence. This is the one thing that maybe wasn’t to scale as well as the rest but the ends can be easily nibbled.
Whilst I tiled the house and roof (shoe box) with squares and frazels with icing, my brother built a scooter with hula hoops and chipsticks. I wouldn’t advise licking fingers that are covered in icing and bacon flavourings.
And there was our creation including a street lamp made from licorice and a wotsit – the inspiration that started it all. Hail the Wotsit!!!
Could have gone further but unfortunately I have a job and a short concentration span. I invite anyone to expand the neighbourhood and broaden the housing opportunities for jelly babies everywhere. £10 afforded a house that could occupy up to a hundred jelly babies.
Pimping dedicated to Daniel Condon, Steven Lunn, Jo Spindler and Richard Holland. If I ever get a return on this we’ll split it!
