Two pints of lager and a packet of spiders

 

Found a spider in a packet of prawn cocktail flavoured crisps the other day.

Hadn’t caught it there on purpose, though; that would have been be weird. It would also have been unfair – both on the spider and on the crisps. Unfair, because let’s face it, prawn cocktail flavour anything needs all the help it can get to be popular. If someone thinks “Do you know what? I REALLY fancy prawn cocktail crisps”, then that’s a rare victory for prawn cocktail. If that someone then found out there was a spider in there too, well, that would ruin it for everyone.

We don’t often have crisps in. Not because we don’t like them – crisps are brilliant. It’s just that we don’t often buy them – and sadly no-one ever comes round dishing out free crisps.

These ones were left over from a party; a big packet, already opened and just knocking around waiting to be finished. They were in the cupboard, and (unless it was actually a supermarket own-brand spider) so was the spider.

Whether it wandered in looking for the laydeez, or whether it just liked crisps, who knows.

Either way, it really hadn’t ended well.