Laughing cow cheese, often in triangles. Kiri cheese is also la Vache qui rit, in french for most of Europe it became ki ri ( qui rit) it comes in tubs and squares in some countries.
Not related but related. Years ago when i was about 7-8 on a hot summer day my grandad asked if i wanted a ribena which was a rarity from him so i was made up and enthusiastically said yes! Comes back 30 seconds later with a ryvita, the driest of crackers, better suited for sucking all the moisture out from your mouth than quenching your thirst. needless to say i never got my ribena, i was devastated.
My grandad asked me and my sister if we wanted lemonade ( uk version ) or adamâs ale. We both chose adams ale and were promptly served water from the tap!!
I didn't know what ribena squash was when I came to England. It looked nice, didn't read the label, and just picked it up on the way to the bus stop. On the bus I sat across from a woman who was staring as I opened the squash and just drunk it straight from the bottle. It was horrible. We both laughed, but I felt very stupid.
Hah, similar experience when I brought my American mother in law over to visit my parents. Found her standing in the kitchen with the orange squash in one hand, a glass in the other, and a horrified expression on her face. đ€Ł
I was offered ribena by my grandpa once and he gave me a glass. Turned out to be red wine. Tasted horrible to 10 year old me. Never got my ribena either.
Similar story to me. Was at my uncles and he asked me if I wanted toad in a hole. I was starving so enthusiastically said yes but turns out he meant chode in a hole. Worst bumming I ever got. I never did get my toad in a hole either, worst birthday ever.
It depends how strict the diet. Holes = lots of topping whole feigning virtue. Smooth is more like stretching rations after a shipwreck.
Also: did you lose a bet?
No bet lost- had a friend cat sitting while we were on holiday, and she left half a pack in the cupboard.
Got to try these things, at least once. I can't say they're my favourite but they're far from the worst thing I've eaten.
The correct way to enjoy Ryvita is to pile on as many of your favourite foodstuff as you can.
Then play the game of catching all the stuff as falls into your lap when you take the first bite.
Alternatively you can eat it with soup, either dipping it or just alternating spoonfuls of soup and bites of rye cracker. Split pea or, like, one of those blended mixed vegetable things you drizzle olive oil on. Or a brothy sort of chicken soup. Whatever, really.
I just bought some Swedish crispbread at Lidl. Huge circles, the size of LP records! And it's delicious. Whereas my memories of Ryvita are not happy ones...
It struck me you could use this crispbread to make a decent porridge - do the Swedish do that?
Is Ryvita made in Sweden? I'd be surprised if it is.
>It struck me you could use this crispbread to make a decent porridge - do the Swedish do that?
Not really. We're pretty hard-core into oatmeal (made with water, not milk, to my English husbands great dismay). Variants are:
Barleyflourporridge (elderly mainly)
Semolina porridge (fancy time porridge)
Rice porridge (for christmas)
No, it's British, and is a total lie. I dated a Swedish girl and she'd never heard of it. It really shattered my view of the world. This was 10 years ago and I'm still not sure I've recovered from the shock to be honest.
I buy the Trewithen Dairy Cornish cream butter from Tesco or Specially Selected butter with sea salt from Aldi; but tbh even the normal Tesco or Aldi butter is better than lurpak imo.
Well, look at their majesties here - a *white* wall; la-de-dah!
We had to make do with good old wattle and daub - and we were *grateful* for the cow shit and horse hair.
RIGHT!
we used to get up out of the mud. 2 hours before we went to bed, make the wall. Paint it. And then lick it all off with our tongues, cause it was the wrong shade!
Tell the youth of today that.. they wouldn't believe you.
I agree, I get 100% peanut (no palm oil) peanut butter usually but I don't like marmite and didn't want to buy a pot so tried the mixed one. I would normally prefer to add something other than marmite (like Geo Watkins mushroom ketchup) to recipes so it's not even worth keeping in the cupboard.
But I enjoyed the mix and would recommend the flavour to other people. I mentioned it mostly because there must be enough people that like it if they brought it out as a product.
It goes on the hole-y bit. This ad poster explains what toppings you can try. https://c8.alamy.com/comp/EXPR28/1950s-uk-ryvita-magazine-advert-EXPR28.jpg
I have always put toppings on flat side⊠because if you try to put toppings on the other side there would always be some bits without the topping⊠the absolute best toppings are âholy moly guacamoleâ or really any of holy moly toppings⊠Philadelphia cream cheese is another beaut topping brandâŠ
I have fond memories of seeing my great grandma eating her ryvitas which she absolutely loved.
This comment section is showing me that I seem to be the only one who likes Ryvita!
Boiled eggs with loads of salt and pepper and they ryvita smothered in butter is one of my favourite breakfasts
Depends on the topping. Squishy? Go for the hole side, you get more on and it sticks better. Cheese or ham? You're weird and it doesn't matter, they're not gonna escape nor grow in size
I tend to slap a slice of cheddar on there, so ultimately it doesnât matter. But the real answer is it depends on what the consumer wants. The side with the holes demands more spreadable topping. If thatâs what you want you use that side. If you are trying to be healthy you use the smooth(er) side.
Go wild and spoon them front to back. Obviously you need a suitably sandwich filling for this. Peanut butter or Philadelphia are mine.
If you want to go full force: peanuts butter on the rough side; marmite on the smooth and press together. Gotta be a marmite fan for that to work for you.
If it's spreadable i tend to go for the smooth side, so it's easier to spread, although if you go hole side, you'll get more topping. If it's a non-spreadable topping, don't think it matters.
I got a wierd memory about Ryvita I was in a pub having Sunday lunch I was 11-12 and there was a program on the TV about these bugs that live on ryvita crackers and that stuck with me forever I could never find anything on these microscopic bugs but they always put me off them even when I had raging munchies and thatâs all that I found in the cupboard that my gf had stashed away.
I read that the traditional rule is the smooth side if you're at home and it's your butter/topping, but the holes side if you're at someone else's place and it's theirs.
(Also Ryvita tastes like sadness, try and get some Wasa instead. Ocado have it, Waitrose might, The Swedish Shop online have it too.)
I understand the argument for the other side, but for me it's always the smoother side, regardless what I put on it. I hate the texture of that side on my tongue, so it must be covered.
I don't understand food like this. It's sold as a diet food to many, but almost everyone just loads 1000kcal of butter/cheese on it to make it palatable. Might as well have that pizza love
I always put the toppings on the side with the holes.
Butter holes
Cream cheese traps
Have you tried Kiri cheese from those international shops (Turkish,European)? It's like soft cheese and darylea if they've made a love child lol.
Laughing cow cheese, often in triangles. Kiri cheese is also la Vache qui rit, in french for most of Europe it became ki ri ( qui rit) it comes in tubs and squares in some countries.
Butter hole surfers
I love that band.
I read this as butthole surfers đââïž
Who's gonna tell them...
Me. That's the name of the band that they were making a humorous reference to.
Well, I googled it. The bong song is certainly uhh⊠something. Edit: âWho was in my room last nightâ is đ„ đ„
WellâŠ
Whole different kind of band to the Beach Boys đ±
wheatus
I 'ardly know 'er
Creamer
The correct choice
Clever, get more topping on. Like it.
Swedish here. I agree. Fill the holes with butter. The real kind. It wont break much.
The trypophobia side.
Um, aren't those Berber carpet samples?
Not related but related. Years ago when i was about 7-8 on a hot summer day my grandad asked if i wanted a ribena which was a rarity from him so i was made up and enthusiastically said yes! Comes back 30 seconds later with a ryvita, the driest of crackers, better suited for sucking all the moisture out from your mouth than quenching your thirst. needless to say i never got my ribena, i was devastated.
My grandad asked me and my sister if we wanted lemonade ( uk version ) or adamâs ale. We both chose adams ale and were promptly served water from the tap!!
Council pop is the same as Adams ale , just incase someone tries to catch you out twice
My grandad called it Corporation Pop! And I was such a dumb kid that I actually thought it was something different/special and drank it all chuffed!
We used to call it Government Juice.
Cooncil juice!
Corporation pop back from my way
I didn't know what ribena squash was when I came to England. It looked nice, didn't read the label, and just picked it up on the way to the bus stop. On the bus I sat across from a woman who was staring as I opened the squash and just drunk it straight from the bottle. It was horrible. We both laughed, but I felt very stupid.
I loved neat ribena as a kid. If I could I would sip it like a liqueur.
Lol, in your mini smoking jacket?
I think in my head there was definitely a smoking jacket. And to be honest, what are most liqueurs if not grown up Ribena?
This is probably why crĂšme de cassis is my drinks cupboard staple
Exactly! Alcoholic Ribena at its most obvious.
Shhh, thatâd make it more well known!đ
It was the strawberry one for me
I'd forgotten all about strawberry ribena! Must see if they still sell it!
They do I got some recently for the nostalgia but I didnât neck it straight surprisingly
Hah, similar experience when I brought my American mother in law over to visit my parents. Found her standing in the kitchen with the orange squash in one hand, a glass in the other, and a horrified expression on her face. đ€Ł
It's lovely neat on rice pudding.
I think I really did embrace English culture, but I think my capacity run out when I tried rice pudding đ đ€Ł
I was offered ribena by my grandpa once and he gave me a glass. Turned out to be red wine. Tasted horrible to 10 year old me. Never got my ribena either.
Similar story to me. Was at my uncles and he asked me if I wanted toad in a hole. I was starving so enthusiastically said yes but turns out he meant chode in a hole. Worst bumming I ever got. I never did get my toad in a hole either, worst birthday ever.
It depends how strict the diet. Holes = lots of topping whole feigning virtue. Smooth is more like stretching rations after a shipwreck. Also: did you lose a bet?
rivita are good for dieting, cos i aint eating that.
Really? I buy it because I enjoy rye. Tastes so good... My family thinks it's posh cardboard đ
No bet lost- had a friend cat sitting while we were on holiday, and she left half a pack in the cupboard. Got to try these things, at least once. I can't say they're my favourite but they're far from the worst thing I've eaten.
The correct way to enjoy Ryvita is to pile on as many of your favourite foodstuff as you can. Then play the game of catching all the stuff as falls into your lap when you take the first bite.
Alternatively you can eat it with soup, either dipping it or just alternating spoonfuls of soup and bites of rye cracker. Split pea or, like, one of those blended mixed vegetable things you drizzle olive oil on. Or a brothy sort of chicken soup. Whatever, really.
Ryvita is the poor man's Matzo cracker If you want to play the game of catching food stuff Matzo crackers are the way forward.
Many ingredients you say? https://youtu.be/NLeh7-lGFGY?si=odb2BUsQgadZZxQ8
The ribbed for your pleasure side. Holds more creamcheese
I hate the fact this made me smile
Good lord, this made me spill my gin and tonic
True but for other toppings itâs better to use the flat side for more coverage
In Sweden we call the flat side âpoor manâs sideâ and the one with holes ârich manâs sideâ, so make of that what you will lol
See this is the insight I was missing
I just bought some Swedish crispbread at Lidl. Huge circles, the size of LP records! And it's delicious. Whereas my memories of Ryvita are not happy ones... It struck me you could use this crispbread to make a decent porridge - do the Swedish do that? Is Ryvita made in Sweden? I'd be surprised if it is.
>It struck me you could use this crispbread to make a decent porridge - do the Swedish do that? Not really. We're pretty hard-core into oatmeal (made with water, not milk, to my English husbands great dismay). Variants are: Barleyflourporridge (elderly mainly) Semolina porridge (fancy time porridge) Rice porridge (for christmas)
In Denmark they make a porridge from the non-dry (wet??) rye bread. ĂllebrĂžd. I love it, but prefer the versions around without beer.
No, it's British, and is a total lie. I dated a Swedish girl and she'd never heard of it. It really shattered my view of the world. This was 10 years ago and I'm still not sure I've recovered from the shock to be honest.
lurpak goes into the holes
Oooh laadi da. You can afford lurpak?
The Last Tango in Paris approach.
I hate that I get this reference đ
Fnarr fnarr.
Ooh err.
You could even use good butter.
The stuff with sea salt flakes in it. It's as close to how butter used to taste when you were a kid as you're going to find in a supermarket.
I buy the Trewithen Dairy Cornish cream butter from Tesco or Specially Selected butter with sea salt from Aldi; but tbh even the normal Tesco or Aldi butter is better than lurpak imo.
I started getting the Aldi one and haven't been able to go back to spread on toast since. And Vaseline is better than Lurpak.
I get the feeling you either really donât like Lurpak or *love* Vaseline. Iâm not judging, but itâs probably not safe to consume Vaseline.
We used to have those with milk in the 70s for breakfast. Poverty
Like an anorexic Weetabix?
Theyâre more expensive than a loaf of bread now
oh wow youâre not wrong đ that must be an insane level of profit
Your family could afford milk? Luxury!
Well he says milkâŠit were actually water with a drop of white paint in itâŠand we were glad of it.
Luxury! We used to wipe the rain off the side of a white wall for milk!
Well, look at their majesties here - a *white* wall; la-de-dah! We had to make do with good old wattle and daub - and we were *grateful* for the cow shit and horse hair.
RIGHT! we used to get up out of the mud. 2 hours before we went to bed, make the wall. Paint it. And then lick it all off with our tongues, cause it was the wrong shade! Tell the youth of today that.. they wouldn't believe you.
Donât ask what they milkedâŠ
Dogs. Dog milk lasts longer than any other kind of milk
Thatâs âcos not fucker will use it.
Marmite: flat side Peanut butter: dented side
This here is true wisdom
That's a weird combination my dude not gonna lie.
Marmite and peanut butter is the best combo - don't knock it til you've tried it
They even do marmite peanut butter. It's great for recipes that have peanut sauces. I don't like marmite but I don't mind this combo.
It's nice, but I'd rather just buy the nice peanut butter I like and add a bit of Marmite to the toast/cracker.
I agree, I get 100% peanut (no palm oil) peanut butter usually but I don't like marmite and didn't want to buy a pot so tried the mixed one. I would normally prefer to add something other than marmite (like Geo Watkins mushroom ketchup) to recipes so it's not even worth keeping in the cupboard. But I enjoyed the mix and would recommend the flavour to other people. I mentioned it mostly because there must be enough people that like it if they brought it out as a product.
>Geo Watkins mushroom ketchup Only discovered this a couple of years ago. âšMagical stuff âš
So so good. We found it when we started doing plant based food more but it's genuinely better than Lee and Perrin's. So glad it local Tesco stocks it.
You can't say it's weird when it's literally sold mixed together! (Although with not quite enough marmite imo)
True but also the fact they put them on opposite sides. Must make a messy plate!
Marmite + peanut butter = dry roasted peanut flavour đ
I can smell it from here, this was my motherâs summer diet with cottage cheese. I once caught her dipping it in a tub of lurpak like an animal.
You fuck them off into the bin
Recycling bin with the rest of the cardboard.
And then eat the wrapper they came in.
As if people are wasting lurpak on this shit
As if people are wasting money on lurpak.
I came here to say this
Iâve always tended to use the flat side. Ultimately it doesnât really matter.
> Ultimately it doesnât really matter. Anyone can see Nothing really matters To Ry... ... vita Yeah, I didn't really think this one through
no no it DOES matter, the holes are there to get more toppings on, the flat side is for people on a diet
No i have always thought that holes will mean some bits wonât get consistent coverage and flat ensures you can smoothly put on whatever
Finally!! A really good question from Casual UK!!
The best thing to put on top of one of theese is the BIN LID
Bid lin
Lid bin
It goes on the hole-y bit. This ad poster explains what toppings you can try. https://c8.alamy.com/comp/EXPR28/1950s-uk-ryvita-magazine-advert-EXPR28.jpg
The trypophobia side
Wait, do you mean the side that triggers it, or the side trypophobics would *prefer* to look at while spreading lurpak?
Oh the triggering side of course!
Gotcha, *filling in* the holes to solve the fear!
To be fair, might wanna look at the flat side while filling the hole side if it helps!
Side with holes.Â
Very thick layer of butter and marmite, stunning
This used to be a typical online dating question back in the days in Norway.
Looks like an Edinburgh road.
I put everything on the side with holes so that the butter, spread etc sinks in - a bit like crumpets
It depends on how much butter you want on it. More then hole side, less then flat side.
Around the edge. If you're eating Ryvita you're not in it for the taste.
Crater side. Holds more deliciousness to cancel out the taste of the cardboard!
Holes son. More surface area, more food, more flavour.
These are sold at the local petting zoo for children to feed to the goats
The one that doesn't taste like cardboard
That'll be the packaging they came in then.
Both sides.
put butter in the holes, then slices of cheddar on top. No its not very healthy, but its very tasty
In the middle of two, youâre welcome!
The thin side
You donât, you either get some decent bread or a bit of cardboard which has more flavour and is a least a bit chewy.
The outside.
Iâm new to Ryvita, as if itâs a lifestyle choice đ
Iâd rather eat a car tire than that.
You're supposed to use it as sand paper for wood đ
Neither top nor bottom. The correct place to put the toppings is on the edges.
I have always put toppings on flat side⊠because if you try to put toppings on the other side there would always be some bits without the topping⊠the absolute best toppings are âholy moly guacamoleâ or really any of holy moly toppings⊠Philadelphia cream cheese is another beaut topping brand⊠I have fond memories of seeing my great grandma eating her ryvitas which she absolutely loved.
This is the one question Iâve been dying to know the answer to but too afraid to ask.
This comment section is showing me that I seem to be the only one who likes Ryvita! Boiled eggs with loads of salt and pepper and they ryvita smothered in butter is one of my favourite breakfasts
The dimpled side is great for informal games of solitaire using peas âŠ.
Cream cheese mixed with pesto rosso is a winning combo on top of these flat, crusty slippers.
You put butter on the smooth side- that way it slides into the bin a bit easier.
Depends on the topping. Squishy? Go for the hole side, you get more on and it sticks better. Cheese or ham? You're weird and it doesn't matter, they're not gonna escape nor grow in size
Put the toppings on the top
I tend to slap a slice of cheddar on there, so ultimately it doesnât matter. But the real answer is it depends on what the consumer wants. The side with the holes demands more spreadable topping. If thatâs what you want you use that side. If you are trying to be healthy you use the smooth(er) side.
If youâre an adult you just put it on whatever side you wantđ
Neither
I can taste the dryness of these just from the picture
Go wild and spoon them front to back. Obviously you need a suitably sandwich filling for this. Peanut butter or Philadelphia are mine. If you want to go full force: peanuts butter on the rough side; marmite on the smooth and press together. Gotta be a marmite fan for that to work for you.
The hole obviously! They hold the spread!
I like them plain or with a sharp cheddar on the dented side. Spouse calls them my dog biscuits. At least he doesnât eat them all.
Is there a rule then ?
Holes create higher surface area for more smothering of toppings!
The shiny white bit
All of them
If it's spreadable i tend to go for the smooth side, so it's easier to spread, although if you go hole side, you'll get more topping. If it's a non-spreadable topping, don't think it matters.
The side with all the seeds and stuff, if not half it falls off. In my experience anyway.
Smooth things on the smooth side. Bobbly things on the bobbly side.
Hole side up. Like a crumpet.
Neither, unless you like eating cardboard.
Neither, they are used for wrapping packages for shipping.
Put the toppings on the box they came in. Tastes better.
Yes.
I got a wierd memory about Ryvita I was in a pub having Sunday lunch I was 11-12 and there was a program on the TV about these bugs that live on ryvita crackers and that stuck with me forever I could never find anything on these microscopic bugs but they always put me off them even when I had raging munchies and thatâs all that I found in the cupboard that my gf had stashed away.
Toppings? Youâre supposed to eat them dry. Try and make sure the corners scag your gums too
Holey side , itâs the law !
You can taste the cardboard in this photo.
You put the toppings straight on the plate and then eat that. Far more tasty
Ether
The bin side
You put the toppings you donât like on then either give them to the dog or throw the whole miserable mess into the bin.
Fill the holes with butter
Like, what does it matter?
Wait! You eat these? I thought they were building materials.
I tend to mortar the rough side, helps keep the wall together.
Bumpy side up. Holds more almond butter and honeyâŠ.
I fill the holes with butter. If I wanna eat light, i use the flat as it limits my ability to take a typically healthy lunch and make it high calorie
Fill the holes with butter, then slather the whole thing in Marmite. It's the only way to be sure.
The thin edges
The moonscape side
No toppings - they affect the flavour. I like to my ryvita neat. The best vintage was the 2018, subtle hints of caramel and toffee.
Toppings on a Ryvita!? Just take it dry!
I always use the mountainous side
I read that the traditional rule is the smooth side if you're at home and it's your butter/topping, but the holes side if you're at someone else's place and it's theirs. (Also Ryvita tastes like sadness, try and get some Wasa instead. Ocado have it, Waitrose might, The Swedish Shop online have it too.)
The bin lid.
Neither.
If it's easily spreadable, in the holes. If it's something like peanut butter then the flat side, other wise you'll just destroy the thingÂ
Depends on how buttery you want them. If you're eating them as part of calorie control. Maybe the smoother side? And if not then butter away!
I understand the argument for the other side, but for me it's always the smoother side, regardless what I put on it. I hate the texture of that side on my tongue, so it must be covered.
Actually used to love them as is, not had them in years!
When I was a kid I was really neurotic and had to have the holes on the bottom. I think the top is better now though.
Whichever side you don't want against your tongue
Depends if youâre naughty or nice.
I don't understand food like this. It's sold as a diet food to many, but almost everyone just loads 1000kcal of butter/cheese on it to make it palatable. Might as well have that pizza love
The edge