Mr C Brook

Mr C BROOK

"A right proper gobful"

Male | 62 years old | United Kingdom

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Crisps with more crunch, more flavour and more in a bag! Everything to do with crisps of the crinkle-cut variety. Okay, what I'm trying to say, I suppose, is everything to do with Seabrook Crisps.

Anything British. Both old and new and Britpop to UKG. Everything from The Beatles and The Damned to the Arctic Monkeys and Dizzee!

MASH; East is East; The Dam Busters; The Life of Brian; Yellow Submarine; Billy Elliot; Shaun of the Dead; The Day of the Triffids; Kes; Carry on Matron; Wallace and Gromit, The Wrong Trousers; Sexy Beast; Brassed Off; Withnail & I; The Day of the Jackal; Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; The Italian Job.

I’m no couch potato, but I’m partial to Green Wing; Question Time; Pimp my Ride; and reruns of Dinner Ladies, The Two Ronnies, Open All Hours and The Good Life.

The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is my all-time favourite.

Captain Sensible, John Cleese, Ronnie Barker, Monty Don, Biggles, Desperate Dan, Dennis the Menace and Winston Churchill.

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About me

In 1939, I was about to open my famous fish & chip restaurant in Bradford. Days before I took some photos to be developed and when I collected them I found that they had got my name slightly wrong. Fantastically wrong.

The name on the photos was not Mr C Brook but Seabrook.

I remember saying, “Sounds good, that’ll look good outside my restaurant. I’ll have it.”

A few years later in 1945, my son Colin returned from the navy after the 2nd World War had ended.

After a few late nights, one small argument and a slapped leg we came up with a fantastic business idea: Seabrook Crisps. We had the potatoes. We had the fryer. We had the recipes. We thought, why not?

When I was on holiday in Canada, I found I loved it so much I bought the country. Okay, that’s a fib. I came back to Yorkshire and, continuing my quest to build a wide range of lip-smacking flavours, developed a new Seabrook flavour – Canadian Ham. Very, very tasty. We now have 18 great flavours, all cooked in sunflower oil, sprinkled with sea salt and completely MSG free.

I’m proud to say that Seabrook holds the Guinness World Record for the largest packet of crisps. It weighed 51.35kg (113lb 3oz) and hasn’t been beaten since 11th March 2004. Now, if that's not a right proper gobful, I don't know what is.

Oh, and by the way, we are the official sponsor of the Blah! Party, a no-nonsense crisp that supports no-nonsense politics. Why not have a look at their website www.blahparty.org .

Nobody walks on eggshells at the Seabrook HQ - our carpet has a very tasteful potato pattern!

Seabrook Crisps: a right proper gobful

What’s a right proper gobful? To answer this deeply philosophical question it is helpful to first discover what it isn’t. So, a right proper gobful is not:

a vol-au-venta poncey sausage on a stick a fairy cakea party-pack sausage rollanything that can be described as ‘nibbles’, ‘finger food’ or ‘canapés’or something that requires ‘dressing’.

A right proper gobful is an honest, straight-talking (or would be if it could actually speak), nastiness-free snack. It's like a home-made pie, or a local farm's ice cream, or a bag of fish and chips. A right proper gobful is a good old packet of the North's best-loved crisps, Seabrook. Got it?

Who I'd like to meet

Eccentrics, young and old; exceptionally talented British musicians – especially if they’re from Bradford