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If you’ve never had the cheese and onion crisp bakes from Marks and Spencer, you are missing a trick. They’ve not paid me to write this, in fact they most likely have no clue who I am, but I must say, Mr Marks and Mr Spencer: good job on the crisp bakes (side note: they are both very definitely long dead, but my appreciation still stands).
If you live in a country that doesn’t have M&S, you probably have no idea what I’m talking about, so let me explain what exactly I mean by cheese and onion crisp bakes. They’re basically cheesy potato cakes that are breaded and cooked until they’re nice and crispy, and they are heaven on earth.
Cheese + potato + onion… there was no way that wasn’t going to be a winner.
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