Originally posted on greenfairydotcom

I write today in the belief that a particular tube-related peculiarity of mine is shared by more of the population than would like to admit it and therefore someone could possibly help me out with an annoying little problem that comes back to tease me viciously every now and again.

I absolutely cannot prevent myself identifying tube lines by their corresponding crisp packet (classic Golden Wonder scale, of course) colour. The Victoria line is therefore salt & vinegar. the Piccadilly ready salted, District cheese & onion, Hammersmith & City prawn cocktail, Bakerloo beef, Metropolitan smoky bacon, Circle chicken, East London cheese and the Central line tomato. I can get away with calling the Northen line one of these new fangled flavoured like Worcester sauce (or is that a weird dark purple colour? Okay, Marmite), after considerable thought as to whether it could ever be acceptable, the Waterloo & City scampi & lemon and dismiss the tricky Docklands Light Railway as not being a proper tube line but that still leaves me with the Jubilee line and I can't wangle it anyhow.

This was the thought mangling my brain during a long ride from Aldgate East to Hammersmith last night. By about Euston Square I was becoming most distressed at my inability to get a full set and my brain, in a kindly but hopelessly misguided attempt to distract me suddenly went "Oooh you know, it doesn't half look like Neopolitan ice-cream here on the map" setting me off on a desperate quest to find a station served by the Hammersmith & City, Circle and Bakerloo lines to achieve the correct line up. I got very excited when I spotted Baker Street only to be foiled again by the bloody Jubilee line that cuts through and otherwise perfect arrangement.

At this stage, I'd even accept a solution for the Jubilee problem from the 'maize snacks' school of packaging, though even that eludes me right now. There has to be a way around this. For the sake of my sanity and exams not yet revised for - anybody?