Noel-Tod, who lectures in literature at the University of East Anglia, said he did a “double take” on spotting Thomas’s picture. “My reaction was a mixture of real amusement at the absurdity of it and real anger that a respected poet should suffer such an undignified posthumous fate for the sake of selling overpriced fried potatoes,” he told the Church Times. “The fact that they advertise themselves as ‘Handcooked English Crisps’ would certainly have been a red chilli rag to Thomas’s fiercely Welsh nationalist views.”
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