We can discuss brands and sorts as well. My favourite sorts of crisps are:
- Crinkly Cheese and Onion Mini Cheddars
- Roast Beef Monster Munch
- Cheesey doritos
I'm not going to the bother of qualifying my poll options. If you don't like them, you can go and die.
Smiths crisps, Bovril flavour.
Golden wonder Ringos, cheese and onion flavour.
Cheese and tomato puffs, from when I was a kid. (not sure who made them, but they were delicious but messy to eat).
Oh I nearly forgot, Piglets and nice and spicy Nick Nacks.
Never heard of most of those, although it did remind me of Ready Salted Squares, now Walkers. But M&S do their own version in a big red bag for 49p, and they're even better. Bigger, crispier and saltier. They're fucking amazing. They're not in every M&S though, for some ridiculous reason.
Walker's Sensations Thai Sweet Chilli or, if I'm on a diet, Walker's Baked Mango & Chilli (although they are getting harder to find so I'm wondering if they're being discontinued).
I often find myself having an allergic reaction to certain crisps (well, they make me sneeze and give me a runny nose), but I've got no idea what it is in the crisps. This is annoying. I used to blame monosodium glutamate (always a good scapegoat) but further research led me to believe it gets a bad press and looking at ingredients lists, I'm not convinced by the correlation.
I think Frazzles are pretty good and I like Monster Munch (but they used to be better when they had a bacon flavour), but they are both on my out list unfortunately, but Kettle Chips don't affect me and some of their crisps are pretty good. I'd say salt and pepper Kettle Chips are probably my favourite.
Has anyone had the Walkers lime and coriander chutney sensations? They taste excellent but also make me feel a bit weird.
Gavin Chipper wrote:I often find myself having an allergic reaction to certain crisps (well, they make me sneeze and give me a runny nose), but I've got no idea what it is in the crisps. This is annoying. I used to blame monosodium glutamate (always a good scapegoat) but further research led me to believe it gets a bad press and looking at ingredients lists, I'm not convinced by the correlation.
I think Frazzles are pretty good and I like Monster Munch (but they used to be better when they had a bacon flavour), but they are both on my out list unfortunately, but Kettle Chips don't affect me and some of their crisps are pretty good. I'd say salt and pepper Kettle Chips are probably my favourite.
Has anyone had the Walkers lime and coriander chutney sensations? They taste excellent but also make me feel a bit weird.
Kettle Chips are brilliant. Salted ones are my favourite, in line with my above poll.
I've had them and they do taste nice, but like all the other Sensations, are too addictive. After about half a big bag they taste a bit nasty.
I pretty much love all crisps. If I have a least favourite, it's Ready Salted, but they're still great. It's just that with food scienticians inventing all these really exciting flavouroids, I'd always choose a flavour over a not-flavour. And I suppose my favourite flavours are the really high-power ones; Tomato Sauce and Worcester Sauce are always good for this, no matter what the brand. I used to be able to get whole boxes of KP Worcester Sauce for about three quid but that's gone now - did KP get swallowed up by Walkers or something? Anyway, they don't seem to be available anymore.
Lately I've got quite into the awesomely sharp-tasting Highlander Salt & Vinegar (their Bacon & Brown Sauce and Tomato are also fantastic and very very reasonably-priced - I think cheapo freezer shops like Farmfoods or equivalent should have them) but overall Seabrooks make the best crisps, all theirs are great.
I also like maize and corn snacks like Space Raiders and Nik-Naks and Wheat Crunchies and all of the others ever invented. God, I could talk about crisps all day.
JimBentley wrote:I pretty much love all crisps. If I have a least favourite, it's Ready Salted, but they're still great. It's just that with food scienticians inventing all these really exciting flavouroids, I'd always choose a flavour over a not-flavour. And I suppose my favourite flavours are the really high-power ones; Tomato Sauce and Worcester Sauce are always good for this, no matter what the brand. I used to be able to get whole boxes of KP Worcester Sauce for about three quid but that's gone now - did KP get swallowed up by Walkers or something? Anyway, they don't seem to be available anymore.
Lately I've got quite into the awesomely sharp-tasting Highlander Salt & Vinegar (their Bacon & Brown Sauce and Tomato are also fantastic and very very reasonably-priced - I think cheapo freezer shops like Farmfoods or equivalent should have them) but overall Seabrooks make the best crisps, all theirs are great.
I also like maize and corn snacks like Space Raiders and Nik-Naks and Wheat Crunchies and all of the others ever invented. God, I could talk about crisps all day.
I could listen all day, in my thread. Feel free to come back to my thread and continue talking about crisps.
JimBentley wrote:but overall Seabrooks make the best crisps, all theirs are great.
I ordered a box from them once, with all their flavours in. Some are pretty good, but I wasn't a fan of all of them. The bacon ones were pretty good, but I tend not to like oniony ones, prawn cocktail and various other things. I seem to remember spring onion being pretty horrific.
I always like ready salted crisps and I think it gives a good platform to compare different brands on an equal footing. Seabrooks do well here, as do Kettle Chips (definitely not too crunchy!)
If I suddenly have a squirming baby on my lap it probably means that I should start paying it some attention and stop wasting my time messing around on a Countdown forum
Veering off topic, a mate of mine made me one of Levi Roots' own recipe starters recently, Chilli, Mango and Avocado with onion on a bed of lettuce. Yum.
To bring us back on topic, wotsits were always hard to find here when I was a kid so I went mad on em both times i was in England as a chizzler having been watching the ads for years. Tasty and somewhat a British cultural treasure
Jon O'Neill wrote:What's your favourite flavour of crisps?
Cheese & Onion. Always has been, always will be- the crisp of kings.
Jon O'Neill wrote:We can discuss brands and sorts as well. My favourite sorts of crisps are:
- Crinkly Cheese and Onion Mini Cheddars
- Roast Beef Monster Munch
- Cheesey doritos
These are also all gorgeous.
Little known fact: at the very least, up until a while ago every Quaver in the UK was produced at the Walkers factory on Newark Road in Lincoln.
