CycleChat Investigates - Potato Crisps

[Accy cyclist]

Reduced to £1.45

I remember the fuss when the price of a bag of crisps went up from 12p to 13p!

Yes, I noticed the last time I was in a pub six weeks ago that a packet of crisps was £1.20!!!😲

 

[BoldonLad]

I detest cheese, but oddly enough I can enjoy a packet of Tayto cheese and onion with a nice pint of Guinness. I'd prefer smokey bacon, but needs must, most pubs only seem to sell cheese and onion.

In my working life, one of my (IT) Contract jobs was at a Company manufacturing Crisps, to my surprise, Cheese and Onion was their best seller.

I don't like Cheese and Onion Crisps, my preference being Plain Crisps, followed by Salt n Vinegar.

 

[Alex321]

I detest cheese, but oddly enough I can enjoy a packet of Tayto cheese and onion with a nice pint of Guinness. I'd prefer smokey bacon, but needs must, most pubs only seem to sell cheese and onion.

Not round here.

Every pub I have been in has a variety of crisps, usually at least 4-5 different flavours. Occasionally they may run out of some flavours.

 

[Reynard]

Green for cheese & onion

Light blue for salt & vinegar

Dark blue for ready salted

and IIRC, red was tomato ketchup flavour

 

[Drago]

Why are ready salted often called "plain" when theyre flavoured with salt, so aren't plain at all? The old salt and shake crisps are plain until the salt is added.

 

[FrankCrank]

Over here you can get durian crisps. They taste just like plain crisps really - suspect this being due to them being fried in oil.
You can also get durian ice cream, but I refuse to partake with that one.

 

[T4tomo]

walkers are generally known as Wrong-uns

@Reynard has a very good memory, as I had no idea GW ready salted weren't originally red (albeit tye are now, but no one notices are the are rarely in the shops.

these are the finest crisps around though...

 

[Electric_Andy]

Oh I forgot about McCoys. They are the king of the crsip. I'll take their colour coding convention above all others

 

[Drago]

McCoys use the correct colourings.

 

[Reynard]

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@Reynard has a very good memory, as I had no idea GW ready salted weren't originally red (albeit tye are now, but no one notices are the are rarely in the shops.

I think KP ready salted were dark blue too.

KP also used to make fried onion flavour crisps, which came in a gold packet. They were lovely, but quite short lived IIRC.

 

[Webbo2]

I have been a big fan of Mackies crisps but they were not that easy to get hold off in England. However Mackies is still selling ice cream and chocolate but their crisps are now branded as Taylor’s who bought the brand.
I would be interested to know if anyone has tried them.

 

[stephec]

McCoys use the correct colourings.

McCoys are made by KP in Billingham, I always pay a visit to the staff shop when I go there for work.

 

[T4tomo]

I'd climb mountain for Tudor!
Did they make it down south?

 

[Drago]

I thought Sunderland was the sarf?

 

[stephec]

I'd climb mountain for Tudor!
Did they make it down south?

Another one from Billingham in the good old days.