Crisps

Ready salted? USED to love them but bland now, salt and vinegar gone the same way, thought I was alone in thinking it was my tastebuds, but no, it's all to do with health! About 20 years ago, Brannigans Beef & Mustard were fab, but I don't know if they still make them and if they do, if I dare try, in case they too have been tampered with.

Tesco do a finest Beef & Horseradish, very nice!

I tried their limited edition Turkey & stuffing a few days ago, yuck! Currently working my way through pigs in blankets.

However, cofresh chilli & lemon curls are divine!

My brother in law once said that he thought he'd married into a family with the tastebuds of reptiles!

Saying that, in my youth, you'd never get me near lemon or coconut flavours, yuck! But now, coconut cream yes, bounty still no, it's desiccated yuck yuck, and lemon tarts, lemon meringue, lemon curd oh my! Taste buds change!

Now, if only my tastebuds would change that I could no longer love chocolate, I'd be svelte! Where's that wispa bar?

We are in Portugal at the moment, and have become addicted to these. They sound dreadful, but are actually delicious. Pity we won't get them back home.

Georgesgran

Can I add that I’ve never understood the crisps in sandwiches thing. DH used to do it, but I’d rather have a few crisps on the side to go with the sandwich, but not in it.

Ooo yes Georgesgran
I do love a cheese and onion crisp sandwich with mayonnaise in it as well.

I just LOVE Walkers cheese and onion crisps. So much so that I boasted to DH I would be able to recognise them in a blind tasting 🤣

Then one evening he presented me with SIX bowls of cheese and onion crisps to test me. He told me the six makes.

Not only did I correctly choose the Walkers but I also (somehow!) managed to identify all the brands correctly!

LOL

Whoops, that was meant for DamaskRose.

Bazza, ooohh Veda with tons of butter and a bag of tayto cheese and onion, best lunch ever😋

Love tomato sauce flavour!

I was told that if you light a Pringle they will burn like a candle because they’re so full of fat, and it’s true!

I only really like the expensive crisps but they have to be just ready salted. I don’t understand why a potato crisps needs to taste of anything except potato, but that’s just me. Salt and vinegar the absolute worst.

Llamedos13

Tayto from N.Ireland are my all time favourite,when I was a little kid I had a packet of their cheese and onion as a special treat every Friday.The British Shop here in Canada bring them in around Christmas time so I stock up.

Oh yes Llamedos13, Tayto are the best! My mother and stepfather used to bring a box on the annual visit plus some Veda bread!!

I only like Walkers. Can never understand why salt and vinegar are in a green packet and cheese and onion ( my favourite) are blue. Doesn’t seem right to me.

for the fans,

www.tayto.com/about/

pringles are not crisps.
they are something else.
Tayto crisps are something special; there are asian shops in cricklewood that stock irish potatoes, newspapers, tea, butter etc, and taytos, specially for their elderly irish patrons.

I love Walkers bacon crisps, only ones I eat

I seem to have a weird taste in crisps - I really like tomato ketchup flavour and prawn cocktail flavour, plus salt & vinegar, though these can be a bit too tangy for me, and make my lips tingle!

Primrose53

Aldi do some lovely crisps made from root vegetables. My faves are the beetroot ones.

We make lovely delicious crisps for our GC - machine thin potatoes, carrots, beetroot, turnips - shake with oil, salt - bake.

Aldi do some lovely crisps made from root vegetables. My faves are the beetroot ones.

Yes dogsmother I know what you mean- the difference in colour between ready salted and ketchup flavour is very slight

Got to be Pipers Longhorn Beef for me. Can’t have crisps in the house as I would eat them but Pipers are expensive and so I only buy them when they are on special offer.

Jaxjacky, lucky husband, I’d love to find a box of Tayto under my Christmas 🎄

Lancashire Crisps for me. Just right - nice and crisp but not too thick.

shysal, JaneJudge you’ve tempted me. Roll on shopping day 🤣

I like crisps, but don't buy them as I would eat them! I once read that if you ate a small packet of crisps every day for a year you would ingest for litres of oil, don't know if its true!

Funnily enough, I have found that I like ketchup flavoured Pringles. It's a case of two wrongs actually making a right. Normally wouldn't eat either Ketchup or Pringles.

oh yes in a ham sandwich!

I like Walker's ready salted the best, especially in a ham sandwich. I have found that Tesco sell a Walker's lower salt version which tastes just the same to me. I kid myself that they are healthier!